I started taking pictures when I was about 10. In my teens I focused on railway photography, mainly with used bellows-style cameras, and I developed and printed my own. I remember being amazed when I got my first 35mm camera in my mid-teens, at how small the negatives were. I distinctly recall my first roll of colour slides, 1962, and still have some of them. In the 1970s I took lots of railway pictures, but from the point we had children (1979) there wasn't much time for other than family photographs. Having said that, I still drop everything if there is an opportunity to photograph a train.

I acquired my first digital camera in 2006 (a Nikon D70s) and started the very steep learning curve associated with digital photography and related post-processing with Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop. I'm now fully retired, and in the winter of 2017-2018 I started scanning my old slides and negatives. This project is hugely time-consuming - the perfect winter retirement activity. Some of the scanned images are on this site, under SCANNED SLIDES AND PHOTOS and also under RAILWAY PHOTOGRAPHY.

The address of my site at Zenfolio, "savepsw", and its name, "Mainframe Photography Canada", reveal my background in information technology. 

The photo shown was taken by my wife, Esther Cormier, in 2010, with my Nikon D3 and 28-70mm f/.28 lens, at Fort Ticonderoga, New York.  I live in Ottawa, Canada.