My first Influence…

I took time to self-reflect on how my passion for capturing nature evolved. Through the process I have thank my parents, who nurtured me through childhood experiences and cultural beliefs.  For this I am forever grateful. The curiosity to explore photography, however, I think was influenced by my father who shared his work experiences through a 35mm camera.  While I lived in Edmonton, he worked in remote areas in the high arctic on Baffin Island. Returning home, he would share his times of solitude through images of vast mountain landscapes, painted skylines, seasonal tundra tapestries and of course, polar bears.

Renamed Iqaluit, Frobisher Bay has grown into the capital of Nunavut and the memories of Baffin Island instilled continues to be a bucket list trip for myself.

2016 I purchased my first professional DLSR camera, a used Nikon D3. I was off to Iceland to capture the Aurora. Also, around that time I was enrolled at McGill in the Faculty of Physical and Occupational Therapy to earn a post graduate certificate in Chronic Pain Management.  Oddly enough my final project for certification brought my two new loves even closer together. The project was, The Use of Nature Photography in Managing Chronic Pain. My hope is to share photography and stories of nature and wildlife that have left me speechless, in a whirlpool of emotions and filled with positive energy. May images reach into your heart and mind and stir up emotions of your own.

Gloria