#Introduction thread:
I was born in Edmonton, Canada (#YEG) and have lived my whole life here (which is quite rare).
(This photo is of the downtown skyline in August of 2011)

I am retired from a professional life in technology. I have an Electrical Engineering degree and my career specialized in telecommunications (IT) and more specifically I focused on public safety communications/radio systems. My jobs involved engineering, teaching and management.

Despite having had a longish career in technology, I never imagined it was the one thing that I was meant to do. I can easily imagine my life having taken a variety of quite different paths if different opportunities had been encountered at key times.
I might have ended up (still might) as a painter or sculptor, a musician, a teacher, a coach or a scientist/researcher.
Which is to say that I have a lot of varied interests. 🙂

If my past social media activity is an indicator I will probably be sharing a lot of my photography here.
I started in photography as a teen using film and loved when I could work in a darkroom. These days I work digitally using a Nikon D810 DSLR, a Coolpix W300 point and shoot and my handy Samsung Galaxy S9.
My usual photo subjects are landscapes, nature & architecture (occasionally abstracted or black and white).
I take photos for their own sake as well as to use as references for paintings.

I also will be sharing some of my paintings (hopefully, as I have been in a slump for a few years).
I fell in love with painting decades ago, inspired by van Gogh and the French Impressionists and by Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven. Later it was the Abstract Expressionists. Their influences are still felt.
I use acrylics, oils, pastels and a few other media.
My subjects are typically landscapes (abstracted to some degree) or pure non-representational.
Here are a few of my older works: