A minimalist composition of a ladder at the mouth of Sixteen Mile Creek in Oakville, Ontario. The fog was just starting to roll in and the image was captured using a Canon 90D and a 15 stop ND filter with a six minute exposure.
I have been adhering to an essentialist philosophy for most of my working life. As a journalist, I focused on removing what was unnecessary and leaving only what was crucial to telling a coherent, meaningful story. I later followed author Greg McKeown’s view that life is about challenging the core assumption of ‘we can have it all’ and ‘I have to do everything’ and replacing it with the pursuit of ‘the right thing, in the right way, at the right time’. Combined with the Japanese philosophy of Ma - the celebration of the space between things - my goal with photography is to evoke a calming es
