My good friend Matt taught me years ago about the difference between saying I have to … when we have a chore to do and I get to … . But when it has to do with photography, for me there’s no such thing as I have to. Every time I pick up my camera, it’s a get to moment. And of course, when you’re retired from a regular job, you don’t have to do anything!
Since we returned from our epic five-week road trip to Toronto this fall, I’ve been getting to do a wide variety of things with my camera. Well, ok, pretty much everything is with my camera! Here’s a taste of a few of those things.

















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Dear Dennis,
I am so blessed that I get to hang around with you as often as I do and enjoy your wisdom, humour, talents and passions. Thank you for reminding all of us that a slight change in perception can change your whole world as well as the world around everyone else! A Merry Christmas to you and yours. As always, MGJ
Thank you, good buddy. You taught me well! A life lesson, never to be forgotten!
Merry Christmas to Joan and yourself Dennis. Friends are the BEST! I look forward to photographing with you in the new year!
And I feel fortunate to think of you as a friend, Chris. Merry Christmas to you and Rita and family.
Very nice Christmas blog Dennis. I know how much time you dedicated to your duties as an educator and you appear to have simply changed up to a higher gear in your “retirement” pursuit of photography. Congratulations on your very successful transition from the budding amateur you were, when you had Maureen and I as one of your earliest wedding subjects, to the professional photographer we see the evidence of in all that you do now. There might be some good looking Hondas to photograph at the bike show in January! Merry Christmas!
Forest
Forest, your wedding was the very first wedding I ever shot and definitely propelled me in a new direction. Thanks to you and Maureen for that and for your kind and generous comments. Ah, did you mean good looking Harleys?
laura eriksson
Dennis, You capture Life as works of Art!
Your collected images are inspiring, refreshing, stunningly beautiful. Thank you!
So glad our dinner group gets to ‘feast’ with you about four times a year, and catch your inner lens of mind and heart also.
Continue to shine in 2016!
Hi Laura and Sven, Your words leave me speechless! But I promise to ‘shine’ as long as you continue to encourage the inner light.
Congratulations on your new appointment as the Director for CAPA and thank you for sharing your photos. Very inspiring!
Thank you so much, Carolyn! You are doing great work yourself!