Celebrating 50 years

[tegan]

I first started taking pictures in 1958 with a Kodak Starmeter and tried to keep up with my mother going into buffalo herds, shooting bears at 10 feet away, and encountering mountain goats climbing up a mountain in B.C.

I progressed shortly to a Minolta rangefinder and competed against my mother in what was then called the National Association of Photographic Art. We came off pretty well even in awards.

I later moved to reflex cameras and did journalistic photography while still in high school. After university, I got into multi-media and slide shows and went to community college to learn television and film.

I got a job that then branched out into many areas. I produced, directed, and did shooting of live television, did hundreds of presentations for groups as large as 1,000, produced, and appeared on educational television, hung out of airplanes, shot from skis, did advertising, public relations and political photography, edited and shot for a local paper, and did multi-screen presentations with equipment that stretched 8 feet high by 6 feet wide with multiple projectors, programmers, sychronizers and other equipment. I also got the chance to work on productions involving Mother Teresa, John Howard Griffith and Patrick Watson as well as one of the previous mayors of Toronto.

I got into computer animation with (believe it or not) the Commodore 64 and digital photography with the Canon Xap Shot: 300 by 200 pixels. Later I produced a $12,000 program on Computer Animation for TV Ontario.

I am currently working on several projects including a book, and a very large law suit, although I am supposed to be retired.

Tegan