ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER -
DAVID INNES

EARLY DAYS “I’ve had a life long passion for photography, first inspired by my Dad who used me as a 3 or 4 year old model for photographs he would make with his old twin lens Rolleiflex and publish in the weekly newspaper he edited. Dad would let me look through the top viewing opening (magic!), and showed me how a yellow piece of glass held against the camera lens (what I know now as a filter) would make the big puffy prairie clouds overhead even bigger and bolder (more magic!) I was amazed, enthralled, and captured for life! I soon had my own camera – a Kodak Brownie – fixed exposure, fixed shutter speed, fixed focal length, fixed everything – and had set up my very own darkroom – a light bulb I painted red, a film developing canister, some Kodak photo paper, and trays for the magic chemical baths. My first photograph was a “portrait” of the vice-principal of my elementary school, processed and printed by me, not the corner drugstore, in blurry black and white, and measuring about 1 inch square after some judicious cropping! Needless to say you won’t find this shot among the gallery images. But it was my beginning, and over the years I’ve added some better equipment, and made some improvements in processing and production techniques, and learned more ways of seeing and different ways of interpreting what I see. And I’ve also learned that I need to keep learning and growing and reaching, for the results that I achieve on a given project at a given time are not absolute but unlimited. It is my wish that the photographic work presented in this website will give you some of the joy and delight that it has produced for me”