Greggor58's VirtualTourist Home Page

For the past twelve years I have been living in Ottawa...the Capital City of Canada...something that I certainly wasn't planning on doing...My intention was to spend maybe four or five years here at most and return to where I moved here from.. Vancouver Island...and the Pacific Coast of Canada.

I LOVE Islands....and I LOVE water... I LOVE colour...and I LOVE the forest.

The sounds of silence I call them..noise that I hear when Im hiking a shorline...camping beside a lake...or walking a trail through a forest..... the noise that water makes when it moves against the side of stone...the sound of wind rushing through trees...gentle waves lapping the shorline...or a hard rain hitting the surface of the ground.

These invoke feelings of peace in MY Soul....and allow me to feel close to something of my past.


I was so lucky when as a child my parents would pack myself and my sister into the back seat of a car and awayyyy we would go...more often than not...loaded with camping gear..and lots of good food and fishing rods...

Travel... and going to see things and experience things and places that were new was something I was introduced to and grew to love from a really early age...I remember watching the first Moon Landing in a little hotel along the TransCanada Highway just inside the Eastern border of Saskatchewan....we were driving from Ottawa to see and experience the Calgary Stampede.... swimming in irrigation ditches to cool off after a long days drive in the Prarie Summer...or camping somewhere in Northern Ontario and being serenaded by a bunch of loons at sunset...

We did "Road Trips" to the Maritme Provinces of Canada... Nova Scotia..or Prince Edward Island..New Brunswick...or Newfoundland...It was during these trips that I fell in love with the ocean...and nature.


Ive been so fortunate in my life to have the ability and interest to travel...to venture out of my comfort zones..to see and experience places and do things that Ive not done before..

Twenty years of images are proofed ....photographs, that I am scanning slowly...and over time my intention is to build pages over time and give you a little peek into who I am and share with you who and what are important to me.In the meantime Ill contine to travel..and take pictures.

Im still not sure how to capture the best macro images with the "digital camera" that I have only been using for the past two years..but Im having fun learning...

The 35 mm system is still around...the larger format gear has been sold off....and DIGITAL has captured my enthusiasm ....I think its just incredible what we can do today with imagery...

I have lots to learn about photo editing programs....there is so much to know...it so different form silver halide technology...

I worked for a number of years in the photo industry where I loved creating images that were perfect....images that had power...images that had feeling...

The first camera that I owned was in the mid sixties...and it was a Kodak Brownie...something second hand...and I used it quite alot...

Ive been "capturing the moment" since I was likely six or seven years old...

Most of these flower snaps are taken in my garden...

Virtual Tourist is turning out to be for me....a forum where I can connect with people around the World,first and foremost.

VT is also a great forum for me to share some of my photographs....and find pictures and simply make new friends..When I am going somwehere that I have never been to before....I can simply log on here and gain a little bit of experience before I even get onto the plane outta here!

I am so impressed with the information that I can find at the drop of a hat...and the ease for the most part that it is to interact with people here ....many of us here are quick to respond to questions and greetings...its a cool and facinating community to be a part of.

Something that I've learned in the short time that Ive been playing here....its normaly a fairly lenghthy process to build pages...and it consumes more than a little bit of time...I find though that for me its fun...and its creative...so in fact it is become a sort of labour of love...

What I LOVED about working in the darkroom.. when I had managed to create an image that was close to perfect...the feeling of accomplishment that I felt when I could see the results to my efforts.....holding it and looking at it in my hands...the feeling was so gratifying..Its so tangible!

When it happens.....and I get feedback...or ratings on my tips...I get the same kind of feeling...gratification and a sense of a job well done...something that I enjoy...

To those who take the time to read.....to comment....and even to rate some of my "tips"....I appreciate that you take some of YOUR time to read and respond to what I've said....Thats important to me....and your acknowledgemment is a gift to me....

Thank you again !!