My New Website

Around two years ago, while I was attending classes at the college, I made my first website. Back then I was really interested in those early 2000s webpages that consisted of a bunch of things you could not click on and were more of a design project than a functional way to get clients and work. In the spirit of pretension, I cobbled together a fun little website full of shapes, colours, and some photographs to showcase my work. Those reading who know anything about this kind of web design know that using this as a base probably was not the most user-friendly platform, which is correct. But more importantly, it was very challenging to update. In fact, I do not think I ever updated it, which ironically made it feel that much more like the early websites that inspired it.

My old website aside, as much as I would have liked to pursue my freelance work, I quickly became busy with other work in the media space, before doing something really out of left field and enrolling to become a high school teacher. In 2023, I started Lakehead University’s Technological Education program, where eventually I would be qualified to teach high school students about photography and communications technologies. This would take up a considerable amount of my time, as to become a teacher qualified to work with the youths of today one must undergo a gauntlet of exercises from crafting assignments to two forty-day placements. After graduation, I quickly started working at schools learning my new trade, but regrettably not building my photography empire. This is not to say I did no media-related work in this time, far from it actually. I still worked as a writer and photographer at The Walleye Magazine, working on a variety of interesting stories all around Thunder Bay. I also continued to photograph restaurants, showcasing new menu items and the people that make them in the back of house. In 2024, I also worked on a fun project for Sociable Thunder Bay, where I did much of the photography for the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra that season, which was something I had always wanted to do. In the fall of 2025, I also moved to Kitchener-Waterloo, which took up a considerable amount of time with moving logistics as well as starting at a new school board. Slightly off topic, but in 2025 I also got a beagle puppy named Winston, who took up a staggering amount of my time (who knew dogs were so much work).

With all these wonderful changes, my little webpage grew dusty, buried in the time vaults of the World Wide Web. So last November, I brought my computer behind the barn and took my website down for good. Until recently, I had an urge to get working in freelance photography again, and I built this new sleek, simple, and functional page. My goal with this website is to create a new showcase of work I do, be it commercial work for businesses, personal work documenting artists, or making landscapes. Ideally, I will also write some fun blog posts on things I am interested in, be it related to photography or not, as I do miss my time as a writer for The Walleye. That about brings us up to speed. Make sure to check this page soon to see more things happening, and also follow my new professional Instagram page to see up-to-date work.