In 1968 when I flew home to Stockholm, Sweden from boarding school at St. Andrew’s College in Aurora, Ontario for summer holidays my father bought me an Agfa Silette LK 35 mm camera. I took it with me on our road trip to the Arctic circle then back through the Norwegian fjords. My introductory use of the camera was a failure. I somehow broke the film from the internal winding mechanism. However it didn’t stop me from taking photographs on our trip. Until at last I clued in that something was very wrong, that I had taken far more photos than the possible capacity of the film. My photographic misadventure was probably conducted in relative privacy (read: ignorance) while my father fished or did anything else but supervise my initiation to photography. But this wasn’t the worst of it. Subsequently in Hamburg, Germany nearby a river or lake, while attempting to walk along a pipe which was used as a sidewalk fencing, and while carrying my new Agfa Silette LK on my shoulder with a strap, I fell from the pipe, swung the strap and camera in an arch to the ground and broke the case and seriously damaged the camera.
Years afterwards upon graduating from law school I purchased a Nikon camera. I found its adjustments (wheels and switches) amusing but I never fully embraced its use. When my goddaughter and niece undertook a professional interest in photography, I gave her everything I had related to the subject. According to my scale of limitations, photography was far beyond my scope of patience and endurance.
And then came the iPhone.
At first my interest in the iPhone was limited to the phone and email. This is basically what it continues to be to this day even though I’ve graduated to iPhone 15 after what was originally a yearly upgrade. In the process I have slowly though meaningfully acquainted myself with the iPhone camera and the “edit” function in particular. Accompanying this artistic evolution has been my commissioning of a gentleman to create a web site for me; and, I have from time to time added my favourite photos to that web site.
I needn’t tell you that photographs can be entertaining. I am hopeful that the collection below (or at least some of it) will be of interest. As far as I know there is no particular theme. In fact part of the thrill of photography for me is that almost anything qualifies as worthy of attention.