Ancient Coastline - Te Toto Gorge - North Island, New Zealand T-Shirt

After negotiating 15 kilometres of a very narrow and rough gravel road, we reached a viewing platform on the Te Toto Gorge. I was unprepared for the overwhelming beauty of this ancient landscape and just stared in awe at what unfolded before me.

Photography has always been a creative passion of mine. In my career as a graphic designer for 33 years, I have utilized the photography skills I had learned as a student of The Ontario College of Art (OCAD). I feel this knowledge made me a more complete designer. When a design required an image, I was able to grab my camera and shoot what I needed to fit the layout I created. As a former educator, I have always told my photography students that I was going to open their creative eyes. This is the basis of all my photography, to view our natural world in a creative, unique way. It is the way I approach every image I shoot, whether it is a heron scratching himself or a spiderweb dripping with morning dew being lit up by the...