I lay in bed with a helmet on, my most valuable possessions (bicycle and camera) under my desk for safe keeping. I was six years old and I was preparing for an impending earthquake.

My strategic thinking always served me well. I rode my bicycle 10,000 miles across the widest part of Canada, solo, eluded a hungry Grizzly Bear on a hike in the Stein Valley, lived in the shell of a 1910 house without power or heat for 529 days as I rebuilt it singlehanded, took the yoke of a Cessna plane in the Yukon, proposed to a rockstar in Paris (she said yes), set up a photoshoot in the mountains whilst being watched by wolves, photographed workers in a remote Goldmine 250 miles from the nearest road, rappelled from The Chief, one of the largest granite monoliths in the world, and had two daughters.

As a photographer I’ve taken many award winning photos, including Graphis Silver and Gold Medals, been published in multiple magazines including Applied Arts, and photographed advertising campaigns and projects spanning USA, Canada and Europe. 

My base is in Vancouver, Canada, where I Iive with my family, and where I spend many hours planning how I’d escape from a grizzly bear, especially on photoshoots. Perhaps I could squeeze myself into a pelican case and avoid being eaten. Luckily I thrive on being calm in a storm.