Children delighted with this mechanical toy bear outside a children's clothing store, endlessly blowing soap bubbles.

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At a train station

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Decorating a walking stick.

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A social worker having coffee. 

"It is one thing to photograph people. It is another to make others care about them by revealing the core of their humanness."

                                   —Paul Strand

"The best portion of a good man's life, his little nameless, unremembered acts of love and kindness."

                                     —Wordsworth

"To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others... to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived... that, is to have succeeded."                                          —Emerson

A classical musician

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The daughter of a music teacher 

David Schatzky: psychotherapist, CBC-AM Radio personality, playwright and friend. 

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A leathersmith in Europe

"When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice."

                       —Robert Frank

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A dental surgeon with an holistic approach. He is also a homeopath registered with the Government of Ontario, Canada and practices cranio-sacral therapy.

A watchmaker

A delightful family

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities."    —Jean Houston

"People love pictures where they're laughing versus just smiling. That's because there's emotion behind it. Because you're capturing energy, not just a still image."   —Jen Rozenbaum  

"It is more important to click with people than to click the shutter."

                              —Alfred Eisenstaedt

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This little boy urgently needed to go to the bathroom. But mommie, off-camera, told his big sister to tie his shoelace first.

"The one quality absolutely necessary for success in camera work is Patience... it is well to choose your subject and carefully study the lines and lighting. After having determined these, watch the passing figures and await the moment in which everything is in balance, that is, satisfies your eye. This often means hours of waiting."

—Alfred Stieglitz, 1908

A charming cobble-stone street 

"Everything always looks better in black and white. Everything always looks as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black-and-white photograph. It just makes it seem there are more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting."

—Jack Lowden

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Meet Geronimo, a female American Red Tail Hawk. This falconer told me he raised Geronomo since she was just a chick, 40 days old.

As I moved in closely to get this, Geronimo became wary, tightening her talons hard around her master's glove. But as she got used to me, she allowed me to gently stroke her. The falconer explained: since the falconer trusted me, so would his bird. He said if I would stay with them for just one more day, Geronimo would even perch on my arm. 

"No place is boring if you've had a good night's sleep and a pocket full of unexposed film."

—Robert Adams

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    Neil Jay Bixby

Helga Bixby, the good woman behind the man

"There are processes that separate the artist from the technician. The act of choosing and adjusting the various camera settings, followed by the darkroom processes, reflect intent based on imagination, aesthetic sensibility and experience. The photographer first has to see possibilities, then make choices. The act of making a photograph then beomes a creative act. The experienced photographer, like the experienced painter, learns to truly see, and through his art, teaches others to do the same."

                                                                                                                                                  —Jeff Benton

My appreciation to:

Frank Manners & Don Coulombe, Jeff Benton, Roger Henriques, David Schatzky, and Dave Odess...

...but most of all to Helga.