Back in junior high school, every other Language Arts (English) class invovled writing. I remember quite well that we were allowed to write about anything we wanted, in any form we chose, just as long as we were writing. Naturally most of my assignments dealt with airplanes. In the years that followed, I tried to diversify my choice of subjects, but invariably I gravitated back to aviation.

My prefered genre is non-fiction aviation history, and I count authors like Larry Milberry, Fred Hotson and Dan Dempsey as mentors. Their works have covered a large portion of Canada's aviation history.

I'd already been working on my two book projects when my first magazine article fell into my lap. Thanks to a Twin Otter photo I'd sold, Kenn Borek approached me to shoot their brand-new Basler Turbo DC-3 for their 2006 calander. With hundreds of left over images, I figured I'd write an article, which was picked up and published by Canadian Aviator magazine. Building on writing about what I knew, an article about the retirment of WestJet's Boeing 737-200 airliners followed, again published in Canadian Aviator.