I (aka - John Franken) have lived in many locations: Indonesia, Nederlands, United States and for the last 40 years my home has been in western Canada. For the past 25 years I have lived in a beautiful part of northwestern British Columbia. Photography has always been my hobby. I started with a Kodak box camera, then on to a twin reflex, learning to develop and print my own black and whites, acquired a Praktica SLR shooting mostly ektachrome, and finally graduated to a digital camera several of years ago. Most of my amateur work has been scenery shots taken while travelling...more