Photographer Cameron Boyd

Hi there. Thanks for visiting. I’m a recently retired physics teacher of 33 years living in London, Ontario, Canada. For the past 26 years, I taught at Medway High School, in Arva, just north of London, and at Strathroy DCI before that. I have coached volleyball, badminton and golf, and was the school’s Senior Reach for the Top Team Advisor for most of my years there. For much of that time I also served as the co-convenor of the London Regional Reach for the Top League. I serve as the Financial Recording Secretary for St. Ansgar Lutheran Church in London, and I sit on the Board of Directors for Lutheran Independent Living London, which oversees the St. Ansgar Place apartment building.

I have been a Pentax photographer since 1987, and my focus has largely been on landscapes, but more recently also on wildlife and agriculture. As I headed toward retirement from teaching, I began to think seriously about professional photographic endeavours, which, among other things, has lead to this web site.

I love technology and gadgets, and have a nearly insatiable desire for new toys. I consider myself fortunate to have the photographic equipment that I have, two modern DSLR cameras made by Pentax, including the K1 Mark II, one of the best landscape cameras ever made. I have more lenses than I really need (don’t tell Heather), and hope, over the coming months and years, to explore the many possibilities that these lenses open up for me.

I’m grateful that you have taken an interest in me and my work. I hope that you’ll join me in this exploration of my second career, and lifelong passion for photography. Visit the site occasionally to see new content, or use the Contact page to sign up for notifications of new galleries and services.

And now, too much information:

Born July 21, 1967, Burlington, Ontario, the last of five siblings
Moved to the rural community of Canfield, south of Hamilton, Ontario at the age of ten
Graduated from Cayuga Secondary School in 1985
Attended Western University from 1985 – 1989, served as vice-president and president of the Physics and Astronomy Club (now the Physics and Astronomy Student Union)
Graduated from Western in 1989, majoring in Astronomy
Graduated with a Master of Science degree in Atmospheric Physics from the University of Toronto in 1990
Worked as a Research Assistant from 1990 – 1992 in the Imaging Research Laboratories of the Robarts Research Institute in London, using CT technology to study the structures of human blood vessels
Attended Althouse Teachers’ College at Western University from 1992 – 1993

Certified to teach Intermediate and Senior Mathematics and Physics
Taught summer school for the London School Board for six years
Taught full time for the Middlesex County Board of Education, at Strathroy District Collegiate Institute from 1993 – 1998
Taught for two years at Takijualuk and then Nasivvik High Schools in Pond Inlet, at the north end of Baffin Island, was present for the creation of the Canadian territory of Nunavut, April 1, 1999
Moved back to southern Ontario, and began teaching for the amalgamated Thames Valley District School Board at Medway High School (part of the former MCBE) in September, 2000
Proud to have taught eight winners of the very sought after Schulich Award for Science and Engineering
One of my fondest memories of my time at Medway is serving as Staff Advisor for the Reach for the Top team, and interacting with the many outstanding staff and students I got to know that way

I’ve loved playing sports since childhood, and have been involved to a large extent in a wide variety of them, including baseball, badminton, track and field, volleyball, basketball, cross-country running, golf, tennis and squash
I was heavily influenced by the writing and TV work of Carl Sagan, who awoke in me a love of the Cosmos, and steered me toward a life in the physical sciences
I am almost the largest fan of the band Rush in the world, and have seen them in concert 13 times – soon to be 14 in Montreal this fall; the lyrics of Neil Peart have been a blueprint for my world view
I was fortunate enough to discover the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien at a young age, and have been exploring his, and the whole host of other universes he gave birth to, ever since
This is my dog Piper, he is a good boy, he is fifteen and a half years old, and still going strong. He’s beautiful and he knows it

For the gear-heads out there

here are my two DSLRs with some of my favourite lenses:

Pentax K1 Mk 2 with Sigma 28mm f1.8 EX DG Macro

Pentax K70 with smc Pentax-M 85mm f1.8

Pentax K1 Mk 2 with Pentax HD-D FA 70-210mm f4 ED SDM WR

Pentax K70 with Pentax HD-D FA 150-450mm f4.5-5.64 ED DC AW and Pentax HD-DA 1.4x AW Tele-Converter

Pentax K1 Mk 2 with Asahi Super Takumar 135mm f2.5 M42

Pentax K70 with Sigma 10-20mm f4-5.6 EX DC

Pentax K1 Mk 2 with Tamron 90mm f2.8 Macro

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