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    Reflections Through a Special Lens
    Reflections Through a Special Lens
    Reflections Through a Special Lens
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    Reflections Through a Special Lens

    By Stephen Thompson

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    Subtitled "The Photographic Eye of Jack E. Thompson, Reflections Through A Special Lens is a tribute to the author's late father. Jack Thompson was a well-known photographer and newspaper editor in Parry Sound, Ontario. The author, Stephen Thompson, has assembled 50 of his father's black and white photographs of the rocks, clouds, trees, wind and water, and some birds, insects and plants, of the Parry Sound area on Georgian Bay. The photos of this collection date from 1952 to 2002 and were specially selected to represent the span of Jack's photographic career and to honour his own desire to publish a book of similar photographs. Reflections from the title reveals many of the photographic images in the book, since Jack was often looking for reflected images to complete the photographic tales of his compositions, to provide a hint of "the bigger picture." Reflections also describes Stephen Thompson's thoughts, interpretations, remembrances and analyses when revisiting his father's body of work. In addition to Jack Thompson's photographs, the author has included a selection of his own black and white images from the Carden plain and Haliburton areas of Ontario. As a special tribute to his father's generational influence, the author has also included a series of his son Alex's black and white photography. Alex Thompson is Jack Thompson's grandson and his selections come from the Gatineau, Quebec region.


    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateMay 19, 2005
    ISBN9781412235990
    Reflections Through a Special Lens
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    Stephen Thompson

    Stephen Thompson is a retired public health microbiologist who now has the time to ski, golf, take photographs and write. This is his first foray into writing anything other than scientific articles and research papers. Although he was born in Toronto, he was raised in Parry Sound, Ontario. He now lives with his wife near Kirkfield, Ontario.

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      Reflections Through a Special Lens - Stephen Thompson

      © Copyright 2005 Stephen Thompson.  

       All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval  

       system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying,  

       recording, or otherwise, without the written prior permission of the author.

      Note for Librarians: A cataloguing record for this book is available from Library and Archives  

       Canada at www.collectionscanada.ca/amicus/index-e.html  

       ISBN 1-4120-5807-4

      ISBN 978-1-4122-3599-0 (ebook)

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      Contents

      Remembering Jack Thompson  

       March 4, 1923-March 12, 2003

      In his own words……….  

       On Photographing Parry Sound

      American Woodcock, 1962

      Baby Gull and Bubbles, 1968

      Bullfrog, 1996

      Female Common Merganser, 2001

      Phoebe Nest, 1999

      Catkins, 1988

      Rocks, Trees and Rail Fence, 1974

      Spring Approaching Series, 1965-1969

      Trillium, 1995

      Birches and Reflections

      Great Blue Heron in Tree

      Cabin and Clouds

      Clouds Reflected in Pond, 1993

      Clouds

      Dragonfly, 1997

      Flying Gull, 1991

      Caspian Terns in Flight

      Georgian Bay Pines, 1965

      Georgian Bay Rocks, More Rocks, and Still More Rocks

      Hole-in-the-Wall

      Alexander Henry

      Young Hawk, 1995

      Lily Pads in the

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