Capturing Extraordinary Light has been Brent Parkin's quest for 30 years now.  The call of fantastic landscapes and natures colours within those landscapes has driven Brent's photography throughout his life.

Photography for Brent began in 1975.  While on a trip to visit his brother in Toronto he was allowed to get acquainted with his brother’s camera, a Nikon F.  After returning home to his parents, Brent began saving to buy his own Nikon.  Since then Brent has owned a series of Nikons and Nikkor lenses which still mark his equipment of choice. 

But photography isn’t about what camera you own or whose lenses you put on those cameras.  Photography is the craft of capturing what your mind allows you to see through the viewfinder.  Brent has spent the last 30 years refining how to capture what he sees.  It has been a quest for Extraordinary Light!

In 2004 Brent began to work with digital imaging for the first time.  No longer relying on a darkroom technician to interpret what is right and wrong in a print, the digital process has allowed a more accurate vision of what was in the viewfinder to be brought forth.  This doesn’t mean that an outstanding dark room technician is no longer needed, it simply means that by using digital, a more accurate image of what the photographer saw is given to the technician. 

Brent strives to use digital processes which do not create an artificial photograph.  Most processes used in his photography could be duplicated in a traditional wet darkroom or even within the camera itself.  In a few  images, adjustments unique to digital have been done.  However, the processes are not used to create something unreal.  Traditional techniques such as montages, dodging and burning or selecting materials for printing that aid in saturating colours during printing are simply replaced by digital variations of the same.  The results of Brent’s work have garnered praise and ribbons from many competitions over the years. 

Brent and his wife Heather live outside of Regina, Saskatchewan and spend any available time they have, chasing Extraordinary Light where ever it may lead them.