I was born in Toronto, Ontario, grew up in Hamilton, married my wife who was from the small town of Ancaster we moved to Paris in 2016 but now live in Ancaster.
I have been into photography since my high school days (way back in the days of film) when a friend installed a dark room in his parents' basement. Watching the pictures develop as it swirled around in different chemicals had me hooked, and I went and bought my first camera that week.
As a lover of older buildings, with dreams of maybe being an architect, it was only natural to combine both of these loves and start photographing architecture.
While this passion never really left me, life has a way of making you make choices as to what you are going to do to support yourself, which for me was to become an Automotive Mechanic.
Photography slowly disappeared from my life, until my wife and I were set to go on a cruise. I had always complained that I hated the pictures I had taken on our holidays with the little point & shoot digital camera we had, as it too slow and I kept getting blurry shots of anything not nailed down. She looked at me and said “let’s go” and we drove to the local camera store where we purchased my first real DSLR and lens. There was a large learning curve with this new camera and the digital processing required. I could not believe the difference that this camera made and my passion for photography quickly returned.
These days, my photography has taken me in a few different directions. I shoot pictures and write reviews of concerts and festivals for two music magazines:
Rock At Night https://rockatnight.com/author/carey-langsner/ and
Concert Addicts https://www.concertaddicts.com/author/carey-langsner
I also convert some of my architectural photos into sketch-like creations through digital processing using a number of different computer programs.
These prints have been sold through a local art galley and museum in Paris as well as at Art In The Workplace at McMaster Innovation Park and online.
If you are interested in having your family home turned into a piece of artwork, they make great presents.
Please contact me using the contact page.
Three fun facts about me:
1. When I was little we lived in an apartment and my parents would have the neighbor’s German Shepard baby sit me while they visited across the hall. The dog would bark if someone tried to enter the apartment.
2. I met my wife in a bar, we have been married for over 40 years.
3. I was the manager of the number one auto center in the country for Sears Canada before they closed their doors.