Photography by Leonard Whistler

My First Photograph - 1974

This is one of the first photographs I took back in 1974, about 52 years ago, when I was in grade 8. I used a Canon FX 35mm film camera and B&W film, which I developed myself.

The print I am holding is a 12x18 canvas print mounted on wooden stretcher bars. I then applied 3 coats of Liquitex acrylic satin varnish.

Kerwan Avenue is the street I grew up on from the late 1960's to the 1980's in the city of Coquitlam, about 12 miles east of Vancouver BC, Canada. Location on Google maps:  Kerwan Avenue at Kerwan Place

Kerwan Avenue at Kerwan Place - 1974