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The Habitation at Port-Royal was the first permanent French settlement in New France, built during the summer of 1605. A small, rectangular stockade surrounding a central courtyard, it was nestled on the north shore of the present-day Annapolis Basin bounding the south side of the Bay of Fundy. Famous explorer Samuel de Champlain, accompanied by colleagues Pierre Du Gua de Monts, Louis Hebert and Sieur de Poutrincourt, established the settlement after a disastrous winter on Ile Sainte-Croix in present-day Maine.

This image started its life as an actual photograph. I have tried to turn it into an old etching such as might have been drawn in the 17th century.

I began photography with a Brownie camera my parents gave me as a child sometime in the 1950s. In the 1970s I finally graduated to an SLR and actually won a few contests, then took a hiatus through the 1990s but picked up digital photography in earnest in the mid-2000s. Now, many years later, it still excites me to venture out and try to find what the world is all about in my own way through this wonderful medium. To me, photography is about capturing the hidden meaning, the emotion, and the invisible in a given moment in time. It transcends mere composition and lighting. When it's done well, we sit up and take notice, we pause over an image, and if everything is perfect, we might even feel that slight tingling up the spine. While I try...