Stephen Thompson 
Reflections Through a Special Lens 

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.

About the author

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.