About FirstGateDreamer

About this site

This site serves several purposes, most of which are admittingly self serving.

• To serve as a personal journal of my adventures and misadventures.
• To challenge and document the progress of my skills and creativity as a photographer, artist, web designer, and living creature.
• A way to communicate with family, friends, and foes where relationships are sometimes difficult to maintain.
• And hopefully to entertain, educate and/or inspire any audience that might stumble upon this site.

The photos on this site are not always posted for their aesthetic appeal but mostly for the stories and the feelings behind them. I will do my best to post a new image everyday but nowadays only get around to posting a few a week. Feel free to make any comments as your feedback is appreciated .

If you would like to use any photos or get any prints contact me and I'll set something up for you depending on the usage.
All images and text are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.

What's 'First Gate' ?

I chose this name to honour the lost art of DREAMING. More specifically, Lucid Dreaming as practiced by the ancient Toltecs. There are several steps to master lucid dreaming as described through the character Don Juan Mateus in the books of Carlos Casteneda.

The first step or 'gate' is to bridge your everyday consciousness into your dreams by orienting yourself in your dream and to become aware that you are in fact dreaming. One technique is to try to look at your hands while dreaming.

Technical stuff

This site is best viewed at a minimum screen resolution of 1024 x 768 and has been optimized for Firefox. Internet Explorer sucks and I have made the necessary adjustments so it should still display properly in such a crappy browser.  If you use Netscape, just hang yourself with your mouse now.  Switch to Firefox.

Gear

• Nikon D70s
• Nikon F-90
• Olympus SP-310
• Pentax (35mm film SLR)
• AF-S DX NIKKOR 18-200mm f3.5-5.6
• Nikon AF Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8D
• Nikkor AF 24mm f/2.8D
• Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 (R.I.P.)
• Manfrotto 190xPROB

About me

Ron St. Louis, born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario and have been living in Ottawa since 1998. I love travel, cycling, photography, reading, and music but what I really need is to be outside since I love nature more than anything.

Contact

ron -At- firstgatedreamer -Dot- com