About

Hi! I'm Tim Forbes and I've been taking pictures since I was 12. I remember borrowing Kodak how-to photography books from the library and thinking those 70's hairdo's were pretty darn funny.

But that didn't scare me away from wanting to take pictures. I wanted to be a photographer. Even as a kid I noticed light and colour and the thing I wanted most was a camera. I loved the feeling of waiting for a roll of film to be finished so I could see the pictures.

 

But oddly, I went to college to become a family therapist ... then quickly got distracted by being editor of the yearbook, flunked a bunch of courses ... and I now have half of a counselling degree. But don't get me wrong, on a wedding day this can come in handy. :)

 

Now I shoot weddings and portraits for a living and I'm based out of Kingston, Ontario but travel all over Canada.

 

I LOVE what I do. It feels good to know what I was put on earth to do, and actually be doing it.

 

• Top 5 favorite movies of all time.

Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Babel, Beautiful Girls, The Apartment

 

• What’s your most endearing quality?

I'm a good listener ... I know when to shut up and when to speak my mind.

 

• What did you want to be when you grew up?

An architect ... I made my mom buy me stacks of graph paper pads. I thought the T-square was the coolest thing ever.

 

• Describe your favorite meal (appetizer, entrée, dessert)?

Spring rolls with sweet chili sauce, red curry peanut chicken with coconut rice, hot apple crisp ... iced coffee.

 

• What do you do in your spare time?

I'm a drummer in a rock band. I love to cook too.

 

• What music would you take to a desert island, if you could only choose one artist?

Tom Waits. Or Brian Eno ... tough one ...

 

• Describe your first job.

Stocking shelves at a health food/book store. My favourite part was organizing and filing all the invoices and rotating the stock (NERD!).

 

• If you could spend the day with anyone in the world, who would it be?

Bono ... kind of a cliché answer, but I've been the biggest U2 fan since I was 14. I DESERVE to spend the day with Bono ... oh and Larry Mullen too. I've paid my rock n' roll dues!