My name is Alfred J. Fortin PhD, and I’ve worked in health care delivery for over 35 years. My experience ranges from mental health crisis intervention, child abuse prevention, studying AIDS in Africa, to university teaching and corporate health care strategic policy development. I’m also very interested in the health care challenges faced by China and the Third World.

At my personal blog -- www.ajfortin.com -- I write about these interests and more. I’m also a contributing blogger at www.worldhealthcareblog.org.

But here, in this blog, I talk less and try to visualize more. Photography has been an interest of mine for more years than I would like to say. I’ve read about, and seen the works of, most of the great photographers; read the postmodern critiques of photographic images and it still comes down, to me anyway, to beauty and truth.

Photography often shows the implicit ordering of everyday life: patterns. But when you step back and take it all in, especially if you are not a “professional” photographer, your images reveal to yourself, but mostly to those around you, the anarchy of your ordinary life.  If that’s the case, so let it be. As it’s been said before, ordinary life is the measure of all things.

You can email me at contact@ajfortin.com with your comments.