Just took a few shots of Sully as he lay recovering from his trip to the dog park. Man, he’s an awesome, beautiful dog.
Sep 042010
Well, this certainly conjures up grim connotations. This started out as an anti-smoking personal project…and I’ll get that one done eventually, but it just wasn’t working the way I’d hoped. I was having some physical effects issues in that, being a non-smoker, I bought a brand of cigarettes for the shoot that have white filters instead of the more common and iconic orange filters. A small detail, but one that wrecked the effect I was hoping to pull off. Ah well, at least some of my throw away shots as I was fine-tuning my lighting turned out alright.
Some info:
1/ This is not a real gun.
2/ The smoke was created by shoving an incense stick up the barrel
3/ That shell casing is a real 9mm shell with the slug photoshopped off. Incidentally, my great uncle made this shell during WWII while working in a munitions factory in England. I have a small box of other ammo he made during the same time.
This pic could be used for a “don’t play with guns” public service announcement for sure. Or, if you want to inject a little humour here, it could also be a “don’t play with my teenage daughter, or else…” PSA. Yeah, I like that one. I have some friends who might agree with THAT PSA right now…
We attended one of the nicest weddings we’ve ever been to this past weekend. The ceremony was at the Billings Bridge Estate Museum and the reception was at the Glebe Community Centre, both of which were stunning venues. It was an outside ceremony and it looked pretty grim for a while there when it started to rain right before Christine was supposed to make her grand appearance. Fortuitously, as she started, undeterred, down the aisle the rain shut off like a tap and the sun shone through. I good omen, I say.
I have worked with and become friends with both Christine and Jason at Acart Communications and Level Platforms respectively, so when I was asked to photograph the groomsmen getting ready for the wedding, I was honoured to do so.
Congratulations guys. We’re very happy for the both of you.
Here are the pictures I took in the hour before the guys had to leave:
Some photos from our day on the Ottawa River. Walked up to Garburator where some kayakers were putting on a freakin’ clinic. I don’t know how these guys do this.
Went up to Beachburg with the Ross’ for a great day on the magnificent white water of the Ottawa River. We never got the forecast sun, so it was a tad chilly, but it was still a great way to spend the day. Thankfully the camera wasn’t pointed at me during my session with Mr. Ross, but Cindy wasn’t so lucky. I was proud that she actually wanted to try to learn the basics like “wet exiting” when the kayak flips over, and attempting to learn the “Eskimo roll” so you don’t have to “wet exit” when you do flip.
Sully freaked right the hell out when Cindy was having her lesson and swam out and flipped her over in a failed attempt to “save” her. Cindy actually flipped herself over to prevent Sully’s claws from puncturing the Kayaks neoprene skirt. Once she had successfully completed lesson #1 and wet exited the kayak, he proceeded to, again in a some perverse canine attempt to save Cindy’s life, climb on top of her and force her under water. The whole time I’m yelling myself hoarse trying to get the dog back to shore so I can proceed to throttle him. Rob Ross was swimming around heroically trying to extricate the two of them. Cindy was fine and only suffered a few scratches. Sully is also still alive; didn’t even hit him (I never do), but, boy-howdy, did he know I was angry. Is there any breed that can look as pathetically chastened as a Golden Retriever? Somehow I didn’t have the presence of mind to take one picture during this ordeal. I’d make a terrible photojournalist.
Anyway, here are a few pics of Cindy and Rob.
We attended an awesome show in our friend’s living room last night as part of Crush Luther’s Living Room Sessions. It was an all acoustic show (my favorite type of show) and was a rare and refreshing way to see an up and coming Indy band. Thanks for the show guys and thanks for hosting this cool event Vallentynes.
Here are some pictures from the show:
Mar 072010
Got Cindy to pose for some pics with the gun (replica) the other day. Here are a few of the results:
Nov 202009
I’ve got a photoshoot tomorrow morning that I’m a little worried about. I do it to myself really. I say yes to a job that I don’t know all the details about and that’s when the stress starts. This picture is to be of three horses. Why couldn’t it be one horse…or even two? But, no, it’s three. How am I going to enforce any kind of control over three horses enough to get them all in the frame at the same time? There’s just no guarantees I can give the guy on the quality of the picture. I mean, if they cooperate and happen to gather in the same spot at the same time, great. But if not…well, I guess I could be there a long time tomorrow. My mind keeps conjuring the old comment on a frustrating situation, “It was like herding cats”. I guess we’ll see if herding horses is any less so.
Oct 122009
I recently shot a wedding for Holly & Louie. It was a really fun wedding to shoot, and it was mostly because of how relaxed and layed-back these two were. Here are a few selected photos from the day.
The groomsmen (and grooms-baby) get ready.
Bouquet and rings
Holly getting ready
Holly was completely relaxed and radiant the whole day.
Holly's mom and dad were also celebrating their anniversary the next day.
Holly's beautiful tattoo displays how proud she is of her family roots.
I finally figured out why everyone was so relaxed...
Rockin' out helps with the pre-ceremony stress.
Did I mention these guys were relaxed?
Yes they did...