Earlier this month I went down to the beach in Goderich, Ontario with a few photographer friends and we got to see the sunset. Thought I’d share a few images.
You all heard that Snickers from Mars is coming!
…well Snickers from Mars is HERE! It is the new design to this web site. It features a new approach to the site controls and quite a few additions. One of the features that is worth mentioning is the fact that the design itself is going to be published as Open Source. For those of you who have not the slightest clue as to what on earth Open Source is, no worries, I shall explain.
I have worked for a very long time to create the infrastructure for this web site; and for an even longer time worked on figuring out how to get HTML and CSS code to do that which I want it to do, picking and choosing elements from different photography web sites and trying to adapt them to my own. There are very few good designs on the web that are freely available to be downloaded and used (most of the ones available are from Tofurious, who is a wonderful human being), so this is what I will do. Now before you ask me for the link, it’ll be a few days before I get everything sorted out in terms of packaging up the files nicely, but they’ll be out soon!
Make sure to check out the main page for more details about the new theme!
Cheers!
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I have mentioned for a while now that I intend to follow some of my workshop students’ suggestion and offer the Photographing Consciously Workshop content in a more individual centered way, a one-on-one kind of way. Let me explain. Instead of the class room approach, which does not appeal to everybody, I would meet up with interested individuals and teach them the content hands-on, somewhere in town.
A few days ago was such an instance. Here’s one of my favourite padawan learners, I mean students, Braedy and my friend Ashley, who kindly agreed to model for our first attempt at portrait photography.
* discussing the use of natural available light
* big windows, always a welcomed secret weapon
* taking it slow and noticing where the shadows are and which angles turn them from annoying to flattering
Below you can see us practicing of one of my favourite philosophies when it comes to portraits; namely, a happy model is a happy looking model. So we created comic relief by attempting strange and funny postures.
It seems to have worked.
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I found this scene in a partially snow covered parking lot at the intersection of Westmount Road and Erb Street in Waterloo, Ontario around Valentine’s day. How Ironic. A good cover option in case Jon Bon Jovi decided to launch a new version of “You give love a bad name”; the image of a heart with a bullet hole going through it. It is not the intricacy of the design that makes it interesting, but the lack thereof actually, considering that all this is, is a napkin of some sort or a white paper bag all squished up and driven over, probably multiple times, left partially under a sheet of thin ice in the corner of a parking lot.
