Only the second time I have been able to tag ‘Travel’ for a blog post since I’ve been running this straightfromcamera.com site, and it was but a day trip. I have to say I found Kelowna a tad bit boring, but perhaps I didn’t spend enough time there. It was a good trip, though, as I got to spend it with the girlfriend.
Pastime Sports and Games, the store I cover these events for opened up shop an impressive 20 years ago, and wanted to celebrate with a bang. Cue former Vancouver Giant, and NHL Rookie Brendan Gallagher, who resides here off season. Brendan is the first hockey star I have photographed who is actually younger than I am. Seven years to be exact! He was a pleasure to deal with, and will do great things in his career.
Earlier today we went down to the annual show and shine. I wanted to do something a little different from my usual stuff, so I took an abstract look at approach to some of my favorites. If you look closely you’ll be able to pick out a few Mustangs, which have long since been my car of choice (I have a 67 2dr Coupe). Enjoy this rather large post!
Even older than the last post is this set of images. Back in 2009, when I was still relatively new to professional photography, I got an assignment from Pressphotointernational to shoot the Vancouver Peace Summit and The Dalai Lama in dialogue with other Nobel Laureates. It was definitely an amazing experience, and one day I would absolutely love to photograph him again.
An older event that I was just clearing from the hard-drive and backing up this week, I figured I would share some images from a conference I was commissioned to shoot a few months back for CLA in Langley. The event was a faith based missions conference and dessert.
As an almost formal end to the 2012/13, former Boston Bruin, Hall of Fame Goaltender Gerry Cheevers stopped by Langley on a tour of Canada for all sorts of events, which delighted the fans.
Down in Vancouver’s darkest club, or at least one of them lies a 20ft stage with very minimal lighting. Set to Stun, an alternative rock quartet out of Vancouver were playing a gig, opening up for Vancouver heavy-weights Fake Shark Real Zombie. As it was a bit of a big deal, they hired me on to capture the moments that needed to be caught. I was quite happy with what I came away with, and I know they are, as well.
I’ll be honest. It has been a long time since I dusted off the D300 for street photography. I’ve primarily been shooting digital for commercial work only, and most personal projects with film, but I decided to just take it easy and capture some street frames on a camera I may have been ignoring for ‘fun’ work over the last two years.
Italian Day on Commercial Drive is one of the few times a year that they shut down the busy street to cars in favour of hundreds and thousands of people, families, hipsters, and photographers. The event focuses on Italian heritage prevalent in the area, thus you are able to take in all sorts of pastas, deserts, and other italian dishes at the many food carts, booths, and restaurants.
Some more work from L8R Records I was commissioned on over the last few weeks. One show has passed and the other is yet to come.
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes were a pleasure to work with during our photo session, and an extracted version of one of the photos we took during our shoot sits atop the poster