So I have been buys doing photos, photos and more photos in an effort to get caught up on the 1000′s of photos that I am behind. I have gotten a good start on them, yesterday and today I finished the Andrea shoot, the engagement photos and the better part of my full day drive in the country that I had a while ago . I have even started to look at the Vancouver pictures. I am so getting on top of my game and I owe it all to a new program that I got with my new camera. I am refereeing to Canons Digital Photo Professional. This a program that you can only get when you own a 1D, 1Ds or a 1D Mark II and it is amazing. It is the sole reason that I am finished the Andrea shoot so quickly. Good times but it doesn’t work with the Canon 10D’s version of Raw so I still have to do those files the old way. So enough chatter and on with the show

The Country Drive

Vancouver

Andrea

These are some shots from last weeks session with Andrea. The make up was done by her friend and makeup artist Alison

I am getting sick. It is that sleepy groggy feeling that is accompanied by a really sore throat and the distinct smell of cigarettes. I am not kidding when I get sick all I can smell is cigarettes, It is funny cause I always get the really sore throat after going to the bar and hanging out in the in the smoke. I think there may be a connection. I need to have a good sleep to get over it but they are doing all kinds of construction in the space beneath us so sleeping during the day, not so good. But enough of my whining and complaining.

I am at work right now (you knew that thought because that is the only time that I blog) but I only am here for a few hours. Yesterday I had a photo shoot with The Swifty’s a country band from here in Edmonton. They picked me up and we drove all over the countryside trespassing on different farm sites and what have you. I have a few great shots from the day like this one

Other then that I have been working like a dog to finish the wedding and engagement shoots that I have had and trying really hard to get the photo shoot that I had with Andrea finished and out. Maybe after I get home tonight. :)

Oh and how is the new font size working for ya D?

So I have been a busy beaver I tell you. I have been working a bit more the normal this last week, I have been tiring to get this wedding finished, I had an Engagement shoot That I also need to finish, and I have been working with a new model. All taking up a lot of my time which results in me not blogging :) So here I am at work blogging as per usual, you know firing down random thoughts while I am interrupted by callers both on the work phone and my cell phone. I am very sleepy I think the plan is that we are going to go to a bar and watch duke’s band tonight I just told Miranda That I wanna get drunk to which she replied ok whatever. The truth of the matter is that I will end up having one beer and complaining about how I am tired and I wanna sleep. I am such an old man sometimes :) I was going to have a photoshoot with Swiftys tonight but that has been postponed till Monday. Ya nap when I get home :). Miranda and I are planning on going to Calgary & Banff next weekend for a minitrip. We actually used to go to the mountains all the time but my job last summer kinda prevented us from going out on weekends, and we haven’t really gotten back into it since. So this will be a lot of fun I think a nice break anyway :) I am super excited to spend a day in Calgary again. There was a lot of things that I hadn’t had the chance to see the last time I was there and this would be a great time to revisit :) well as long as it inst snowing as it is supposed to this weekend stupid Alberta Weather (insert your I think Alberta sucks ass comments here) Not to mention this is the perfect time to drive to Banff it is pre crazy tourist season but it is still all right time to be there :) Things don’t get much better then that. I am thinking that we will have to do a lot of stuff this summer before we go to Van next year cause in not so long these great Alberta sites and sounds will be gone from reach oh shit I forgot the sarcasm tags These great Alberta sights and sounds are going to gone from reach Actually all sarcasm aside I wouldn’t mind firing down to Drumheller and checking it out one more time before we leave Alberta perhaps this summer if the weather is nice one week of my weekends.

People cant Count in Alberta If I ask you for your ten digit telephone number would the correct answer be
A: 555-8741
B: 8658
C: hi my Name is bob from Milllit
D: 780-555-5457

I am going to do a little study I think where I count the number of people that give me stupid comments to questions and see what the numbers are.

Thank you Darren I have been checking the Space Moose site weekly, always hoping for them to be online again. All is now better in the world.

Space Moose

So here I am in Queen Donair again waiting for some food. I think that we really need to buy some groceries some time soon. But till then I am having lunch/supper & listening to some crazy suit guys talk about the mob in vegas and other crazy suit guy type talk. It is good times. Oh now they are praising the wit and fore-sight of Don Cherry. :)

Here is some photos of an old car

Well it is now Sunday and here I am spending what would be a fantastic and warm spring evening inside a stuffy cubical with the whirring of computers tapping of keyboards and the drone of white noise generators. Yup you heard right! White noise generators. You see large corporations bring in these experts to their offices to make the noise level not so loud, and they do this by installing a device that will sit and murmur to its self to drown the other noises in the office. Weird stuff, but I guess that they work though I have been told. So I am super stoked about the print that is going to be on display at the art gallery, I know that there is also ninety nine other photos that are going to be on display that the gallery as well but that in know way makes me less stoked about it. I am going to shamelessly plug it now and encourage every one to waddle they way down to the art gallery and see it and the 99 other photos, but to also vote on mine. I have no idea what the prizes are for being the audience choice as it were but it would be to cool to win.

On another note I had an engagement session with a prospective bride and groom today. We went to the legislature grounds and wandered about for a while it was a lot of fun. I realized that even engagement shoots are a lot of fun. I love taking photos and tiring different things with different people. The fun is in that everyone is different and has their good and bad faces that both creep in for a moment and then are gone. It is these good face moments that you have to catch and they are quicker then you can imagine. The fun of it is learning to anticipate the movements of people and being ready to capture the moments that are there, It is putting them into the correct scenarios and settings to have them naturally come to there own good faces and then be there to grab them. I kinda think that is like being a pick pocket (not that I am or ever have been one) you have to see opportunity and with quick and fluid movements you grab the picture/wallet. No I am sure that this all sounds hookey and what have you but it is so true. It is the same as street photography you shoot and you watch and you look like a fool wandering around with a camera to your eye but man o man it is so unbelievably fun. It is getting to be nice weather again (our second spring you might say) so I am hoping that there is more and more people on Whyte ave. Cause I really wanna start shooting more street shots of crazy consumers and hippies and random drunkards all squeezed in to a small space. It will be fun. I am thinking that I may try shooting some night photography of the bar yahoos on Whyte ave on a Saturday or something.

I have been here for almost 2 hours and I have taken four calls, you wanna know what else is really cool about days like today? I am making around a 180 bux to do this. Man O man I love Sundays.

So I have been here like 4 hours now and I am getting on average a call every half hour :) You do the math. So I have caught up on a few things and I am kicking ass on Defend your Castle (A flash game.) Now I am going to sort my email and work on a few other things :) 180 bux to do what I would normally be doing. Maybe I will read some indecline w00t!

So it has been some what of a long week when I wasn’t furiously going though photos and what have you tiring desperately to get caught up, I was busy making advertisements. We procured some great ad space in the upcoming issue of Wedding Bells which is the premiere magazine to get if you are getting married which makes it the premiere magazine to be advertising in for weddings. So that should be showing up in the next issue.

On a less businessey note I submitted this photo

to the Edmonton Art Gallery for there upcoming 100years/100 pictures exhibit. So I got a letter this week that says My photo was accepted for the show. It will be hanging up in the Edmonton Art Gallery June 5 – September 19. I am so excited

On to other photos from the week

This is a shot of one of the Government Buildings at the Legislature

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
ISO:50
Shutter: 1/250 sec
Aperture: F/4
Focal length: 28mm

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
ISO: 400
Shutter: 1/160 sec
Aperture: F/8
Focal length: 52mm

So I’m waiting for my food at Queen Donair down the street from our studio, & taking a well needed break from the plethora of photos that I have done nothing but work on today. I really like this crazy place, they have awesome burgers and fantastic onion rings & there is a high probability that you won’t get anything that you actually ordered, but the surprise is nice. It is good times indeed. That is not mentioning the crazy people’s bus stop that is right out side the window. Good times But I am going to go for a wander for an hour or so. I will talk more later maybe post a photo or two.

Yup its a Vespa! I figured with all my talk of late about them I should post a photo.

Taken in Vancouver