First Nations’ Art Unveiled

September 28, 2009 | Filed Under Photography | Leave a Comment 

It always amazes me how often that you’ll get a run of assigments that are connected. This past weekend the photographer working ended up at two events where there were dogs wearing sunglasses. Last Thursday and Friday I had an assignment each day that was centred around First Nations art. Thursday was the official unveiling of the Darlene Gait/Butch Dick designed murals on the Ogden Point breakwater and then Friday saw the Lt.-Gov Steven Point show off the latest additions to the Government House art collection. The Luke Marston healing pole (below) is just another example of this amazing artists work. Three other artists had work on display, all excellent, although Marianne Nicolson, who had a stunning show in 2008 at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria was the only other artist I was familiar with.

Photographing Totem Poles

September 27, 2009 | Filed Under Photography | Leave a Comment 

Morning sun on the totem poles at Thunderbird Park.

After Midnight Photo

September 12, 2009 | Filed Under Photography | 1 Comment 

We shoot Day in the Life projects for all the local papers every year and it gets to be a challenge finding new images especially when you pull the Midnight to morning shift as I did last week on our Victoria shoot. This shift went well though, lots of pix. I really liked this image of a bus running through the wash at the bus yards.