Merry Christmas

December 24, 2011 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment 

Merry Christmas everyone. Hope it’s not to exhausting.

New blog for Pacific Northwest Photography Project

December 21, 2011 | Filed Under Blog | Leave a Comment 

I’ve started a Tumblr blog for my Pacific Northwest project Saltwater & Rain. A visual and literary archive(ing) of the Pacific Northwest. Check it out here. Become a follower if you like what you see. In case the link isn’t working go here – http://saltwaterandrain.tumblr.com/

Wet for Charity

December 14, 2011 | Filed Under Daily Work | Leave a Comment 

You have to love university students, raising money for charity with a dunk tank in December, even on the west coast it’s cold when you hit the water.

Salmon Triumph Followed By Tragedy

December 11, 2011 | Filed Under Daily Work | 1 Comment 

This photo was taken two weeks ago along Colquitz Creek. The youngsters were being shown a large spawned out male Coho salmon. The volunteers at the creek were ecstatic. They’d been seeing the largest returns of spawning salmon in years. Later that afternoon, an oil spill occurred sending the fluid into the creek.  The salmon have disappeared and attempts continue to try and clean the creek but it appears the triumph has turned into tragedy, an all too often occurrence now.

Wild Wet West Coast Weather

December 10, 2011 | Filed Under Daily Work, Photojournalism | Leave a Comment 

It’s been, for the most part, a dry fall but we’ve had a few great days like this.

Photography Courses at the University of Victoria

December 5, 2011 | Filed Under Workshop | Leave a Comment 

I’ll be teaching two courses for UVic Continuing Studies in the new year.

Introduction to Community Newspaper Photojournalism
This course is for photographers considering a career in photojournalism, bloggers who want to improve the visual content of their sites and for the photographer who wants to explore new avenues of creativity. Participants will study the five main types of photo assignment for the community photojournalist: news, sports, feature, environmental portrait and the photo essay. You will examine the images of working photographers, learn workflow and editing techniques and be given assignments to complete between classes.

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Documentary Photography: Creating the Personal Project
In this course you will learn how to use the techniques of documentary work to create a personal photo project. Participants will examine the work of other documentary photographers and see how and why certain ways of seeing and photographing can be applied to their work. You will learn how to organize your own projects, budget time, find out how to edit a project and discover different ways to bring that project to a larger audience.

full details here: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/