Don Denton is a photographer, photo editor and photo coach who lives in Victoria, British Columbia.
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/
Daniel Milnor – Luz Gallery Workshop
November 20, 2011 | Filed Under Workshop | Leave a Comment
An excellent workshop last weekend with Los Angeles/New Mexico based photographer Dan Milnor at the Luz Gallery. Check out the gallery’s upcoming workshops here.
Mike Andrew McLean – Thirty-Five thousand Forty at Open Space
November 15, 2011 | Filed Under Exhibition | Leave a Comment
An eye and mind boggling exhibit by Mike Andrew McLean at the Open Space gallery in Victoria. Here’s the intro from the gallery’s web page:
Thirty-Five Thousand Forty
Mike Andrew McLean
November 10 to December 10, 2011
Opening November 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Thirty-Five Thousand Forty is the physical culmination of Mike Andrew McLean’s project to shoot ninety-six photographs a day for three hundred and sixty-five consecutive days. McLean’s year of photos, now printed as 4”x6” snapshots, will tile the interior of Open Space, forming a sprawling record of the artist’s life from June 2010 to June 2011.
McLean writes “photography in the digital era is developing its own language, forging unique processes and technologies. It seems to have reached the democratic potential that George Eastman predicted one hundred years ago, when he took the process out of the studio of the trained craftsman and put it into the hands of the unskilled hobbyist.” McLean turns the idea of digital photography inside out, conferring an analogue physicality and monumentality onto a format that proliferates effortlessly, flooding websites, Facebook, memory cards and hard drives in an unimaginably deep cloak of images.
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Note the final photo posted here. Dan Milnor snaps a photo of a 2G hard drive mounted on the gallery wall. All the photos in the show are stored on that one drive.
Don Denton and T. J. Watt Exhibition Opening at Dales Gallery
November 14, 2011 | Filed Under Exhibition | 1 Comment
Here’s a few images from the opening last week of the joint photo exhibition for T. J. Watt and myself called Seeing The Forest For The Trees at Dales Gallery in Victoria’s Chinatown. The show, See The Forest For The Trees, runs until November 25.
Conversations With Photographers Vol. 1
September 27, 2011 | Filed Under Gifts | Leave a Comment
Jorg Colberg, the man behind the photo blog Conscientious, has now started publishing books. Check out his first publication Conversations With Photographers available here. It’s Volume 1 so looking forward to more. It’s only eight bucks so get yours soon.
Spiderman Gives Good Photo
September 22, 2011 | Filed Under Photojournalism, Photos | Leave a Comment
The great thing about Spiderman is that as Peter Parker he makes a living as a news photographer so he knows what photographers need. A local radio dude strikes an action pose for photographer Jesse Hlady.
The Summer that Was
September 21, 2011 | Filed Under Photojournalism, Sports | Leave a Comment
Summer returned for a couple of days but tonight the rains came back, just in time for my bike ride. Time to buy fenders for the bike I think. Anyhow, the photo above was taken a few weeks back at a high school football game when we were in the middle of our late arriving but hot dry summer. A reminder of what was.
Recent Images
September 11, 2011 | Filed Under Photojournalism | Leave a Comment
