Vancouver Island Weather

February 10, 2013 | Filed Under Daily Work | Leave a Comment 

Golfer in the rain at the Victoria Golf Club.

The beautiful thing about the weather here on the southern tip on British Columbia’s Vancouver Island is that this photo could have been taken this week as I saw lots of golfers on the links while driving around. The unfortunate thing about the weather here is that this image was actually taken last June.

Cover for SOAR Magazine February 2013 Issue

February 3, 2013 | Filed Under Daily Work | Leave a Comment 

The cover for the February 2013 issue of SOAR magazine features construction from greater Victoria’s West Shore.

Upcoming Documentary Photography Class and Workshops at UVic

January 17, 2013 | Filed Under Gallery & Workshop, Workshop | Leave a Comment 

I’ll be teaching a documentary course and a couple of one day workshops at the University of Victoria. Sign up here http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca

Courses are:

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.

Students will work on a project throughout the duration of the class; this can be an existing project or something new and initiated by the class experience. This work will serve as a catalyst for class discussions and critiques. This is a course about creativity, not equipment. Participants can use whatever equipment they own, digital or film.

Editing Your Photographs—Developing a Critical Eye

Do you have a jumble of images stored away on your hard drive or boxes of prints tucked away in the closet? Learn how to look critically at your photographs and find the treasures hidden among the less successful images. We’ll also learn how we can have a higher success rate while shooting by learning to edit as we photograph. Students should bring a selection (20–40) of 4 x 6 machine (cheap) prints to the class from a project, trip or just that box in the closet, as well as a camera and a notebook.

Find the Photo Spark

Have you lost your photographer’s creative urge? Do all the images you take seem to look like the last one? Rekindle your photo creativity with a day of exercises designed to make you and your camera best friends again. Bring your camera and a notebook and prepare to exercise your mind and eye and have some fun in the process.

New work – Dogs on the Avenue in Tweed magazine

January 14, 2013 | Filed Under Magazine Work | Leave a Comment 

A feature on dogs for the first issue of  Oak Bay’s Tweed magazine.

Best Places To Photograph and To Eat in Victoria, BC

June 30, 2012 | Filed Under Daily Work | Leave a Comment 

Our annual Best Of The City supplement came out Friday and aside from other images throughout the magazine I wrote and photographed two articles. One is on the best places to photograph in greater Victoria and the other is about best places to eat in Victoria. You can read the stories here, the Photo story is on page 45 and the Food story on page 71.

UVic Documentary Photography Course Done

April 11, 2012 | Filed Under Gallery & Workshop | Leave a Comment 

I’ve just finished up the documentary project class I was teaching as part of the University of Victoria’s Continuing Education program. The first time for continuing ed and it was a great experience. A small class but enthusiastic and everyone ended up working on a great project of their choice. The best part of teaching for me is watching the students’ confidence and skill improve through the duration of the course. We ended up with a real variety of projects and some amazing individual photographs. I’ve got another proposal in for a fall course at UVic. I’ll post the details when I know it’s a go. It’ll be  a very different photo offering.

Recent images

April 1, 2012 | Filed Under Daily Work | Leave a Comment 

It’s been a while since I’ve posted. It always seems to be the last thing I get to. Here’s some recent images.

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.

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/

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.

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