78 Photography Rules for Complete Idiots -funny St. Petersburg Times photog Melissa Lyttle uses her iPhone for Weekend Magazine feature. Sacramento photographer Doug Biggert has a local exhibit of his hitchiker photos. He’s exhibited and better known overseas than at home. The story here. Maisie Crow wins Ian Parry Scholarship. The Telegraph on the ongoing police vs photographer battle in Engalnd over who can photograph …
New West Coast Workshop/Galleries – Studio 42 & Luz Gallery
It’s great to see local photographers putting together workshop and gallery spaces for photography. In New Westminster Brian Howell and Evan Seal have opened up Studio 42 and in Victoria Quinton Gordon’s Luz Gallery programs will get underway this fall. I noticed today that the first workshop at Gallery 42 , Brian’s session on the photo essay is already sold out, so much for a …
Photojournalism Sells As Fine Art
The Independent has a story about how photojournalism images are being sold as fine art. British photojournalist Jason Fraser has an exhibition of limited edition prints that are being sold for prices ranging from roughly $9000 to $50,000.
World Naked Bike Ride – Victoria
The annual World Naked Bike Ride, an event with rides in cities around the world, was celebrated in Victoria with a ride that left from the provincial Legislature building, went past the historic Empress Hotel and through downtown. A Legislature worker keeps her head down as she walks past riders getting ready One rider snaps a photo of another before the start of the ride …
Photography Story Roundup
The Observer has a story that looks at a Spanish academic’s claim that Robert Capa’s famous Falling Soldier was faked. The photo has often been a source of controversy and argument over whether or not it was real. The hometown paper has a look at the Look3 festival of photography in Charlottesville, VA. The Richmond Times-Dispatch also comments. The Birmingham Post has takes a look …
Robert Frank’s “The Americans” Gallery Show and Book
The LA Times has a story about a show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that focuses on Robert Frank’s book “The Americans”. This is the story from the San Francisco Chronicle. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the book. A new book from Steidl accompanies the show, here is a review from the Calgary Herald writer Nancy Tousley.
Diver Riley McCormick
Saanich diver Riley McCormick is a young upcoming Canadian athlete who’ll be someone to watch at the next summer olympics.. Travis Paterson wrote about Riley and about the amount of time he spends falling through the air each month while practicing. He’s not only an amazing athlete but seems to be a really nice young man as well, very personable, clowning with the younger kids …
Mural Painter
Local musicians get the larger than life treatment from mural painter Ian George on the outside walls of Logan’s Pub on Quadra Street. The mural is a homage to local musicians who participate on a regular basis in the weekly open stage that is held every Sunday from 4-7.
Greenpeace and Grocers
I really like it when those real life moments are a touch surreal. A police officer talks with Greenpeace members outside a grocery store during a protest against selling fish that were not harvested or farmed in a sustainable manner.
Say Goodbye To The Canadian Museum Of Contemporary Photography
In this era of cuts to the arts and the cancellation of the new Portrait Museum, the fact that the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography has been effectively eliminated as a standalone entity seems to have slipped under the radar. A good article by Randy Boswell in the Ottawa Citizen for anyone interested in the full story. It seems strange that the Canadian government can’t …
Good Friday Cross Procession
I’ve been shooting, as a personal project, the Good Friday cross procession that some churches organize every Easter. I’m fascinated on two levels, first as a purely visual event and second, as an expression of faith by mainstream church members who tend not to brandish their beliefs. This year’s walk by members of Christ Church Cathedral (Anglican) yielded a number of photos I was happy …
Tiny Dancers
Seven year old Olivia Brown makes a face at herself in the mirror as she stretches during her dance class for the Junior Apprentice Company at Dance Unlimited. Looking on at left is her twin Georgia.
Land and Sea Scapes
Mount Tolmie view Cattle Point view
Remembering Winston Churchill
Writer Chris Gainor stands in as the late British Prime Minister Winston Churchill at an annual ceremony to remember the politician Sunday afternoon. A group, heavily dressed against a cold wind, gathered around a hawthorn tree planted by Churchill in Beacon Hill Park on a visit to Victoria in 1929, listened to few speeches, received Churchill related books and memorabilia in a draw and then …
Clouds And Ocean
New Year’s Eve Road Trip
A leisurely drive out to Jordan River on New Year’s Eve day. Some snow but mainly low dark clouds and rain. Beautiful west coast weather, if you like that sort of thing, and I do. Sooke gas station Coopers Cove Trees in logged area near Jordan River Sunken boat in Sooke at government docks Highway at Jordan River from the site of Shakies, the surfer …
Bryan Adams
This photo was taken in the late seventies along Georgia Street in Vancouver when I was just starting out and photographing mainly musicians. We just went out one night and were taking photos for fun. This record was Bryan Adam’s first single, the disco flavoured Let Me Take You Dancing.
Bare Trees
That time of the year, bare trees along the beach.
Remembrance Day
The CBC was just announcing that we were coming up to 11 AM and the observance of Remembrance Day as I pulled up to park at Goldstream Park this morning. As I stood on the riverbank in the rain looking at the grey bodies of salmon it was hardly a stretch to make a connection to the bodies of men on the fields of Europe. …
Theatre Portrait
Director Brian Richmond on the set of the new UVIC Phoenix Theatre play Dark of the Moon which runs November 6-22.
Sports Action
Fall is football and soccer season.
Halloween Portrait
Reporter Rebecca Aldous had an assignment to walk through Ross Bay Cemetery at night, alone, and write about the experience. These photographs were taken before her solitary stroll.
Terence Byrnes – Closer To Home – Interview Posted
I’ve posted an interview with photographer Terence Byrnes talking about his book of writer portraits ‘Closer To Home’ at www.literaryphotographer.com
High School Football Action
I don’t shoot sports that often these days so it was great to get out to a high school football game. I was happy with the results especially this one shot. What made this really amazing is that it is cropped from such a small section of the file. Caught on the wrong side of the field I shot the play anyhow. This is how …
Full Moon Rises Over Fisgard Lighthouse
A full moon rises over the historic Fisgard Lighthouse in a view from the Esquimalt Lagoon.
New interviews at www.literaryphotographer.com
I’ve posted a couple of new interviews over at Literary Photographer. One with Toronto based writer Ken McGoogan about his new book Race To The Polar Sea and the other with Victoria based artist Robert Amos and his James Joyce inspired artworks.
Cameras On Display
I helped judge the photo entries at the Sooke Fall Fair this morning. They had a display of old cameras in the room as well.
David Campion & George Webber Calgary Show
This show opens tonight in Calgary. I wish I was there.
Largest Little Airshow
Model airplanes from triplanes to jets. I love the contrast in size between people and planes.
Portrait – Devon McCagherty & The Stomp Club
Devon McCagherty and his band The Stomp Club have a new CD out.