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From a series of inter-linked photo based projects examining the natural, social and manmade landscapes of the Pacific Northwest. This image from Salt Water & Rain which looks at island and coastal British Columbia.
The inflatable giant dinosaur shows up now and then on the roof of Galaxy Motors. It’s certainly an eye catcher
Took in the Vancouver Art Gallery’s July FUSE event on July 19, this one produced in conjunction with the Arrival Agency. Lots going all evening on the various floors.
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.
Yesterday a few members of the New York based percussion dance troupe STOMP made an appearance inside the Atrium building in downtown Victoria, BC to promote their upcoming shows here in August. I wanted a view that would show the dancers, the crowd and the unique architectural shape of the buildings interior.
DOA front man Joe Keithley was in town playing a gig during the band’s farewell tour. Joe has decided to seek the NDP nomination in Coquitlam – Burke Mountain in order to run in the upcoming May provincial election. We decided to take a few portraits in front of the BC Legislature building in the afternoon. Here’s a few images from that shoot and one …
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 …
An image from a project looking at the forest of the Pacific Northwest.
One of the things I like to do is find other photographers who use the Pacific Northwest as a subject. Lately I’ve been looking at the images of Missy Prince, a Portland based photographer who seems to divide her time between Portland and the southern USA. She’s interesting as well in that she doesn’t have regular website but appears to simply use Flickr as …
I’ll be teaching a new course starting September 25th at the University of Victoria. Expose Yourself: Showing Your Photographs to the World Are you tired of your photographs living only on your desktop? Learn how you can display or have your photos presented online. Find out how you can place your images into a gallery exhibition or create a book or magazine featuring those pictures. …
Made my first Lumen prints this weekend. I’ve made quite a few photograms in the past and always liked their hard edges and contrast but I’m quite taken with the subtle colours and ghostly image you get with the Lumen prints. I have a fair stack of outdated black and white printing paper so now that I have a rough idea of what I’m doing …
A couple of weeks off which has been good for some travel, Kamloops, Maple Ridge, Vancouver and Portland, and now I’ve been doing some printing. I know everyone seems to be going for big photographs but I’m enjoying making small prints.
The photographer’s from Luceo Images, the American photo collective, are the photography world’s (or at least the photojournalism world’s) current IT girls, the stars of the scene. It’s with good reason too. They have taken up the challenge of working in a world that is often seen as falling apart, no work, no venues for display and no money to be earned, and found new …
BC Ferries, Swartz Bay, BC 2012 I’ve spoken to a number of photo groups lately, showing some of my images and talking about the projects. The audiences have been great, very appreciative and always lots of questions and discussion afterwards. It’s a two way street though. I get lots of feedback on my images which is so helpful and it’s often a surprise which photographs …
A few images from recent issues. Vet checks pup at a local street clinic she organized Rugby 7s championships Grads arrive for block party High school girls’ soccer Ryan Cup girls’ soccer
A late post, two weeks ago, I won the feature (colour) category at the annual BCYNA Ma Murray awards. This photograph of an artist cleaning a totem pole originally appeared on the front page of the Victoria News.
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 …
Hit the road for a weekend with a trip around the Olympic Peninsula. I’d been down the east side before travelling to and from Portland but hadn’t done the whole loop around the peninsula. Great trip although the weather was constantly changing, providing a number of challenges for driving and making it difficult to get all the photos I wanted. That said it was a …
Merry Christmas everyone. Hope it’s not to exhausting.
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.
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 …
It’s been, for the most part, a dry fall but we’ve had a few great days like this.
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: …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
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.
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.
