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Coroner Portrait – Barb McLintock
This portrait led off a feature on Victoria area coroners. Barb is a former Vancouver Province reporter.
First Nations’ Art Unveiled
It always amazes me how often that you’ll get a run of assigments that are connected. This past weekend the photographer working ended up at two events where there were dogs wearing sunglasses. Last Thursday and Friday I had an assignment each day that was centred around First Nations art. Thursday was the official unveiling of the Darlene Gait/Butch Dick designed murals on the Ogden …
Photographing Totem Poles
Morning sun on the totem poles at Thunderbird Park in Victoria, British Columbia on Vancouver Island.
After Midnight Photo
We shoot Day in the Life projects for all the local papers every year and it gets to be a challenge finding new images especially when you pull the Midnight to morning shift as I did last week on our Victoria shoot. This shift went well though, lots of pix. I really liked this image of a bus running through the wash at the bus …
Chris Bickford book – After The Storm
I first came across Chris Bickford’s work on the NY Times LENS blog a couple of months ago and really enjoyed his dark contrasty surfing images from North Carolina, not the first place that springs to mind when you think of surfing ( and I live on Vancouver Island where the main surfing happens during the cold, wet winter months, again not the first place …
Globe and Mail Feature
Tom Hawthorn wrote a nice piece in the BC section of the Globe and Mail about a photograph I took of my son that was used for a book cover. Update: Here’s the original photo and a new photo of my son with the book cover: Original
Going To The 2010 Winter Olympics
Here’s the official company press release: Subject: Olympic coverage team announced To all Group Presidents, Publishers and Editors: (Please forward to your Publishers and Editors) In just six months, B.C. will host one of the most prestigious sporting events in the world – the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games. It is a very special opportunity for the province, and Black Press, both in terms of marketing …
Sea King Helicopter Surprise
The return of the Canadian frigate HMCS Winnipeg after a six month tour of duty Friday provided all sorts of photo opportunities with the big ship sailing into port with all hands on deck, the waiting families, the tearful reunions etc but the big surprise was the flypast of a Sea King helicopter from the ship, dangling crew member Master Corporal David Tillotson. Tillotson who …
Model Airplane Airshow
Every year the Victoria Radio Control Modelers Society puts on the Largest Little Airshow to raise funds for local charities. It’s a challenge to shoot the small fast aircraft in flight and it’s a lot of fun to photograph the contestants and their planes.
Photographers Are A Threat Apparently
Photo District News blog PDN Pulse has this report and link to the FOX video of the U. S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asking people to report suspicious photographers. Here’s part of a quote from her : “One of the things that we ask people to do is when they see something unusual, if they see, for example, somebody continually taking photographs of …
Erica McDonald – Scribbling In The Dark
Last week I mentioned how amazing it’s become online with all the great sites and posting where you can read/listen and watch posting/stories/videos about photography and photographers. A former student, Byron Fry thoughtfully sent me this link of interviews and talks that is quite extensive. I’ve also taken a look at New York photographer Erica McDonald’s collection of her observations at photographer’s talks she’s attended. …
Time Pays $30 For Photo Today – Robert Frank Got $50 in 1947
There’s been a lot of talk in the online photo world the past week or so regarding the fact that a recent Time magazine cover consisted of a $30 iStock photo (story here) and how it’s yet another indicator of the challenges of making a living in today’s media world. I was reminded of this story while rereading the 1984 Patricia Bosworth biography of Diane …
Learning Photography Online
Students often ask where they can go to add to their knowledge when classes are done and many online sites are obvious recomendations. The past few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to revisit some favourite sites as well as take a look at some new offerings. Lens Culture hosts a great site but I’ve never checked out their collection of audio interviews before. I really …
Rowan The Strange Cover
The cover for Julie Hearn’s book Rowan The Strange is a photo I took several years ago of my youngest son. It’s always great to get an image published somewhere different and while I’ve had my own books published and have had a number of writer portraits used for book covers this is the first book cover from a photograph of mine. The image was …
Early Vancouver Punk Rock – Furies, DOA, Skulls, Dishrags, Subhumans and Rabid
I came across a few prints and contact sheets I has tucked away in an envelope from the very early days of the Vancouver punk rock scene. Please send a note to correct me if I’m off on names etc. These were taken quite a while ago (1977ish? ) and I didn’t keep the notes I should have. The Furies at the Japanese hall. I …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.