Main St., Vancouver

Fred Herzog at Emily Carr

It was a wonderful day today. I had the privilege of sitting in on lecture at ECUAD given by renowned Vancouver street photographer, Fred Herzog. Fred's work was once shown at The Vancouver Art Gallery and on the way home from the exhibit, I paused for a moment and made this photo.



Cheers, Fred!

Squamish Nation Powwow

I took these two photos at The 2010 Squamish Nation Powwow held at the Capilano Indian Reserve Park in North Vancouver.The top image I did a high-pass contrast work over on one layer and on another layer, I did a black and white infra-red conversion and then blended the two layers. The bottom photo was imported into Vignette App and had a couple funky settings applied.

Robson St., Vancouver

A few layers here to achieve this image. I think it`s a little over-cooked HDR but many like it and compliment on it. There`s some HDR and high-pass sharpening on one layer, some surface blur for the background, and some unsharpen mask on the hair and pimples. This fellow played a great slide, btw!

In almost every picture #7

I saw this in Lens Culture and thought I'd pass it on.



In almost every picture #7 photographically tells the story of a woman whose life is captured from a camera set up near the targets at a fairground shooting gallery. It starts in 1936 in The Netherlands, takes a break between 1939 and 1945 becasue of WWII and resumes up until present time. At the age of 88, Ria van Dijk still makes her annual visit to the Shooting Gallery. Very cool!