Emily Carr, Vancouver

JJ Bean, Main St., Vancouver

Commercial Drive, Vancouver

HOW EUNICE GOT HER BABY

Friend and Director Ana Valine has her latest short film, HOW EUNICE GOT HER BABY in The 6th Annual Women in Film Festival that is playing at the Vancity Theatre from Friday, March 4th to Sunday, March 6th, 2011.

Check out HOW EUNICE GOT HER BABY at 3:30 pm Sunday, March 6th, 2011.

Directed by Ana Valine. Florence, a small town cashier with big dreams, has every intention of getting out of town until Darryl Dean Chipman wanders into the store, holds her at gunpoint and steals her heart. Their unlikely love burns fast and hard, and leads to Flo’s sister, Eunice, inheriting the progeny of these star-crossed lovers. Parental Guidance: Sexually Suggestive Scene; Violence; Coarse Language

The Vancouver Women in Film Festival website details can be found here and The Vancouver Women in Film Festival Facebook page is here.

Hope to see you there!

Ocean Heidelberg Cement, Vancouver

Commercial Drive, Vancouver

An Android/Vignette picture of a painting inside Red Burrito on Commercial Drive.

Kitsilano Beach, Vancouver

Chinatown, Vancouver BC

Android Camera Pictures

Church, Cranbrook BC

Beau Photo Fusion 2011

The best $10 I have spent in a long time was today when I attended the trade show, Fusion 2011. It was put on by my favorite Vancouver camera outfitter, Beau Photo. I could have spent a bomb at the Cinevate booth. They have some sexy gear! I was impressed that most of their gear is made in Canada, too. I also ran into some old friends from Beau Photo and other shooters, like friend and mentor Phil Hersee. I met North Vancouver photographer Melissa Welsh who was running the Image Quest booth and did a great job selling me on the next weekend they are putting on! I'll be attending now. Dates are March 20th to 22nd in Richmond. Further info can be found on their site, http://www.imagequestbc.com

I was impressed by the work of Kevin Shahinian of Pacific Pictures Studios of Huntington Beach, CA. He is a great speaker, too.

But what I really wanted...was a RadioPopper JrX System! I anticipated coming home with this as I have been following RadioPopper since they birthed the idea on Strobist and started sharing their dream on the blog. It brings a smile to my face seeing the success of these handy tools and I'm sure looking forward to going wireless ttl with RadioPopper. Hopefully Beau Photo has them in within the month as I prefer to shop locally when I can.

Keep your head up and attend next year. With the convergence of stills to video, I can see this annual event growing quickly! Whether you use it for stills or video, I suggest the Fusion event to everyone.

In Memory of The 100 Whistler Sled Dogs

I'm beyond words. The news of the recent slaughtered 100 sled dogs in Whistler, BC deeply saddens and disgusts me. I photographed The Bootleg Sled Dog Races and and post them here in their memory.

Vivian Maier Street Photographer

Vivian Maier. I wish to do my bit to make sure the world knows this name. Vivian Maier, a French born photographer who past away in April of 2009, was a street photographer and nanny. She shot photos of mostly Chicago from the 50's to 70's. However, Her work was unknown up until 2009 when a young real estate agent named John Maloof went to an estate sale and bought a box with 30,000 negatives of her work. Maloof announced on Flickr of his find and pointed us to the blog he started on Maier's behalf. I've been following Maloof's blog since he first posted his find on Flickr in the discussion group HCSP (Hardcore Street Photography). It has been an amazing Flickr thread to witness and follow.

After being impressed with Maier's work, Maloof went hunting and purchased more boxes of negatives and brought the collection of Maier photos up to near 100,000 images. If you read through the Flickr thread, you'll witness how the efforts of Maloof's has now grown into a Kickstart documentary that is in the making and an art show at The Chicago Cultural Center. I must say, full credit goes to John Maloof for all his hard work and bringing Vivian Maier, perhaps one of the best discoveries in street photography, to our attention. His efforts and her art have recently made the news and a segment on Chicago Tonight can be viewed here.





A great story. Thanks, John!

Commercial Drive, Vancouver

Holga and good old tri-x.

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!

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Professional Photographer's Workflow

I can't believe two months have gone by! I've been on a great film set for most of the summer and haven't had a chance to have a personal life; let alone a social media one. It's great to be able sit at my desk and create some photos!

After catching up this week on emails and accounts and other business duties, I came across a Photo.net forum posting by Montréal photo re-toucher Patrick Lavoie who recommended a $25 ebook on Adobe Lightroom 3 and Photoshop CS5 by Michael Clark Photo.




It's called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom: A Professional Photographer's Workflow and is 353 pages! I'm really impressed with this pdf e-book. It's well written, the screen captures are top notch, and it's produced by a working pro. Get your copy here,

http://www.michaelclarkphoto.com/#/BOOKS/DIGITAL%20WORKFLOW/


I hope you find Michael's tips and instructions as resourceful as I am!