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I started sorting through the thousand plus images I took Day One of Shoot The West part of Way out West Fest 2019. I drove down to High River, Alberta Thursday May 30th and stayed the night at a hotel. Up early in the morning to meet with the shoot organizer Sarah, Scott Baxter (our...
Left Blackfalds around 4pm and headed south toward High River. I am ashamed to say that I have lived half my life in this province and never been south of Calgary. The landscape gives a little shift south of Calgary, grass is a little longer, a little greener and there was less smoke in the...
Next week I head out for a little self discovery, I will be attending the Shoot the West photography clinic with Scott Baxter in Southern Alberta for a two day shoot on the theme of The Wild West. I am pretty excited to get out and shoot, I have been needing something different to feed...
Ever since I was in photography school and I started learning about lighting I have always noticed in movies when lighting was spectacular. At first I couldn’t even enjoy a good show anymore because I was so caught up with noticing light. Without light there cannot be a photograph. To be honest tho my mind...
Have you ever been on a roller coaster? I used to be a thrill seeker but I am not so much any more. As time goes on I prefer something else a little more steady. Running a photography studio has been a bit of a roller coaster, it has its ups and its downs and...
A couple months ago I got a message from a lady I had not yet met. Tanya. She said “I am interested in family photos. It would be myself and 3 children. 16 months ago now my husband (the kids dad) passed away at the age of 41 – I’m not sure if there is...
Steampunk is one of my favourite themes to photograph, it embodies all things dramatic that make great art portraits: detailed costumes, beauty, period era, drama, adventure and excitement. I love steampunk. I chose to light this session in a different way then I have for the first two portraits in this series, The Sheriff, and...
We are back from the land of sun and sand. Sweetie and I escaped real life for a week in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. What a great little getaway. For the first time we did AirBnB instead of all inclusive and we weren’t disappointed. Stayed in a really nice little studio condo overlooking the Marina....
It’s February. The month for lovers. Some people love Valentine’s and some think it’s a money grabbing poor excuse for a fake holiday. Which are you? I will confess I fall in the middle. I love to celebrate love, but I also feel this should be done daily not on an annual holiday and neither...
Social media can be a blessing, I guess, I mean I operate most of my business online so I guess social media in that respect is a blessing. And I can vaguely keep in touch with old college friends and distant family and convince myself that I am part of their lives and they are...
