Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all my family, friends, clients and everyone else who takes a look at my work! I sincerely wish you all the best in 2013, but all the worst in 2014, JUST KIDDING! Have a great 2013!
*PS Congratulations to us all for surviving the potential Mayan apocalypse of 2012!
December 18, 2012
Commercial architectural and portrait photography: Université de Saint-Boniface: Holiday card 2013
Getting ready for next year's card already, today I photographed two sessions of students and also did some architectural photography for the USB.
December 18, 2012
Portrait photography for annual report: YMCA/YWCA
A really amazing part of photography is that I get to photograph some really special people such as the case with Sharon who overcame both weight and health issues thanks to the amazing staff at the MYCA/YWCA Winnipeg.
Today I participated in another group show at the Wayne Arthur Gallery, or as I like to call it "The other WAG". I had one of my helicopter photos from this summer in there at 24x36".
November 27, 2012
Baby photography: Raphaël
November 26, 2012
Concert photography: Red Hot Chilli Peppers
November 23, 2012
Stock photography: Winnipeg from Osborne Village
November 22, 2012
Live event photography: How to Train Your Dragon
Obviously not having kids yet I'm not current as to all the kids shows these days (remember Saturday morning cartoons in the 80's? Best EVER!) but after seeing this it made me want to jump right back into them! Amazing event!
November 22, 2012
Time-lapse photography:
The largest show ever to come into the MTS Centre with 37 semi trailers and more scales than you can fill a pool with, "How to train your dragon" was not only an amazing show for kids of all ages (this big kid included) but it was the biggest load in and extremely interesting to watch. Here is a time-lapse I took using multiple time-lapse cameras of all kinds from DSLRs to the new GoPro Hero 3:
November 20, 2012
Event photography: Dave's retirement from the YMCA/YWCA Winnipeg
You know you've been with a company for a long time when you start to see their employees retire. Dave was the head honcho over at the YMCA/YWCA Winnipeg so I've photographed and worked with him many times but nowhere near how much other people had which was evident at the event. He'll obviously be massively missed!
November 19, 2012
Today as the official photographer for the MTS Centre I offered the opportunity for anyone in my photo club (WPGphoto.com) to photograph Journey at the MTS Centre and with seven (7) applications I chose Shaun to shoot it in my place. Thanks Shaun!
November 17, 2012
Concert photography: Metric
I've been a big fan of Metric for a long time now, ever since I got past my imperial stage...but seriously it's always great to be able to photograph a band you like so much.
After seeing Emily Haines prance around the stage I would like to coin a new type of music for Metric: "Electronic Rock Aerobic"
November 16, 2012
Concert photography: Neil Young
November 13, 2012
Group portrait photography: Festival du Voyageur staff
November 6, 2012
Super high resolution stock photography: The biggest image of Winnipeg!
Two years ago I purchased the first new generation Gigapan available in Canada. So new they hadn't even finished the mounts on it. Back then I set out to take THE largest image of Winnipeg, which I believe I did and it was just over a 5 gigapixel image. Now, two years later I've taken another Gigapan and I beat my last images size substantially!
The image is 8.56 gigapixels. That means 8560 megapixels. Most digital cameras have an average of around 16 megapixels so doing the math means this one is 535 times larger than your average digital image!
If I printed this image it would be 581 inches (48 feet) wide by 163 inches (13.5 feet) tall at 300 dpi!
Please take a look at it in high resolution online by clicking the image below:
Concert photography co-ordination: As the official photographer and photography coordinator for events at the MTS Centre, I have once again chosen Bobby who is trying hard to become a full time photographer as my replacement shooter for the Wiz Khalifa concert tonight. Thanks Bob, have fun!
October 29, 2012
Super high resolution stock photography: Gigapan image
The following is a link to a 4.75 gigapixel image that I took while working on my rooftop projects. Click the photo to visit the full sized image online. Be sure to keep double clicking on it to see all the details!
This was a very cool event to cover as I've seen past events on TV and I even got to taste some of the dishes! (Thanks Mel!)
I had also taken many of the chef's photos several months back and I got the opportunity to see them printed on the large posters for each chef at the event.
October 24, 2012
Sports photography: NBA Basketball at the MTS Centre
October 23, 2012
Time-lapse photography: As part of my roof top shoots over the last month I also took several time-lapses of the city, here's one of Osborne Village:
October 21, 2012
Concert photography co-ordination: As the official photographer and photography coordinator for events at the MTS Centre, I chose Bobby who is trying hard to become a full time photographer as my replacement shooter for this event. Thanks Bobby!
October 20, 2012
Event photography for advertising: Assiniboine Park's Boo at the Zoo
October 20, 2012
Concert photography co-ordination: As the official photographer and photography coordinator for events at the MTS Centre, I offered the opportunity to shoot the Beatles tribute band: Rain to my photo community: WPGphoto.com
I received a handful of applications and chose Bobby as my replacement shooter for this event. Thanks Bobby!
October 20, 2012
Sports photography co-ordination: As the regional manager for Marathon-Photo.com I was in charge of hiring and co-ordinating 5 paid and two volunteer photographers for today's Fire & Paramedic Half Marathon.
Huge thanks to all my photographers who worked the event!
October 18, 2012
Concert photography: Jutsin Beiber at the MTS Centre
October 17, 2012
Event photography: Tourism Winnipeg FAM tour (day 3 of 3)
October 16, 2012
Event photography: Tourism Winnipeg FAM tour (day 2 of 3)
October 15, 2012
Event photography: Tourism Winnipeg FAM tour (day 1 of 3)
This is a multi-day project for me covering TW's FAM tour, an amazing opportunity for decision makers from around the country and the world to see all the amazing amenities that Winnipeg has to offer for their conferences and major events.
October 13, 2012
World Wide Photo walk: Today I led a group of around 45 people around the Forks and St Boniface in an international event: World Wide Photo walk. This is a very cool initiative of Scott Kelby started 5 years ago. This was my first time leading a photo walk and I really look forward to next year already. It was really fun planning a walk, leading it and chatting with all the photographers and then having the after party at the Spaghetti Factory and just chatting about photography all day.
Thanks to Merlin for the photo!
For fun I took another time-lapse of me walking around, shooting and chatting with people that you can see here:
October 11, 2012
Concert photography: Weird Al Yankovich at the MTS Centre
Concert/live band photography: Rush at the MTS Centre
September 26, 2012
Group portrait photography: Parenty Reitmeier
September 25, 2012
Advertising photography: Festival du Voyageur 2013 campaign
Even as the official photographer for an event or company, you don't always do all the photography on them. This is because companies work with ad agencies and for specific projects, like last year's ad campaign for FDV, I didn't get to work on it. However this year, FDV had me come in to do their promo work. It's always a great feeling when a company wants you to do all their work. It creates a strong relationship that helps the quality of the end product!
September 24, 2012
Musician promotional photography: Alexander McCowan
September 21, 2012
Event/large group photography: United Way plane pull 2012
My mom retired from the United Way of Winnipeg just a couple of years ago so I'm always happy to help a great cause especially when I have a personal connection to it like that. I was asked specifically to shoot the large group photo of all of the participants and spectators and I also took a couple of time-lapse videos that you can see here:
September 20, 2012
Concert photography: John Fogerty at the MTS Centre
September 18, 2012
Portrait photography: Lise G.D. for magazine cover
September 16, 2012
Event photography: International Co-Op day.
A really cool event that I wouldn't have been aware of but for one of my regular clients, Caisse, using me to shoot this event. It was interesting to see many of the different co-ops in Winnipeg. We all know Co-Op gas but did you know we have a car co-op here in Winnipeg? It may not be as big as Vancouver's, but it could be soon!
This is the reason I love being a photographer, you meet so many different people and learn so much!
September 14, 2012
Stock photography, helicopter photography, aerial photography of Winnipeg
September 13, 2012
Event photography for Canadian Heritage
It's always an adventure working for any Government of Canada agency. Today after a fairly standard press conference shoot, Minister Moore decided to leave behind his assistants and sneak away to please one of his passions, Canadian history, in this case, the Nonsuch in the Manitoba Museum's gallery. Due to his schedule being so restricted, there was some confusion surrounding this side trip, and he had to use every extra second of his time for that day to check it out.
Sometimes the media shows people in one way or another but it's always cool to see people just being people like with Minister Moore today, embracing his passion.
September 13, 2012
Corporate portrait for Caisse
September 12, 2012
Portraits for the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba's Endowment book of life
September 10, 2012
For all those at the TMB tourism conference and others asking about what I think is THE biggest image ever made of Winnipeg at 8565 megapixels (that's eight-thousand five-hundred and sixty-five megapixels), here is the link to the gigapan image: http://gigapan.com/gigapans/113256
*How to use it: You can double click on the image time after time after time to zoom in, or use one of the thumbnails under the photo to zoom right in to that area automatically.
Event photography: YMCA renaming of Camp Y to Camp Douglas
I've been shooting for the YMCA for a couple of years now and it's great to see progress and name changes like this because they come from very generous people. One day, I hope to BE one of those generous people, when I'm not a poor starving artist at least...
September 7, 2012
Concert/live band photography: Roxette and Glass Tiger @ the MTS Centre
September 7, 2012
Event photography: Power97's River City Rocks: And it did! Although I wasn't there for the whole weekend, the tunes were great!
September 6, 2012
Event photography for Université de St. Boniface: Large group photo of everyone wearing new limited logo shirts
I also took a time-lapse of me shooting this event that you can see here:
September 5, 2012
Commercial group portrait: MASSIVE group portrait for The Canadian Museum for Human Rights
The only time I really do family photos anymore is when it's a REALLY big family! In this case over 230 people who literally have their blood, sweat and tears all over the CMHR. (Maybe I'll rethink that wording, it's kind of gross ;) )
September 5, 2012
Today an article about my experience shooting the stamp photo I took a couple of months ago came out. You can read it here (in French)on La Liberté's web site.
Event photography for Université de St. Boniface: Dévolement du nouveau logo et conférence de presse
September 2, 2012
Multi-day event photography: Barge Festival for the Forks North Portage (day 3 of 3)
September 1, 2012
Multi-day event photography: Barge Festival for the Forks North Portage (day 2 of 3)
August 31, 2012
Multi-day event photography: Barge Festival for the Forks North Portage (day 1 of 3)
August 30, 2012
My birthday. Happy birthday to me!
August 29, 2012
Stock photography: Downtown Winnipeg Rooftop project for Tourism Winnipeg (this is a multi-day project collecting the best rooftop shots around the city of Winnipeg)
August 28, 2012
Stock photography: Downtown Winnipeg
Rooftop project for Tourism Winnipeg (this is a multi-day project collecting the best rooftop shots around the city of Winnipeg) I also was re-inspired to take a new Gigapan.
Winnipeg Photo Club event: Photo walk in the Exchange district and St Boniface
Today I led a group of about 30 WPC photo walkers around the Exchange and St B areas, checking out all the interesting Cheechako like architecture and then right over the bridge to St B for sunset. It's always more safer and a lot more fun to shoot in a large group!
You can see my photos from the event above.
I took a really fun time-lapse of myself leading the group, chatting with people and all the way until the after party which you can see here:
August 26, 2012
Commercial event photography: Assiniboine Park Conservancy: Jazz in the Leo Mol sculpture garden
August 26, 2012
Stock photography: The Forks & downtown Winnipeg for Tourism Winnipeg
August 26, 2012
Family photos: The Guzzardis
Although I don't do family photos anymore, I DO do them for friends that I've known for many years, in this case, over 25.
August 24, 2012
Official press release about my photo that will appear as a 10 million run national stamp on the Downtown Biz' site.
August 22, 2012
Festival du Voyageur: Advertising photos for their summer programs (Yes, FDV does summer too!)
August 22, 2012
Université St. Boniface (USB) consultation session
August 21, 2012
Stock photography for Tourism Winnipeg of St, Boniface, Winnipeg
August 20, 2012
Virtual tour/360advertizing photography for the HSC Lifestyles Lottery 2012
Day 4 of a multi-day archival & promotional photo project: Shooting Scatliff+Miller+Murray projects
Here's a sample of the aerials and architectural stuff that I've been shooting for them:
August 18, 2012
In the news: A little while back I helped out Tourism Winnipeg with their 2012 photo contest by chatting a bit on video. You can see that video here:
August 17, 2012
Day 3 of a multi-day archival & promotional photo project: Shooting Scatliff+Miller+Murray projects
August 17, 2012
In the news: An article came out the other day in the Lance (local to St. Boniface, found in the Winnipeg Free Press) about my photo club's group gallery show. I was interviewed last week and was really impressed by the writer's way of...cleaning up my messy thoughts and putting them together in a really nice article. Thanks Simon!
In the news: Today an article about my national stamp came out in La Liberté. You can read it here.
I chatted with them originally about my photo club's group gallery as well as photography in general, in the process of creating the article it looks like they concentrated on the stamp.
August 15, 2012
In the news: This morning I was interviewed in French by CKSB/Radio-Canada Radio-Réveil, Geneviève Murchison about my article that comes out today in the French newspaper: La Liberté which is about the national stamp I shot on Canada Day. The five minute interview was also generally about my career including what role French plays in getting contracts as well as about my photo club, the Winnipeg Photo Community.
Thanks again to Geneviève Murchison for the pep talk before and to CKSB!
Out of town real estate and time-lapse photography for the Health Sciences Centre Lotteries in Falcon Lake, Manitoba
August 13, 2012
Portrait photography: Jewish Foundation Manitoba
Another multi-day project for event and annual report photos.
August 13, 2012
Stock photography: Cool clouds near Steinbach, Manitoba
August 11, 2012
Wedding photography: Jackie and Hal Anderson
As I've mentioned before, I don't really shoot weddings anymore, OTHER than for family or great friends like Hal Anderson, radio host for CJOB. Hal has been a great friend and a promoter of me over the years and I really appreciate it so I couldn't say no to him when he asked me to shoot his wedding.
Have a great life together Hal and Jackie! You're amazing together!
August 11, 2012
Stock photography: stormy sunflowers near Gimli, Manitoba
I also shot some video for this event and it has been compiled by media master Lauren from Power97 here using (mostly) my photos and video: Check it out here
August 9, 2012
Concert photography for Assiniboine Park: Summer music series: Ron Paley
You can see a time-lapse I created of the event here:
August 3, 2012
Originally this month I was supposed to have a solo show at the Wayne Arthur Gallery. However, due to wanting to have more activities for my photo club: the Winnipeg Photo Community, I changed my solo show to a group show for the WPC!
Today, with help from several other members, we set up the group show. You can see the set up process in this time-lapse video I created:
August 2, 2012
Agricultural stock photography: Wheat fields near Gimli, Manitoba
August 1, 2012
Stock photography: Stormy weather near Matlock, Manitoba
July 31, 2012
Agricultural stock photography: combines near Gimli, Manitoba
July 29, 2012
A few years back I had to stop shooting weddings, not because I didn't have a ton of fun at them, but because I wanted to have my OWN wedding eventually and the only way to do that is to have more personal time! And it paid off!
Almost two years ago I met Camille, a journalist from France, working in Winnipeg for the last 4-5 years and we hit it off big!
Today, we had OUR wedding and, as I'm sure you're wondering, I was the photographer! Ido have to admit that since it's not physically possible to take a candid photo of yourself (by definition) I got my friend Shaun in to shoot some candids since I didn't want to wear a camera on me for the ceremony, but I did all the formal photos.
Speaking of the formal photos, a strange thing happened to me on my wedding day:
We got married at a friend's house near Oak Hammock Marsh. The day started off strangely when the only thing I forgot was my shoes and sox, so I had to get married in my runners. That wasn't such a big deal compared to what happened for the rest of the day: First, Camille almost got sucked up by the insane tornado-like winds that hit us just as I was starting to take our couple's photos. The winds were so strong they blew over my rifle shooting platform, almost 500 lbs of wood! Then, after scrambling back into my SUV to get back to the garage where we were having the reception (this is a 10 car garage, large enough to fit over 100 people with the food and drink areas and a dance floor). When we got into the reception area, the rain was pounding so hard on the roof, it was too loud to talk to anyone. Thankfully that lasted only 20-30 minutes, but then, later in the evening in the middle of our speeches, one of our friends collapsed from either heat exhaustion or new meds and had to be taken away in an ambulance! She's fine now, but that was a real scare!
The evening finally ended and just as we were the last people to leave, the Northern Lights became active for just 3 minutes, but it was just enough time to get a shot of Camille and I!
Huge thanks to all our guests for their help and generosity and special thanks to Shaun, my photographer!
This photo was taken by me right at the end of the reception at about 2am
July 24, 2012
Today I am finally able to announce some very special news: One of my photos was selected to be on a 10 million run of Canada Post stamps!
Last year the Downtown Winnipeg Biz created a living event for the city and was planning to do one again this year. The organizer, Jason, decided just for fun to contact Canada Post to see if they wanted to use the image for a stamp. Canada Post didn't get back to them right away but, with only a few weeks to go they finally did contact him with great interest. The first photographer Ron, who worked with them last year was set to shoot a straight on shot of the flag. However the Downtown Winnipeg Biz contacted me to be a second photographer because in talking with Canada Post they had mentioned they liked an angled shot of the flag more, so, I was to be the photographer shooting the angled shot.
For the event I was up in a 60" scissor lift in the scorching sun.
Finally after 3 weeks, Canada Post finally contacted the Downtown Winnipeg Biz to confirm that they had chosen my image to be on the stamp! This stamp is part of a collection of Canada Post stamps commemorating on some interesting locations where the Canadian Flag is found around the world.
A collage of me shooting the event by my fiancée Camille
They are going to produce 10 million of the stamps with my image on them and they will be available starting in January 2013. They are also producing a 200000 run commemorative edition where I will be directly credited. (Because it would be REALLY hard to read my credit on a 1" stamp! ;)
This is one of those once in a career opportunities (such as when I photographed the Queen from 3 feet away) so I'm extremely proud to have been a part of this project. HUGE thanks to Jason and Canada Post!
July 24, 2012
Concert photography: Iron Maiden
July 24, 2012
Stock photography: fireworks over downtown Winnipeg
July 23, 2012
Model photography: Alison
Alison is someone who I've worked with a number of times in the past, helping her get photos to get into a Hooters of America pageant as well as being one of the first ever, and still some of the best photos.
Today we were out at the beach and all around rural Manitoba!
Gallery of photos to come soon.
July 19, 2012
Stock photography around Pinawa
Gallery of photos to come soon.
July 19, 2012
Stock photography of the City of Winnipeg
July 19, 2012
Event photography: Cirque du Solei - Quidam
July 18, 2012
Concert photography: Full Flex Express tour in Winnipeg!
*Gallery of photos to come soon
July 18, 2012
Corporate portrait photography for Caisse
July 17, 2012
More Winnipeg stock photography: Aerials of the city of Winnipeg
*Gallery of photos to come soon
Tonight I brought in a model for the monthly meeting of my photo club, the Winnipeg Photo Community. Karisa from WinnipegModel.com is great to work with and did really well working with multiple photographers in the group.
Event photography for L'Union nationale métisse Saint-Joseph du Manitoba
July 13, 2012
Day 2 of a multi-day photo project: Shooting Scatliff+Miller+Murray projects
July 13, 2012
Today I photographed the construction at the St Boniface Cathedral from above and below!
July 11, 2012
Day 1 of a multi-day photo project: I was asked to shoot several of Scatliff+Miller+Murray projects for their archives and was out today shooting images around the city, day 1.
July 11, 2012
Today I was out and about and got some new stock photography of the fountains near the Manitoba Legislature.
July 10, 2012
Unfortunately due to being busy, sometimes, photos get left on the back-burner so long that they get forgotten, especially when the client doesn't need them in any rush, at all...even a little. Unfortunately that was the case for these two archives from...2011! OOPS!
Time-lapse photography: Today I checked on my out of town cameras and upgraded some gear.
July 5, 2012
Time-lapse photographer: How do you take a two month time lapse?
Sure, if you just want to shoot your front yard for a month or two that's no problem, but, if you have to leave multiple remote cameras in another part of the province both inside and outside in unsecured areas for two months, and all this without their own power and with minimal supervision, how do you do it?
This past weekend I tested two such cameras and today I set them up with two more coming at another location. I can't announce the client or location until the project goes public but suffice it to say that this was a really fun challenge and I can't wait to see the results for myself!
July 4, 2012
Advertizing photographer: Today I got to re-visit my friends at the Industrial Technology Centre who I last did two days of advertising photography for in 2010. They had some new gear and enjoyed my hilarious joking over the last two days that they called me right up for this new shoot! Major thanks to Diane and Dale and all the other smiley people at the ITC!
July 1, 2012
Event photographer/ advertizing photographer: Canada Day celebrations for Tourisme Riel
July 1, 2012
Very special "advertizing" photography: Today I participated in a still secret project with the Downtown Biz. I had a side angle and was on a 60' scissor lift shooting the Living Flag at the Manitoba Legislature.
As soon as the project is confirmed I will post new information about it.
June 29, 2012
Winnipeg event photographer: Assiniboine Park Conservancy press conference
June 26, 2012
Advertizing photography: Day two of a new multi-day contract with the Division scolaire franco-manitobaine (DSFM)
June 23, 2012
Wedding photography: Dave and Candice
Years ago I stopped taking weddings due to being a very busy bee being an event photographer and commercial photographer, however, once in a while I dust off the old wedding cameras to shoot a friend or family member's wedding. Although Dave and I don't share blood, we've worked together so much over the last seven or eight years that I couldn't say no to him and was honored when he asked me to shoot his wedding.
When you shoot a wedding for a model who has had her photos taken by the likes of Playboy and other such publications, you want to make sure you're at your best! Just the day after their wedding I showed them a gallery of their photos and they were both really happy with them stating "That's EXACTLY what we wanted" which made me very happy!
June 22, 2012
Winnipeg stock photography: Fireworks over the Provencher bridge (Esplanade Riel)
Some days it doesn't even pay to get out of bed. That was the case tonight when I shot some fireworks near the Forks. Unfortunately they were shot so early that I couldn't balance the exposure like I wanted to and was unhappy with the results. No matter, I'll be out there every chance I get to shoot fireworks!
June 22, 2012
Concert photography/Live band photography: Bryan Adams
Only once before have I only been able to shoot one song for an artist playing at the MTS Centre (Celine Dion) and that was the case for Bryan Adams. The one song lasted four minutes which doesn't sound like a lot of time but when you've played this game before it's plenty!
June 22, 2012
Advertizing photography: HSC lottery: Hal Anderson
Today I was in the middle of Wholesale Sports, one of the prize sponsors for the HSC lottery, with a full studio setup, shooting HSC spokesperson (and friend) Hal Anderson!
June 21, 2012
Advertizing photography: Power97 & Fresh FM
June 21, 2012
Event photography: Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year: Manitoba
June 20, 2012
Photographie d'événement pour le Collège universitaire
de Saint-Boniface: Diplômés ETP
June 19, 2012
Group photography/event photography: Last year I did one of my most populated photos with Caisse and this year we did it again trying to replicate the logo of the Caisse. Over 170 people making a large hexagon.
June 18, 2012
Manitoba stock photography: Early this morning I rushed out of town to get some shots of the Northern Lights/Aurora and ended up mostly disappointed as they weren't as active as I had hoped so I ended up shooting some starscapes!
June 17, 2012
Sports photography: As the official photographers for the Manitoba Marathon, this morning I was in charge of 7 photographers shooting the finish line and also took over 3000 photos myself! Busy day!
June 16, 2012
Sports photography: Today I trained a handful of photographers on how to shoot the Manitoba Marathon for Marathon-Photos. As regional manager for MP I was also in charge of hiring 15 photographers to shoot the race. All the photos show up immediately after the race and runners can search for their photos by their bib numbers. Great system!
June 16, 2012
Family photography: The Hunters
I got a bit too busy for family photography and weddings about 3 years back but still do them on occasion for really good friends!
June 16, 2012
Stock photography: Today I was lucky to catch a rainbow that stuck around long enough for me to shoot it in a couple of different places including around the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR)
June 15, 2012
Portrait/head shot: Joanne
June 14, 2012
Model photography: Bathing suits and nudes on the beach and in abandoned houses around rural Manitoba with Karisa
For those who don't look at the sun every day, this is it. Venus is the little dot on the top right of it. The other blotches are sunspots, otherwise known for causing aurorae.
June 4, 2012
Today I'm proud to have met with the DSFM after winning a contract with them out of multiple applicants to discuss the large and well thought out project.
June 4, 2012
Photographie d'événement pour l'Université de Saint-Boniface: Diplômés universitaire 2012
Shooting for your alma mater is always exciting, especially when it's new grads, brings back memories of my grad last year. ;)
June 3, 2012
Event photography: Assiniboine Park Conservancy - Party for the Park
June 2, 2012
Winnipeg Photo Community Expo & Garage sale sponsored by Don's Photo
Over the last two months I planned an event: The Winnipeg Photo Community Expo & Garage sale
HUGE thanks to Don's Photo who came on board as our major sponsor and helped us put on a great expo including a photo contest, garage sale and several workshops!
Also thanks to my WPC mods who helped out a lot by setting up and keeping the place organized!
Here is a time-lapse from the event:
June 1, 2012
Photo journalistic event photography: Assiniboine Park Conservancy "Imagine a place" campaign official launch
May 31, 2012
Concert photography: Roger Waters does the Wall live
May 31, 2012
Winnipeg, Manitoba stock photography: Sunset over St. Boniface
May 31, 2012
Photo journalistic event photography: Assiniboine Park Conservancy donor event
May 27, 2012
Event photography: Ottawa Race Weekend Day 3 of 3
Today was the main event shooting the half and full marathons. I was in charge of a team of 5 other photographers and we had one of the most spectacular views, runners in front of the parliament buildings. Amazing!
May 26, 2012
Event photography: Ottawa Race Weekend Day 2 of 3
Today we shot the 2,5 & 10k races.
May 26, 2012
Stock photography: Ottawa
This morning I took advantage of great weather and some nice morning light in order to capture the nation's capital, more specifically, the parliament buildings.
May 25, 2012
Event photography: Ottawa Race Weekend Day 1 of 3
Tonight I take a flight out to the nation's capital to shoot two days of intense running events for Marathon-Photos.com (MP). I'm a runner myself and having shot for MP for several years now it's an honour to get to travel to shoot one of their events.
Day 2 of a 2 day project shooting photos of chefs that will appear in the Winnipeg version of Gold Medal Plates
May 17, 2012
Winnipeg stock photography: Downtown Winnipeg and the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR)
May 18, 2012
Today I was asked by Tourism Winnipeg to appear in a video promoting photo contests. They asked me for my professional opinions on photo contests and the cameras used to produce the images therein. This was difficult since I have many opinions but none of them professional. ;) However, I still think the video went well: See the video here.
High resolution commercial & stock photography: Assiniboine Park
For the last few years I have provided high resolution photography (up to 700 megapixels) to clients who needed it. Today, I shot several different locations at Assiniboine Park (of who I am very thankful to be the official photographer for) for use in large trade displays.
May 10, 2012
Concert photography: Rammstein
This was THE best concert I have ever been to. I've been to everything from Metallica to Rob Zombie and everything in between and around the corner and I am fairly sure I will NEVER see that much fire, explosions and energetic rock for a long time! Amazing show!
May 10, 2012
Day 4 of 4 for event photography for the National Managers Community Professional Development Forum 2012
May 9, 2012
High resolution commercial & stock photography: Assiniboine Park
For the last few years I have provided high resolution photography (up to 700 megapixels) to clients who needed it. Today, I shot several different locations at Assiniboine Park (of who I am very thankful to be the official photographer for) for use in large trade displays.
May 9, 2012
Sports photography: Stars on Ice: As the official photographer for events at the MTS Centre I offered this opportunity to the members of my photo community and the successful candidate was Tariq. Thanks Tariq and to all those who applied to shoot it!
May 9, 2012
Day 3 of 4 for event photography for the National Managers Community Professional Development Forum 2012
May 8, 2012
Day 2 of 4 for event photography for the National Managers Community Professional Development Forum 2012
May 7, 2012
After being the first photographer in WPG with a BLOG I'm now the last to use Twitter. ( I guess I'm not the techno geek I thought I was!)
While at the NMC conference I talked to their social media squad and got some info on Twitter amongst other things and decided to finally sign up. During the conference I will be making my first Tweets, all with photos!
You can now follow me on Twitter where I plan to post behind the scenes photos, backstage shots as well as other interesting tidbits. Check out the entries here: Follow @DanHarperPhoto
May 7, 2012
Day 1 of a 4 day shoot for the National Managers Community Professional Development Forum 2012
May 6, 2012
As regional manager for Marathon-Photos.com I organized 5 shooters for the Winnipeg Police Half Marathon. Sadly I wasn't able to shoot it myself due to other engagements.
May 3, 2012
Corporate portraits for Scotiabank
If you thought bankers were boring, you're totally wrong! I had an amazingly fun time with the PPL from Scotiabank while photographing a large number of them for profiles etc.
May 2, 2012
Event & portrait photography: YMCA/YWCA Winnipeg's Women of Distinction Awards
This is an amazing event that I have covered for several years which showcases some of the most amazing women in the city!
April 30, 2012
Virtual reality tour - 360 VR photography: Health Sciences Centre Foundation - Home lottery
As usual, this month I organized the monthly meeting for the photo community, but this time we all went out as a group to shoot the sunset around the Provencher Bridge! It's always inspiring to shoot with multiple other photographers and just to chat about gear and photography in general!
April 29, 2012
Corporate portraits and stock photos for Patrick of Padraig Consulting
April 27, 2012
Concert photography: Johny Reid: As the official photographer for events at the MTS Centre I offered this opportunity to the members of my photo community and the successful candidate was Tariq. Thanks Tariq and to all those who applied to shoot it!
Early this morning I was out in rural Manitoba capturing one of the most active displays of the aurora/Northern Lights that I've ever seen!
I took photos which I will post soon but also created a time-lapse video that you can see below or in HD on my new YouTube channel here.
April 22, 2012
I have finally had some time to catch up on some concerts and other events I wanted to add to my blog. Here they are:
Corporate portraits for the NCN/Nelson House Educational Authority
I've been very lucky to work with aboriginal people on several occasions and it's always an honour, especially such as in this case where I was present for an opening prayer.
April 20, 2012
Part 3 of a 3 day commercial advertising photo shoot for the Assiniboine Park Conservancy
April 19, 2012
Photojournalistic coverage of the provincial government announcement at Cancer Care Manitoba
April 18, 2012
Part 2 of a 3 day commercial advertising photo shoot for the Assiniboine Park Conservancy
April 17, 2012
Today I planned the next WPC Expo & Garage sale. This is a massive event held at the MTS Centre with free workshops, a photo contest and a massive garage sale. Details to come.
Tonight I was doing double duty for the MTS Centre and the WFP covering the same event.
April 13, 2012
Advertising photography for True North Entertainment
April 11, 2012
Part 1 of a 3 day commercial advertising shoot for the Assiniboine Park Conservancy
April 10, 2012
Portrait for the Women of Distinction awards for the YMCA/YWCA (photo to be released after the event)
April 8, 2012
Today I ran my LW5.1 lighting workshop
Huge thanks to Doug for his assistance and to everyone who signed up!
April 4, 2012
Corporate head shots for Patrick of Padraig Consulting
April 4, 2012
Today I had the massive honour of being interviewed for an article for my Alma mater: Université de Saint-Boniface. They were creating a feature article on past students who are doing well in their fields which is to appear in a future edition of their newsletter. It's always nice to be recognized in any way in the photography world, especially by my Alma mater.
March 31, 2012
Out of my brain and through my camera.
Inspired by photos I see all over the place and photographers I'm inspired by, I sometimes come up with some strange visualizations.
This one, has the Canadian Museum for Human Rights rooted in Manitoba soil.
Commercial advertising photography for the Assiniboine Park Conservancy: Camps program
March 27, 2012
As president of the Winnipeg Photo Community, I hosted our monthly meeting tonight. It was a really fun meeting with (as usual) lots of new members. It's always great to hang out with photo lovers, new and old!
March 26, 2012
I am starting another series of lighting workshops for 2012.
Now in my 5th year of workshops, this is lighting workshop series 5, course 1, ie LW5.1.
Commercial event photography: 2 million dollar donation to the Assiniboine Park from the Asper family
March 23, 2012
Commercial TV/promo photography: Today I photographed the new CTN helicopter that will be showing live video of traffic around Winnipeg. Very cool helicopter with some very special bells and whistles!
March 22, 2012
New gear: Another new addition to my gear this month is the Nikon D800.
There has already been much discussion about how this camera, being 36 megapixels and very close to medium format digital size and quality will affect the industry. I just want to take pictures with it. ;)
Over the next month I'll be extensively testing both this and the Nikon D4 and giving real world reviews on both.
March 21, 2012
Commercial event photography: Board of director's site visit to the CMHR
March 21, 2012
Commercial portraits and group portraits: Individual portraits and group portraits of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR) board of directors
March 19, 2012
Commercial portraits: CJOB wanted to upgrade their portraits especially for use in their blogging.
Once again I was up in the small hours of the morning capturing one of the most beautiful natural occurrences in the world.
March 15, 2012
Commercial theatre photography: USB's got talent
March 15, 2012
New gear: Normal visitors to this BLOG can ignore this post, only those photo enthusiasts such as myself will appreciate this. Today I finally upgraded my 4 year old DSLR from a Nikon D3 to the brand new Nikon D4. It's likely, just like with the Nikon D3 that I purchased the first Nikon D4 available in Winnipeg, but that's only because I camped out in front of Don's Photo in a tent.
Although some people are fooled by expensive photo gear, thinking it can make them a better photographer, it can't. However, having a new camera is like getting a new car...all that new camera smell! And, next week I'm getting yet another camera!
March 14, 2012
Commercial event photography: The Broadcasters Association of Manitoba had me shoot their AGM.
Shooting commercial events is one of my favourite things to do. You get to hang out in someone else's world for a day or an hour and get a sense of what their field is like. In some cases, such as the BAM event, you even hear about interesting concepts and things coming into play in their industry.
As the official photographer for events at the MTS Centre, Winnipeg, I offered the opportunity for people to shoot the Monster trucks event today to anyone from my photo community, the WPC. From a handful of people who applied I selected Doug P. to shoot the event. Huge thanks to Doug!
I finally had some time to go back and add some galleries from the summer. Here's some stock photos of the fireworks from the Red River Ex 2011
March 1, 2012
Commercial family photography: Photos for advertising of family @ Heart of Mary school
February 26, 2012
Commercial event photography: Festival du Voyageur Day 10 of 10
February 25, 2012
Commercial event photography for advertising: Backyardigans
February 25, 2012
Commercial event photography: Festival du Voyageur Day 9 of 10
February 24, 2012
Commercial event photography: Festival du Voyageur Day 8 of 10
February 23, 2012
Commercial event photography: Festival du Voyageur Day 7 of 10
February 22, 2012
Commercial event photography: Festival du Voyageur Day 6 of 10
February 21, 2012
Commercial event photography: Festival du Voyageur Day 5 of 10
February 20, 2012
Commercial event photography: Festival du Voyageur Day 4 of 10
February 19, 2012
Commercial event photography: Festival du Voyageur Day 3 of 10
February 18, 2012
Commercial product/event photography: Forks warming huts: Day shots
February 18, 2012
Commercial event photography: Festival du Voyageur Day 2 of 10
February 17, 2012
Commercial event photography: Festival du Voyageur Day 1 of 10
Today I start the multi-day event photography for Festival du Voyageur. It was an honour to be able to get this contract again this year and was likely due to my extreme enthusiasm for this multi-lingual festival!
Commercial product photography: photos of hoodies for RP Sales agency
February 12, 2012
Engagement photos: Despite only doing wedding and engagement photography for really good friends or family now, I still managed to photography my OWN. :-> I very happily took my own engagement photos of my fiancée Camille and I around our favourite area, St B!
There was no one there but her and I and despite the cold and having to control the camera myself and then jump into the picture, I think the photos turned out ok.
February 9, 2012
I've been seeing my photos all over the place lately. It's always cool to see how clients use some of my work.
*Photos & links to come
February 5, 2012
Today I put on one of the only commercial nude workshops ever given in Winnipeg. It was a great turn out especiall since this is SuperBowl Sunday. (Oops!)
Huge thanks to all who registered and to Shaun for all his help!
February 4, 2012
Commercial aerial photography/ stock photography: Today I chartered a helicopter to photograph the city of Winnipeg for multiple clients including the Forks North Portage Partnership.
There will be two galleries for this, one with film below, and one with digital to come.
This whole week there was some beautiful hoarfrost throughout the city. I was shooting with both digital and film and got these shots of the hoarfrost on panoramic medium format.
February 1, 2012
Stock photography: This whole week there was some beautiful hoarfrost throughout the city. This panoramic image is just one of the great examples!
Today I had a last minute call due to the in climate weather here in the 'Peg to photograph some of the warming huts at the Forks. Unfortunately despite the warm weather being great to get out and skate, had a negative effect on the snow and ice based warming huts at the forks so they needed immediate photographing before they melted!
January 27, 2012
Event photography: USB rave
January 26, 2012
Commercial heads hots/portraits for the Manitoba FASD Centre
Another more unknown part of my business is doing paid critique work to help out upcoming photographers. Today I did a critique for Robert, a student who graduated from the Red River Photography program and who wanted a critique from a photographer in the industry.
Robert told me after the critique that despite some of the feedback not being as positive as he'd hoped for, he really appreciated the "kick in the pants" since it's hard to get good solid critique from anyone but a full time photographer.
January 14, 2012
Despite the fact that I stopped shooting weddings (other than for good friends & family) somehow I seem to keep a connection to weddings every year. This year, I had yet another shot in the Wedding Show flyer.
January 12, 2012
La Liberté Mic
January 10, 2012
Commercial business portraits: Ernst & Young
January 9, 2012
Commercial group portraiture: Festival du Voyageur
January 7, 2012
Fresh off the press: My Going Pro 2 seminar on DVD
The "Going Pro 2" seminar was a professional development seminar I gave in 2011 to help people wanting to do photography professionally. This seminar includes 8 hours packed with information on how to price your services and your work, gear, how to get clients and promote yourself and even a photo critique! I also showed and talked about everything from invoices, model release forms, how to keep track of clients and invoicing and everything in between.
If you're thinking of "going pro", this full leg nth DVD will help you get local information to help you start your business and succeed as a photographer. Check it out here for more information and pricing.January 5, 2012
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