ellipsis…

at the beginning of February i teamed up with Vancouver designer Katherine Soucie, of Sans Soucie, to produce new images for her 2010 s/s collection. this past Tuesday she was featured in the Style section of The Vancouver Sun.

its been pretty quite on the blog front lately. the Olympics came and went, along with all of it’s craziness. i’m trying to put my head down, preparing a rather large website update and design a new book. i had forgotten how much work goes into doing both of those tasks. in the meantime, i finally finished off the roll that has been sitting in my Hexar for about a year. always fun getting the film back to find some good, some bad, and a lot of random.

the Olympic rings from Stanley Park

here’s a quick behind-the-scenes video of my shoot with John Fluevog.

continuing with my personal portrait project Designer Series, i had was privileged to photograph legendary Canadian shoe designer John Fluevog. John is probably one of the most chill men i have ever encountered. Miss Georgia Esporlas assisted me on this shoot and shot the behind-the-scenes footage.

i received a call late one Saturday night in October from a odd area code. i picked up and on the other side was Ron MacSpadyen, publisher of Ontario Lacrosse Magazine. it was at least 11pm on the west coast, so he was burning the mid-night oil. he had seen the images i took at the 2009 Mann Cup and wanted to use them in his article on the championship. they ended up publishing 8 of my images. thanks to Steve Kojima, designer of Lax Fuj Clothing, for inviting me to photograph the championships.

well there are two for today. though the day is early so there maybe more.

Judy and her new Aussie husband Mark braved the cold of January in Edmonton to grab the shot that Judy dreamt up; the bride & groom on a chairlift. i was more than a bit worried about Mark, he was shivering earlier that morning and we were still inside. we just made it onto the chairlift before they shutdown for the day. usually you have cars honking on your wedding, Judy & Mark had skiers & snowboarders hollering on the hill. i enlisted my buddy Brad, who’s actually Judy’s brother-in-law, to make sure i didn’t fall off the chair. he came prepared; Sorel boots, snowpants, down jacket and big mittens, all overtop of his suit. we rode the chairlift all the way around (first time i’ve ever done that), which gave me enough time to figure out how to shoot backwards on a chairlift. it was cold, but it was definitely fun. checked this off my list of locations to shoot. congratulation Judy & Mark!

a thank-you video to all of the people who made Help-Portrait Vancouver a huge success.