The second studio session with MVP Workshops happened last weekend, and while I didn't get to shoot as much as I wanted (I was playing helper this weekend) I got a couple of shots I'd like to share.

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Last weekend I spent the day out with my buddy Chris at an event he set up through the Metro Vancouver Photography Workshops out at East Van Studios.  First of all, a great event, and if you're in Vancouver and interested in lighting and photography, join this meetup group, it's well setup and essentailly you walk in and have amazing models and makeup artists to work with plus a great group of friendly people of all skill levels.  Ok, that's enough of a plug, here are some of the shots from the day!

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There doesn't seem to be a way to "nicely" funnel pins on Pintrest (which I've been using a lot lately to collect ideas for shots, posing, and lighting) into Evernote (which I use as my always-synced collection of ideas, shots, and external memory, article with more details on this coming up), so after using some ideas in the Evernote forum I created an If This Then That recipe that takes entries from your RSS feed and puts them into a notebook in Evernote. Simple but seems to be nicely effective. You can grab the IFTT recipe at http://ifttt.com/recipes/17504. Let me know how you like it! Read more »

Spent some time at lunch today wandering along the dyke near my work, until the cold was bad enough (and my lack of proper winter clothes enough of an issue) that I retrated into the car.   Along the way though I met Petra from Slovakia, who allowed me to photograph her and her 8 year old dog who was having a great time in the snow.   Read more »

I met Abbotsford model Azam Nokhandan through her Model Mayhem page, and shot her in my home studio.  She was a trooper, doing great modelling work even with an audience!  A pleasure to shoot and some amazing images were produced, and I am completely in love with her amazing beautiful eyes!

Click below for more images from the shoot.

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I was at my regular wednesday programming geek meeting.  We get together at a coffee shop in Abbotsford to ostensibly talk about programming and working on projects, but in reality, well, there's a lot of browsing websites, drinking coffee, and talking about everything from tech to religion.  A gentleman a table over decided to talk to us, imagine a bit of Carl (the old guy) from Pixar's Up, not really understanding that we were doing our own thing.

Him: "So what you fellas doing?  You playing dem computer games?"
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I think in the grand scheme of things, 2011 will be the year that things really got started for me.  It really was the last 12 months when I took portrait photography from something that was mostly scary to something that was joyful and awesome, and the pictures I've been creating went from snapshots to great shots (to steal a phrase).

Here's a quick look back at the last year.

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Not the best example of photography, but I like to mix things up a bit now and then.  A kitten was abandoned by the barn my wife has horses at and through a series of events (specifically, it being cute and adorable), it ended up home with us and our other cats :)  Here are a few shots of the little sweetie (still in need of a name too, any suggestions?)...

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Got to shoot with a new model in the Abbotsford area over the weekend, here's a quick preview of one of the images from that. Enjoy!

I was invited by Magna of CATZ Faces to take some pictures of her doing Halloween makeup (she's an amazing artist).  It took a bit but here are some of the images fro that day.  Many thanks to Magna for the opportunity, and the fine folks involved for taking the time to be photographed.

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