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Scrambled – Thank you for your patience

If you have been reading my blog over the last little while, you have probably noticed a few issues with the images not loading properly, or not at all…I have been the unfortunate victim of a hacker that has made a mess of my website and my web designer and myself are working hard to identify and hopefully fix this problem as soon as possible.

In the meantime, I would like to thank you for your continued support and patience through this “inconvenient” episode.

Cheers,

Younes

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Workshop, a success

My fall colour workshop took place on this past week-end and great fun was had by all (well at least so they say). While my participants are still trying to recover from the beating I laid on them this week-end (wake up at 4am, back at home at 9-10 pm each day), I figured I’d post a picture I took last night on the final shoot, just before we packed and left. I am also still too dazed to tell you about it all, so more to come very shortly (well, “very” is VERY relative here…). Again, a huge thank you to all of you who have made this workshop an awesome and memorable experience for me. Also a big thank you to Jenn for coming down from her far-flung far far away land to help with the organisation, the logistics and the moral support!

Just one more note, I have created a flickr group for my workshop participants (recent, and less recent) to post their favorite shots from the workshops. I will be offering critiques and advice on these photographs as well. Check it out here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/yb_workshops/.

See ya!

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Gone with the wind…

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Help Portrait

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Today, I’d like to bring attention to a beautiful initiative called Help Portrait

On December 12th photographers (at all levels) in cities across the globe are reaching out to people in their communities to create portraits.Help-Portrait is a movement among photographers doing portraits of people that aren’t able to afford traditional avenues of family portraiture. This could be single mothers, orphans, the lonely, the sick, people in Develping Countries, your Neighbor, the homeless. The time to help is now. “Grab your camera. Go Love.”

Here’s a brief list of volunteers we will need on December 12th:

* Photographers
* Assistants
* Hair and Make-Up Artists
* Post-processing
* Greeters
* Coordinators
* And more…

If you are interested in volunteering, please fill out this simple volunteer form or contact Jean Labelle at 

Cheers.

Recent Work Gallery updated

I have just gone through a first round of editing for my Paris and Amsterdam shots and have updated my recent work gallery as a consequence. You can see it here. I hope you enjoy them. Now back to some more editing :)

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