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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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Under the Arch

I finally arrived home yesterday and have a bucket load of work to get down to, including processing the Paris and Amsterdam pictures. It will take me a little while to get into the groove here, so, in the meantime, here is a shot I took from under the Arche de la Defense in Paris, looking straight up.

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A gambling man…

I am not!

The title of the post only relates to the pictures that come with it, but in reality, I want to discuss something else (as I am writing this, I eerily feel like I am breaking up with someone…not that I ever have :D ).  Anyhow, as you have probably noticed I have been somewhat neglecting this blog of late…believe me though, when I say that it is not with pleasure. I really love sharing my thoughts and images with you (I felt like throwing  ”widsom” in there, but who am I fooling!), but the fact is that life has been on the hectic side of late, and I just can’t get around to posting quality content on a regular basis. Which leads me to this: instead of going on an erratic schedule, I’ve decided to post less often, but to do so at a clear and established schedule. From now on until this madness dies down, I will be posting an “article” on Mondays and a picture/pictures on Fridays. I do hope that I’ll still see you around and keep getting your precious feeback!

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So, this week-end, I headed down to Montreal where I finally got a chance to photograph one of the true masterpieces of Montreal’s architecture: the Casino. While I am no fan of gambling, you have got to give it to the place. This building was part of Wold Expo 67 and was in fact the French Pavillion at the expo. Granted, it does look somewhat dated, but the originality of the place is hard to beat. To make things better, my friend, Momma Nature, with the help of some less natural smog, made for a brilliant “twilighty” backdrop to complement the golden shine of the Casino.

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Photo of the Month – July 2009

This month’s photograph of the month comes (shockingly) from my trip out West earlier this month. One of my favorite moments came as Jay Goodrich and I drove up to Mt Rainier for a nice sunset shoot. On our way back, the black sky was just screaming night photography. I’ve posted other shots of the Milky Way but I wanted to make this one a bit more special. While I couldn’t get Art Wolfe to pose for us on this one, his trusty car more than made up for it and didn’t even complain :) . The car was painted with a LED headlamp with a red filter attached to it.

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