First portrait session in a while

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a proper portrait session with someone over the age of 13 and I hope it’s not my last. Now I did photograph Jillian before, about 8 years ago when she herself was 13 and in my class! She’s all grown up now and is an amazing young woman. We managed to stay in touch over the years which has been great. Here’s a triptych of the session we had at White Rock beach. It was a blast and we have more planned for the future. I hope to do more portrait sessions in the future. Any takers?

Anyway… the triptych.

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Twin-ies in Hawaii

 

So I’m on the island of Oahu right now and strangely enough there’s a Premium Outlet mall. It’s not a very big outlet mall at all and soon I’m just kind of waiting around since I can’t find anything to buy.

So what to do? I left my camera at the villa and all I had was my iPhone camera. Take photos of matchy – matchy tourists of course. I only wish that I started this as soon as I got there because there were some beauties.

An my favourite…

 

Life on the Sticket line

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Strike bc teachers

Day 1 of the teacher’s strike was today. Support for us was overwhelmingly positive so thank you for that! I know that not everyone supports us but we and I believe it’s the right thing to do. Bill 22 is a very scary proposition for us. It’s just not right. Government please negotiate in good faith.

Some photos from today.

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Working with video

I’ve been playing with more video lately as I want to make the kids year end show completely with video and no still shots. I don’t know if it’ll happen because sometimes photos are just better (and my video skills are a bit lacking).

In Final Cut Pro X for Mac’s they have a revamped slow motion sequencer and frame smoother (interlacer) called Optical Flow. Before this I was using a program called Twixtor to do slow motion but was limited by my camera as it only filmed at 30 frames a second. With my new camera shooting 60 frames per second and using FCPX here is the result of my testing. Not too bad but still some funny things going on.

Steveston Village

 

So we went out to take some photographs today. It was a beautiful day so we headed to Steveston Village where it was the only foggy place in the entire lower mainland. It was foggy, cold, damp, and miserable but I still enjoyed it.

Some photos from today.

 

After a day of cold shooting we rewarded ourselves.

Cool video shot on the new Nikon D4 by Corey Rich

An amazing adventure video completely shot on the new yet to be released Nikon D4. Some absolutely crazy action sequences!

 

 

Rocketing to the future

My Grade 6 students are studying the exploration of extreme environments and we made Alka Seltzer powered rockets. They’re a wonderfully engaged bunch of students who seem to enjoy Science and learning new things.

Getting ready to launch and collect data.

Waiting their turn.

Prepping for launch.

Old school

One of the things I like about Cloverdale is the old downtown core, it’s like time stopped and things haven’t changed a bit.

A new photographer in town…

So I must admit that I was a bad husband on this one. I never realized, guessed, figured out, thought that my wife Julina was interested in photography. I was wrong! I always thought that she just put up with my obsession/hobby but she secretly wanted to do some shooting on her own.

Well the opportunity came about this Christmas. She bought me a new camera, a Canon 60D, and asked what I was going to do with my old (but still excellent) T1i. I said it would be a backup or to run 2 lenses if I was at an event. She told me she was always interested in photography and wanted to give it a try.

We’ve gone out now 2 days just to walk around and photograph stuff. I have to say that I enjoy photography more now than ever as it’s something we do together. The only problem is I have to fight to use certain lenses now! She has a great eye and is eager to learn. I love it.

Check out her Flickr stream. Click here

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Cupcakes

Julina made them. I photograph them. And they were delicious! Our two favourite colours; orange and teal.