Great Wall of China

Hey Gang,

My Olympic TaeKwonDo project is coming along just fine. Kevan Morin tells me he should have some designs later this week, so I am pretty excited to see what he has come up with, the exhibition should be complete within 2 weeks.

Anyways, while in shooting the Olympic exhibition in China I ended up shooting some travel images of the Great Wall for a client.

As to be expected I was very impressed with grandeur of the Wall. But what really amazed me was that it was very difficult to photograph.

Its not straight at all, it snakes in every which direction, which made it very difficult to use vanishing point framing.




I really like to use my 70-200 and to shoot a snaking wall with a telephoto didn’t really work.

So I chose to use my 17mm wide angle… I think it worked well. At end of the day I think I came up with some pretty cool images.

Its funny because when shooting commercial travel images, many people think that photographers shoot should off the beaten path, but in reality the best selling photos are of tourist attractions.


Most books like Lonely Planet, Lets Go or Airline Magazines need images of “popular” tourist attractions and not some landmark or local in a crazy little town in the middle of nowhere. Very few travelers go off the beaten path.

Enjoy!

C

Hair Massacure Charity Photograph Edmonton Alberta

Just before I left for China I shot a series of portraits for the charity called the Valentine's Day Hair Massacure. The Massacure is a brilliant charity effort in Edmonton Alberta, which raises money to support children with life threatening illnesses.

Participants of all ages and genders lined up in droves to get their hair died pink then have their heads shaved in order to show their support for the cause. Special guests included athletes from the Edmonton Rush and Edmonton Eskimos as well as guest entertainer Wayne Lee.

I basically shot a series of portraits for next years advertising campaigns. I choose a pretty dark and moody felling for the images. What I did with the kids was basically ask them, could you think about why you shaved your head? Dont talk just think. Then I just shot their reactions.

Nick and Trevor also helped out in assisting for this shoot, I have to thank them immensely, it turned out to be a huge endeavor, which I could not have shot alone.

In fact Nick and Trevor shot the actual event though I M P special event photography. You can see some of their work at www.impevents.ca

Enjoy!

C

CANADIAN OLYMPIC TAE KWON DO TEAM IN CHINA

Hey gang,

I just returned home from Beijing China where my shooting phase with the Canadian Olympic Tae Kwon Do team is finished. Now we are moving into the design side of the photography exhibition.

Kevan Morin from more in mind is taking up the responsibility for the exhibition design. He is also creating a website for the exhibition.

I am hoping that it is complete within the next month.

The shooting was split up into two phases one was the training phase, and the following was the Olympic pre tournament. The pre Olympic tournament was really cool because it was held at the Olympic center, which was an amazing venue for Tae Kwon Do.



Our athletes did very well brining in 1 gold and 2 bronze medals out of three athletes.