Olympics are over

Well the Beijing Olympics are finally over.

I am happy to say Karine Sergerie landed a sliver medal in Taekwondo, Sebastian lost out in the quarterfinal and unfortunately Ivette Gonda lost out in her first fight albeit due to some very controversial decisions by the referees.

(a cool article the sun wrote about my olympic taekwondo exhibition)

I was really hoping that Ivette would have done better, but I guess the refs didn’t feel Ivette should have moved on. Im serious it was really bad reffing and caused quite a stir in the Taekwondo community.


Anyways my Canadian Olympic Taekwondo photography exhibition featurning the aforementioned athletes will still be online for a while until I complete the next one either on the Edmonton Fire Dept or I hope on the Edmonton Tactical Unit. You can see the exhibition at www.photographyexhibition.net

Here are some recent pieces of work I shot of Tyler Christopher who also attended the Olympics, but was battling the flu, and thus had a sub par performance… No worries though Tyler will be in London in 2012.

C

Photographing Jamie Coutts in Southern Alberta

This past week I was working with Jamie Coutts from Original video in southern Alberta. The project was for Growing Alberta and encompassed a 4 days shooting taking us from Fort Macleod to Acme Alberta.

During our four day shooting schedule I photographed Jamie himself in Drumheller located in the badlands of Alberta. The badlands are the home to the most extensive and spectacular displays of dinosaur skeletons in the World.

We visited the tourist center to get some ideas of where to shoot Jamie. This is where we stumbled upon a brochure advertising these cool looking mushroom-capped rock structures called the hoodoos. So we decided to shoot there.

Once we arrived at the location we were quite disappointed. The hoodoos themselves stood only about 8 feet tall, a stark contrast to the brochure photo that made them look like towering formations standing a least 20 feet tall.

We decided to shoot at the hoodoo location regardless… but in the photographs we didn’t include the hoodoos.
Enjoy.

New Style of Photos

(Don Iveson - Avenue Magazine)

Here are some new images from I style I have been shooting lately which is lacing all pages of major US magazines and AD agencies.

(Miner for Gordon Group AD agency Ottawa)

I knew about it back in November but a few months ago I finally figured out how to land these "new" images, which I am confident, can be used for my commercial and editorial clients.
(Tiger Taekwondo Demo)

Although this look seems to be more for editorial purposes, I think it could add a certain feel for specific commercial projects, which need something a little surreal.
Basically for the past few months I have been "sneaking in" some of these images, when I provide my final images to my clients… the response has been very positive, but I have yet to see these specific images on any billboard campaign or editorial shoot.
(Nick Carlson - Photographer)

Keep an eye out for the September issue of Avenue magazine perhaps I may have "convinced" the art director to use this look in the story I shot of Don Iveson. Either way I think it’s a really cool style of shooting, it’s a little more complex but the results are very unique.

(miss canada competing for Miss Galaxy)

Take care,
C