Siberian Tiger

I came across some photographs of a Siberian Tiger and Snow Leopard I shot back in 2005 for the Valley Zoo and thought you all might like to take a look.

One of the fortunate things about being a photographer is looking back at some of your past work. It’s kind of like a visual trip down memory lane.

Sometimes however its not such a pleasant experience; meaning you look at your old work and can’t imagine how you thought it was good, but other times you see a good photo that in the past you would have dismissed as a bad frame.

When I was living in Paris I had the chance to see Frank Horvat. A his exhibition he said “never throw out a photo right away, because you need to give yourself some space and disassociate yourself from a shoot to really be able to appreciate what you have created.”

Thanks for taking the time on my blog!

Enjoy!
C

Chris Bolovar from Optamedia

I work quite a bit for Chris Bolovar at Optamedia http://www.optamedia.com an Ad Agency here in Edmonton.

Recently I photographed Chris and his team for their new promotional materials. If you know Chris he is a very professional Ad man. Naturally I took some inspiration from the hit TV series MAD MEN to shoot Chris's portaits.

For some of the images Chris really played it up with a “hard ass” MadMen look. Initially we shot on a white seamless. We shot on seamless because the Creative team at Optamedia was going to do their own post with the images and needed them shot on pure white.

Two weeks later I was photographing Ethan Moreau of the Edmonton Oilers on a 20 story roof top. While shooting Ethan the image of Chris popped in my head. I could almost see the picture of Chris in the chair with the cityscape view as a backdrop. It was really weird.

So I shot a slate of the city scape.. then later I found the image of chris and merged the files.

Now this portait of Chris is one of my favorite pics... Funny how photography works sometimes.

Tyler Christopher for Chris Smith Managment

A few weeks ago I had the chance once again to work with Canadian Olympic runner Tyler Christopher. The first time I shot Tyler was for an avenue magazine feature just before the Beijing Olympics.

Tyler and his manager apparently liked my images so they asked me to shoot Tyler again for a portfolio for the Chris Smith Management, the agency that reps Tyler, coincidently this is also the same agent who reps Nelly Furtado.

On this specific shoot with Tyler we pretty much stayed away from the “sports” theme as Tyler is already sponsored by Nike. It was all shot here in Edmonton.
Again it was a pleasure to shoot Tyler and as always he came out ready to work in front of the camera, making my job easier.