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March 11, 2010

Commercial HDR VR (high dynamic range virtual reality) tour for the Health Sciences Centre (HSC) Foundation Home Lottery.

This is a great return client who I've worked for for over two years now and been able to do some out of town VR tours for as well.
For this lottery, they have TWO houses and I took just over 3400 photos to create the HDR VRs!
These homes are SPECTACULAR! If you don't have tickets to their lottery yet, get them! I'm getting mine!

March 10, 2010

It's been over six years since I started this BLOG. As far as I know I was one of if not the first photographer in WInnipeg to have a BLOG, creating it well before I even knew what BLOGGING was or as it became popular.
However, unfortunately the design hasn't changed in that same amount of time and I thought it was about time to give it a bit of attention. I haven't changed it much, just made it a bit wider and easier to read. Hopefully you'll like it!

March 8, 2010

Advertising photography for Hooters Winnipeg.
These advertisements appear in the Winnipeg Free Press On7 which comes out every Sunday.

March 7, 2010

Commercial photography (donor/recipient) for the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba.
Huge thanks to Mark for being so organized with these shoots and to the JFM for using me!

March 6, 2010

Monster Jam @ the MTS Centre

March 3, 2010


Xtreme-Tactics interiors


In addition to the interior shots above, I also did two preliminary virtual reality files that you can see below by clicking the links.
*You need to have Quicktime installed to view these files

The coveted XT gun room.


The new XT store.
YES you can now buy airsoft guns locally

March 3, 2010

WOW! It's been almost four weeks since I updated my BLOG last and it feels great to get back into it.
Hi and thanks to all those who e-mailed me about such a long time off. No, I'm not dead, nor did I marry a mobster's wife and move to Vegas...I've just been busy shooting and processing, shooting and processing. SO, look all the way down to February 1st to see all the new backdated BLOG postings.

March 2, 2010


My LW4-2 photos
(from my February lighting workshop)

March 1, 2010


My LW4-1 photos
(from my January lighting workshop)

February 28, 2010

Over the past couple of months I've gotten into airsofting, a tactical sport similar to paintball...without the mess. My friends like to joke that I just can't get away from shooting people in one way or another.
Thanks to this new interest I've gained quite a collection of airsoft guns which make for great props whenever I'm shooting models. This is a collection of two different shoots on an ongoing project:


The girls of airsoft #1


February 28, 2010

Commercial photography for the Jewish Foundation of Manitoba

February 27, 2010

Today I taught the second lighting workshop in this, my fourth series of lighting workshops to 26 people. It was a great time helping and shooting with so many other photographers!
Thanks everyone for coming!


Me shooting with a large format camera at my LW4-2. Thanks to Jojo for the photo!

(The upcoming LW4-3 is going to be one of the two best LW's that I teach this year so stay tuned here for details.)

February 27, 2010

As the official photographer and photography coordinator for the MTS Centre, as I was teaching a lighting workshop today, I organized another photographer to shoot the soccer event at the MTSC Centre
Thanks Doug!

February 25, 2010

As regional manager for TPS Sports Photography/Marathon-Photos.com I hired and organized two other photographers to shoot the Running Room Hypo Half Marathon for this coming Sunday.

February 21, 2010

Day eleven, the final day of my multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur!

After my final shoot for Festival today, here are some stats from 11 days of shooting:
-8222 digital photos for 232.25 gigabytes taken
-24 large format film photos taken
-I met a TON of super nice people, many of which where photographers who I gave WPC promo cards to so hopefully they'll be joining us soon!
-I also met a lot of drunk people (gotta love Caribou...the fortified wine kind) and got hit on by many of them but despite being single...drunk girls just aren't that interesting, they're hilarious but also very dangerous to photo gear!
-I got some HUGE compliments from the FDV council on some of my past and preliminary photos from this year, always good to hear.
-On average I shot 7 separate events a day including bands, re-enactors, re-enactments, the school program (where the Festival site is not available to the public for two days), the governor's ball, the VIP night and a ton of other stuff like snow sculptures and the fire pixies who I got some shots that I'm really happy with!

Thanks to everyone who posed patiently and where pictured!



February 20, 2010

Day ten of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur

February 19, 2010

Day nine of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur

February 18, 2010

Late night commercial photography for Bayview Construction LTD./Rocky Road Recycing LTD.



Once a year (possibly twice) the City of WInnipeg does a massive cleanup of all the built up snow on the sidewalks that cumulates when they do the snow clearing. I was sent out to get shots of Bayview vehicles working on this massive project.
I was also VERY lucky to get my first ride in a front end loader and I gotta tell you, those things are really comfortable but also really cramped!



February 18, 2010

Day eight of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur

February 18, 2010

HI MOM!

(-Professionalism of saying hi to your mom on your BLOG: 0%
-Love received from your mother for saying hi to her on your BLOG because she checks it every day to keep up with you: immeasurable!!!


February 17, 2010


Disney on Ice: Princesses


February 17, 2010

Day seven of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur

February 16, 2010

Commercial photography for Bayview Construction LTD./Rocky Road Recycing LTD.



February 16, 2010

Day six of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur

February 15, 2010

Day five of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur

February 14, 2010

Day four of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur

February 13, 2010

Day three of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur

February 12, 2010

Day two of a multiple day event photo shoot for Festival du Voyageur

February 11, 2010

Commercial staff portraits for mf1

February 10, 2010

Today saw the start of my third year in a row being the official photographer for Festival du Voyageur.
I was in the festival park taking a huge group photo of all the people who work with FDV as well as the main group of FDV staff. I also took several shots of the snow sculptures as they where being built.
It looks like another great year for FDV!

February 9, 2010


Power97 time lapse video of recent photo shoot


February 8, 2010

Tonight I hosted another one of my photo club's (WPGphoto.com) monthly meetings.

February 7, 2010


Announcing the Dan Harper Lighting Workshop series 4, #2 (LW4-2)
The LW4-2 concentrates on studio lighting.
Please see here for more details: Dan Harper's LW4-2

February 5, 2010

Portraits of Alison for entry into the 2011 Hooters International calendar

February 3, 2010

Photographie à bût commerciale pour le Collège universitaire de Saint-Boniface: Portraits de professeurs.

February 1, 2010

WPC executive committee meeting

February 1, 2010

Commercial group portrait photography: Portsmouth resident council group photo

February 1, 2010

HUGE thanks to all those who attended my first "Going Pro" seminar! Again, this was also the first of it's kind in Winnipeg and I feel EXTREMELY happy to have had 17 registered attendees, 2 of which unfortunately couldn't make it due to a death in the family and my heart and thoughts go out to them.


Thanks to Cory for the photo!

I gave out a questionnaire at the end of the seminar (which people where able to fill out anonymously to get the most honest suggestions and feelings about it) and almost everyone felt that the seminar would have been worth it even at the full price. (Luckily they where all smart and got in on the early bird pricing of 50% off!)

As this was the first time I ran this particular seminar, there where bound to be issues, however the only hiccup I had was having the gear portion of the seminar go long as there where several questions from the attendees, therefore making it go long and dig into the time for the critique portion which people all unanimously decided we would skip in order to spend more time on the "how to get your name out there & differentiate yourself from other photographers" section. BUT, I have e-mailed all those in attendance and will be giving them a free, one on one critique session in order to make it up to them.

I will be selling a DVD collection of the entire seminar for somewhere around $750. Why so much? As most of the people in attendance mentioned that the seminar would have been a good value at the full price, and as you can FF and RW the DVD I feel that has added value. Also, if you could buy the DVD for less than the seminar itself, why bother going at all? HOWEVER, there will be special WPC pricing AND anyone who attended the seminar will be able to purchase the collection for around only $300.

Here are some of the comments from attendees:
-"I think it was well worth it. I liked the smaller group size."
-"You where very articulate with your topics!"
-"I found it very informative and like the casual setting."
-"Thanks for taking the time and having the courage to do this seminar!"

Most people had the same thing to say when asked which sections where most helpful:
-"Enjoyed all aspects."
-"All of it was extremely useful."

However the specific parts of the seminar which most people felt where most interesting/helpful where:
-Pricing
-Usage
-Promotion
-Marketing


Again, thanks to all the GP attendees for your faith and great questions!

February 1, 2010

Commercial group portrait photography: Portsmouth resident council group photo


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