Renowned Saskatchewan nature photographer Courtney Milne has died at the age of 66 following a prolonged battle with cancer.
Milne, who was born in Saskatoon, had spent his final days at home in Grandora near Saskatoon and died on Sunday.
A prolific photographer and author or co-author of more than a dozen books, he explored sacred sites and landscapes around the globe.
via CBC News
I do not remember exactly who first told me about Dr. Milne, but I began looking at this website and decided to contact him. His reply was incredibly encouraging and a wisdom that he imparted in just a few e-mails probably would’ve taken me 10 years to learn on my own. Ideas that he put into my head for stories that someone in my position could tell better than any able-bodied person (he said himself that he tried to tell the stories of people brushed off his idea) still linger and I wait for the right time to begin working on those ideas all thanks to him.
As it says in the article, waiting for the right light, and appreciating the countless photographic opportunities within your own home area are what I try to keep at the forefront of my mind. The opportunity to travel and to shoot is not to be diminished but to miss the opportunities all around you would be a mistake as well.
Little more do I need to say other than I had hoped to meet him one day. It seemed like a possibility as a friend at church was related to him and had somewhat seriously planned on having Angie and myself out for dinner and inviting Courtney and his partner, Sherrill.
I wouldn’t say that I’ve been on a bit of a hiatus lately but I have definitely had less to say beyond Twitter. The posts you’ve been seeing for the last few weeks were all set up a few days after holidays and automated to post up until this point. I knew that they would be coming to a conclusion soon so I thought that perhaps I should say a little bit more than the usual disjointed poor English that you see in most tweets.
I would hardly say that I got my fill of photography after holidays, because I don’t think that’s possible, but I had taken a lot of photos, processed those photos and had a lot of work to catch up on after returning home from holidays and time at the lake. Many of the photos I took on the second leg of our holidays I will not post until a later date. The reason being that the ones I’m happiest with will be entered in photo contests in and around Swift Current. Though they are and will remain my photos after the contest concludes, I don’t know that I want to give ideas to other local photographers, who have much more time available in the area than I had to shoot. They would be able to return to perfect the minor imperfections or details in their photos that I now see I would have done differently in mine after seeing the photos on a computer monitor. They are still decent shots, and I stand by my ability to get the shot every time in non-repeatable situations, but those little LCD monitors in the back of the camera don’t always tell the whole story especially when you’re working in bright sunlight and don’t have a proper environment to view those photos on site. Maybe I’m being picky but I like my work to be as perfect as I can possibly make it.
After processing those photos and being somewhat empty on ideas, as my photography thinking had been almost exclusively devoted to holiday shots, I didn’t shoot much after returning home. Then a friend with whom I have a bit of a project idea with in touch with me and we resumed work on it. I’m afraid it’s at another standstill to the point of possibly being held off from for quite some time. It’s always the way things go with projects. At the start there is that initial excitement and enthusiasm, little bit of that wanes as you try to figure out the logistics, organizing the actual execution of the project can be demotivating or even mundane, executing the project can renew the enthusiasm, another slump can hit while the data collection or photographs or whatever was produced from the execution is compiled, but as the end draws near and presentation becomes a reality the excitement can return. Unfortunately I believe that we might be very stuck with a lot of logistics, timing and details that need ironing out before organizing the shoots. Add to that the end of the optimum shooting season drawing near as Duncan, the partner in this, returns to university and time will grow even scarcer.
However, I have been devoting a lot of time to refining and preparing for this year of the photography ministry team at our church. Last year it did not develop the momentum I had hoped for but certain details have been adjusted or perfected, I have prepared much more information for anyone interested to equip them, and prepared advertising for the various newsletters and communication resources in the various programs and ministries in the church. I’m much more hopeful that there will be a lot more work produced this year and a better turnout. The first year was a good learning experience and now that I feel like I have more direction I hope I will be better able to lead and guide people how to best accomplish their goals in this area.
A few days ago I received an e-mail from a young man currently attending a film school in Vancouver. Part of his classes involved a project where they were to rebrand a company. He had chosen the Muttart Conservatory in Edmonton. His search led him to my website and my gallery from our trip to the Conservatory last summer. Part of his rebranding involved creating posters, brochures and other documentation for distribution. He requested to use some of my photos and I was happy to oblige. He told me that there is the possibility that the Conservatory may use some of his final work, or portions of it, and that credit would be given where credit is due. Though it is not my primary goal there may also be a source of income from the Conservatory if they do use my photos and part of his work. That would not be so bad because last Saturday I found my most expensive deal on Kijiji.
It is a hard pill to swallow but my 30th birthday is coming up. I’m just joking. Age is only a number. Some days I can’t believe I will be 30 as it seems like I’m stuck somewhere around 23 or 24 other mornings, crawling out of bed, I feel more like sixtysomething. But, I have had in my mind that it would be reasonable to upgrade cameras pretty soon and, disregarding what I just said about age being just a number, 30 seems like a pretty significant milestone, or should I say excuse, to spend a little more on a birthday present. I was thinking about waiting for the next Pentax flagship camera to be released in the hope that it has some of the specifications I, and other Pentaxians, desire in the camera. The next model is supposed to be announced at Photokina in Australia in September and then probably released by Christmas. The problem is as with anything electronic you know it will be way over priced, especially here in Canada where we get fully ripped off on our electronics. With the only exceptions being seasons of The Simpsons on DVD and two video games, I have never been the type of guy that needs to have the latest thing as soon as it is out (actually, Starcraft II came out a few weeks ago and I did grab it. That would be a significant potion of one week of my hiatus). So I’m maybe half a year behind everyone else electronically. I simply do not derive enough additional pleasure out of having that piece of technology earlier for the extra 30 to 40% it will cost me to buy it immediately versus waiting a few months.
From the Kijiji ad I ended up buying the K-7 with two lenses (that I will be selling because they are unnecessary for me and of a consumer level quality) for about 15% less than buying the camera body alone. It only had 400 photos taken with it and still has 18 months of warranty so I feel confident in my purchase. The lenses were both in perfect condition without a hint of use, still wrapped in bubble wrap, in their original boxes. The cords for the camera were still tied with twist ties in their original bags and taped shut straight from the factory. This camera had been taken care of thoroughly.
I have given it a thorough testing and used it already for a portrait session for a friend and her mom who needed photos for a children’s book they are self-publishing. The photos produced by this camera are very pleasing to me and I feel like I made the right move even if it was my traditional purchase of my birthday present a month or more before the actual birthday. Not something I am proud of but it just seems to always happen that way and I know a good deal when I see it. The most interesting part of the purchase was that it was from a family who it moved here from the Ukraine only a year ago. Communication was not terribly difficult but definitely interesting. I’m glad that I was the one who purchased it from them because I fear that the possibility of them getting ripped off by someone would have been greater than your average Kijiji seller. They were very nice, decent and trusting people and I hope they don’t have any bad dealings with the untrustworthy people in our country.
Yesterday I had a good outing to the zoo that I desperately needed. The physical activity and clearing my head after putting in a 12 hour day of nonstop work on Wednesday was good. It was a good day except the lion, who has now run up to me in a friendly manner 20 consecutive times, got spooked by something when I turn my camera to take a picture of him behind the glass (I think it may have been the long lens swinging his direction) and he lunged at the electric fence, scratched at the ground and had a very aggressive look on his face. I actually still feel a little bit disturbed by it because before that I felt like he was glad to see me. Perhaps he has matured into an adult, lost some of his cub playfulness and now views me as that extra layer of fat keep warm this winter instead of his friend who comes to take his picture every so often. Then, as I was about to leave the zoo I stopped at the fox exhibit because it seemed quite active, coming right over sticking its snout through the fence to sniff my bubblegum that I was chewing loudly to get its attention. That was until I popped a bubble and he jumped back, crouched down, ears laid flat, tail down watching me cautiously. I popped one more bubble and he was long gone. Not the best day for making friends at the zoo for me.
Tonight I will be shooting a concert put on by my friend, Dave Hildebrandt, whom I did the photography and design for his CD covers, and I’m quite excited about the opportunity.
If you’re still with me after all that, I say thank you for reading and let you know that I am still working over here and should soon have some new posts of something other than mountains shortly.
Next Thursday evening is a Saskatoon photographers meet up at the River Landing at six in the evening. It will simply be head shots taken by other photographers for use wherever you may be able to use them. Great chance for networking and meet other local photographers and simply have some fun. The original post and coordinator’s website can be found here.
This weekend we are off to Regina to see the Universe Within exhibit at the Saskatchewan Science Center, watch an IMAX, have supper with friends and then attend their second son’s baptism the following morning. Sunday evening our church is having an outdoor pool baptism and if I am able to make it there in time I’d like to shoot some photos of that, too. My camera has been and will be busy and I expect a regular volume of sharing in this space.
Thank you again for reading and I hope to have more for you soon!
If you’ve been following my summer vacation series you may have noticed something about the photos. None are portrait oriented. Oh, I took a number in a vertical orientation, but I’ve been spoiled. You see, Lightroom 3, a photo processing program I’m still learning the new features of from the previous version, Lightroom 2, now allows you to add your watermark automatically. Previously I had to add it to each individual photo.
Certainly this saves time, and I appreciate it, but now in order to place the watermark horizontally across the bottom for some and vertically along the side for others I need to export the processed photos in two batches. When I export them in a series such as this they simply get spit out in order of selecting. That means all the vertical shots are at the end and out of chronological order. I can remedy this without issue, but it means there will be updates to some posts earlier than this.
So, I made a slight error that I’ll never make again and have learned to make a slight tweak to my workflow. The updated posts, with the added photos identified, are as follows:
We’ll see if I shoot from this location, but while Angie is rafting I think this location at Pyramid Lake looks accessible & decent for a nice scenery shot. Maybe I’ll have a real photo to compare to this digital rendering in a week.
I thought it might be time for an update to let you know what I have been up to through means other than photographs.
Yesterday I was given the opportunity to fill in at a spina bifida workshop for a friend who is dealing with some health issues. I have learned more about spina bifida in the last few weeks that I have ever known before. It’s interesting how you can be friends with someone and be aware of the cause of their disability but not take the time to look up all the finer points and symptoms until that friend is dealing with some severe consequences from the cause of their disability. I will sum it up to say that they have finally figured out the problem and have a solution in place, but as always, slotting him in for the minor surgery to implement that solution is what is taking the time. Meanwhile, he’s stuck in the hospital watching the World Cup (he’s a big fan) on a tiny little TV hovering over his bed. Hopefully he will be home Tuesday and by the time we are done holidays I will be able to get back to the zoo with him for some exercise and conversation if he is up to it.
The workshop was called Power Full Independent Living. I expected a bigger group but there was just a handful of age 10 to 16 boys with spina bifida who are learning the importance of developing independence as they begin reaching that age when it will soon be time to learn to drive and likely go to school and move out on their own. I don’t think this workshop would’ve been a bad thing for any boy that age but it was targeted at the specific issues these boys would be facing and how to overcome them. I was able to demonstrate my van along with Golden Mobility and their brand spanking new Chevy Venture van that was modified to have a lower floor and a ramp. It was nice for them to be able to see a few different types of hand controls and a few different van’s both a few years old and brand-new.
After listening to a talk on nutrition they made some smoothies and then barbecued some burgers. It was supposed to be the boys barbecuing but I ended up doing it. Paul, my friend and coordinator of the workshop, invited me to demonstrate some cooking techniques for them. Now, I had no problem with that but Paul and I were the ones there with paralyzed hands so, aside from learning cooking techniques, there wasn’t too much but the boys could learn from us. I suppose reaching across myself from a wheelchair to reach the barbecue is something that they could have observed. But, I think that if I had picked up the flipper started turning the burgers we might have ended up having some hockey pucks instead; None of them wanted to grab the barbecue tools and get it done. The most outspoken of the boys insisted that I burned the burgers and I tried to assure him that had I not flipped them, as everyone else was too busy chatting, we would have had them far darker than I like and made them.
Disability or not, those boys seemed like typical boys and that’s good to see. However, when I was beginning to give my presentation, that same outspoken boy who had got it in his head that he was going to add a slice of cheese to a smoothie after lunch, was given more freedom than I would have hoped your typical boy would be given when someone is trying to speak to you, before an adult suggested that making a smoothie and running a blender while someone is trying to speak is not the best idea.
It was good workshop, I was more than happy to help and spend time with them and to show them, should they be interested in photography, some of the great equipment out there both adapted for my disability and simply factory made devices that are helpful for anybody, but particularly someone in a chair, could help them make better photos and make it easier to enjoy the hobby.
As for things I’ve been doing lately, most of what you see in photo related blog posts is pretty much what I’ve been doing. Soon I’ll have a post of a photo that strays from my typical techniques. I like to do as much as I can in camera and with the lights that are available to me. The photo I am working on is a composite of 48 different exposures using only one SB-28 (and the tail lights and headlights of the car for two of the 48 exposures) to create the photo. Some purists might say that it isn’t a photo but a hacked together image file. Honestly, I tend to lean toward the right with them but I’m also aware that it is 2010 and that the digital age is upon us. If you don’t embrace it and keep up with the techniques you will be obsolete very quickly.
Soon our holidays will begin and we will be off to Edmonton and Jasper. Perhaps then I will have the opportunity to rekindle my original love of photography, scenery. I’m sure I will have many photos to share after the trip is finished. This coming week will be a lot of preparation for holidays so if the posts are thin for for a few weeks please keep an eye on the site and I guarantee when we return this space will be worth a few visits!
While upgrading to WordPress 3.0 I stumbled upon a catastrophic failure. Actually, my parents did. I think I’ve got the thing functioning to a limited degree. We’ll return to your regular scheduled program as soon as possible. Wish me luck.
Hello everyone. I’m looking for more opportunities to provide photography for others. If you are in need of a new social media portrait or contextual photograph, or if you have a car or bike that you are quite fond of, I’m your photographer. A model car or jet from your childhood. Medals, awards or trophies. Your prize winning orchid, wood work, metal work, pottery, ceramics, knitting or other crafts. Anything you would like a new perspective on to hang on your wall, share online or for use in advertising your wares, I’d be pleased to shoot for you.
It has been a little quiet over here for awhile now. Saskatchewan has received record-breaking amounts of rain for the month of May and it is absolutely bringing everyone down. We are used to a fairly nice abundance of sunshine in this part of the world and with our springtime coming typically later than a great portion of the rest of our country we appreciate that sunshine when it is here and finally makes everything come out and bloom and grow.
I have been doing some shooting and some postprocessing of photos. Some working through the red tape of a project in the works was being done and now that there are some very viable and simple options the fun can begin. Nothing pulls the fun out of photography like rules, red tape or looming and tight deadlines.
Today I began building what I have called the Sun Destroyer. Small camera flashes that I typically work with, because of their portability and lightweight nature, do not have the power to be brighter than the sun unless they are right in your subject’s face. One very popular look to photos is to knock down the ambient light so that your subject is brighter than its surroundings. At high noon only 21 days away from the longest day of the year this is much easier to accomplish with more light. Simply put, the bracket holds to flashes instead of just one as your typical umbrella swivel holds. Twice the light means you can knock down the sunny day to appear less bright in a photograph. I need to replace one piece of it as it is made out of a repurposed hard drive hanger which does not have strength enough to give me confidence to bounce around the zoo with two flashes wobbling at the side of my chair. I will purchase a proper piece of aluminum tomorrow and give it that final professional look.
One other thing I have been thinking and want to comment on is the way things change on the Internet over time. It was not that long ago that Facebook did not exist and people were getting along just fine without it. Today, in case you did not know, was sign off of Facebook day where there is a rally to get people to quit Facebook once and for all because of the concern over privacy issues. I don’t find that I am thoroughly addicted to it but I do appreciate the ability to see what some people are up to, comment and occasionally have a deeper conversation because of something I read in my news feed. I have a feeling it will not be too much longer before Facebook is a thing of the past. Maybe it will slowly dissolve on its own or maybe something new will rear its head and take over as quickly, or quicker, than Facebook did.
It seems like this is the time of year when a lot of people stop reading blogs or writing on their blogs. Content seems to become a little more scarce as people are enjoying being outside. Ironically, it seems as though the blogs from Saskatchewan that I keep an eye on have been just as active as ever because of the weather. But overall I would say, even considering the springtime decrease in traffic, that blogs themselves may be starting to have reached their peak and are on the way out. I am curious to see what might take their place or become of the average website. First it started out as static websites which migrated to using frames for static navigation points in a website. CSS came along which is far more efficient, then there was a bit of a move where a lot of sites had Flash aspects to them including sometimes annoying music and overly lengthy intros. There are still a few of those but I would say that they are becoming obsolete. Efficiency is king and every time you want to go back and take one quick look at that one photo waiting for the site to load, if it is large, is simply not worth the effort.
A number of photographers still use flash sites because it is one of the best and only ways to truly prevent your images from being pirated. Not a terribly large concern of mine but I do think that I will be keeping my rather large watermark to prevent anyone from misusing my images. Nine times out of 10 asking for the original and letting me know its purpose would result with it being e-mailed to you within a day if the purpose was worthy. Already I feel that sometimes my site takes too long to load on a computer with a slower Internet connection because the number of images on each page. That is one thing that I just can’t compromise on because the point is the photography.
Yes, there have been a few things on my mind and I maybe should’ve written sooner but I am afraid that with the mood the rain had put me and many other people in I was better off to wait to write when my disposition had returned to a more pleasant place.
It’s been a bit quiet around here the last week. My apologies for that. I think I was just enjoying Angie being home so much that I just wanted to spend time with her & Kiwi. We went to the university on Sunday for a great walk and just enjoyed the day. The nice weather has been wonderful, but I haven’t been out much to enjoy it beyond our deck.
I was waiting for a repair on my van which would be done on Wednesday. The service included an oil change and seasonal inspection. The expected repair was virtually free but one of my inner CV boots was split and most of the grease was washed out. That meant another day in the shop Thursday and today the drizzle and cooler temperatures finds me here, typing and processing photos. I’m glad the repair came in lower than estimated.
I’ve decided to post my zoo photos of 2010 as I take them rather than waiting until winter to sort, process and post the photos. It may mean greater time between posts instead of a long running series over a shorter time, but I feel it will better meet my goals of sharing what I’m working on with you as I shoot it. If most of my work is at the zoo & forestry farm and I wait to post it until winter this site would be a pretty quiet place until then.
Without further rambling, here are a few shots from my first trip to the zoo in 2010:
After an excellent couple of hours at the zoo with a friend, who I haven’t seen since before the school year began last fall, I was forced to reevaluate my opinion of the terms for disabled persons.
For the better part of my life as a disabled person I have preferred that term to any other. The use of “handicapped” pretty much got limited to parking spaces by me and the one term that I really did dislike was “cripple”. Perhaps because it had been used as a derogatory term in the past and had become politically incorrect. But after a great discussion with Duncan (I have no idea how we got on this topic) and his explanation of why he does not hate that term I began to consider it as more acceptable to my circumstances. Why? Because it is the only term that is almost never associated with or led by the term “mentally”.
By definition in a few of the dictionaries that I have looked at it is the only term, even when considered derogatory, that limits its usage to a physical impairment. Even though most of those dictionaries also considered disabled to be most often referred to physical impairment the term can still be referred to other forms of impairment. We both simply concluded in our discussion that society views the terms as described above somewhat inaccurately. Whether it is accurate with the definition or not, when most people hear handicapped or disabled they consider the possibility of a mental impairment being part of that whereas with the term cripple it is almost always limited to physical impairment in people’s minds.
A few terms of irked me that most people have inaccurate views of included “chemical free”, “green”, “carbon”, “organic”, “negative growth” or “going forward”. Well, water is a chemical, toxic waste is often thought of as being green, carbon is essential to plant life, refined sugar could have been grown organically, negative growth is an oxymoron and aside from science fiction you aren’t going to be going any direction but forward in relation to time. You see my point in how people view those terms. What I am saying is that I have been shown a new perspective a full word I once thought to be offensive.
This post is not in any way meant to offend or degrade anyone with any impairment it is simply an observation we have made while we sat in the meditation garden at the forestry farm one warm sunny spring day.
I’ve been here, trying to get done what I can while fighting this cold and fixing this computer all on limited sleep. I don’t mean to sound like a pity party, just saying that I’ll be back with new material soon.
I’ve been discussing some ideas for CD covers with a young man, Aaron, who also attends Ebenezer Baptist Church. He is diverse in his genres covering pop, ballads country and things in between. It was his dad that first greeted me when I arrive for the first of many visits to EBC. Aaron and I were baptized at the same service. He is also on the photography team with me at EBC and has contributed much to the year-end slideshow coming up soon.
It will be good to work with him and to work on a project with such direction. I know how much I enjoyed shooting and putting together Dave’s CD so I imagine this will be similar.
Last evening I went to the Saskatoon Field House to meet with the Cyclones wheelchair road and track racing team. What a nice bunch of people. I had already met a few of them in the past and one of them I know quite well. Angie has met a number of them through her work. It was really nice to have a chat, watch them practice and try to get them excited about some of the ideas I have for photographs for their team.
I am glad that I took the initiative to offer some photographic services to them. Whether it is making new friends, just providing a service for some people that would benefit from my photography or the motivation to get out somewhere new that might actually encourage exercise beyond weight lifting in front of this monitor, it was definitely a positive outing. There was nothing holding me back from shooting last evening but I did not bring any of my lighting gear and, to be perfectly honest, I could definitely use more practice shooting action. I can make all kinds of excuses about being disabled and having paralyzed hands but I don’t think they would be very good excuses so I will simply practice.
As much as I love flash photography I know that it does prevent me from practicing maneuvers such as panning and other techniques that require some physical skill. It is not that learning the lighting techniques that I have learned are not a skill but it is where I have chosen to focus my efforts and I do not regret that choice.
Since these people meet so frequently I am going to try to stop in as early as this coming Thursday evening, set up a small on location studio and get them to pop over for a couple of shots. As much as I can verbally describe to them what I have in mind, a good photograph will speak far more than a thousand words.
It appears to be exactly the opportunity that I was looking for and it is not that I was trying to be shy or lazy but I was not sure where to offer my efforts where they would be needed and appreciated. If you have or know of any not-for-profit or low-budget organizations that could benefit from some photographic services let me know or send them my way. As I have pictures worth posting I will definitely share them with you.
Winter is on its way out and I can definitely feel the spring fever beginning to build. Since today was my last post of the zoo photographs from last season, and the snow is melting outside, I’m starting to get anxious for clear sidewalks and pathways so I can get back to the zoo and down by the river with ease. To my pleasure, I have not felt restricted as much as some winters about getting out this year. I felt as though I have kept fairly busy working on projects that included some photography, photography technology, endless reading of photography education and photographers’ websites, a few geeky projects and miscellaneous other work. However, I am not sure, beyond exercise and photography based outings, where I should direct the majority of my efforts at this point.
A few years ago I taught some photography lessons to a student and enjoy the experience very much. I had begun to revamp the lessons to be less camera specific and revised into something I would be more willing to call my work. It was not that it was of poor quality but I wrote them as though I were speaking directly to the student, slang and all. I would not do that if it were something to be distributed amongst larger numbers. Since I am self-taught in photography I honestly felt as though my writings could very likely be incomplete and I would not even know it. I know that there is obviously good information in what I wrote but I fear there are unknown omissions.
Knowing that there are endless, quality, free, websites with information from photographers far more experienced than I, I would not be so bold as to try to publish, or make money from, what I wrote. There is the possibility that I could use it as a framework to teach in a more one on one, personalized manner. This is where I begin to need your help.
Do you think this would be feasible and if so where and in what form could I do this that would be effective, appreciated and worth the effort?
That was option one. Option two is something far grander in scale. In a past series of conversations with Courtney Milne I was encouraged to speak about patience because of the things that I’ve experienced in my life and the times where I required a high level of patience. He expressed to me that it was a virtue he valued greatly and used the example of how many times a scene can change just by the changing of light from the moving of the sun or clouds from one minute to the next. He told me that whenever he would speak to groups he would express the importance of patience and how it influenced his photography but nobody quite seem to grasp what he meant. He thought that through my life experiences I may have greater effectiveness conveying the importance and value of patience to people.
The skeleton of such a book in a semi-biography form is written. I do not doubt my writing ability, and would greatly appreciate a skilled editor should I finish such a book, but I’m not entirely certain that I could make something that would be effective all on its own. (No hints or signs of fear or hesitation as to which way to go in this rambling collection of thoughts, is there?) What I would like to do is to supplement my writings with my photographs. There are a number of snapshots and pictures that came perfect the first time but I would never consider those my best work. The piece I am most fond of took days to plan and a few hours to execute. I am talking about Midnight Rose. From purchasing the roses at just the right time so they would open perfectly before the full moon, to setting up the four different light sources on stands, resting on lawn chairs and clamped to the deck railing, gelled appropriately and ready to go exactly when the moon was in the right position so that I can get the angle I needed from my limited height variability in this wheelchair it will take a lot of effort for something to bump this photograph out of first place of my work in my mind. This is the situation for most of my favorite pieces simply because of the effort I knew went into it to make it perfect without correcting flaws later on in Photoshop.
My question is simply this: Would a book of this nature be interesting to you? Would you value one page with a photograph and the opposite with a portion of my story as it pertains to my life, with a subtle focus on the patience required in specified situations I have been through? Do you have any other suggestions or thoughts for option number two?
I am not certain what option number three is but it may take the shape of actively seeking people or groups in the need of some professional photographs. Most likely these would be not for profit or an organization of that nature. After seeing the screening of Invisible Children at the University of Saskatchewan Wednesday evening I began to wonder if they needed photographs of local group members for any purpose. Perhaps there are athletes or members of the Saskatchewan Wheelchair Sports Association in need of unique photographs to promote themselves. These are the ideas I have so far but would welcome your suggestions and feedback.
I know that comments on my website are quite rare but I know that you, my readers, are out there. Over 7000 of you visit every month and I appreciate it. I would also be really thankful if you could give me your brief feedback on this post. I know that it was long despite my efforts to not be long-winded but I encourage you, anonymously or not, to drop me your thoughts.
The end of PC sync jacks cannot come soon enough. They are finicky, temperamental, delicate and impossible to replace or bodge one together out of household cables in a hurry.
David Hobby writes a complete article on the whole issue and nothing I can say here will add to what he has written. If you want the death of PC sync jacks and cables hastened, retweet, repost or in some way increase the volume of this message on the net.
*eh hem*Pentax!*eh hem* Coming out with the first proprietary flash including a 3.5mm jack would create more buzz than your endless, insulting, fruity colours you’ve made the K-x in.
I'm a philanthropic photographer enthusiastic about projects that aide people who wouldn't otherwise be able to afford a photographer's services. The scope of my work is diverse but I am most passionate about the use of artificial lighting to maximize the impact of my photos.
