Will You Marry Me?
Keith called me from Oregon, saying that he was planning on proposing to his girlfriend Cameo on their trip to Whistler. Never having been to Whistler, he asked me if I had a good suggestion for a location for his proposal. Whistler just opened a brand new outdoor skating rink, and I thought that would [...]
Pemberton Estate House
Every year I donate a photo shoot to the Canadian Home Builders Association, and last year my friend Carolyn bought the shoot at the dinner. She’s a landscaper up in Pemberton, and we photographed this gorgeous house in Pemberton Meadows. I priced the package to include an interior shoot, which we didn’t do, so after [...]
Whistler Headshot Portrait
It’s been a long ‘shoulder season’ in whistler, the time between summer and winter where not much happens around here. I’ve been busy with some other projects, but now the mountiann is open, and I’m starting to get busy again, which is nice. This is a portrait for my friend Jim Watts in my studio, [...]
On-location Business Portraits
A lot of the work I do requires a great deal of creativity, but every so often something comes up where you have to do something really simple, but you have to do it perfectly in a really short period of time. With this shoot for the Mechanical Contractors of BC, I needed to shoot [...]
Vancouver Fringe Festival Play – Night of the B-Movie
Barnaby the Hunchback, played by 25 year Fringe Festival veteran actor Jacque Lalonde. My friend Alan Forsythe is producing a play for the annual Vancouver Fringe Festival that runs every September. He asked me to stop by and shoot a couple of pictures of the cast during a rehearsal. Jacque Lalonde, Lisa Ovies, and Tristan [...]
Photo Workshop at the Point
Some local Whistler artists have taken over the site of the old Whistler Youth Hostel, and are turning it into a centre for local arts. As part of the start up, I offered to lead a couple of photo workshops, and this afternoon was my first class. Kudos for Michelle the model for being so [...]
Here be Monsters
This is a story on the ‘Here be Monsters” alternative threatre troupe in Vancouver. Here’s an outtake from the shoot that Urban Pie publisher Alan Forsythe and I ended up in by mistake. It gives a good idea of the process. Tech Stuff: Camera: Nikon D700 Lens: Nikon AF-S 17-35mm f/2.8 Lighting: Alien Bee B1600 [...]
Alexandra and Zachary’s B’nai Mitzvah
Alexandra and Zachary with some of their school friends I’ve been doing wedding and event photography for over 13 years full time, and I’ve never had the opportunity to photograph a Bar Mitzvah (or in this case a B’nai Mitzvah, a Bar Mitzvah for twins) until now. I have to say it was a complete [...]
Jodie Emery and the BC Marijuana Party
These are from an Urban Pie story on Jodie Emery, the wife marijuana advocate Marc Emery who just started a five year Federal US prison term for selling mail order pot seeds. We arrived at the BC Marijuana Party office, totally by accident, just before 4:20 that afternoon. 4:20 is the pot head tea time, [...]
Vancouver Fringe Festival
Here’s is a shot of Vancouver Fringe Festival Executive Director David Jordan I did for the Urban Pie magazine in Vancouver. The Fringe is the annual alternate theatre festival in Vancouver, and is home to some off the wall stuff, so we really wanted to get something crazy looking. We started in the festival office [...]
Vancouver Zombie Walk
A highlight of the summer is the annual Vancouver Zombie Walk, which has grown from evening event to an entire week of parties. As part of the Urban Pie coverage, we did a photo shoot with professional burlesque dancer Tristan Risk. For the main shot, I wanted something that was going to look really dark [...]
In the Studio
My buddy Paul “Fabio” Fournier just go back from a month spent crewing on a yacht from Vancouver to Puerto Vallarta. He looked really rugged after that, with a big beard when I ran into him yesterday, so I asked him to stop by the studio and we’d get a few snaps of him before [...]
Whistler Family Portrait
Tech Stuff These are a few shots from a family reunion photo shoot this week for Greg at Insight Photography. This was a fun shoot, but because there were some younger kids, we had to shoot at 5:30 in the afternoon, about two hours earlier than I would have liked. As the light was still [...]
Bard on the Beach
Actors Alessandro Juliani and Dean Paul Gibson from the Bard on the Beach production of Falstaff in the cast dressing room. This week we’re doing a story on Bard on the Beach, the classic Vancouver Shakespearian theatre that runs through the summer at Kits Beach. The actors are the best the city has to offer, [...]
Whistler Stagette Party
You end up doing some odd gigs in this job, but this one was one was really out there. I got a call from a friend of the Bride, who asked me if I would come and photograph their stagette party in the Whistler Village Saturday night. The group was from Nanaimo, on Vancouver Island, [...]
Tattooed Ladies
Cherry Chichi This is an interesting story I did for the Urban Pie on Ladies with Tattoos. I had spent the day on an exhausting shoot in a re-modeled house here in Whistler. I had time to grab a shower and a bite and head to Vancouver to shoot this. I got home at midnight, [...]
Le Bouffon
I really enjoyed doing the story on Trilby Jeeves and her Buffoonery classes, the one thing were missing was a shot Trilby in character. A couple of weeks later I was able to catch up with her after one of her acting workshops, in her character, Madam rouge. A wide view of the lighting I [...]
Vancouver Buffoonery Workshops
Trilby Jeeves and her VanArts class of Buffoons. Based on the teachings of Jacques Lecoq of Paris, “Le Bouffon” is a clown of sorts- an intelligent clown, perhaps, from the depths of our earth. Its pleasure is to mock and to imitate the absurdities of the human being (we do strange things!). They get sheer [...]
Henrique and Moritz
We’ve got a couple of Grade 10 exchange students staying with us for the winter. Henrique from Brazil, and Moritz from Germany. Since they weren’t around to get their school photos at the beginning of the year, I thought I’d just grad a couple of quick ones in the studio. For kicks, I thought we’d [...]
Sugarray’s Boxing Gym
Georgian (the Eastern European Georgia, not the Southern USA one) professional Super Welterweight boxer Davit Dzavashvili at Sugarray’s Boxing Gym, in downtown Vancouver. it’s for a story on boxing gyms for Urban Pie magazine. Davit working out with trainer Guy Martin. Vancouver boxer Emily allen Tech Stuff The owner of Sugarray’s had somehow managed to [...]
Bearfoot Bistro Evening
Polaris Global CEO Shane Krider sabres a bottle of Champagne in the wine cellcar of the Bearfoot Bistro. I recently had the oportunity to spend an evening with the Polaris Global Media Group in the fabled Whistler restaurant, the Bearfoot Bistro. Boasting one of the largest commercial wine cellars in Canada, as well as a [...]
Timothy Taylor
These are from an Urban Pie story on prolific Vancouver writer and best selling author Timothy Taylor. Taylor has a great office in the turn of the century (the last century, that is) Dominion Building, that made for some great photo locations. When we arrived on the 12th floor, I fell in love with the [...]
Here be Monsters
This is a story on the ‘Here be Monsters” alternative threatre troupe in Vancouver. Here’s an outtake from the shoot that Urban Pie publisher Alan Forsythe and I ended up in by mistake. It gives a good idea of the process. Tech Stuff: Camera: Nikon D700 Lens: Nikon AF-S 17-35mm f/2.8 Lighting: Alien Bee B1600 [...]
Sweet Soul Burlesque
Crystal Precious and Burgundy Brixx I’ve helped to launch two independent newspapers based in Squamish, both published by my friend Alan Forsythe. It’s been so much fun that he decided to start another one in Vancouver, the Urban Pie. A part of our lead up to the first edition, I spent yesterday shooting for the [...]
