Really.
Cooper is a cat.
The photos are selling at the Urban Lights Studio Gallery in Seattle, USA.
It’s brilliant! Bob, below, does not seem impressed:
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#214 Forgotten anniversary
Oh big trouble!
Have you ever forgotten a big anniversary? How about the FIRST anniversary?
Well, ahem, we forgot the first anniversary of the blog at HarryNowell.com. It came and went on February 4th with no fanfare or flowers. In an effort to celebrate belatedly here are some highlights from the last year:
- The first post – We were not sure where we were going with this!
- Exposed! Newsletter – ‘motion’:
Happy Anniversary blog!
#213 XC ski demo photos
The xcZone team of Dave McMahon and Lise Meloche also gave a skate ski demo at the Meredith Centre celebrations I was shooting this weekend. I enjoy skiing and, naturally, enjoy shooting talented skiers! Some of the fun, below:
#212 Chelsea Foundation Photos
This weekend we covered a small assignment for our hometown – Chelsea, Quebec. A community centre – the Meredith Centre – has been proposed, supported and launched by many fine people at Chelsea Foundation.
The event on Saturday drew a great local crowd including politicians, athletes and Chelsea celebrities including ultramarathoner Ray Zahab, Olympian Lise Meloche, author Phil Jenkins, and National Biathlon Champion Dave MacMahon.
People listened, laughed and smiled thanks to politicians speeches, the antics of the Junkyard Symphony and ever popular sleigh rides:
Stéphanie Vallée
#211 Sessions Photo Challenge
Last night we ventured out to Winterlude to photograph the ice sculptures as the second night of Sessions Photo Challenge.
We also covered the National Capital Commission’s 60th anniversary celebrations of NATO. Many decorated veterans attended the ceremony and watched the lighting of a special ice sculpture.
It was a great night. Next week we plan to return to Winterlude. Let us know if you would like to join next week’s challenge.
Below a few photos – all photojournalistically shot – ie hand held with an f1.8 lens between teaching:
#210 Exposed! Photo Newsletter – Cheating or Tweaking
Our latest ‘Exposed!’ newsletter has been sent out:
“Post Processing – Cheating or Tweaking
“But that’s cheating!”
It’s a common response when people discuss tweaking or ‘post processing’ work.
In this edition of Exposed! we look at what happens after you close the camera’s shutter. We discuss the options and ethics of tweaking photos.”
Some of you will have received the newsletter by email in our new format. We’re very excited! We welcome any comments – please comment via the blog below. If you would like to receive this by email please sign up at the top, right of this page.
#209 Photography for Communications Professionals
After requests by government and organizations for photo instruction for communications departments we are now offering Photography for Communications Professionals as a standard course.
Past clients have included:
- Accreditation Canada
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Canadian Red Cross
- CHF (formerly Canadian Hunger Foundation)
- Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
- Service Canada
In this one day session we start by covering some photo fundamentals as well as ideas specific to communications departments. We get practical on the course by pulling out the cameras and covering in the field photo exercises.
Communications employees will learn to:
- take better photos
- evaluate imagery for department or company use
- understand photo concepts when working with photographers
We have run this course for teams and departments – now it is available for individual members of an organization.
March 25th, 2009 – full day workshop
$575
#208 Canadian Ski Marathon photos
This weekend we skied in the Canadian Ski Marathon. It’s my fourth time since the early 80’s. While it was a fun adventure – and not work – I brought a little point and shoot.
We had decent weather despite the drizzle Saturday afternoon and ‘hard packed’ conditions on sunny Sunday. Below – Ralph is a proud skier from Nakkertok Ski Club!
The ski marathon is a wonderful event – not a race – that brings out old and young alike. See a video clip – en francais – thanks to Radio Canada. I met people on the trail whose jackets were proudly covered with CSM badges – some had participated for thirty years! Notice Bill’s sleeves below:
The event brings skiers cross country from Lachute to Gatineau, Quebec offering the adventurous the chance to ski 80 km each day. Skiers can choose to ski as little as 12km.
The most challenging category is Coureur de Bois Gold where skiers ski 80km each day carrying all gear needed for the weekend and sleep outside overnight on the trail. Read a Coureur du Bois story.
I took only a few photos – what you see here. I spoke with one skier who knew I was a photographer “You must have lots of great photos…” Just a few – I was working as a skier not a photographer!
#207 Alaskan photographer featured
In 1992 I graduated from Yamnuska Mountain School‘s three month
Mountain Skills Semester program. I was 24 and wanted to learn the
challenging mountain skills of climbing, back-country & telemark
skiing, glacier travel and whitewater canoeing.
I was more interested in learning the soft skills of teaching in physically and mentally challenging environments. While on the course I met Laurent Dick, one of the other students. He came from Switzerland as he had fallen in love with the mountains and northern climates of North America.
As often happens, we went our own ways and lost sight of each other. Then, last week in a pub in Chelsea, I visited with a friend who was drawing verbal pictures with his stories of a recent dog sled trip in the Yukon. He loaned me a book of the Yukon Quest, a 1000-mile dog sled race from Fairbanks, Alaska to Whitehorse, Yukon. I beamed
when I saw the book’s photographer was Laurent Dick!
I found Laurent on the world wide web and 17 years after our shared Yamnuska experience we ended up talking for an hour this past weekend. It was interesting to discover we have followed similar, but different, photo paths.
Laurent now lives in Juneau, Alaska and pursues his passion for the
outdoors and photography with a good business. He is the author of three coffee table books – the latest being “Antarctica” – as well as the co-author of two other books. He runs polar-photo.com and www.alaska365.com. Well worth a visit! Laurent’s photos are listed in this post, with permission.
#206 More Student Successes!
In the fall I met Stanley Saganash who enrolled in our Creative Fundamentals photo workshop. An avid photographer, Stanley was interested in making photography part of his work.
Stanley was dedicated! – he drove almost 700 km each way to attend the workshop from Waswanipi in northern Quebec.
He enjoyed the course and enrolled in our Natural Light Portraits course in January. His skills improved again. He now offers a photography service within his community.
Nice work Stan! Photos printed with permission:
all photos © Stanley Saganash