Taking back the Tea Party

Most of the time, I try to get the shot right in the camera. I’ve never thought of myself as a Photoshop artist, although I use Photoshop on a daily basis for minor things like removing blemishes and adjusting color. However, sometimes an idea just calls out for...

View Magazine Best of Hamilton 2010

I got a nice surprise today. I emailed hair and makeup artist Sue Upton to book her for an upcoming shoot. She replied, congratulating me on winning “Gold” in the category of Best Photographer in View Magazine’s Best of Hamilton awards! I had no idea...

Laura Lim leaps into the frame

You don’t have to want to be a model to have a modeling portfolio. Sometimes you just want to have some great photos of yourself. That was the case for Laura Lim, who drove down from Kingston to shoot a beginner modeling portfolio with me. Laura’s never...

The beginnings of The Beginning

As you might know, Laura Hollick and I recently created a stop-motion film. It was my first-ever stop motion film, not including the little flip books of the stick man running that I used to make when I was a kid. Those used to drive my mom nuts, because she’d...

Boys, babes, bikes and Lissa Hill Leather

I had a photoshoot with Lissa Hill of Lissa Hill Leathers last week. The idea was to create some commercial images that could be used to market her line of custom motorcycle leathers. We shot a few “catalog” type shots indoors in the studio at first. We...