Ottawa Wedding - Lee-Anne & Don

Ottawa Wedding - Lee-Anne & Don, 16 June 2009.

I will post a few photos from a lovely wedding I photographed a couple of weeks ago. Lee-Anne and Don had a very intimate wedding ceremony with only a handful of guests and afterwards we went to the Central Experimental Farm for an outdoor photoshoot of casual and posed shots. The weather was perfect and so was the day!

Kel Morin-Parsons (colour)

This is an alternate crop and colour version of Kel that was posted the other day.

Strobist Photojournalism

Sometimes you just get lucky. The photo of Canada's PM Harper, though not a prize-winner, is an example how a photo can be enhanced from another photographer, in my opinion anyway. In this case a pool photographer lends a helping hand with his flash while I took my photo in a strobist off-camera-flash-style.

Strobist info:
VAL photog to camera left with strobe set at unknown power (probably TTL); triggered by coincidence.

Snowbirds - Peace Tower

I am pretty sure that this will be my last photo of The-Snowbirds-Demonstration-Team -buzzing-the-Peace-Tower...ever.

Big Sky Over Greely

Canada Day evening. Inspired by Pearl's recent blog post, Big Sky Day:
www.pagehalffull.com/humanyms/?p=2592

Megaphone

Kel Parsons

Photo shoot at Mooney's Bay Beach, July 4th 2009.

Kel

Kel Morin-Parsons

Kel is an actor and writer located in Ottawa, Canada. Kel and I were out on location at Mooney's Bay Beach on Saturday afternoon taking photos. It was so cool out the beach was practically deserted. It was very windy, too, as is evident by her wind-blown hair.

RCMP - After the Charge

RCMP Portrait

RCMP - Before the Charge

Photographically, I had a great view on the lawn and I was keenly interested on the distance they needed to slow down to come to a stop before they reached my position on the grass. I was hoping that it was not too slippery needless to say.

Salutes

Even the photographer salutes in his own way. Check out his amazingly patriotic website: http://celebratecanada.wordpress.com/ It's chock full of superb portraits and everything Canada (coast to coast). Way to go Tim Van Horn.

I finally got to shake hands with Uncle Walt. He was impressed by the size of my camera and gear that I was carrying. He said to me, "If you can carry that you can carry one of our packs." I entertained the thought of enlisting right then and there for a split second. However, Julie probably would not be pleased. I'd take cameras over guns any day. They're probably lighter anyway.

I am saddened to hear of another Canadian soldier who has lost his life in Afghanistan. Today, Cpl. Nicholas Bulger, a 30-year-old father of two and member of 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry was killed by a roadside bomb.