watch your step
Christian, we have to stop meeting like this. I’m a self-admitted geek who gets two haircuts a year and spent less on my wedding dress than my first camera flash. I can’t be seen with you anymore, you’re ruining my nerd cred.
October, 2011
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I’m Starting To Turn Into A Shoe Photographer
October 30, 2011 by Gail
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I’m Ready For My Closeup, Mr. De Mille
October 30, 2011 by Gail
One-Time in his finest (he already has a fur coat)
Not to be outdone, One-Time cuts a stately figure in his bow tie.
I just finished shooting my last wedding of 2011 — it was the biggest I’ve ever photographed (500+ guests). I’m going to sleep for a hundred years now. More to come when I’ve regained consciousness.
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Friday Cameraphone Dump
October 28, 2011 by Gail
from the Bathurst Street Bridge
The sunset was amazing last night, and I took a bunch of pics with my phone to see how it would capture the colours, which I could only describe as what you would get if you ordered a Slurpee and swirled orange and strawberry together. It’s been probably 25 years since I had one of those, so I could be wrong, but I think you get the idea…
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Step Right Up, It’s Movember Time!
October 27, 2011 by Gail
Moustache Matt
I just posted a Movember contest over at The Brides’ Project website. It’s a THOUSAND buckeroos so tell your participatin’ fellas!
I’m reposting the text again here:
It’s that time of the year again — time to turn a page in your calendar from October to MOVEMBER!
We’re doubling our Movember donation from $5,000 (in the end it was $5,100) last year to a whopping 10Gs this year. Yes, you heard right: we’re planning our $10,000 donation to Movember 2011… and looking forward to listening to our male counterparts telling us why they participate!
We’ll be offering $1,000 each week for the most compelling story (x5), and then 5 x $1,000 donations randomly assigned based on the order of the email receipt to movember@thebridesproject.com
Let the men in your life know that we support them too!!!
Please ask them to submit:
- a pic of their ‘mo’ (a more fully formed pic from previous years is acceptable!)
- their reasons for taking part and supporting the cause
- a link to their personal fundraising page at Movember Canada
Email those 3 things in a single entry to: movember@thebridesproject.com but only ONE (1) entry per person, please. We can spot a double-mo from miles away, so don’t try it!
Remember… submissions will be lowest in the first week, so to increase their odds of winning, SUBMIT SOON!!! And spread the word to friends, family and colleagues that their guy’s fundraising page will be the envy of moustaches everywhere with a $1,000 boost from The Brides’ Project. Good luck, everyone!
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Nostalgic For The ’90s
October 26, 2011 by Gail
I got a free six-month subscription to Rdio.com when I bought my mobile phone a couple of months ago, and it’s been put to very good use on my long walks home. I’m thinking about actually buying a subscription when the free trial ends because I don’t feel a need to own music, I only want to listen to it. But how to get music on demand without having to dig around for it? I make playlists on YouTube, but that takes time and it would suck the battery life (not to mention the data usage) out of my phone far too quickly.
There’s a $5/month web version of the Rdio service that lets you listen from your computer and a $10/month computer+mobile version that lets you sync your playlists to your phone, and that’s what I use the most — the mobile sync. I’ve been using Rdio to listen to full albums since I got the phone on August 15, and what’s surprised me is how quick it is: I press play and there’s no waiting for the sync, it plays everything immediately. I choose to sync mostly with wi-fi if I need to, but even at the times I’m off wi-fi and on the network it’s synched very quickly.
Last week I was poking around other people’s playlists and got all nostalgic listening to someone else’s ’90s playlist and decided to make my own. Here it is, and you can subscribe to it if you’re already using Rdio (you can demo the service without a credit card, according to the website). Some of these songs I haven’t heard SINCE the ’90s (The Pharcyde! Faith No More! Snow?), but I have a story for every song in this list, including the one Queensryche track!
I came up with 38 so far, but I can add more — there’s a big catalogue to choose from. Have you got any suggestions for me?
- Tennessee / Arrested Development – 3 Years, 5 Months And 2 Days In The Life Of…
- Love Spreads / The Stone Roses – Second Coming
- Gangsta’s Paradise /Coolio – Gangsta’s Paradise
- Low / Cracker – Kerosene Hat
- Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover / Sophie B. Hawkins – The Best Of Sophie B. Hawkins
- Only Love Can Break Your Heart / Saint Etienne – Foxbase Alpha
- Groove Is In The Heart /Deee-Lite – The Very Best Of Deee-Lite
- Laid / James – Laid
- Your Woman / White Town – Women In Technology
- Pony (Extended Mix) / Ginuwine – Greatest Hits
- Informer / Snow – 12 Inches Of Snow
- Say It Ain’t So / Weezer – Weezer
- Sabotage / Beastie Boys – Ill Communication (Remastered Edition)
- Get Ur Freak On / Missy Elliott – Miss E….So Addictive
- Life In Mono / Möno – Great Expectations
- One / Aimee Mann – Magnolia Soundtrack
- Virtual Insanity / Jamiroquai – Travelling Without Moving
- Hey / Pixies – Doolittle
- Freedom! ’90 / George Michael – Listen Without Prejudice
- Bitter Sweet Symphony / The Verve – Urban Hymns
- Ice Ice Baby / Vanilla Ice – To The Extreme
- Silent Lucidity / Queensryche – Power Ballads Gold
- I Touch Myself / Divinyls – Divinyls
- Hook / Blues Traveler – Four
- Epic / Faith No More – The Real Thing
- Insane In The Brain / Cypress Hill – Greatest Hits From The Bong
- Passin’ Me By / The Pharcyde – Bizarre Ride II
- No Diggity / Blackstreet – Another Level
- Always On The Run / Lenny Kravitz – Greatest Hits
- Are You Gonna Go My Way / Lenny Kravitz – Greatest Hits
- Girl, You’ll Be A Woman Soon / Urge Overkill – Pulp Fiction
- Song 2 / Blur – The Best Of
- Dude (Looks Like A Lady) / Aerosmith – Big Ones
- Cryin’ / Aerosmith – Big Ones
- Breathe / The Prodigy – Fat Of The Land
- Paranoid Android / Radiohead – The Best Of
- Just / Radiohead – The Best Of
- Connected / Stereo MC’s – Best Of Old Skool Hip Hop
The video is one of my favourite songs from the ’90s — “Hook” by Blues Traveler. There’s something about the harmonica and the guitars in this song that make me want to bounce around with a bunch of friends.
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More Moo Cards
October 25, 2011 by Gail
hat not included (I got it in Portugal)
My new Moo cards arrived yesterday. Yes, I already have fancy Moo business cards, but I do like the QR code and I got these for free after setting up a profile at about.me — I only paid for shipping because I left the Moo branding intact. But people always ask where I got the cards, anyway, so I don’t mind. Also, as you can see, the branding is small. I plan to use these cards for casual purposes, since I meet new people all the time and they’re reluctant to deplete my stock of business cards. These cards have all the same information, but the QR code leads to my about.me profile and is more personal than professional.
The photo is from one of my Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome biplane rides over the Hudson River in upstate New York:
flying over the Hudson River in a 1925 New Standard biplane
In other news, if you saw a pink hunchback walking in a westerly direction from downtown in the rain this evening, that was me.
hunchback in pink plastic
“Pink?” you say? Yes, I decided to be more prepared than last week when I walked home wearing my rain jacket, which couldn’t cover both me AND my backpack so I was half-drenched. Today I was sporting one of these pink Breast Cancer Foundation tent-like things (I’m only tolerating the colour because it’s for charity!), which turned me into an oddly-shaped pink plastic blob with feet, but at least I had complete coverage, backpack and all, and drivers noticed me at the intersections!
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Carnival Of Venice: The Album
October 25, 2011 by Gail
my crazy Venetian mask
Grilled figs with prosciutto on fig and fennel seed crostini, spiced mascarpone foam
down the hatch!
Asiago and crab tortellini, saffron cream sauce
dance performances
tiramisu
lady of Venice
masquerade and costumes
Carnival of Venice Menu by One of a Kind Dinner
www.oneofakinddinner.comChef: Clint Rampold
Sou Chef: Isaac GuillenCold Appetizers
1. Pumpkin puree panada with goat cheese mousse
2. Watermelon gazpacho shooters
3. Neapolitan pate, black truffle, bufala, tomato on crostini
4. Cucumber cup of lime/fennel mousseline, feta, black olive tapenade
5. Grilled figs with prosciutto on fig and fennel seed crostini, spiced mascarpone foam
6. Beef carpaccio on parmesan crostiniHot Appetizers
1. Vol-au-vent : puff pastry fondue with Radicchio
2. Carnival Calzone: sweet dough and savory filling
3. Squid on soft polenta with ink sauce
4. Sauteed scallops on a spoon with garlic flower
5. Asiago and crab tortellini, saffron cream sauceDessert
1. Dark cherry bourbon chocolate truffles
2. Tiramisu
3. Mint granita
4. Fruit cupsBest viewed as a [full-screen slideshow], or view as [thumbnails].
A smaller slideshow will autoplay below (I’ve capped the slideshow at 100 photos to reduce load time):
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Tête-à-tête With A Goat
October 24, 2011 by Gail
stuck?
From our trip to the farm yesterday for Michelle and Robert’s engagement shoot…
Michelle sent a pic she shot of me shooting this goat.
too young for horns, thankfully!
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Michelle + Robert: The Pumpkinheads Sneak Preview
October 23, 2011 by Gail
peace out, fellow pumpkins!
My imagination ran amok for this engagement shoot at Cooper’s CSA Farm & Maze in Zephyr, northeast of Toronto, and I have to thank Michelle and Robert for letting me have total freedom (read: much silliness) for their engagement shoot!
Michelle's alter ego
Scarface pumpkinhead
A gang-land slaying?
casualty in the pumpkin wars
We even had a shoot-out in the corn maze, just like in the Wild West:
duelling corn
We were laughing until our sides hurt and then discovered we were lost in circles in Phase 2 of the corn maze (it’s 10 acres!). Completely lost! At least we didn’t call 911.
I have scads o’ great photos to show, but I’m sticking to a sneak preview so I can take care of business. And sleep.
But finally, to round out this post and show you that they are perfectly normal people and not actual pumpkinheads:
Michelle & Robert
More to come!
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Carnival Of Venice Dinner: The Preview
October 22, 2011 by Gail
the mask with the most feathers of the evening
Just a teeny-tiny preview of the visual feast that was the One-Of-A-Kind-Dinner hosted by Clint and Lisa, based on the annual Carnival of Venice (see Google’s carnival images here).
I’ve got an engagement shoot in a corn maze in the morning, I’ll post more Carnival of Venice Dinner pics and the full menu later!
beef carpaccio on a parmesan crust
the ladies of Venice
vol-au-vent: puff pastry fondue with radicchio
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