A couple of my favourite photos after last Sunday’s Pride Parade. I didn’t actually take that many of the parade itself because we were initially waiting on Church Street and apparently the organisers had changed the route! By the time we got wind of that, the parade had already begun and we were unable to [...]

On account of my knackered body and peeling face from Sunburn Sunday, the furthest I ventured away from home yesterday was 10 minutes’ walk to the beach to see if I could get some shots of the fireworks. I did make a separate trip to Vincent Sushi for a roll and miso soup, but it’s [...]

I first heard Toronto’s Zaki Ibrahim perform this song on Q’s Canada Day broadcast yesterday from Canada House with Jian Ghomeshi in Trafalgar Square, London. I loved her voice and had to look her up!
Born in Vancouver to a South African father and Scottish/English/Welsh mother (very much a Canadian story right there), Zaki has a [...]

While I was digging around for the photo in the previous post, I came across this one that hadn’t been uploaded and was reminded of the dimple story, which I told recently.
It all started because Nadja complimented me on my dimple, and I told her it was fake. Fake as in artificial, as in I [...]

I haven’t even been 36 for two weeks and already the right side of my body is starting to fail me. I haven’t even mentioned yet the thumb joint problem I started having on my second day in Norway. I don’t understand it — all my work is on the computer and I can see developing problems after days of intensive mousing, but I was on holiday and spent very little time with a keyboard and mouse. It originally felt like a dislocation but the pain eventually subsided by the end of that week. The area where the thumb meets the palm doesn’t feel right yet and I’m beginning to wonder if it ever will. Is it all downhill from here???

During last Saturday’s engagement session I was shooting on my knees, on the ground, hanging from railings, and standing on a 7-ft ladder. Perhaps (more) insurance is in order.

Canada is 141 years old today, and going stronger than ever. At 36, hopefully I will be, too!

Yesterday’s lesson in umbrella-twirling motion blur:
I asked the lovely Erin to pose with her umbrella and twirl it so I could get the motion blur. I was trying to get the shutter speed down low enough for the blur and aperture high enough to expose her face properly, but I hadn’t manually set my ISO [...]

Another post on the fly…
My 2GB memory card saw some major action today: cows, pigs, turkeys, snails, ponds, flowers, a cemetery, scantily clad bodies, a helicopter, wings, crowd, a pug-beagle dog, transvestites, and all manner of things in between. Between last night and today (shooting from 9am to about 7pm), I took about half the [...]

I shot an engagement session on Saturday night, and while I was waiting for my couple to arrive, I observed another photo shoot going on right in front of me — a wedding that probably took place at St. James’ Cathedral.
Wedding season is in full summer swing!
The engagement session went really well, I think. I [...]

It’s probably a good day to leave Toronto — all this humidity turned into summer downpour!
I saw Ruth, from Ireland, off at the train station this morning. I hosted Ruth for two days, and she’s making her way west to Vancouver and all around the U.S. by rail. She’s a lovely girl, I hope to [...]