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  1. Santa Mob

    December 22, 2009 by Gail

    Santa Mob
    Santa Mob by NV6V

    The Anti-Santa, as it were. The monochrome Santa isn’t a Photoshop trick, she’s actually dressed like this with face paint. If you look closely at her neck, you can see where some rubbed off.

    Heard of Santarchy? Or Santacon? There have been scores of Santa Mobs around the Christmas-loving world, even here in Toronto. This was shot in San Francisco, where people love getting dressed up in costumes or running naked, whether there’s an event or not.

    Music for today: 1984′s Band-Aid singing “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” — can you believe it’s been 25 years since this song was made?!? Between the USA (USA For Africa/”We Are The World”), Canada (Northern Lights/”Tears Are Not Enough”), and the UK’s efforts in the category of cheesy-and-awkward celebrity musicians video to benefit victims of the Ethiopia famine, my favourite was Band Aid due to my longstanding British New Wave junkie phase. I must’ve watched that video at least a hundred times just to fawn over the members of Duran Duran.

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  2. The Happy Trio

    December 6, 2009 by Gail

    The Happy Trio
    The Happy Trio by NiH

    This is not only a great picture, but an even more remarkable story which takes place in Bangladesh. Click on the pic to read Naser‘s commentary. He also has a blog that features his photography, which is both technical and enthographic in nature and right up my alley. Check it out!

    Music for today: a clip of driving in Dhaka, Bangladesh (where the photo was taken) with music

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  3. We’ll keep each other!

    November 17, 2009 by Gail

    We'll keep each other!
    We’ll keep each other! by Julie70

    A wonderful photo taken by one of my longtime favourite Flickr photographers, a 70+ year old lady named Julie (her Flickr URL is ‘joyoflife’), who also keeps a blog in French. Between the inspiration I find in Julie and Claude (who recently returned from India!), I am looking forward to growing older.

    Julie’s photo description:

    Enchanting happyness of that white haired pair to be together, I was so happy to look at them.

    At first I did not even dare to ask, than, I took only their hands, and finally I dared to ask even if I could take them: they were happy to be taken. What a memory! Their happiness fills even today my heart with joy.

    Click on the photo to see comments in Flickr.

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  4. Interview With Anna Kuperberg

    October 15, 2009 by Gail

    I follow the work of many, many photographers. And by ‘follow’ I mean I view their work as a learning tool, and look at it as if I were a client trying to decide which photographer best represented my own view of the world. I don’t remember how I found Anna Kuperberg, a San Francisco photographer who shoots weddings, kids, and dogs, but I’ve been reading her blog via RSS for at least a year now. Out of the long list of professional photography blogs, I usually click on her feed first. She continually surprises me with her quirky, often whimsical photography. She also shoots at all angles and, very notably, her timing is incredible — the images really show how observant she must be to capture what she does.

    Anna was recently interviewed by Marc Silber, and what she says in her interview sums up how I feel about the art form.

    From Marc Silber’s website:

    This year, Anna Kuperberg has been featured on the cover of Photo District News and PPA magazines, and was named one of the world’s top ten wedding photographers by American Photo magazine. Her work has appeared in InStyle, People, and Martha Stewart Weddings.

    Click on the image to see the interview (opens in a new window):

    Picture 7

    Still editing, editing, editing, but I’ll have a slideshow from Beth+Shawn’s wedding soon.

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  5. Evil Sky

    August 9, 2009 by Gail

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    We were having a perfectly serene Sunday evening of music on Woodbine beach when storm clouds rolled in and threatened to eat us alive. It was nothing short of cinematic: apocalyptic winds, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning! The storm was fierce enough to knock out the power at Pearson Airport and create mayhem around the city.

    Photo credit goes to Eric, while I was too busy racing around to get my stuff together before the storm went full-blown overhead.

    [Update: the photo made it into the Torontoist!]

    To show you how quickly the weather turned, this photo was taken only about an hour and a bit earlier:

    Moulin Rouge

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  6. While I’m Away

    August 4, 2009 by Gail

    … the cats do play, says the catsitter. This is what she captured with her computer and emailed to me:

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  7. Oysters @ Brassaii Bistro

    July 24, 2009 by Gail

    You can deduce from the blurriness of this cameraphone picture that I was in a hurry to eat those oysters. Usually I’m Steady Eddy.

    Dax got a great shot of the sign with his iPhone while he was waiting for me:

    Brassaii

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  8. Stuck In Customs

    July 14, 2009 by Gail

    Farewell India - The Taj Mahal
    Farewell India – The Taj Mahal by Stuck in Customs

    I thought I’d blogged this guy before, but apparently not. Trey Ratcliff is a photographer whose travels make me very envious but aside from that he specialises in HDR. Click on the photo to read more about how he does it.

    Trey’s site: http://www.stuckincustoms.com/

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  9. Makes Me Want To Get An iPhone (Almost)

    June 6, 2009 by Gail

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    I mentioned Dax’s current obsession of taking photos with his iPhone and using ShakeItPhoto to turn them into Polaroids. I like how it takes ordinary cameraphone pictures and turns them into Polaroids with a method that looks an awful lot like colour burn in Photoshop. ShakeItPhoto even requires you to shake the iPhone and makes you wait for the photo to get ‘developed’. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for me because iPod Touches don’t have cameras. Dax captured me taking photos of the vintage cameras below, and the bottom photo is what I saw looking through the Nikon D300.

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    Ikoflex, meet Contaflex

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  10. Photographers Are Crazy

    May 21, 2009 by Gail

    Remember Natalia’s birthday the other Saturday when I mentioned I was lying on the floor shooting up? Maria’s posted her photos from that night and here I am, collecting dust and lint and cat hair and whatever else is on the floor while I shoot:

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    I am a human broom!

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