On April 3, Richard and I went to check out The Speed Syndicate’s 1 year anniversary BBQ meet. There was a DJ, great cars, and Shoei serving up hot dogs. Congratulations to The Speed Syndicate on your 1 Year anniversary!
The name says it all...
For the month of March, Richard organized an automotive photo meet. One which garnered a lot of interest from those who wanted to get some practice in automotive photography and those who wanted to have their rides photographed. Jason from Beau Photo brought out some Profoto gear to give many of us a chance to shoot with some professional lighting equipment. The weather was pretty dreary on Sunday with the forecast calling for wind and plenty of rain. We weren’t able to use a lot of the locations that Richard and I had scouted out a few nights earlier but we had a backup plan. Our setting would be the New Westminster covered parkade on Front Street. It would provide protection from the rain as well as an interesting locale for our shots. Thanks to Richard for organizing the meet, Jason for bringing gear to give us a taste of what the pro’s use, as well as the owners of the cars that let us take photos of their awesome rides.
G-Spec's Infiniti G35
Yesterday I went out in the morning for a few hours for a photowalk with my neighbor Peter. The weather was a bit overcast but the sun started to peek out by the late morning. We checked out New Brighton Park (which I’ll post a few photos in a later post) and the skateboard park by the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver. It was the first time I’ve been there where there was nobody using it so we were able to walk around freely inside the bowl. The surrounding park around the area is also worth walking around.
The Dreamer Christopher Columbus
Last night was the start of illuminate Yaletown which is a public event bring talented artists together to showcase contemporary interactive light art. It was unfortunate that it was a rainy night but a few of us did show up to try to get some good photos of the displays. The event will be ending tonight so try to check it out! Here are some of my captures during the photowalk.
A colorful projection onto a building during a rainy night at illuminate Yaletown
So Mypublisher was having a promo of unlimited pages for $35 USD and as usual, I left it to the last few days of the promo before making my book. So I scrambled to get about 49 pages laid out into my book and sent it off Monday evening. Well talk about fast turn around time, it shipped out Tuesday night from New York and got to my work the next morning! This is the second book I have done and I decided to break it up into three sections. Landscape photos, urban photos and portraits. I also went with the no charge linen cover. The first book I made with Mypublisher was a glossy slipcover which while it looked great, it was a fingerprint magnet. The quality of the print job was so so. On some of the pages, there were artifacts on the paper and I’ll be calling them to see if I can get a reprint.
The linen cover of my new photobook
