Jerrika

Jerrika A&W #2

Jerrika was passing through  a couple of weeks ago, and suggested we shoot some photos. Always wanting to oblige when I can, I said yes. For some reason, while I don't drink pop much, I have a hankering for some A & W root beer right about now.

A skirt in water

A skirt in Water #10, 2010

Jaclyn came down last week and we shot photos in a pool. It was something I had never attempted to do before and I don't think she had either. So in our tenth photoshoot together in 4 years, it was a new experience for us. We settled on a white corset and flowy white skirt for the shoot, and her sister Jessica did some waterproof makeup for the occasion.

In terms of post work, very little was done after deciding on this blue/green-ish selenium toning, contrast and vignetting. Most of what I did in post was deleting little annoying floaty leaves and some bottom debris.

A skirt in Water #1, 2010

Corey in her trees

On the birch #3, cropped

Last set of Corey before she moved.  Shot on the last weekend of June in her large secluded backyard. Well sort of secluded... Most of the images were shot about ten feet up in her fallen birch tree. OK. I have no idea if it's a birch. She said it was. I grew up in a city. ;)

The remainder of this post after the jump break contains nudity and is NSFW.

Trying the Blogger jump breaks

what's left of CN 491010

A rail car that didn't get away and is gutted and buried to the doors. Near McCulloch's Costume Co. Inc. May 2009,  London, Ontario. The car, and the rail spur it sat on, have now been removed.

I am just...

Jennifer on the long weekend

On a Mercury Sea #2

Last weekend I was invited to Jennifer's parents place down by Lake Erie at Turkey Point. I was following Jennifer so I didn't pull over and stop, but I did see several spots that would be great for future potential shoots. Saw some free chairs someone had left beside the road too. Rural randomness.

After a nice BBQ dinner, we decided to head over to one of the beaches and shoot a few photos.

Sun was setting fast when we found a spot and I was able to shoot about 20 frames of Jennifer in her new bikini before the light was unusable. I checked just now and from first frame shot till the last after the sun set, I shot for 3mins32sec beginning to end. I am sure if I had more time to dial in the flash power, wait for people to be out of frame and re compose I could have improved on them but I still like the results. :)

Photographing Jennifer, even briefly, was certainly a great way to start July and end a really nice day by the lake.

On a Mercury Sea #1

Mike

OLN Tour de France coverage sucks balls.

Letter I sent to info@OLN.ca  just now:

To whomever is the front line reader of these emails at OLN : pass this on to your masters at CTV:

I have watched the Tour de France on OLN  for a decade. On weekends I watch when home in the morning, and watch in the evenings when I work if my schedule dictates that. Only now, on the first evening it's on and guess what? It's not. Whose stupid decision making idea was that? Where was it announced on your site that this change was occurring?

MonsterQuest? Operation Repo? UFO Hunters? Really??? What the hell do they have to do with Outdoor Life. I dont give a crap about monsters that don't exist in Lake Champlain. Thats TLC stuff at best.  Stuff I would never watch on yours or any channel. It was bad enough seeing the Operation Repo commercials over and over during the morning Tour coverage yesterday. I couldn't imagine wasting a summer evening with that.

I can't adequately describe how angry, pissed off, disappointed and disgusted I am with your cheap ass network right now. You regularly fail at announcing schedules till the last minute, and you really failed dedicated viewers like myself and others I know who are just now finding out about this and maybe have no other option to watch the Tour de France in Canada . You don't even offer any video highlights online.

This had to be a flagship event for you in your programming. And yet you decide to cut it in half. I suppose CTV blew its sports programming budget on the Olympics this year and let everything else gets cut.

As a result, with no PVR or VCR - as I didnt need one I thought for the Tour, I am going to go without watching probably one of the only sporting events that I enjoy watching in the summer.

When OLN is a channel I have to pay extra for, it's done.  If Versus was available on satellite or cable here in Canada I would never look at your channel again.

Maybe I need night vision goggles

Really Tired

I find I don't like driving at night anymore in the countryside.

It's strange in a way because I have traveled great distances around Canada in the dark. In fact I used to prefer to drive late in the evening on lonely stretches of roads.  Something about being enveloped in a cocoon of darkness that was comforting.

Long Shadows of Long Ago Wars

Shadows of Wars, Remembered, #1

Flags placed beside the graves and markers of soldiers who served Canada in the wars our nation has fought in. Not just remembered on Remembrance Day. To each, a flag of their own. Lest we forget.