I was asked by a friend if I would be interested in photographing a Fundraising golf tournament. When I was told it was for a 6 year old who has Spinal Muscular Atrophy I was honored to have the opportunity to help out. This was the 3rd Annual Pyper Pro AM and was hosted at the Edmonton Petroleum Golf and Country Club.

After a little warm up the golfing got underway.

It was a gorgeous fall day at the Edmonton Petroleum Golf and Country Club

This is such a beautiful golf course, the views all around were simply stunning!

I love these pants, you think Angela would be caught in public with me if I wore them?

As the sun got low and the golf neared the end I was a little sad to see the day go…

I had such a great time, the day was filled with competition, camaraderie, hope, and emotion, and generosity!

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I realize that Canada day was a couple weeks ago but I was sorting through some personal pics and came across these two. We took the boys down to the Legislature Grounds for Canada Day celebrations. Owen was being cheeky all day, dodging the camera, running away, and then finally just when I thought he was going to sit for a couple shots…

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A few weeks ago while visiting Aunty Claudette, Owen challenged Brandon to a duel!

Without hesitation Brandon accepted the challenge and the battle began. Owen came out swinging strong…

but soon stumbled and the tide turned in Brandon’s favor.

In the end Owen was victorious over Brandon

and set his sights on his next victim…

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I love shooting in parkades, there is so much detail and texture to work with and when you pair that with a photogenic action hero (Kris) the results are awesome!

We shot a few frames of Kris in action leaping over the railing and I have to hand it to him, there was not much space to clear the concrete above his head. In fact his hair is touching the section just above it. He nailed it every time and we had him do it several times.

Next up just a few steps away was a typical parkade environment, kind of blah aside from the fantastic pose Kris was rocking. This shot is strait out of camera (SOOC). It was lit with a single speed light through a lastolite tri flip diffuser. Hmm it was not what I was looking for, it certainly did not have much mood or mystery about it anyway.

But the shot above gave me an idea, something to work with. I liked the light on the ceiling but was not wild about all the grey and brightness of the light spilling all over the concrete. Ditch the Tri Flip and just hit Kris with a bare flash zoomed to 105mm to control spill and keep the light nice and tight on him. I exposed for the light above his head and shot with the camrea in Manual and the Flash in TTL. Now we were cooking! Oh yeah and the light placement above his head and expression were not an accident. Kris struck the pensive expression on his own and a lightbulb went off in my head! I thought why not…

Here is a side by side of the two shots.

hope you liked it. Later

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Of course it is still snowing, it is winter after all and we need the snow to make our igloos! I am a little tired after yet another weekend of lots of snow, if you recall last weekend we had a storm as well which you can read about here. My spirits are high, maybe not quite as high as the snow banks, but aside from the bitter cold (-30C) it is actually not that bad and its kind of funny. I am actually hoping the that snow in our backyard gets higher than our fence which is 4 feet tall. We are maybe 8 inches away but apparently it is supposed to get warm this week, around 0C. Hmm.

Anyway I wanted to get a picture of me all bundled up and excited just heading out to shovel the champange powder can’t you just see the excitement of my expression, ok well I was smiling but you can’t see it =)

After I was done shovelling our Driveway and deck I was a little gassed, wet and sweaty, notice the water dripping off my nose. But I did conquer the savage snow storm, at least this round anyway.

Once I towelled off I went to help the boys eat supper. They were watching How to Train Your Dragon, which is an awesome movie, and it was just finishing up. They both wanted to show me their Dragon faces and so I grabbed the camera. The main Dragon in the movie is named Toothless so I feel these names are fitting.

I present to you a Carrott Tooth and Goofy Tooth Dragon.

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I recently got the Pocket Wizard Flex TT5 and Mini TT1 and was messing around in a parkade with Kris. He thought it would be cool to pretend he was launching a ball of light from his hands. Both of these images were lit with a single Canon 580 EXII attached directly to a Pocket Wizard Flex TT5 and triggered via a Pocket Wizard Mini TT1 all TTL. Kris is holding the flash in his hands and there is a wall in front of him that the light is bouncing off of to light him and everything else.

I am not sure which look I prefer to the images but if you have some thoughts please comment on them.

Settings for both images:
Canon 7D Manual mode
1/60
2.8
50mm
ISO 200
TTL

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Don’t these two have crime fighting written all over them? I mean who would not be afraid of a 2 and 3 year old dressed up as Spiderman and armed with coat hangers as their weapon of choice for battling the forces of evil. It made me scared!

Getting ready to spin a web and knock out crime.

It is time to give us their best “don’t mess with me” look. The number one tactic when dealing with bad guys is to have a tough stare. The number two tactic is to be armed with said coat hanger just in case the first approach isn’t enough. You know they mean business! Just don’t get between them and the candy and no one gets hurt.

Halloween was a real treat (pun intended) this year. It was the first year both the boys understood the idea of Trick or Treating and were both excited and looking forward to it. Of course 1 hour and 20 houses into it they needed to be carried home because they were all done. Imagine how that looked, two muscle bound Spiderman draped over my shoulders while I am holding their loot bags and walking down the street. It probably looked like I rendered them unconcious to snatch their goods, and who knows maybe I did! Muwaaahahaha

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Parkour – the physical discipline of training to overcome any obstacle within one’s path by adapting one’s movements to the environment.

I recently had the opportunity to do a little action photography with Kris in downtown Edmonton.  Kris braved the cold as it was about -3 outside and he was required to grab and hold on to some pretty cold concrete and metal. I love the challenge of location photography and it was even more challenging with a moving target! I had so much fun shooting these sequences and Kris was awesome to work with. He performed repeatedly so that we could capture some amazing photos.  I was cool to watch how gracefully Kris could navigate and make everything appear effortless. I can’t wait to do it again. Kris on the other hand might prefer to vernture out on a warmer day next time but like I said he was a true sport.

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