https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog daily 0.75 2023-08-20 https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/will-and-execution monthly 0.5 2023-08-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1608238715952-1NNG7PDYZX4E7TZE1ASN/Blog_Will+and+Execution+001.jpg Photo Diary - Looking Back: Will & Execution https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/450e5890-0d85-488d-a7dd-49c70b43c052/Blog_Will+and+Execution+005.jpg Photo Diary - Looking Back: Will & Execution - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/13cf1e60-5171-4938-95dc-43c0b0c784aa/Blog_Will+and+Execution+004.jpg Photo Diary - Looking Back: Will & Execution - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/695c8ded-256a-4bcb-ab47-15b9887959d5/Blog_Will+and+Execution+009.jpg Photo Diary - Looking Back: Will & Execution - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/76477e8d-1d73-4122-b023-02349e55bbc4/Blog_Will+and+Execution+003.jpg Photo Diary - Looking Back: Will & Execution - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/6a64cce6-7ea5-4a2b-9803-969d8e9bc2a1/Blog_Will+and+Execution+002.jpg Photo Diary - Looking Back: Will & Execution - Make it stand out Wide, well-focused, but with everything is in focus. Ugh. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/b85f4313-3687-44d8-a708-761b203016c6/Blog_Will+and+Execution+011.jpg Photo Diary - Looking Back: Will & Execution - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/ab70b9ee-bb3e-46f8-8ad7-9cf11431dc4c/Blog_Will+and+Execution+007.jpg Photo Diary - Looking Back: Will & Execution - Make it stand out It also serves as a lesson that it is important, when I organize my own shoots, that I should provide guidance to the models about the wardrobe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/a9129266-31a0-43c9-b28b-54155d9da3cb/Blog_Will+and+Execution+010.jpg Photo Diary - Looking Back: Will & Execution - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/some-more-praise-aps-c monthly 0.5 2023-06-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/c58b76f1-5cca-4c91-b1d2-f1c8e302b305/Blog_OrangeMoon_Jun2023.jpg Photo Diary - Some More Praise for the APS-C Format - Make it stand out Tonight the moon is orange. June 2nd, 2023. https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/praise-for-aps-c monthly 0.5 2020-12-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1606699719095-WEK3GHJHU810A0GQ50GX/Blog_Praise+for+APS-C+001.jpg Photo Diary - Praise for the APS-C Format Kory - Human Statue Project - January 2015 (Canon 70D) In this case, Canon’s excellent EF-S 60mm Macro (one of the few lenses I almost regret from my APS-C DSLR days) proved quite the worthwhile instrument to capture Kory’s pensive expression. It provided the speed I needed for the shot, whereas I did not really need a particularly shallow field as I was shooting in studio. Although I wish the shot could have been a bit wider, well, it was not. At the time, the 60mm Macro was the only 50mm-ish lens that you could get for the Canon system with a decent focusing system without shelling out well over a thousand dollars, which I did not have at the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1606700131144-X56LLRSOGSEG2BQXZ4MX/Blog_Praise+for+APS-C+002.jpg Photo Diary - Praise for the APS-C Format Fox - Geisha in Bloom Project - May 2014 (Canon 60D) The Geisha in Bloom shoot is one of the first model shoots where I feel like I got worthwhile images which, while not perfect, I would not hesitate to put into my portfolio. Here, using the excellent 70-300L at a moderate telephoto focal length, I was able to compress the distant background behind the model and achieve reasonable subject separation. (I would be lying if I said this approach was deliberate on my part - it is only later that I learned to analyze the situation in a such a way.) I also did rather well with the EF-S 60mm Macro I used for the photo above, but my attempts to really achieve ‘optimal’ subject separation with the 35mm f/2 lens I had were limited with the relatively poor autofocus accuracy I had to deal with on the 60D - such troubles did not abate when using the same lens with the 70D. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1606703832762-AX2II333VMVD15JSKPTL/Blog_Praise+for+APS-C+003.jpg Photo Diary - Praise for the APS-C Format Fallen Kingdom Project - July 2014 (Canon 70D) The period between my T1i and the 70D must be one where I had a tragically high turnover of cameras, going from one to the next while hoping to get the performance I wished out of it. Although the 70D went on to become the APS-C camera that I might have used the most (in terms of photos taken with it throughout ownership) and possibly still only second to the 6D, this was not a period of contentment. I cannot prove this, of course, but I am still convinced to this day that Canon’s 20MP APS-C sensor and autofocus system had something not quite right, in how I never really trusted it, much less so than those of the cameras I had previously owned. This lack of trust proved reasonable in this case as, despite my doing pretty much everything ‘right’, I did not manager to nail focus on this image at f/2.5. It does not actually detract from my liking the image, even to this day, as I’m writing about it. However, my belief that sharpness is not a substitute or even necessarily an ingredient for art does not conflict with my belief that a photo, especially a portrait, should be sharp by default, at the exposure stage. I am not sure which quality is lacking the most in this photo - either its sharpness or the overall aesthetic outcome this lent itself to - but, judging by the awkward lack of response I got from the model when I shared this photos and others reasonably similar, she certainly thought something was missing… could it have contributed to my genuinely not remembering her name? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1606704554661-FO8FEAHLNLVUD2O75O64/Blog_Praise+for+APS-C+004.jpg Photo Diary - Praise for the APS-C Format Lily & Patrick - Eyal Zimmermann Fashion Show - October 2014 (Canon 70D) Could having had a fast lens that could have melted way this comically ugly background made for a better photo? Possibly. Though I for one am always wary of context when taking even portraits - people do not fly out in the void represented by a miasma of color, and I would like that to remain an important element of my portrait photography going forward, now that such a miasma is more and more accessible with the faster lenses I’ve acquired over the past year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1606704838080-W314Q5UP2HMYJYJJD89M/Blog_Praise+for+APS-C+005.jpg Photo Diary - Praise for the APS-C Format Patrick & Samantha - Eyal Zimmermann Fashion Show - October 2014 (Canon 70D) Certainly, I am happy, and I know in this case that they themselves were, of the photos I took of them as a recently married couple (if I recall correctly). It was an early vote of confidence I had in my photographic ‘career’, and a welcome one after the Fallen Kingdom ‘debacle’. Frankly, most of the time where you are looking more at the background than at the subjects might be indicative of the lack of interest generated by a particular photo. (I’ve still had photos ruined by poor subject separation, but ironically I feel it’s happened to me more on full frame than on APS-C...) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1606705683404-5R7Z4N1HY6JI5D1LTFHR/Blog_Praise+for+APS-C+006.jpg Photo Diary - Praise for the APS-C Format A frog sitting in a pond/swamp in around Mud Lake, Ottawa, sometime in the second decade of the third Millennium since that arbitrary Year Zero. (To hell with mathematics and logic, there WAS a Year Zero!) Taken with a Canon 60D paired with the 70-300L (just to be contrarian with the point I’ll try to make below). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1606707077597-EFQ5HHMBDWDOGNVZJXLE/Blog_Praise+for+APS-C+007.jpg Photo Diary - Praise for the APS-C Format Mural in Ottawa, not too far northwards from Bank/Flora Streets, circa summer 2020. I still like the portability of new APS-C offerings for travel/urban applications. If there is anything that has often held me back from taking a photo while traveling is simply not wanting to pull out my camera from its bag, but with the relatively compact offerings by Sony and Fuji, this reluctance could very well be a thing of the past. There only has got to be decent lenses to pair with these cameras, however, for the kind of enthusiastic but definitely not professional photographer that I am. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1606780165374-9YHFW15C3IUGCB4YMXB9/Blog_Praise+for+APS-C+008.jpg Photo Diary - Praise for the APS-C Format Dinner is served at the Kex Hostel in Reykjavik - July 2018. Food porn, one of the lowest forms of photography, and one I do not really want to have to give up, as it is such a staple of any travel album. Which makes me wonder: what is the ideal minimum focusing distance and magnification for optimal casual food porn? https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/rwanda-from-east-to-west monthly 0.5 2020-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1597702548112-LG2FSKSLDWD5XISQRZ7V/Rwanda-From-East-to-West_001.jpg Photo Diary - Rwanda from East to West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1597702610656-YOF6TZVNYVE53E4RN2BY/Rwanda-From-East-to-West_002.jpg Photo Diary - Rwanda from East to West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1597702650278-V6NXP2OSXDZEDOU32J3Y/Rwanda-From-East-to-West_003.jpg Photo Diary - Rwanda from East to West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1597702693103-P9HOU057OPI9XGVFVKX0/Rwanda-From-East-to-West_004.jpg Photo Diary - Rwanda from East to West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1597702731396-FZN89NGH1T1MQ0MY1YCE/Rwanda-From-East-to-West_005.jpg Photo Diary - Rwanda from East to West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1597702786821-H9H8JZ5QE3EBB39HMEUJ/Rwanda-From-East-to-West_006.jpg Photo Diary - Rwanda from East to West https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1597702834889-MC3H4K31FODLUAYIRHY9/Rwanda-From-East-to-West_007.jpg Photo Diary - Rwanda from East to West https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/moon-in-a-black-sky monthly 0.5 2020-07-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1596173124988-6OLBDC9I7AV3Z7JUPJB7/Blog_Moon+in+a+Black+Sky+%28Ottawa+2020%29.jpg Photo Diary - Moon In a Black Sky Or, as I like to think of it in French, L’astre solitaire. https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/images-of-solitude monthly 0.5 2020-06-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1591910363860-NDZTOZLXHUQRRZWRCB07/Images+of+Solitude_2020_001a.jpg Photo Diary - Images of Solitude This is the Clocktower place where I shot that delicious-looking pint in my post Longing for Normalcy (May 16, 2020). Just a great pub. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1591910999982-IVO9HTIIK8NQ96S8Z0D0/Images+of+Solitude_2020_001b.jpg Photo Diary - Images of Solitude That delicious Clocktower meatloaf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1591911397413-YE2CBP11NXBPYKQ11HDI/Images+of+Solitude_2020_002.jpg Photo Diary - Images of Solitude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1591911945305-YNHHDG62PA440CG7B4VK/Images+of+Solitude_2020_004.jpg Photo Diary - Images of Solitude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1591912732764-0W5VO8VX5L5RASUOREXJ/Images+of+Solitude_2020_006.jpg Photo Diary - Images of Solitude https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1591913424633-TBQ7HV7YFP4PD5Q1SFKH/Images+of+Solitude_2020_007.jpg Photo Diary - Images of Solitude It puts a lump in my throat to see this place so empty on such a beautiful day at a time where all the tables could be full. I do not know what the ideal light would be for this photo, but I think it properly translates my mood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1591914450911-F024RVEJERPVZX9TPY7O/Images+of+Solitude_2020_009.jpg Photo Diary - Images of Solitude https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/admiring-the-tulips monthly 0.5 2020-05-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589833311020-CXRCRXDOSM7KV8O50Z3D/Blog_Tulips2020_001.jpg Photo Diary - Admiring the Tulips https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/longing-for-normalcy monthly 0.5 2020-05-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589652599863-M9A81ZQ7HNYDMH2E2SF9/Blog_Normalcy_001.jpg Photo Diary - Longing for Normalcy My usual haunt on Rideau Street still had their special Valentine brew on tap… which is as good, as it is the closest substitute to the excellent Clocktower Brown that had been recently discontinued. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589653133212-7M72XS29W5AXQ6IFUG22/Blog_Normalcy_002.jpg Photo Diary - Longing for Normalcy Pedestrian in front of a shop on Rideau Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589653348856-33YUZ165RJPMGHPIIKFW/Blog_Normalcy_003.jpg Photo Diary - Longing for Normalcy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589653604378-H7HSM096U7VMVCDJHV1E/Blog_Normalcy_004.jpg Photo Diary - Longing for Normalcy Wilf and Ada’s, a place I’d never been to, had already closed even before the state of emergency and its mandatory closures. I’m not saying that this is the only place that did something like that in Ottawa, but it is certainly the only I’ve seen either downtown or elsewhere. Note to self: This will be the first restaurant I visit once everything reopens. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589653814037-RRGQJGTPUFFYPC2KKV8H/Blog_Normalcy_005.jpg Photo Diary - Longing for Normalcy A mural in the Glebe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589653872873-EHYJSY09SPBNUBIHK4BZ/Blog_Normalcy_006.jpg Photo Diary - Longing for Normalcy The front of the main exhibition building of Lansdowne Park was deserted, but the rest of the place was actually bustling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589653990462-9RB0QU1JPXVQZD3362UG/Blog_Normalcy_007.jpg Photo Diary - Longing for Normalcy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589654005592-190U1UWLRL0UGSP3LZ60/Blog_Normalcy_008.jpg Photo Diary - Longing for Normalcy I had actually seen the first one of the pair back at Lansdowne Park, which by then was already far. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589654116761-UJSFIEZ9TPK02IQK36ST/Blog_Normalcy_009.jpg Photo Diary - Longing for Normalcy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1589654134995-GE2JTYH6IVJ58QKB40GH/Blog_Normalcy_010.jpg Photo Diary - Longing for Normalcy https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/the-reading-room monthly 0.5 2020-04-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1588196787800-S3ISAD88TYEL4XW1JI3H/Blog_Reading+Room.jpg Photo Diary - The Reading Room https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/sweet-and-savoury monthly 0.5 2020-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586751564493-FJ2AIT8M5AGNSL8ZPPRP/Blog_Maple+Syrup+Waffles.jpg Photo Diary - Sweet & Savoury Maple Syrup Waffles. With a very North American glass of milk. Partly but decidedly not entirely because tea would simply not be quite as photogenic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586752485511-SP28PIKKZHF77PYJ5LI7/Blog_Eggs+and+Bacon+001.jpg Photo Diary - Sweet & Savoury Still not sure how to best photograph eggs. Hell, I’m not even really sure that this is even close to what scrambled eggs should look like… (Yes, this is what they are supposed to be. They were delicious.) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586752743530-FIKRXNOINCAW36X1G9E7/Blog_Sugar+Cream+Pie+001.jpg Photo Diary - Sweet & Savoury I know that they are different, but even I had to compare the eggs and the sugar cream pie photos several times just to ascertain that the serving tray was not positioned exactly the same in both photos. https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/going-bananas monthly 0.5 2020-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586735175275-JT195F52V6PYKG6IADE7/Blog_Going+Bananas.jpg Photo Diary - Going Bananas Woman carrying bananas balanced on her head. Gisenyi, Western Province of Rwanda, September 2017. Being the geek I am, I need to point out just how I took that photo less than 2 km away from the border of the Democratic Republic of the Congo which is, arguably, one of the most dangerous places on the planet (the eastern region at least). You would not be able to say that based on the peaceful image that I was a witness to just right next door in Gisenyi that morning. https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/a-feast-for-the-soul monthly 0.5 2020-04-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586733365477-5FL6DKCADZ0WHXAXK015/Blog_Shrimp+Bugatini.jpg Photo Diary - A Feast for the Soul My take on shrimp bugatini, made in early February 2020. Photographed handheld with my Sony a7 III. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586733858868-9EW6R98QYZ2S1X02T8MZ/Blog_Cacio+e+Pepe+Pork+Chops+004.jpg Photo Diary - A Feast for the Soul Cacio e Pepe Pork Chops https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586733939929-I5WP7R1SQRK3HH3LNBQ5/Blog_Teriyaki+Haddock+001.jpg Photo Diary - A Feast for the Soul Teriyaki Haddock, with the baby bok choy which is such an appreciated #makegoodfood staple. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586733970902-T506S8YPEJ8P29948CI6/Blog_Hoisin+Chicken+with+Soba+Noodles+001.jpg Photo Diary - A Feast for the Soul Hoisin Chicken on Soba Noodles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586734009027-XYIMN8V80LQQSTSTRO63/Blog_Piri-Piri+Trout.jpg Photo Diary - A Feast for the Soul Piri-Piri Trout https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586734438816-91H5E855YI5ZAB1WLFJT/Blog_French-Style+Bangers+and+Mash+001.jpg Photo Diary - A Feast for the Soul My Easter Supper: French-style Bangers & Mash https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/kwibuka26 monthly 0.5 2020-04-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586027162032-6GIVZBTKDTX69Z08CO7C/Blog_April+7+002.jpg Photo Diary - #Kwibuka26 ‘Tombstones’ of two of the Belgian peacekeepers that were assassinated by Rwandan usurpers on the early hours of the genocide against the Tutsi on April 7, 1994. ‘Madame Agathe’, the Rwandan Prime Minister, and her husband were assassinated shortly after. Photo by myself in Kigali, Rwanda, October 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1586028584606-CGK0KWA6HS8ZTS24G7KC/Blog_April+7+001.jpg Photo Diary - #Kwibuka26 The Flame of Remembrance at the Kigali Genocide Memorial, photo by my good self when I visited it in October 2017. https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/food-for-the-apocalypse monthly 0.5 2020-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1584504798068-9W6I1O7UPQ5L90CDRSWP/Blog_Food+for+the+Apocalypse+002.jpg Photo Diary - Food for the Apocalypse I wonder if an indoor BBQ could have produced better results? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1584504909066-X4Y4EHIKQ8IFIUZNQT4N/Blog_Food+for+the+Apocalypse+001.jpg Photo Diary - Food for the Apocalypse Delicious! https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/happy-st-patrick-covid-19-edition monthly 0.5 2020-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1584503781572-JNA6GMM62PGOVUCK5DJ8/Blog_St+Patrick+COVID-19+Edition.jpg Photo Diary - Happy St. Patrick - Covid-19 Edition https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/good-amp-bad-news monthly 0.5 2020-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1583023949800-F3W4N0I9JLH6PLUAY9SU/Sony+a7+III+Porn+004b+%28Blog%29.jpg Photo Diary - Good & Bad News https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/goodbye-mirrors monthly 0.5 2020-02-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1581908763985-W54J267QIQNFK56A53FM/Farewell+to+the+77D+008.jpg Photo Diary - Goodbye, Mirrors! The 77D with the ever great EF-S 15-85 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1581908812790-JC9W5UXKMEVIR4TL5ST9/Sony+a7+III+with+35mm.jpg Photo Diary - Goodbye, Mirrors! https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/swimming-around monthly 0.5 2020-01-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1578260314860-W1TP7Q4HP2EO998EG7Z8/Georgia+Aquarium_May19+006+%28Blog%29.jpg Photo Diary - Swimming Around Read down below to find out more about where this is… https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/happy-new-year-2020-NU5CI monthly 0.5 2020-01-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1577674671839-8P9DPSHIDX6BEZO355HI/Boneyard+Roadtrip+I+003+%28Blog%29.jpg Photo Diary - 2020 - The Road Ahead Annie Lemay (tan dress) & Geneviève Dupuis (black dress). Auto Boneyard @ Cardinal ON, October 2019. https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/2019-in-review-vii-human-rainbow monthly 0.5 2019-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1577674644674-B1EJSYFP5P1T7N41PMIH/Holi%2521%2BCLR%2B2019%2BXXIII%2B018%2B%2528Blog%2529.jpg Photo Diary - 2019 in Review VII - Human Rainbow https://www.apricanephoto.com/blog/2019-in-review-vii-spring-fling monthly 0.5 2019-12-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1577409468872-WXNWF8VDEPBZWO1YSMWG/Syd%2BEnsing%2BII%2B002%2B%2528Blog%2529.jpg Photo Diary - 2019 in Review VI - Spring Fling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1577409375581-IY2KUB680DQPQCTHDEXR/River%2Band%2BSyd%2BIII%2B002%2B%2528Blog%2529.jpg Photo Diary - 2019 in Review VI - Spring Fling https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1577409401007-JQXXQLAGUFLGHR7SWCCR/River+Doucette+IV+004b+%28Blog%29.jpg Photo Diary - 2019 in Review VI - 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In some truly pessimistic and twisted way, I feel that the photo is one of the many interpretations of life (hence the title) that I was able to come up with photographically. As it is inherently negative, I will save you the details of that explanation here; I may make a dedicated gallery somewhere else to explore those photos that I feel aptly represent life as I see it! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1571285295847-8DNKRP93JEO8BWUWSVHV/Streaks.jpg Photo Diary - The LensCulture B&W Awards Streaks One of the legacy images of a shoot I did with Anja Takera and members of her posse (the model here being, to the best of my recollection, Alfa) to showcase her fashion designs. Although the memory of arriving only at this result has not left me (it was probably more difficult than it should have been!), I keep coming back to this photo as one of my favorites of the day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1571285507009-91MS9J6LVJ4LZ52ILZ3D/The+Violence+of+Colors.jpg Photo Diary - The LensCulture B&W Awards The Violence of Colors At a Holi! CLR session where I was shooting with model Sophie Bègue, colored powder was literally flying in all directions at once. Sticking to models in more or less random patterns, the colors would ‘enhance’ the models in an aesthetically pleasing and, as is intended, very playful manner. In looking at some of the same photos in B&W, though, I noticed just how stripping colors away (yet using them to set a tone) could change the interpretation of the image: where the colored version is an image of frivolity, the black & white lends itself to darker interpretations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1571286399066-6FI3TVHAFXK07W183AM6/Waiting+for+a+Storm+%28That+May+Never+Come%29.jpg Photo Diary - The LensCulture B&W Awards Waiting for a Storm (That May Never Come) For this photo with model Cristiana Bodnariuc (wearing a dress designed by Michèle Beaudoin), I sought to create an atmosphere of expectation and uncertainty. For me, this atmosphere is anchored in the tension between the main elements of the photo: the woman, young and beautiful, but seeming apprehensive (of the future? of her current predicament?), remains immobile; her possible fates are illustrated by the rusting truck or the flowing grass, growing, blowing in the wind and becoming visually intertwined in the folds of her dress. As I see it, this photo is a commentary not only on time and beauty, but also on self-actualization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1571312251483-ZED0FK488UGCNZZFEVKB/Breaking+the+Rules.jpg Photo Diary - The LensCulture B&W Awards Breaking the Rules A different take on the concept above, with the same model. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d42dd6e312f020001375edf/1571312369069-GBM44AUM283L3CKOV8OA/White+Fabric.jpg Photo Diary - The LensCulture B&W Awards White Fabric I don’t know if I am able to put into words what this image makes me feel, how I would describe its atmosphere. 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