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One of my favourite photos from Raissa’s Wedding. Adam’s (the Groom’s) niece was bobbing around, obviously bored with all the adult festivities; taking advantage of this, I decided to delegate some of my own tasks to someone with, hopefully, a unique perspective. I handed Eden my favourite lil camera that could (the Panasonic LX3) and […]
Last night was an AWESOME wedding with Raissa (the Rza) and her lovely man-bride Adam. We set up a bit of a photobooth with some white seamless and 3 strobes and made a go at taking some fun picks with her and her guestsThey threw a wicked party, ran the whole show on time if […]
Man, this is a busy week – don’t expect a lot out of this site, or me personally (unless you want to grab a beer) – things be crizay off the hizay!
One thing about the Panasonic LX3 – despite it’s strengths, it’s still not really going to be able to transition those colours in the sky – it kinda bugs me – but really, that’s digital for ya!
Actually it’s a Honeysuckle leaf… I know you horticulturists were curious!
What a rut I’m in – which is too bad because I’ll be leading the Ottawa Worldwide Photowalk in July – and I’d like to have something to show to everyone signing up. whatever – here’s another untitled photo – because, well, I just can’t muster it. I’ll be heading out with Erinn sometime next […]
If you’re wondering why Quinn’s in the box, it’s because we’re working on stuff under the back deck, but there’s all this glass around so we don’t want him crawling in it. I dropped him in this planter, looked down, and started to play with the dirt; kids are awesome! This is one of those […]
In a narcissistic attempt at self-photography, Justin didn’t hear the his infant son pushing over the light-stand until it was far too late.
I’m really stir-crazy – there’s so much I want to do and I really haven’t been able to do a FRACTION of it in the past few weeks – I think I should have thought about that before I took on the responsibility for another human being. I want to see a movie, that’s in […]
Shot at the Festival Hall Paramount Scotiabank theatre in Toronto – I think Star Trek is out today – I want to see it… I don’t remember having a good time seeing a Trek film since, maybe, The Undiscovered Country? I do find it difficult to get out to anything now that I live in […]
I REALLY want to go on a trip – and not just sit on a beach vegging (though that would be nice too) for a week – immersion, cultural, setting, the works.Spent a month in Thailand – wasn’t enough.Spent 2 and a half weeks in Iceland – not enough. I need more, I want to […]
Just screwing around with my 50mm and shallow dof – taking part in the two things I love to do most: drink and take pictures. Thanks again for all the comments yesterday – I appreciate the feedback. Especially Sterling – very insightful…
I’ll take a quick survey here, and if you don’t mind just let me know in the comments, but I’m wondering who all of you fine visitor to jvlphoto.com are. Besides my mom (hi mom) and varying, seemingly, random numbers I get from Google Analytics (hi people from Twitter!) and feedburner are you visiting and […]
Quinn has developed a bit of a green thumb- he definitely doesn’t mind getting his hands, and feet, dirty.
Everything looks cooler as a Black and White Lensbaby shot!
I’m noticing a definite change in compression of images between the print module (pictured) and the regular export to jpeg dialogue. Either way, this image didn’t really come out exactly like I had hoped, and I can’t tell if I like the B&W or colour version betterFuck it, I’m just posting the B&W version – […]
There are, potentially, some fun things to photograph around town this weekend in Ottawa – the Tulip Festival, and my son. I hope to accomplish both or either – and maybe use some of the expensive gear I own: like my tripod. We must set ambitious goals for ourselves, lest we lose passion for our […]
It seems I’m onto a bit of a nature theme this week – pictured here is some tall grass from my momma’s house during a daytime snow-flurry (back from March when I was in T.O. for my birfday). I was still vainly trying to hand-hold the 100mm f/2.8 macro… for macro shots… which, note, again […]
I don’t know about you folks in other parts of the world, but the weather here has gone wack. It was 25 yesterday, 10 today, and tomorrow’s going to be 30 – I’m no Meteorologist, but I know alien Terra-forming when I see it – so start wearing aluminum hats before they steal our thoughts […]
That’s TOTALLY me – running – because I LOVE, to run. Love it. Running is sooooooooooo awesome.
This weekend is supposed to be gorgeous, I plan on spending less time at the computer and more time with my camera family!
Another crappy garage in the hood. I feel like it’s the Ottawa equivalent of a shanty town, I half expect to see corrugated metal sheets housing orphans and some Christian aid spokesperson asking me to put “starvin marvin” through school. Though usually I only see kids smoking pot and dog shit.
Are you folks following me on the Twitter yet? I’ve been trying to filter out the regular noise of my mind (what I ate, what I’d like to eat, type of coffee I’m having) and provide some relevant information SOMETIMES – photography, weird things I run into while trying to raise money to fight Cancer […]
I think, with a few exceptions, I’ve processed all my posts this year in Adobe Lightroom. I HEART it. It’s really forced me to take better photos… granted they’re not all GOOD, but I think they’re getting better. Now if you want to see some stuff that’s been through Photoshop – check this guy out […]
