Ottawa Portrait Photographer: Fighting with Water

My weekend involved assignments that both involved water. The first one intentionally, a waterfight between two “competing” neighbourhoods Carlingwood and Hintonburg. Having seen it done in more extreme sports, I wanted to capture a before image of the combatants, calm, confident, with all their ammunition locked and loaded, then follow up with an after, wet, defeated (or victorious) missing a few water balloons etc. Sadly I was only able to snag a few people as everyone seemed to flee to dryer, sunnier areas. Oh well, Grady here nailed it.

The following assignment was SUPPOSED to be stilt walkers and fire-dancers down by Ottawa’s rapids for the International stone-stacking competition… “Sunset and fire-dancers!” I thought? Hell yes! I loaded up my lights, a octa, a heavy duty light-stand and trucked my butt down to the river despite thunderstorm warnings. Sadly, when I got there, it had looked like it was cancelled (no signs, no online communication… just nothing), so I hung out and snapped some photos of the people there, though not what I wanted, it’s a different kind of good.

Sometimes your plans don’t deal out what you had envisioned, but it’s still our job to get the shot, or a shot, in the end. You’ll be able to see other images from this series in this weeks Kitchissippi Times, that is, of course, if you live in Ottawa.

Posted on Monday, August 20th, 2012 at 8:33 am. Filed under: Personal, Portraits RSS 2.0 feed.