Boys, babes, bikes and Lissa Hill Leather

I had a photoshoot with Lissa Hill of Lissa Hill Leathers last week. The idea was to create some commercial images that could be used to market her line of custom motorcycle leathers. We shot a few “catalog” type shots indoors in the studio at first. We...

Happy Canada Day!

Today is Canada Day, the day on which we celebrate the beginnings of our great country. Like most Canadians, Laura Hollick and I are proud to be Canadian. We decided to create a photo to celebrate Canada. We worked with the versatile hair and makeup artist Sue Upton,...

Preparing for Birth Your Dreams

We’ve been busy preparing for the Birth Your Dreams Exhibition, and everything is going really well. We finished shooting the final image for the exhibition last weekend, and were treated to perfect weather for that shot. All of our prints arrived on time too....

Vivitar bites the dust

Well, I’m a little sad to see that Vivitar has gone the way of the dodo bird. I credit Vivitar with giving me the first tantalizing taste of studio lighting. I started out with one ancient Vivitar 280 flash that my uncle gave me. Using a weird little proprietary...

Breakfast

Fresh blueberries, strawberries, almonds and yogurt. I love summer. I forgot to add the ground flax seed before taking the picture, but it was mixed into the final product. The flax seed slows down your body’s absorption of the fruit, so you get more bang for...