Great show!

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It was so cold shooting these awesome birds of prey at the Raptor Conservancy that I actually missed a couple of birds because I had to go back inside to defrost my fingers. I think I got some keepers anyway.

All of my photos from this shoot can be seen here.

Our list of the top ten albums of 2016 is finally here. Simone was shocked by some of my selections as I was by hers and so we needed to expand the top albums once again to satisfy both of us. This time we thought we would list the top 30. So here they are…

1. David Bowie Blackstar
2. Polica United Crushers
3. RY X Dawn
4. Blood Orange Freetown Sound
5. Tindersticks The Waiting Room
6. Ben Watt Fever Dream
7. M.Craft Blood Moon
8. Bon Iver 22, A Million
9. Andy Shauf The Party
10. Jim James Eternally Even
11. Michael Kiwanuka Love & Hate
12. Dylan Leblanc Cautionary Tale
13. Hope Sandoval Until The Hunter
14. Ray Lamontagne Ouroboros
15. Aiden Knight Each Other
16. Woodpigeon Trouble
17. Jamie Isaac Couch Baby
18. Maxwell blackSUMMERS’night
19. Radiohead A Moon Shaped Pool
20. Leonard Cohen You Want It Darker
21. Norah Jones Day Breaks
22. Lambchop Flotus
23. Porches Pool
24. Young Hysteria Young Hysteria
25. River Tiber Indigo
26. James Vincent McMorrow We Move
27. Lumineers Cleopatra
28. Dan San Shelter
29. Benjamin Francis Leftwich After The Rain
30. Matt Holubowski Solitudes

Love these guys!  What an awesome show!

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Another great day shooting birds of prey at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy Inc.

All of my photos from the day can be seen here.

What an amazing trip!

The dynamic and diverse landscapes that I was able to see and photograph were truly beautiful. Colette, Ryan and I planned this trip about a year ago and had a pretty detailed plan on what we wanted to see and photograph. Slightly ambitious, we did manage to cover about 80% of our agenda. With around 22hrs of daylight, we survived on a few hours of sleep each night as we stuck to our agenda and hiked over 100km and travelled about 3500km total in our RAV4. Many times we ventured off the main road and found beautiful photo opportunities. We only covered Southern Iceland for a couple of days and another few days in Northern Iceland and we left wanting to explore more of the South on the next trip and also to visit the West. Unfinished business in Iceland and I hope to be back next summer.

All of my images from this trip can be viewed here.

Covered 3 days of |FAT| this year, held again at Daniels Spectrum in Toronto. Besides the first day which definitely had the feel of past |FAT| shows with regards to the designs and runway performances, the last two days definitely had a less alternative feel about them. Although there were amazing designers showcasing their designs, it felt like a regular fashion show. My thoughts anyway. Maybe all the shit happened on the two days that I missed. All good though and I enjoyed shooting runway again since it has been a couple of years. Also great to see the regulars in the pit and good to meet a few new photogs.

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Wallace Playford, Elizabeth Elwood, With Love Lingerie, Starkers Corsetry, Lococina, House of Etiquette, Henry Navarro, Pinkiebel, Amplify Apparel, Wolf N Crane, Neoteny Apparel, House of Poplyn, Odrea, Nuvango, Du Laree by Andy Jones, Iskon Mode, Happy Andrada, Fiona X. Sun, Lushyne, Oscar Mendoza, Sarah Splinter, Ryan Alexander and Marie Copps.

Awesome day shooting birds of prey at Canadian Raptor Conservancy. This was my first time shooting them and for the first couple of birds I definitely juggled my camera settings as they took flight. Seeing these birds at such close range was just spectacular. Observing the details and watching their graceful flying was a wonderful experience hence spending over three hours in a muddy field and zero degrees celsius. It was absolutely worth it. These are some of my faves.

All of my images from this day can be viewed here.

Soundtrack for the day included David Bowie’s brilliant album Blackstar.

2015 was a great year.  Tons of great music, lots of travel, tons of golf, lots of scotch and a little bit of photography.  I definitely had a lot of things going on this year and unfortunately I didn’t shoot as often as I had wanted.  Besides several commercial product shots and a couple of concerts, I just didn’t have the time and/or the inspiration to shoot.  Hey, it happens.  But the beauty of photography is that you never really leave it or lose it. The passion, that is.  It comes and goes and sustaining it at a high level for a long period of time is not easy. I’m definitely excited for 2016 and thought I would get a head start by shooting at Edwards Gardens…again. This time I went with a fellow photographer friend, Ryan.  We had just bought some serious hiking jackets at MEC and we thought we would put them to the test. Here are a few from the day.

Here’s to 2016. Happy shooting.

Another great year in new music (I know…I say this every year) and once again Simone and I wanted to share our favourite albums. Selecting our top ten in 2015 was a bit harder so we decided to grow the list to our top 20.  Here they are…

1. Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell
2. Villagers Darling Arithmetic
3. Aero Flynn Aero Flynn
4. Tobias Jesso Jr. Goon
5. Seoul I Become A Shade
6. Jose Gonzalez Vestiges & Claws
7. Bob Moses Days Gone By
8. Tame Impala Currents
9. Lana Del Rey Honeymoon
10. Beirut No No No
11. Laura Marling Short Movie
12. The Amazing Picture You
13. Richard Hawley Hollow Meadows
14. Kurt Vile B’lieve I’m Goin Down
15. Maribou State Portraits
16. Twin Danger Twin Danger
17. Destroyer Poison Season
18. Etiquette Reminisce
19. Majical Cloudz Are You Alone?
20. Half Moon Run Sun Leads Me On