2008 Online Art Show - Street Smart Kidz

The Street Smart Kidz program provides free information for parents to help keep their children safe. It was my pleasure to enter their 2008 online Art Show and I was pleasantly surprised to be awarded a third place. See more about this program and the results here.

Update - Photo Essays

A comprehensive update to my photo essays. A collection of stories from around the world this past year. The essays include photographs from:

• Carnival in Copenhagen
• Lobster fishing in Prince Edward Island
• Irish moss harvesting in PEI
• Carnival de Binche in Belgium
• Tuna fishing off the coast of Prince Edward Island
• A jousting tournament in Utrecht, the Netherlands

See them here

Editora Globo

A portrait that I created of Mr. Geert Lovink here in Amsterdam for the Brazilian magazine Editora Globo. We live in an interconnected world when a Canadian photographer can take a picture of a Dutch professor and it is published in Brazil. Now if only I could read the text I could tell you what it is about. Remember though, apparently a picture is worth a thousand words. See it here.

Photography - Carnival in Copenhagen

Every year the streets of Copenhagen hop to the sound of Samba and Salsa. The annual carnival is held every spring, welcoming the warm weather and sunshine to this often cloudy nation. Luckily for the parade participants and luckier for the viewers, the +20 degree weather this year meant that the festival happened with full regalia (and minimal clothing). Watch the sights and sounds of the Copenhagen carnival.

The smell of salt

Traveling allows one to witness and capture many different sights and sounds. Perhaps none is more enjoyable then the smell of salt air and the sound of the waves crashing on a sandy beach.

A life working the water is something to be envied, the calm, the storms, the fresh air, the sunsets and sunrises, and the wonderful ability to put some food on the table. I am a horrible fisherman, can't catch anything. However, that gives me the liberty to photograph them instead. Here is a small collection of some fisherman from around the world.

Vienna Orchestra

No images on this post, simply because the following experience was a moment to savour, and stare in awe at the ostentatious grandeur of the Vienna Mozart Orchestra.

Having met another Canadian here in Vienna (Anne-Marie) who had the excellent idea to check out the Mozart Orchestra we (Fraser, current traveling partner) readily agreed.
Hoping to get standing room tickets, Anne-Marie went early. Much to our disappointment, no standing room was allowed. So the cheapest option was apparently 15 Euros. Of course it turns out that they cost 19 Euros. Yet for some inexplicable reason the cashier took pity on Anne-Marie and sold her 39 Euro tickets for 19. Feeling that we had done well, we went out for a quick bite at a typically Viennese high class establishment, the trusted Gyros stand. Somehow in the midst of our excitement of buying a mouth watering, over cooked chicken pita, I lost my ticket. Feeling like an idiot, we returned to the Opera house and explained the story. Instead of being told to buy another ticket, the same cashier upgraded all three of us two more sections to front row seats. There is nothing like seeing the blood coursing through a violinists hand as the Chef Orchestra winks at his French horn player. All surrounded by buxom golden statues and frescoed ceilings as the beauty of Mozart and Strauss drifted to our ears. Wow.