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I Heart NYC New York is probably the most photographed city in the world. Thankfully, I was only there on holiday with my family, so I felt no pressure to come away with the iconic image that sums up everything about the city that never sleeps. When not snapping the family in front of ‘insert [...]
Hanging with the Hip When Giller Prize winning author Joseph Boyden said he was heading up to James Bay to write a story for Maclean’s Magazine, I was anxious to join him and photograph that part of the country. When he said The Tragically Hip were coming along too, I had visions of the legendary [...]
A Tale of Two Pigs (or three, actually) What I love about my job is the variety of people, and sometimes animals, I get to meet and photograph. For Rebecca Eckler’s story on domesticated pigs, I photographed two families with two different circumstances. Jill Chen and her family have ‘Henry’, a micro-mini pig who, along [...]
Charlie Tolson I come from a family of keen amateur photographers. At any Tolson gathering, the camera was always present, someone capturing moments or at least threatening to. Then as a kid, I spent a lot of time perusing our stacks of photo albums and wondering about the lives of my immediate family and ancestors. [...]
Christmas Morning The big guy in the red suit arrived again last night. I was awoken to the sound of hooves tapping against our roof and rushed to the window to glimpse a sleigh silhouetted against the moon, looking like the kind of toy he’d leave under the tree. Leftover snickerdoodle crumbs, reindeer teethmarks on [...]
Well, Santa, since you asked….. Of course I believe in you. After all, you told me I needed a new camera, one that I could carry with me everywhere, one that wasn’t a bulky DSLR. You said I needed a camera that didn’t have a ringtone and wouldn’t distract me with chirping email. And kinda [...]
For Camera Geeks The Christmas tree went up this weekend and being a photo geek, I was happy to dig out this nifty little ornament. My wife can’t remember where she got it from. Good thing, probably, because I’d add a dozen more to the tree.
How Much is That Dog in the Window? Since we got rid of our car and are walking most places, I’ve been seeing the city at a considerably slower pace. Street photography has always been a passion of mine and our carless state gives me a chance to take better advantage of the visual content [...]
The Search for the Great Movie Pancake Around our house on a Saturday morning, we strive to produce what we call ‘movie pancakes’. (I can’t actually recall any movie where a beautifully grilled pancake has played a significant role, but you get the idea.) We use a classic recipe which gives you just enough body [...]
Flight Attendants Sometimes the best photos come when you’re in a hurry to get to an assignment. Still, as I was running through the Delta Chelsea Hotel, I had to stop and snap one frame of these stylish stewardesses from Japan Airlines….. [...]
