Now that I’ve finished with the nlphotographers.com refresh I’ve returned my attention to my personal site. It’s been slightly neglected since I switched to Wordpress; I’ve just been too busy with other projects to focus my attention to this site. There are some outstanding issues which need immediate attention. Most notably, something I don’t know what, happened which causes a lot of the pages on my site to revert back to their initial states. So if you’ve noticed a couple sections out of whack, (ie: the sportscards section talking about wedding books!) this is why.

The best thing to happen to every skater in Newfoundland since the invention of the wheeled plank is Turndown BMX shop and it’s indoor park. Robbie Yetman is the big wig there and he’s put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into keeping his little creation fresh and amazing. The challenge here, like any indoor park, is creating good photos but for good or bad, the place has a bit of character which makes for a good picture every now and again. :) Here’s but a small sampling of some of the stuff which has gone down in the past month/s at Turndown.

For the curious: all the flicks were shot with a Nikon D3 using either a nikon fisheye and the 70-200vr. Flashes were fired remotely via pocketwiz’z and the pops themselves were sb800’s.

I’ve had the pleasure of being involved with the Mt. Pearl Junior Blades Hockey Club this season. I’ve designed and currently maintain their website and also have been doing their pictures since about midway through last season. It’s a fantastic group of guys on this team and they’re great to watch.

This game in particular had a lot on the line. The Blades and Caps had met in the finals of last season’s city league championships with the Blades tying the game with less then a few seconds left and then winning it all in sudden death overtime. This season they played the opener with the Blades proving the better of the two clubs once again, despite having lost several key players in the off season. This was the last meeting of the year until this game where the Caps were first in the stands with the Blades in second, trailing by several points (but with games at hand). As you can tell by now, there was a lot on the line.

The Blades went down early in the first 3-0 and rallied back to win 5-3. You can read the full recap at the Blades website.

Winter weddings are always amazing days… when the weather cooperates. Luckily, on this day it did very much so. The sun wasn’t blistering and the temperature was hovering around the 2 degree mark. On top of that, I had a perfect couple and wonderful bridal party to work with.

We didn’t have the endless hours of sun that Summer provides, so we did our pictures before the ceremony at a couple locations including Quidi Vidi. All of the pictures turned our excellent, here’s a sampling of them!

Congrats to Robert and April!

This website looks horrid in Internet Explorer. Frankly, it just sucks in IE 0-8 and if you ARE using one of those and do not have a choice in the matter, I apologize in advance for things which look a little weird. It’s not my fault, it’s Microsoft’s. When I built this site, I built it viewing it in Safari and Firefox. I don’t use IE, ever and I never will. If you are using IE and have a choice, PLEASE PLEASE switch to Firefox. Not only for my sake, but yours as well. Internet Explorer is inherently vulnerable to security flaws and on top of that, as you’ll see on this site, it does not read HTML and more specifically, CSS properly. I’ve probably spent more time fixing how the site renders in IE then I have building the site initially.

Here’s an example of just how IE screws up the internet: http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/css/internet-explorer.shtml

From speadfirefox.com: With regards to security, Internet Explorer 7.x is has about 13 times more vulnerabilities and advisories than Firefox 3, according to security site Secunia.com:

• Vulnerability Report: Mozilla Firefox 3.x
• Vulnerability Report: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.x

Here is a list of “top reasons” to switch to Firefox, mentioned by various web sites:

1. Top 5 reasons pro Firefox, top 5 against IE
2. 10 reasons to switch to Firefox
3. LifeHacker’s top 10 reasons to switch to Firefox
4. Lots of reasons on this mozillaZine forum post.

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As you can see, it’s not just me making these claims. Personally, I use a Mac and even though Apple gives us a very powerful and fast browser of it’s own (Safari), the very first application I download on all of my computers is Firefox.

You can get Firefox here.

November was an interesting month. I spent a lot of time on a couple single shots, namely, one from Shea Heights which was half worrisome on the way back out and a couple others in Paradise. This November I also managed to get down to the end of the Remembrance Day services for the parade. On top of all of that I’ve been busy with a few side projects, getting content online here and shooting photos for the Mt. Pearl Blades. The weather wasn’t fantastic in November, but it could of been much worse.

I hooked up with my good friend, DJ Mike The Tailor. He and his fellow SPIN Niteclub cohorts were pounding out the beats all night long for the White Party. Always a bangin’ affair with great tricks and pretty chicks, Mr. Tailor asked me to get some snaps for him to use in promotion. Here’s a few from the shoot:

A good friend of mine, the very lovely and talented Josh Kelly rides as flow (kind of like semi-pro) for Quebec company, Ripper Skateboards. Recently you may of seen a pic I shot of him doing an uber sick backside 50-50 grind down the tetanus infested rail at the old Grace Hospital residence location. Ripper enjoyed the photo that much they said “sacré bleu, nous aimons cette photo!” (or something like that) and now it adorns their site in two spots:

On the front page above and in all it’s glory on the interior page:

By the way, notice how they’ve marked Newfoundland as NFL? Those crazy french, gotta love ‘em.

Over the past few years I’ve been back and forth to England and whilst there, traveled around to a few spots including Donegal (Ireland) and Edinburgh (Scottland).

I love Manchester. I don’t know why, but it always just seemed right for me and my photography. During my visits I learned a lot about photography and got over the fear of asking peoples permission to shoot street photos of them. Unfortunately for me, it wasn’t until my last visit there that I really broke out of my shell and began shooting some great photos. Despite that, the initial trips which occurred during my earlier days of photography were not a complete loss. Below you’ll find a slide show of mostly all of my photos from across the pond. There are still more to come as I go back through my archives for older photos which for whatever reason, I just didn’t choose to process at the time.

I’ve been working on a few projects the past couple months, one of them being this website and another involving something which won’t be seen for a while. Reluctantly because of that photography has been kept to a minimal. So to start my ongoing blog series of monthly top 10 pictures, I’ve combined September and October.