We were the official photographer for the 2012 MASY Synchro Challenge held in Calgary this past weekend! This event brought together over 20 swim clubs from across 5 provinces and 1 territory to Calgary to compete in their final competition of the season. Congratulations to all the swimmers who participated!
Keep an eye on this space as we will be processing and uploading all the photos we took at the meet over the next week or two. I will update this post with more detailed links as the photos become available for your viewing and ordering.
Here is a direct link to our MASY photo gallery / online store in the meantime.
Here are links to each of the categories that have been made available so far:
Thanks to everyone who stopped by our table – your photos will be sent out within the next couple of weeks and if you supplied an email address on the order form, you will get a shipping notification and a tracking number when they are sent.
If you have any questions in the meantime, feel free to send us an email – info at blargmedia dot ca.
Cheers!
I've been offline for a few days and while skimming through my stream, I saw that the Plus One Collection Limited Edition print book has been released!
This edition of the book is only available for purchase on the website until February 20th, 2012 and this will be the only print run of the limited edition (the regular edition will be made available after this one ends). All proceeds go to the non-profit organization Kiva.
Congrats to everyone who is in the print edition – some amazing names in that list! Unfortunately, while I didn't make the cut for the print book, my photo still appears in the e-book. I can't say I'm terribly surprised, given the calibre of photographers on G+, but it was a fun experience being included in this effort!
Kudos to Ivan Makarov, the brains behind the entire operation, and everyone who helped him put this together! What a great way for the Google Plus photography community to come together and help Kiva!
One of the things I decided to do this year is to step back into the archives to review, cleanup, and reorganize my photo libraries. In addition to that, I'm going to start collecting and putting together a better set of photos that I can call a portfolio and eventually add to a print run or several. To that end, over the next little while, I'm going to try posting these on a semi-regular basis here on the blog. I'm going to do away with the "Friday's Photo" category and just try to post whenever I can – at least once a week, but possibly more.
For this first post, we go back a couple of years ago, when I went on one of my first photo walks during a warm day in the middle of winter. At that point, I was just getting started in photography armed with a Canon Rebel XTi (aka 400D) and its kit lenses. I probably took several dozen shots that day, but I decided to only pick out a few of my better ones.
One of These Things is Not Like the Others
Forgotten Toque
Pine Cones
Frozen Leaf
Now that the holidays have passed, it's time to look ahead to 2012 and see what's in store for us around here! I'm not going to go into any new years resolutions or anything like that, but if you must know, 1920×1200. *ba-dum-tsshhh* *tumbleweeds*
One of the things I've decided to join this year is the 2012 Project 52 happening over on Google+. This is a group of 450+ photographers of all levels from around the world committing to taking and posting at least one photo a week based on a weekly theme. It sounded like a fun challenge, and certainly a lot more doable than a 366 Project, so I thought I would give it a try. It also gives me a good excuse to get out and shoot a lot more. In addition to this, I'll be continuing with our weekly post from our own archives, so hopefully I'll be able to effectively pull off a Project 104. *fingers crossed*
So to kick of 2012, here's my first shot for the Google+ Project 52. The first theme last week was "New Years Eve/Day". I made a post-new-years dinner yesterday which was a bacon-wrapped roast turkey (along with a bunch of sides, but the turkey was the star). It actually turned out really well and was a great hit with the family!
Turbacon IMG_3995
Turbacon IMG_4011
Happy New Year!
Since today is the last Friday of 2011, for this week's photos, I thought I would jump on the trend I've noticed over on Google+ where many photographers have been going back into their 2011 archives and picking out their best photos from this past year. (Check out the hashtags #TopPhotos2011 and #bestphotos2011 to see some great examples)
Now, I've limited the choices to my non-sports photos to keep the selection small and relatively manageable (I might review my sports photos in a future post). Even then, it was still tough to trim it down to only 11. Anyway, in no particular order, here are my favourite photos from 2011.. Enjoy!
(1) We begin with this view of the Rocky Mountains silhouetted against a sunset, which kicked off my efforts to do a weekly photo blog post.
Mountain Sunset IMG_5297
(2) Next is this shot of my two-year-old chasing after a soccer ball on the field where my son was getting ready for a game:
First to the Ball IMG_0864
(3) This one is from a sunrise during a chinook in Calgary where we often get some great photogenic clouds:
Cotton Candy Sky IMG_9265
(4) I was playing around with depth of field when I took this shot on a well-maintained outdoor soccer pitch:
Boundary IMG_4342
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