Update on Life

Wow time flies.  I have been busy with life....this school year has been busy.  Lots of challenges and opportunities for photography.  Balancing teaching and photography can be tricky.  I have to thank all of the patient people that wait for me to get their images out to them.  A lot of people are so understanding and for that I give thanks.

Recently I had a chance to shoot with a model from Vegreville.  Her name is Nicole and I met here during the end of summer at a Drag Race here in Vegreville.  She was racing with her boyfriend Lee Hern.  They are an adorable couple and at some point I hope to do some couple photos of them with their wheels.  They live and breath racing and cars it seems.  It is nice to have a local model like Nicole to collaborate with.

I am really looking forward to holidays.  We have our trees set upstairs and downstairs now.  I put the lights up on the house so Christmas mode is in full effect now.  I am looking forward to going Cross Country Skiing with Jenn.  I went last year for the first time and really enjoyed it.  I am still a big noob....but I am enjoying it.

Well, not much to babble about in this blog post, but I wanted to do an update.  Ohhh and I also should end with a Movember update.  I BEAT my goal of $500 and thanks to everyone that supported me.  I am so pleased with the support I received from you all.  My total for 2011 is $615!!!! :)  THANKS to Tara Ruptash for helping me with my Movember photo shoot wrap up by taking some pictures of me.

Here are some photos from my recent work:

Tied Together

http://www.photosensitive.com/blog/tied-together-launches-in-halifax-ns/573

Last year around this time I decided to enter in to Movember and grow a mustache to help bring awareness to Prostate Cancer.  With the help of Facebook and the www.movember.com website I was able to raise money for Prostate Canada.  My Dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer and thankfully for medical research and treatment he is going to be okay.  I was contacted by a member of the photosensitive website when she saw my self portraits taken for Movember on flicker.  I then took a photograph of my Dad and I and submitted that to Photosensitive.  They then put together a massive collection of black and white images of Canadians and their stories related to prostate cancer and this show is now touring across Canada.

I am especially honored that Jack Layton's picture is included in this exhibition of work.  He was such a GREAT man and it is just a huge honor to have my Dad's picture up with his.  I am so thankful for the people at Photosensitive for the work they do.  The world is a better place for having such wonderful and caring people in it.  My heart goes out to all of the families impacted by cancer and I truly hope together we can work together to lessen the sadness cancer brings and hopefully end it.