Future Shop

Future Shop no more.

Ste-Catherine street, Montreal

While having my first cup of coffee Saturday morning, there was a rumor circulating about Future Shop closing all their stores in Canada. I live in the country and the nearest Future Shop is an hours drive, but i do have photos in my stock collection of the sign outside Future Shop's store in Ste-Catherine street in downtown Montreal. By the time it took me to put together the short article and attach my photo, although still nothing confirmed from Future Shop, on the web there where photos of signs on front doors of closed stores indicating they would be re-opening on April 4th as Best Buy.

There an old saying" Today's front page is tomorrows fish & chip wrapper". Today in the time it took me to finish my cup of coffee a new item went from "rumored" to posted images of the closed stores across the country.  The speed of internet does spread news items like wildfire, forget about tomorrow.

How to sell stock photos

I am often asked by aspiring photographers how to go about selling their images as stock? There is a great book available and how to shoot and sell stock by Michal Heron, well worth a read and packed with good info.
 This book equips you with all you need to know to create digital stock photos that sell in today’s marketplace. From organizing a shoot to raking in the profits as the pictures sell and sell and sell again, all the steps are here: Capturing digital images, working with scans, digital delivery of images, evaluating equipment, organizing digital files, building an archive, and more. Thirty assignments, designed to reflect the latest trends in photography, provide readers with a blueprint for building a stock collection. Special sections explain how to market, negotiate and quote prices, and manage a business, plus obtaining model releases and protecting copyright.

Beaver lodge

Wetlands may seem dormant in the winter, but under the snow and ice beavers are present.

Beaver lodge

Beavers used sticks to build their lodge and mud for insulation and waterproofing.   Beavers don't hibernate, but are less active in the winter, lowering their metabolism by spending most of their time resting in their lodge.  They do prepare a cache of sticks to eat all winter.

Small scale livestock farming

A shot done last summer of my models waiting for their photo shoot.

Measels outbreak hits Joliette

One of my photos from the Canadian Press is picked up for an article in Maclean's.  

The Joliette Centre local de services communautaires where the Direction de santé publique invites the population to go to get tested for measles, on February 22, 2015. A 19th case of measles has been detected in the Lanaudière region. (Richard Prudhomme/CP)

Measles outbreak hits Lanaudiere

On my way to Joliette to shoot some photos about the measles  outbreak in the region, now with 119 confirmed cases.

Link to article

Rawdon St-Patrick's parade

Rawdon's St-Patrick's parade will be held on Sunday the 15th of March at 2pm on Queen street.  Wear some green and bring your camera for some great photo opportunities.