photojunkie

So earlier this afternoon, I was taped outside the CBC building here in Toronto, shooting the CN Tower. Afterwards they taped me posting the picture to my blog on a laptop. The segment is going to be used during the show Test The Nation, which will be airing live on the CBC on January 20th. The show puts various teams against each other at an ultimate trivia game, this episode’s theme being 21st Century.

I’m going to be participating on the show, as a part of the blogger team, which will consist of bloggers from across the nation. It should be an interesting show, hopefully, I’ll remember my history from the past seven years, which is basically how long I have been blogging for. My saving grace is that it’s multiple choice. Let’s hope that recognition kicks in.

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This will probably be the last of the autumn imagery for this year. I shot this shortly after getting the lensbaby 2.0 last year. It’s been on flickr, but strangely, never got posted here.

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This post has changed three times. Then I finally settled on this seasonal shot which I took last year. It was shot using the lensbaby 2.0 and very little compression.

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A year ago, today I was in the Elora Gorge taking shots of the fall colours. It was a nice getaway from Toronto. I can’t believe it’s been a year already though. This shot was taken with the lensbaby 2.0 looking down into the gorge. We eventually made it to the other side and down the stairs. You can see more from that day over here.

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I thought I would post this shot I took last fall with the lensbaby 2.0. In celebration for the recently announced Lensbaby 3G. You’ll notice that there really isn’t much distortion in this image, which just goes to show that sometimes you don’t need to get too crazy with the lensbaby. Sometimes it’s just a useful lens to get closer to subjects if you don’t have a typical macro.

A great tip on to get closer to objects while using a lens baby is to actually pull the lens away from the camera body, allowing you to get a longer focal length, giving you a closer composition of the subject.

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Sometimes you just need to give yourself a good look in the mirror to gain perspective again.

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Here’s a shot of Graig from awhile back, when he still had a beard.

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Shot of Natalie that I shot back in February for the Blue Wall Series.

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All the Brands, Selection and Value you want.

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Something bright and colourful from September last year.

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A shot of ica back in February. She just posted a shot of me taken last Friday night.

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Some blue skies and an angel from Louisville Kentucky. This was from a roadtrip I did in 2003.

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I can’t say I am a deeply religious person, although I was born and raised a Roman Catholic. Although, I must say that I am a spiritual person. Happy Easter to anyone who celebrates it.

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I wanted to post something with a shot of colour, so I decided to put up this shot of Renee and Keith of Easily Amused. They are coming back to Toronto in a couple of weeks. May 29th at the Drake Underground. You can check them out after my exhibit opening.

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All I see are squares and spects of dust. I need to search outside of the box.

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I’ll be digging into the archives of unposted images for the next little while. This is a shot of Jay in our padded elevator.

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Taking in whatever blue skies I can get. I’m sure there will be many more in the coming weeks.

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Two years ago on our road trip to Austin we stayed with our friend Cisley and her household of animals. I think there were at least 3 cats and two dogs. Who know what else. Strangely enough, Almost every blogger or friend we stayed with had at least one cat, except in Chicago, New Orleans and Memphis were we had alternate alternate accomodations. It wouldn’t be so bad except for the fact that I am allergic to cats.

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This was taken last week on Bay Street, just south of Bloor. Handheld, manual focusing and from the hip. Since I was using a borrowed 17-40mm L lens, I knew I would get a large portion of the scene. I definitely need to get one of these lens for myself, but first I got to get my camera fixed. Looks like I will be playing with film for the next couple of weeks, that’s considering I’ll have time to go out and shoot.

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A shot of Matt off the balcony of his hotel room at the Delta Chelsea in downtown Toronto.

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Had the pleasure of hanging with Matt Mullenweg before driving him off to the airport. Hopefully he’ll be back in Toronto in May for Mesh.

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Picturing the Gap at the corner of Bay and Bloor.

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With the spring weather kicking in, I actually got some street photography in on Wednesday evening, after shooting a paid assignment downtown. It will be nice to be able to hit the pavement again on a more regular basis.

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Found this along Charles Street on Wednesday evening. Apparently it’s a part of some student election campaign at one of the colleges at the University of Toronto.

What Urges? I’m not quite sure. What are yours?

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Taken yesterday morning, after the Miller shoot. Just before getting my coffee fix for the morning. I used a borrowed 17-40mm L lens for this shot.

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This shot was taken in February at Sherbourne Station. Today, I took transit to work, so I thought I would post a transit shot.

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This is the Clarke Memorial Bridge which spans the Ohio River between Indiana and Kentucky. This was taken in March of 2004, the water was a little high from the melting of the winter frost.

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