For the past month I’ve been hella busy finishing up my Portfolio book for school, getting ready to go to Vancouver, catching up on work photos, and other projects… BUT it was well worth it! Every artist out there knows that it dosen’t matter if you have a stacked up resume or references; in our industries everyone only cares about your BOOK. In my book I wanted to focus on editorial/lifestyle portraits, comercial product/architecture, food stills, and a bit of fashion. With all these shots I tried to keep a constancy of light use (modifiers, amount of lights, etc) and feeling/mood. Find what you love to shoot, find how you like to shoot, and find your own unique style… this is all present in each of our books.

In the NAIT Photographic Technology Program we as students have to find our own work experience which is limitless depending on our own motivation and determination on find the right photographer. After a good amount of research, emails, and stressing finding the right one for me; I have found David Ellingsen who is stationed in Vancouver. I’m stoked to be following David because he is an astonishing Commercial & Fine Art photographer who had interest in my short internship from my first email I sent him a few days ago. He has many accolades in the industry for both fields and along side that his Fine Art projects are showcased around the world. For the dates of April 4th to 15th I will be honoured to follow such a great photographer… I will absorb every single knowledge he is willing to share with me. Vancouver here I come!

Check out his Website HERE and his Blog HERE.

Here are some examples of his work:

Tomorrow night will be THEE night at The Common because it will be a battle between the Foosh staff and the Haven staff… through MUSIC! This night is going to be an iPod battle which each staff member will load up their iPods and pick several songs for each round. Each round will be determined by crowd response during and after the rounds SOOO come out, drink, dance, and cheer on your favourite shop!

Breakbot - Shades Of Black

Cosmic Kids - Reginald’s Groove (Classixx Remix)

Siriusmo - Einmal In Der Woche Schreien

Second City Rhythm - You Got Me

Teen Daze - Togeather

Usually my fridays consists of going to Fine Art Photography Class, nom’n on food, take out gear for the weekend, head straight to work, work till 9ish, and then head out to party… this past weekend was no different. This time around after work I headed to the UofA climbing wall for the Tour De Bloc finals. The moves that both men & women were doing were stunning! The amount of skill/power they need to do each movement to finish the route was jaw dropping. The biggest hype moment was on the mens route 4 when Miles who is only 17!?! crushed it with a huge dyno to the finish which stumped most competitors. Just thinking about it makes me want to go climb… haha

The LONG awaited second album from Lykke Li will be offically releasing next week, BUT Lykke Li allowed Hype Machine to do a full album stream to allow people get a taste. The album has 10 tracks of the swedish singers melancholy voice on interesting beats that is 100% her. Take a listen and fall in love with her voice… be sure to get your copy next week!



**BONUS** Here is my favourite remix thus far for Lykke Li - I Follow Rivers by The Magician

In the past year there has been a booming movement of small little 30 person seating restaurants in the city which I’m happy to see being a foodie and really seeing how Edmonton is growing culturally. One of these restaurants is Niche (11011 Jasper Avenue). My friend, John Ahn, is one of the owners of this establishment and he allowed me to take a portrait of him before opening. We started to talk about how this city is eventually going to be a food city that will draw more people to this city and how people here have to stop complaining about the city while not doing anything about it. This is one thing that John wanted to do for the city for the better of for the city… thus far its working with the restaurants unique setting, small intimate service, and great dishes from Nathan Saurette whom is the chef.



When I ate there a few days later after the photoshoot, I was truly impressed. I had the confieed duck that fell off the bone, Kevin had the beef cheeks in a bed of pasta, Salim had a sirloin wrapped in pastry, and Suki had the salmon with boc choy. We all shared a bite with each other and we all enjoy it throughly! Do check it out for yourself and enjoy the experience!

I LOVE to shoot people that have some sort of background story, strong personality, and an attitude to them that comes out in the photograph… and an awesome dog like Kane! Sarah is all this and more! On this last minute shoot we did it at her hair salon , Fluid Hair on 9916 81 Ave, we did six variation of photographs that showcased her. I wanted to capture different aspects of Sarah from her tattoos, what she does on the daily, and what she loves (her bike & Kane). Fluid Hair Salon has many sections that allowed me to have several backdrops and props… such a wicked space. Doing these kind of shoots remind why I love photography and the interaction with people that I’m shooting. Till next time…