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Photographier pour du stock photo, c’est l’art de voir le potentiel de vente d’une scène ou d’un élément banal, et de savoir ensuite ajouter les bons mots clés (keywords).
J’ai récemment passé 5 jours dans la Capitale Nationale pour garnir ma banque d’image de photos d’Ottawa. Par hasard, je suis tombé sur des policiers se préparant à parader en l’honneur de leurs pairs mort en devoir. Il y avait des corps de polices de partout au pays. J’ai passé un bon deux heures à photographier les badges, les voitures, les motos, etc. De grandes photos qui seront dans mon portfolio? Non. Mais de l’argent dans mon portefeuille? Bien sûr. Déjà deux de vendu.
With all the scandals, accusations and what not, I was called to cover politics a lot in the last few days. Here are some of the stuff I did.
Quebec Solidaire co-leader Amir Khadir gestures as he speaks during a press conference at the National Assembly in Quebec City Thursday November 18, 2010.
FTQ president Michel Arsenault listens during a speech at the Steelworkers’ convention at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City November 19, 2010. November 19, 2010.
Chased by reporters, Jacques Duchesneau leaves a press conference without answering questions at the Tribune de la Presse in Quebec City Thursday November 18, 2010. Duchesneau was reacting to the accusation of shady financing during the 1998 Montreal mayorship campaign.
Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe talks at Steelworkers’ convention at the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City November 19, 2010. November 19, 2010.
I did the opposite. I was cubicled, but I broke free. I would be that guy if I had to go back.
To stand in the heart of Arvida, with its plume-spewing smokestacks looming nearby, it’s tough to feel you’re getting a glimpse into a modern-day Eden.
Yet this remote Quebec community was born as a model city and cutting-edge town, a Silicon Valley of its day. And now, local residents are dreaming big: They want Arvida, an industrial “utopia” carved out of the Saguenay plain, recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Full story on the Globe website
A Rio Tinto-Alcan bauxite warehouse is pictured in the Arvida district of Saguenay, 225km North East of Quebec City Wednesday November 10, 2010. Arvida was planned around the plant so people could walk to it.
The Rio Tinto-Alcan plant is pictured near a residential area in the Arvida district of Saguenay, 225km North East of Quebec City Wednesday November 10, 2010.
A soldier stands guard by a cenotaph during the Remembrance Day ceremony at CFB Valcartier, just North of Quebec City Thursday November 11, 2010. This year ceremony take place as Valcartier is sending troops for the new rotation in Afghanistan.