Wednesday evening, I drove 200km to get to Jonquière, now known as Saguenay, to cover the Bouchard-Taylor commission (not from Quebec? Explanation here).
So for 3 hours, you have a president of commission listening to a bunch of people taking the mic to speak their mind.
What do you do?
First, you go for the obvious. You get the president as he speaks; you take people in the crowd who are not just reading a paper to explain their point.
And after a while, you try to go for the less obvious. You see shadows, and you go really artsy fartsy. You go for the detail. Anything to get something different.
I made it. If you google photojournalist Quebec city or Editorial photographer Quebec City, I’m right there in the first 3 spots. Today, one of my two jobs was for a magazine in Toronto that needed someone to get a portrait of a restaurant owner. I did not asked, but I’m pretty sure that they found me thru Google.
So 2 jobs today and a job for the Gazette last Thursday, just before leaving for the 3 days equestrian event in Bromont. That adds to 2 requests I got today to cover upcoming events (one thru Google) in the area and 2 stock photo requests. Yep, things are rolling pretty well!
I spent the week-end in Bromont with Proaction-Photo to photograph the 2007 Quebec equestrian game. Got some neat shot, including a pretty bad fall.
New client: Infoman TV show on Radio-Canada (French Version of CBC) with their « photoshop this photo » game. God bless a good archiving system for selling stock images!
It was supposed to be a quiet weekend in Washington (…). I had just put on my mountain biking shoes, ready to clip into the pedals for a ride around the forest near Andrews Air Force base outside Washington, when I got THE CALL. It was a White House staffer, asking that we meet in three hours at a secret location known only to Reuters correspondent Matt Spetalnick and I, where we were to be told details of a special secret visit by U.S. President Bush to Iraq.