In Ohio for my story Ohio’s Shores and Islands: The curious balance between the family and the party destination, I stumbled into some cool animals. I am not a wildlife photographer, but I will not turn my back from an interesting photo.

Young deer
A young deer is pictured in Ohio' Sheldon Marsh State Nature Preserve Tuesday August 6, 2013.
Young deer
A young deer is pictured in Ohio' Sheldon Marsh State Nature Preserve Tuesday August 6, 2013.
Great Egret fishing
A Great Egret walks with a fish in its beak at the African Safari Wildlife Park in Port Clinton, Ohio, August 6, 2013.
water snake
A water snake lies by a rope on a dock at The Dock of the Bay Marina in Sandusky, Ohio, Tuesday August 6, 2013.
water snakes
Water snakes lies on a dock at The Dock of the Bay Marina in Sandusky, Ohio, Tuesday August 6, 2013.

Pour le magazine L’Actualité, je devais prendre des photos candides du chef du PLQ Philippe Couillard alors qu’il était interviewé par le journaliste. Si le temps le permettait, je devais aussi faire quelques portraits posés.

J’ai effectivement eu un peu de temps pour des portraits. Selon les donnés IPTC de ma caméra, j’ai eu six minutes.

Philippe Couillard

Philippe Couillard, chef du PLQ
Philippe Couillard, chef du PLQ

Marketing Magazine asked me to take a portrait of Jean Lafrenière, copywriter and art director at LG2, for their column about « what does a marketing guy do to unwind »

From the article:

Hanging around his home are some 60 vintage skate deck replicas, carefully cut and sanded down from blanks, then hand-painted and airbrushed with special techniques to mimic the silk-screened finish of the originals. Lafrenière uses old photos from his magazine collection to reproduce the artwork as closely as possible; he recreates the “period-correct” brand stickers in Photoshop and prints them on sticker-paper; and he’s even invented a method to custom-colour urethane wheels, which takes about an hour of boiling in dyes on his stove.

Here are some of his pieces.

Jean Lafreniere from LG2

Jean Lafreniere from LG2

Jean Lafreniere from LG2

And here is how it was played:


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