PQ leader Pauline Marois gestures as she talk to a reporter during a site down interview at her office in the National Assembly in Quebec City Tuesday April 12, 2011.
PQ leader Pauline Marois looks pensive as she talk to a reporter.
PQ leader Pauline Marois poses at her office in the National Assembly
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Members of the Veterans Canada Military Group chat while they wait on a Quebec city overpass for the hears carrying the body of Corporal Yannick Scherrer Friday April 8, 2011. Inspired by the tradition of the Ontario Highway of Heros, it was the first organized public support for families of killed soldier in Quebec.
Quebec city firefighters drape their firetruck with Canadian flags as a native Member of the Veterans Canada Military Group looks on, while they wait for the motorcade carrying the body of Corporal Yannick Scherrer on a Quebec city overpass Friday April 8, 2011.
Members of the Veterans Canada Military Group salute the motorcade carrying the body of Corporal Yannick Scherrer on a Quebec city overpass Friday April 8, 2011.
The tiny, picturesque village of St-Antoine-de-Tilly has a secret.
In a nondescript warehouse on the outskirts of town, some 40 kilometres southwest of Quebec City, there is a stash of maple syrup.
A 6.3-million-kilogram stash of maple syrup, to be exact.
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Together, these stockpiles are officially called the International Strategic Reserve, which works like a Fort Knox for Canada’s most-cherished breakfast condiment – a massive arsenal of sweet, liquid gold ready to be deployed to feed a rise in global demand while maintaining price stability.
Full text on the Globe ad Mail
Drums of Maple syrup are stacked in the International Strategic Reserve in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, 40km South-West of Quebec City Wednesday March 30, 2011. Asian market is going to buy Maple Syrup at a premium and Canada is ready to cash in. Photo Francis Vachon for the Globe and Mail.
Danny Ayotte fills drums with Maple syrup, prepping it for pasteurization at the International Strategic Reserve in Saint-Antoine-de-Tilly, 40km South-West of Quebec City Wednesday March 30, 2011. Photo Francis Vachon for the Globe and Mail.
Pascal Paradis, head of Lawyers Without Borders Canada, poses in is office in Quebec City February 23, 2011. Paradis and his organization are fighting over the name of his organization with a US group that has the same name. Full story on the Globe and Mail site.
I wanted to go out of my comfort zone for this portrait. I realized that I used a little but too often my umbrellas to soften the light. So hard light it would be for this one.
I used a gridded flash aimed at the world map to create the vignette around it. I then gridded a second flash toward the subject face, creating a dramatic light that went well with the story.
Pour la troisième fois je me suis rendu au bureau du ministre de la santé pour faire un portrait. Et pour la deuxième fois c’était pour l’actuel ministre Bolduc. Dans une toute petite pièce, il faut donc trouver quelque chose de nouveau à faire.
Il est toujours rassurant lorsque le sujet se souvient de toi et dit avoir beaucoup apprécié la séance précédente, cela met la personne immédiatement en confiance. J’ai donc débuté en prenant des photos candides du ministre alors qu’il répondait aux questions des journalistes, puis nous y sommes allé d’une de quelques portraits dirigés. L’interview s’étant prolongé et le ministre devant quitter pour un meeting, le portrait s’est fait en environs 2 minutes.
On my way to a job in Thetford Mines recently, I could not resist stoping here and there to beef up my asbestos mining stock photo collection. Here is some LAB installation in the district of Black Lake.
