Je reviens tout juste d’Huntsville où j’ai couvert le sommet du G8 en tant que photographe hôte. En d’autres mots, j’étais un des photographes officiels engagés par le sommet pour leurs propres besoins.
Tous les matins je devais être soumis à une fouille très intensive et à plusieurs points de contrôle, pour ensuite passer la journée sur le site, dans la « bulle » des chefs d’état. Même en étant dans cette zone ultra-sécurisé, nous étions constamment entouré de snipers, policiers, militaires, bateaux (sur le lac), véhicules de l’armée, hélicoptères de combats, caméra de sécurité, brouilleurs d’onde cellulaires, détecteurs de mouvement, etc. C’était vraiment surréel. Imaginez les plus grandes mesure de sécurité que vous pouvez penser, et multipliez cela par 10. Même dans les films, ils ne s’approchent pas du tout de la réalité.
Voici quelque une des photos que j’ai réalisées.
I try not to post too much photos of my son. I guess I am afraid my personal attachment to the subject would derails my judgment on how good the photo is. But I keep coming back to this photo of my son I did last month while he was playing by the St. Lawrence river in front of my parents cottage. So I guess it’s a good photo that I should share.
Charles-Edward Vachon, two, walks on a shingle beach with a stick in his hand in St-Michel-De-Bellechasse, 45 minutes East of Quebec City.
Oh and by the way, I’ll eventually be able to post some baby photos like I did with Edward because my girlfriend is pregnant again.
La W-League est la deuxième ligue de soccer féminine en Amérique du Nord. Cette année, je serai le photographe officiel du club de Québec, l’Amiral SC, pour quelque partie. Voici quelques photos de leur premier match locaux perdu 1-0 contre les Comètes de Laval.
Beenox CEO Dominique Brown poses at the company headquarter in Quebec City May 26, 2010.
At the end of April, I attended the Photojournalism 2010 conference in Toronto. I decided to arrive 5 days earlier to shoot stock photos, as you probably noticed with the last few day posts.
Since I was paying hotel and restaurant, my time was precious. I could have paid the ferry to the islands and spend an evening getting the perfect sunset shot of Toronto skyline and the CN tower, the most known landmark of the city. But that would have been time not wisely spent, since it was a bit too obvious photo.
Microstock agencies are already filled with postcard shot of every landmark of the world, sold at a buck each. I can afford to spend to time shooting the Chateau Frontenac here in Quebec City, since it’s my hometown and I drive by often, but the time I would spend getting a good shoot of the CN tower was time I was not spending shooting something else in a city that I don’t visit often (enough). When you are a stock photographer, but not the microstock type, you have to readjust the way you are shooting and what you are shooting.
That said, I DID shoot the CN Tower here and there, but not in the obvious way. Here are three of them.
CN tower is seen behind the Canada Malting Co. grain processing tower in Toronto. The tower is part of the earlier industrial era of Toronto heritage, concentrated along the Toronto Harbour and lower Don River mouth
CN Tower is seen behind monument of the Irish Famine Memorial in Toronto.
The CN Tower is silhouetted against a bright sun in Toronto. The CN Tower, located in downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada, is a communications and observation tower standing 553.3 metres (1,815 ft) tall.
A homeless man sleeps on Queens avenue in downtown Toronto
