Sun sets on an inuksuk (plural inuksuit) (alternatively inukshuk in English or inukhuk in Inuinnaqtun) in St-Michel de Bellechasse, Qc, August 1th, 2010. Inuksuk is a stone landmark used as a milestone or directional marker by the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. They vary in shape and size, and perform a diverse array of tasks. It is a symbol with deep roots in the Inuit culture, a directional marker that signifies safety, hope and friendship.
J’ai fais une petite balade en canot pour cette photo, réalisé pour un billet sur Québec Urbain. Son histoire est fort intéressant!
After an assignment in Beauport yesterday that was ending around dinner time, just before the golden hour, I decided to head to Ile D’Orléans to beef up my stock images of this beautiful countryside, just East of Quebec City.
Crops grow in a field on Ile D’Orleans, near Quebec City July 22, 2010. The island is still an essentially rural place famous locally for its produce, especially strawberries, apples, potatoes and wineries.
Two cyclists pass by an old house on Ile D’Orleans, near Quebec City. The Island is a very popular destination for cyclists.
Chocolaterie de l’Ile D’Orleans is pictured in Sainte-Petronille, Ile d’Orleans
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.
The Financial District is a business district in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, sometime just refered to “Bay Street”, the main artery of the area. It is the centre of Toronto’s financial district and is often used by metonymy to refer to Canada’s financial industry just as Wall Street is used in the United States and The City in the United Kingdom.
On a recent trip to the city to add pictures to my archives, getting photos of that area was crucial. So you can find more stock photos of Toronto Financial District on my stock site.
A Bank of Montreal office is seen in Toronto financial district.
A woman talking on her cell phone walks by a Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce office in Toronto financial district.
National Bank Financial logo is seen in Toronto financial district
A man on a skateboard rides in front of a the Standard Life Centre in Toronto financial district.
A man talking on his cell phone walks by a CIBC logo in Toronto financial district
CIBC logo is seen on top of their headquarters in Toronto financial district
As I said before, everything looks good when silhouetted. I was passing by those two scenes while driving and I stopped, knowing they would probably sell as stock one day.
A building under construction is silhouetted against the sun in Quebec city, January 21, 2010.
High voltage electical transmission power lines are silhouetted against a sunset in Quebec city, January 21, 2010.