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Fashion photography course part 2

The shooting part of the fashion photography course is now over and I really wish it wasn't. I had an amazing time over the past few weeks with this course and if I could do this for another 6 months I would enjoy every minute of it. The people I met were very friendly and interesting to talk to, Vic Penner, the pro photographer teaching us, was incredibly helpful, interesting and generally a nice guy to hang out with. He really dug my shots and when a photographer, who has made a big name for himself in the industry, tells you that your shots are amazing and that you're gonna go somewhere with photography, there's no way you can't be overjoyed. After a week of praise I am more stoked than I have ever been on making a career with my camera. I have to give a huge thanks to all the models because they were amazing. They made the shots entirely and dealt with my complete lack of an idea of what to tell them to do. I am pretty happy with my shots, I'm excited to see what the north shore news thinks of them and what the fashion design company thinks of them. But for now I'd like to know what you think of them so if your reading this, throw in a comment below to let me know how you like my shots thanks!

Fashion photography course

The past week I have been doing a fashion photography course which I was selected to do by my high school photo teacher. The first day was very intimidating and helped me realize that I know absolutely nothing about fashion photography so that night I did some self portraits just to remind myself that I can do it. The next few days were awesome. The professional photographer, Victor John Penner who is a hugely successful photographer from North Vancouver gave me so incredibly flattering feedback and made me want to try harder than ever before to really go for it as a photographer. I met a bunch of awesome people at the course and I can't wait for the next class in two weeks which I guess is judgement day because we have to do a big fashion shoot with pro models to see who gets there work into the north shore news and who just gets some awesome teaching out of the class. Here are the shots that I got during the class and then the self portraits. They are more head shots and they were purely for practice, I have no aspirations or becoming a model and I will not start wearing a blazer and fedora around all the time. Don't worry.

some shots of one of the best days of the season

About a week ago there was a series of big storms which brought tons of new snow. It was almost as if the season had restarted just in time for it to end. Jordan, Harrison, Derek and I had one of the best days of the season. Here are the shots to prove it.

Busy Busy Busy

The past few weeks have been pretty stressful and busy, partly caused by my own ambitions but none-the-less I've had a lot on my hands. I've started the mountain biking season with some shoots with a good friend who goes by the name of Cam Hilts. He's put together a team of talented downhill mountain bike racers for the year in order to get their names out in the industry and really just do something productive. Luckily he has so far been taking me along with them in order for me to get my name out there as well. This could be amazing if it actually works out and so far it seems like it'll be absolutely wonderful.

People have been telling me not to dive into things and commit myself to jobs that might not pull through but I have decided to ignore them because in my opinion if you don't put yourself out there and take big risks then you'll never succeed. (I know it's pretty cliche but it's the truth). So at this point I haven't really lost much only gained from most of my risks so I'm just going to keep going and maybe someday it'll bite me in the ass but I would rather take those risks and have a good time than sit around at home doing nothing or go to school for something I will never actually enjoy. My friend Giuliano has repeated many many times before taking risks the frase "You only live once" so at this point I'm taking that, putting everything on the table and doing my best to spend the rest of my life doing what I love. I'm hoping that the past few weeks will bring something good, but either way I still proved to myself over the past few years that I can have a good work ethic and complete most of my personal goals.

That tells me that I am in the perfect place that I want to be right now. Still having fun with my friends while preparing myself for the future. That is the place that I want and should be right now.

And as always here is what has come out of the past few weeks of hard work. Enjoy and let me know what you think!

First biking shots of the season!

First bike shots of the season! Even though we've recently been getting some huge dumps of snow over the past week or so my mind is beginning to jump over to bike season. Cam Hilts, Cole Carter and I went out to do some shooting the other day. We were riding in the rain and the light was minimal so the shooting was tough. I'm a little critical of the shots so let me know what you think!