Fast as fast can be....

I was invited by my friend Reneau to shoot the boat races at the Beauharnois regatta a few weeks ago. We had a great weekend, nice sun shine, just a spot of rain on Sunday.

Reneau had the chance to try out his shiny new Nikon D700 and I went along with my Canon 7D. Both equipped with 70-200 lenses, our VIP and pit access passes in hand, it was a fun shooting day.

I'm not a fan of boats or boat races, but I must say that these things go freakin fast. To gain access to the pit, you had to sign a waiver. See, they would lift the boats in and out of the water by crane. When you are in the pit, you have boats going over your head, people going all over the place. It was organized chaos.

Here are a mix of images, from boats, people, cranes, pilots,... Click my flickr on the right hand side to check out more of the set.

Hook 'em up!






Swinging around, ready to go!












This guy's back end wasn't fixed on properly when he left the dock..

More Retro Spex

Looks like Montreal's coolest rock cover band has a new lineup. And with a new lineup comes....NEW PICTURES!

This new lineup is actually near and dear to my heart as my wife Andrea is their new female vocalist. So now I can do event shots, music shots and shots of my love all in one night. Not a bad gig, eh?

Here are a few from last night's show. If you have read my blog before, you know the drill. Below, some of my fave shots from the night. Click on an image to go to my flickr with more shots (30 ish).

Retro Spex - live at Double Deuce

The great about having friends who are musicians is that you get to go shoot live events often. And lucky for me, I love music and I love shooting live events :)

John invited me to his new band's show at the Double Deuce in La Prairie. The band is great, they play covers of the 60s - 90s rock. Fun tunes, make you want to get up and dance! They are very new, this is only their second show, so I'm looking forward to many more shoots with them in the near future.

More images up on my flickr, just click an image to go to my flickr

Random urban, cars and other things

A little mix bag of images for today. There is a post a bit lower down with a battle of the bands shooting in Sainte-Catherine. Well, before the bands played, I wandered around and took some shots. Here are a couple.

The next few are some panning shots along Pine avenue in Montreal, right near Mont-Royal

And lastly, Reneau and I went into the Percival Molson Stadium, where our Montreal Alouettes football team play, and walked around and took some shots.

Val and Ari's wedding - July 31st 2010

Val and Ari are friends of mine who got married on July 31st and asked me to be their wedding photographer. It was a great wedding, held in a small venue in the country about an hour outside of Montreal. Very cute and rustic looking place, which was great for the photos.

We battled through massivetraffic getting there, and while things ran a little bit late, the wedding was really fun. They are both very photogenic people, which makes the images all that much better. They are also very fun people who enjoy life and didn't want anything too dramatic or artsy in their images, which is the type of photography I love doing, but yet provides a challenge as you don't want your images to look too much like snapshots.

So I kept with my ever developing photo-journalistic style and tried capturing their story as it happened. I find it is a good idea to have a second photographer there, as it allows for a bigger variety of images and coverage, so I asked my friend Didier to come along with me on the shoot. All in all, we ended up with about 400 great shots.

Here are a few that I love. At the time of writing this, I have 30 up on my FLICKR. I'll probably be adding more to the set when I go through the images again with a rested eye.

Thanks for letting me capture your day guys, it was a great one!