Model: Cara

Model: Michèle Elise Nadeau
MUA: Elizabeth Bernardin
Hair: Christina Demeter
Jewels: Michelle Menard
Assist: Scott Menard

Copyright 2012 r edwards photography

250 guests in attendance for a fundraiser for the Centre for Family Literacy including Jim Cuddy of Blue Rodeo fame front and centre.

One Poem, the title of which is “Words”.

One amazing, breath-taking and stirring performance.

Numerous teary-eyed listeners in the audience.

One raucous standing ovation.

There is only one Mary Pinkoski.

More from the iPhone now.  Processed mainly in SnapSeed for the Mac before sending it off to Photoshop for some distressing and resizing.

I was a bit surprised today to learn that one of my photos garnered a two-page photo spread in this month’s Avenue magazine.  I knew that there was going to be a small photo on the “What’s On” page, but I had no idea that the Breath in Poetry Collective had a story in this month’s edition and they were going to use a couple of my photos to accompany the article.  Way cool!

If you’re interested in reading the article check it out here: http://avenueedmonton.com/articles/breath-in-poetry-pits-verse-against-verse

Jay Maisel says to always bring your camera, ‘cause it’s tough to take a picture without it.

Yes!  There it is.  Decades of photography experience – distilled.  Bring your camera with you so that when you encounter something that takes you,  you are able to take the picture.  It really couldn’t be simpler could it?

In this age we have capable cameras at our sides at all times.  For most of us it is our iPhones.  It’s surprising at how accepted and legitimate iPhone work has become of late.  Most photographers I know are experimenting with iPhone-ography.   There are several photography shows dedicated to the art of the iPhone, a simple cell phone camera.  The idea of capturing an image, processing it on the phone and then presenting it on the web, all from one little device is revolutionary.

This week’s image captured my attention long before I captured it right back.  At 9:00a, after dropping my daughter off at class I drove under this familiar bridge and saw the fog and the light rising above the ridge and shining under the bridge.

Now think about this.  My iPhone-ography workflow is to first take the photo with the iPhone.  The iPhone automatically uploads the image to the cloud.  By the time I get back home and crank up my laptop, the cloud has deposited a copy of the image in my Photostream.  I pick it up from there and edit it with Snapseed.  A second edit with Photoshop to resize it for the web and up it goes to the blog.  Wow.  Welcome to the digital era.

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This marks the beginning of a foray into more of a “film noir” look and feel.  This is a genre that I’ve long wanted to explore.  It sort of suits where my head is right now visually.

Model: Michele
Assistant: Scott Menard
Hair & Makeup: Courtney Duncan
Jewels: Michelle Menard

The snow was all gone.  Then we got a dump of it again.  The snow will all be gone later this week when the temperature goes to double-digits.  But this morning, after I shuttled Kate off to her morning ballet class, I was struck by the beauty of this light, the low-lying fog and the silhouetted trees.

This photo was taken with the iPhone and post-processed with Snapseed.

What to call this shoot? For the longest time it seemed to defy explanation. The working title was “The Peacock Shoot” and that seemed to stick. So, let’s work with that for now.

Outstanding work on the make-up by Courtney Duncan. The talented Simone Pettigrew did hair and was absolutely fantastic to work with.

Rajneek nailed the poses and blew us away with her moves. And this is the result. Enjoy!