Some early November Cornwall stuff

A local barber asked his clients to vote for mayor and councillors in his unofficial barbershop pole.

Some kid fell asleep in this wagon going down the street.

This Cornwall guy ran in the New York City marathon.

A remeberance day ceremony at a local high school.

A player is upset after losing in his high school championship football game.

Polaroids from Film Fest

This is what i wrote for the paper.
Carlos

I'm a big movie buff. I love movies.
So when my editors assigned me to photograph the Toronto
International Film Festival, I couldn't have been happier.
My job was to photograph celebrities at Yorkville hotels.
Only one problem: Hotel rooms.
Not exactly the best locations to work with. They all look the
same, dimly lit dungeons with bad wallpaper and nothing
expressing any kind of individuality.
In the minutes or sometimes seconds that publicists allow, it is
often difficult to make photographs that are more than pretty
pictures of celebrities.
So about a month before the festival I started thinking of how I
could bring something a little different to the coverage in the
paper.
After mulling it over I decided to do Polaroid photographs. I
wanted to bring back something old and simple in the age of
highly digital and complicated cameras.
I wanted the photos I took to express the personality of the
people I was photographing. Polaroids did exactly that.
The idea was simple. Take a Polaroid, hand it over and say,
"Could you please write something on this?"
I wanted the photos to be simple too. Out of focus, poorly
exposed, nothing mattered. The main thing was for the celebrities
to have a hand in making the photos their own.
Slowly, it caught on, and eventually it flew out of my hands.
When I walked in to photograph Tim Robbins he informed me that he
didn't like long photo shoots and that I would have a minute
to a minute and a half. After a generous two minutes
photographing Robbins, I showed him the Polaroids and told him of
the idea. He agreed and spent the next five or six minutes
creating his Polaroid.
These photographs might lack the shine and lustre of normal
celebrity photographs, but I feel they say more about the people
in them than anything else I could have done in a five-minute
hotel-room shoot.

Pike - GWN

Same snaps from the conference

How you doin? (Toronto Star staffer and ECNPA photog of the year Steve Russell)

Carlos, Mulligan and Mark Stewart at the Duke of Argyle pub

At the Duke of Argyle pub

Soon to be freelance photog Dave Chidley





Ingelbert Lievaart II, top, and Chids FRAME IT UP

National Post Deputy Photo Editor Phil Snell and Calgary freelancer Brett Beadle hammin' it up


Mr. Snell gets whats coming to him from Halifax Daily News photog Paul Darrow

Kelly Taylor and Mark Stewart



Di and her little one (one of two)

Julie J and her GO juice

Toronto Sun staffer Dave Lucas holds back the troops during portoflio review sign up, here's looking at you kid . . .




London freelancer Geoff Robins talks on his mobile

Toronto freelancer Malcolm Taylor keeps his eye on the price

see everyone next year (Merle, Julie and Ashley K)

-pike-

Loyalist students past and present in attendance at the conference, Luke H sent me this

Signs...

A couple of signage-themed photos for you.
The first is from Montreal. The second is from Quyon. Enjoy.
-SC

SensTheAction

Here is some new stuff form the Sens game the other night.
Blair

Pike - GREY CUP

Yesterday I shot the 94th Grey Cup, as a member of a four photographer team for the Winnipeg Free Press.

The B.C. Lions defeated the Montreal Alouettes 25-14 at the 94th Grey Cup at Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg, Man. on Sunday Nov. 19, 2006.

Members of the B.C. Lions hoist the Grey Cup in the air, which they broke into two peices during their celebration, after defeating the Montreal Alouettes 25-14 during the 94th Grey Cup at Canad Inns Stadium in Winnipeg, Man. on Sunday Nov. 19, 2006.

-pike-

Rudy n' Me

I got a job photographing Rudy Guliani with delegates before he spoke at a leadership conference. So, of course I had to get one for myself :)

Salut de l'Outaouais!

Bonjour tout le monde,

Since the end of September I have been working as a two-way reporter for The Equity, a weekly out of Shawville, Quebec (just about an hour west of Ottawa on the Quebec side). Things are going pretty good. Writing and shooting makes it hard to do both well, but it pays the bills.

Here's a sampling of some recent work.



Shawville's Simon Clarke is still dreaming of the 60s. A former member of the number one British pop group Freddie and the Dreamers, Clarke continues to perform 60s hits as a solo and duo act. Scott Clouthier, The Equity

Hunter Essiambre has some trouble staying on his skates during his first hockey practice. Scott Clouthier, The Equity

Thorne's Chantal Legault, better known as The Artist C, belts one out during her CD release party in Fort Coulonge. Scott Clouthier, The Equity

Wally and Gerda Bretzlaff of Ladysmith strut their stuff at Oktoberfest Ladysmith. Scott Clouthier, The Equity

Son Steven and granddaughter Aidan say a final farewell to Paul Ryan. Ryan, who was the mayor of Waltham, succumbed to cancer at the age of 61. Scott Clouthier, The Equity

The Pirie family pays their respects to Shawville's veterans and fallen soldiers on Nov. 11, despite rain and freezing temperatures. Scott Clouthier, The Equity

pigeons

what else can I say? A picture of pigeons flying in the air.