The End Has Come.......

Well, this is it. My two year photography program at Algonquin college has come to an end. I had my Portfolio Interview yesterday, and I feel very positive about my final grade. My Professors are amazing. They're like family to me. I'm going to miss you guys.

When I first started the program I thought I was crazy. I thought I was in over my head. I thought I could never pull this off. There were times when I wanted to give up, and if it wasn't for good friends and my loving wife that could have happened. I couldn't have done it without you guys. It's really astonishing what you can accomplish when you put your mind to it. Mind you, I really had many sleepless nights editing, planning and mostly, missing my family.

I've made some really good friends here, and I'm going to miss you all very much. I'm sad it's over but happy I can move on to what's next. What is next?? I'm pretty sure I'll find something....or something will find me.

Congratulations to all my fellow classmates. I had a chance to check out some of your portfolios and I must say, AWESOME work!! You all will be going places. Keep up the good work and never give up. Live your dreams!

Should I Work For Free? The Flowchart!

Something I found interesting....

SUPER MOON!

Today I ventured out to get some shots of the Super Moon. And this is what I got....

Black and white, 8pm

Original 8pm

Would you hang this in your closet?

Here is one of my open images - self directed

Consumer Portrait........

Final consumer portrait. I had to keep this related to my theme (Environmental).

My Daughter made the cut...........

A good friend of mine decided to use my daughter for her creative ad. You should check out her work. Her theme is Humour.

http://elizabethflegg.com/

http://elizabethfleggphotography.blogspot.com/2011/03/creative-advertisement.html

Creative Ad Final..........

Special thanks to my classmate and friend Liz Flegg for sitting for me. You rock girl!

One of our assignments this year is to produce a creative AD. I decided to put my own spin on things.

Hope you like it

Here you have it - I love field trips.

Today our class went on a field trip to the Library and Archives, Canada’s preservation laboratories. I don't think I have ever been so interested in history. My jaw was on the floor the whole time. I had such an amazing time. I was lucky enough to bring a camera with me. Unfortunately, I was unable to use flash so some of the photos that I'm going to share with you may appear dark/grainy. Oh, and I used a fisheye lens to capture a viewing range of 180˚. Enjoy!

The Wheels on the bus go round and round.......

My prof Mr. Garry Carter

We made it! Library and Archives Canada’s preservation laboratories

One of my class mates and good friend. Kayley Morris.
(Sorry about the fisheye Kayl)

A couple of classmates having fun with the vents blowing from the floor.
(Shannon and Liam)

Fellow classmates excited to get the show on the road.
(Liz and Amanda)

Library and Archives is a building built inside of another building. Massive structure that costs more than 80 million.

This is one of the many stations they use to digitally capture and digitally archive some really old and delicate artifacts. HASSELBLADS!

Laboratory

Laboratory

The photo speaks for itself.

We got an opportunity to see some work from Karsh. These are all originals from Yousof Karsh. If you are unaware who Karsh is;

Yousuf Karsh is one of the masters of portraiture in the twentieth century. Born in Armenia in 1908, he and his entire family lived through the massacres of 1915 and fled to Syria in 1922. Many months later, in January 1924, he set foot on Canadian soil and here, in North America, he found freedoms he had not known in his home country. First in Boston and then in Ottawa, he began to realize a North American dream, his rise to prominence as a photographer. He spent more than six decades of his life [which ended peacefully in July, 2002] creating images of his contemporaries in his own, unmistakable portrait style.
http://sufidesign.netfirms.com/

Karsh

Karsh

Karsh

Where Karsh's work was being photographed.......
(Albert Einstein 1948)

...and being processed to be archived digitally.

Karsh

Expo 67!
The poster design was produced by the design firm Marsil Caron Barkes & Associates Ltd., Montreal.

About the building

Joshua Reyes

Radiation? We didn't get a chance to see behind those door.

Film processing rooms

Film processing rooms

View....

A hallway that lead us to the vaults (archives).

Vault (archives)

Endless drawers for old paintings, maps, photographs, sketches, ect.

Hamilton Canada West (1557)

Ottawa City Canada West. Really wild!

City of Ottawa Canada West

A harvest of very old film. This is just one row, there is over 25.

Shannnon trying to listen closely. More film.

Mike Trudel

Thought it was neat. Any Ideas what it is?

Some of Karsh's work archived in the vault.

Garry Carter and Winston Churchill, One of Karsh's best. As far as I'm concerned.

Another archiving vault

Guess who?

It's David Suzuki.

The widest painting Archived at this location.
Joshua Reyes

A picture is worth a thousand words.... Well these are worth triple that in gold.

Niagara Falls. The bottom left was painted without the painter knowing what the falls looked like. Notice the mountains?

Over the years, a number of disasters have occurred at archives, such as fires,
thefts and floods, and for that reason most institutions have developed some
type of plan to protect their holdings. It is rare, however, for an archival document
to come under physical attack. In 1983 a vandal
stained the Proclamation of the Constitution Act, 1982 – a document of great significance to Canadian history this all happened while he was viewing it.

I hope you enjoyed the photos. Not many people get a chance at seeing history.