Couple of shots taken at my photo studio.

Christmas is almost here! Did you get presents for your loved ones? I personally don’t have very many ideas. What can a poor photographer give to his girlfriend for Christmas but himself?

Last night I was working late around the house and didn't go to sleep till very late. This morning, laying in bad, it took a lot of convincing my self to get up and go to the Zoo, I tried to think that I didn't go to the Zoo for a long time and all the animals are just sitting there in some nice poses and waiting for me to take their photographs. Well you can imagine my disappointment, after all that effort to get up early and drive all the way there, when I saw the following sign: "The Calgary Zoo is closed today, Power Failure". After trying to get in from couple of different entrances with no success I headed home.

I almost finished setting up my new studio and today I had my first customer :)

With moving into a new house and all the things I had to do, I didn't have much time to photograph anything. Today was my last Portrait Studio Light class. We got some of our work critiqued by our instructor and talked a little about business side of photography.
Did I learn anything in this class? Yes, I learned some new things, mostly just refreshed my knowledge. I would personally recommend a little more advanced class. In my opinion, taking courses like this one is always great; you learn some new tricks and meet some new people.

PS. forgot to mention, If you will happened to pick up Canadian Geographic magazine for December 2006, I have one of my photographs published on page 43. They have a little story about baby gorilla and one of my photos to go with it.

One of the studio shots from this evening. My new studio will open soon. I will be giving some discounts, so stay tuned!

This evening I photographed couple of basketball games, the Mount Royal College Cougars played against the Lethbridge Kodiaks on Kenyon Court.

Couple of action shots from today's volleyball games.

Today was an exciting day, Tracy and I bought a house in Airdrie and today was possession day. This is a shot of the view from the master bedroom window. I will post some more photographs of the house a little later on.

This evening I photographed a hockey game. Mount Royal College Cougars played against SIAT Trojans. The game ended in a 2-2 tie at Centennial Arena.

It's getting close to the time of the year when many companies are having Christmas party. Well tonight was our turn. All I can say is that the party was a Great Success!!

The party took place at The Ranche restaurant in Fish Creek park. I had lots of fun and the food was great. I didn't cover any events for a while so it was fun to get back in it and I ended up with many good photographs.

One of my shots from today's class on studio light.

The women's hockey home undefeated streak came to an end tonight at Centennial Arena. Cougars lost 4-2 against the MacEwan Griffins.

Mount Royal Cougars Volleyball.

This morning at 2:25am Mardi, the Calgary Zoo's 16 year old giraffe, delivered a baby boy. I was one of the very few people who was invited to see them. It was an amazing experience and I'm very grateful I had a chance to photograph them.
You can find more information on the Calgary Zoo's website.

I'm taking a course on studio portrait light photography at a local college. Here you can see a couple of my shots from today's class.

Castle Mountain, Banff National Park. I didn't photograph anything other than sports for a pretty long time, so this morning Greg and I drove to Banff National Park to take some landscape photographs. Even if at about lunch time we had to head home due to the weather condition, we weren't disappointed.

The Mount Royal College Cougars women's volleyball team remains unbeaten in ACAC this season after defeating the King's University College Eagles on Kenyon Court. Men's team improved their record to 5-2 in ACAC this season with a victory over the King's University College Eagles.

Mount Royal Cougars against Red Deer Kings and Queens.

Tracy and Mandy at work, wearing Halloween clown costumes.
Happy Halloween!!!

I had a busy weekend. I photographed volleyball, hockey, basketball, and soccer games.
MRC men's soccer team lost in overtime to the NAIT Ooks 2-3. Cougars still picked up the ACAC bronze medal after their game was cancelled due to the weather.

The Mount Royal College Cougars basketball teams won their home-openers defeating the Medicine Hat Rattlers on Kenyon Court. Men: 97-66 and Women: 66-59.

The Mount Royal College Cougars men's hockey team defeated NAIT Ooks 10-3. It was a great game to watch!

Today was the first time shooting volleyball for me this year. Also I never used strobes for volleyball before, but so far so good. Well my timing wasn't perfect but I noticed by the end of the game I was getting better photographs. Mount Royal Cougars played against Red Deer College Kings and Queens on Kenyon Court. MRC girls won 3-0 and MRC men lost 1-3.

Today we had beautiful weather so Mandy, Tracy, and I spent some time at the zoo, where I had a chance to take some portrait photographs.

Mount Royal Cougars girls defeat NAIT OOKS 5-3.

Couple of shots from the Mount Royal Cougars against Red Deer College soccer games.

Tonight I spent some time helping out my friend, who is a real-estate agent, to photograph him with a downtown background. It was an interesting project and I think final results were very good.

Mandy, my girlfriend's sister, just got a Bearded Dragon. I didn't spend much time with it but I think it would be interesting to take some more photographs of him in the future.