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Don’t Try This at Home - Aerial Silks Photoshoot

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Last week, I met up with Amanda and Meags for a photoshoot at Amanda’s amazing place. Industrial greenhouse-like windows, hardwood floors, and aerial silks.

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categories: Portraits & Headshots
Monday 05.09.16
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Event Photography for a Cooking Competition in Montreal

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EAT BEFORE SHOOTING. That’s the lesson I learned after photographing a cooking competition for the Hawksworth Young Chef Scholarship Foundation.

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categories: Community
Monday 04.25.16
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Hi From the Post-Office: New Coworking Space

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After a full year of working from home, I’ve moved into Post-Office, a creative coworking space in Montreal managed by Eli & Lexane from the Fivethousand Fingers design studio. 

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categories: Personal
Tuesday 04.19.16
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DIY Hand-Painted Oliphant-Style Backdrop

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Like many other photographers, I love the Oliphant backdrops, but they cost a fortune to rent or buy, so I tried to create a DIY version.

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categories: Instructional
Monday 04.11.16
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Case Study 03 | Natural Portraits with Flash

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Marie contacted me for a few promotional portraits for her upcoming website and blog. She’s currently working in an architecture firm, but the website’s going to be about video games.

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categories: Case Studies
Wednesday 03.23.16
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Personal Project: Cozy

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A few months ago, I started Cozy, a personal photography project in which I visited people in their homes across Montreal and photographed their favourite cozy sweaters. Some of them knit their own sweaters, others received them as gifts, and many found them in thrift shops. Check out some of the wonderful people I met so far and their amazing sweaters (whether beautiful and ugly).

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categories: Portraits & Headshots
Thursday 03.17.16
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Throw a Headshot Party, Save Some Money

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I’m letting you host a headshot party at my place. Find friends who also need professional headshots and come to my studio together for a few hours. Bring beer, hang out, play board games, have a jam session, order pizza.

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categories: Portraits & Headshots
Friday 03.11.16
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Wedding Photography Tips for Second Shooters

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I started doing weddings in Montreal several years ago. I started as a second photographer, now I'm working with my own second photographers, and here, I'll be sharing wedding photography tips for both second shooters and main photographers working with second photographers for the first time. I’ve phrased the tips into questions you should ask yourself, and I’m giving you the 5 most important ones, because people seem to like lists with multiples of five.

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categories: Weddings & Lifestyle
Monday 02.22.16
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Just Keep Walking - Marcher La Region

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A few weeks ago, Claudia and I braved the cold in the latest 1-day edition of Walk the Region / Marcher la Région.

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categories: Explorations
Sunday 02.07.16
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Just Cats

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This blog post just has cat pictures. Enjoy!

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categories: Personal
Saturday 01.30.16
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