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    Andrew McMullen – Drummer, Teacher, Portrait Subject

    July 30th, 2011 | arts, portraits | christopher | No Comments

    In the terrible, terrible… TERRIBLE!! heat and humidity of July this summer, I went to the southwest section of Toronto to do portraits of Andrew for his upcoming website. The site will showcase his talents for teaching and passing his love for percussion on to his young students, and marketing his passion for performance to [...]

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    Another reason why I love Oshawa and the Durham Region

    July 29th, 2011 | inspiration, my life | christopher | No Comments

    I’m spending a few days home with the dog to tend to business and web site stuff while Lisa visits with family in Sudbury, and unfortunately that means taking long walks with the dog around the neighbourhood (because Hannah isn’t here to chase Wicket around the house, midst the sounds of baby cackle laughs and [...]

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    Wedding Photography and the Current Culture of Misinformation

    June 23rd, 2011 | articles, comments | christopher | No Comments

    About the only complaint I have about photographic industry is the misinformation constantly being fed to the public by seemingly intelligent media. Pretty much every wedding magazine has a checklist for soon-to-be brides as to what pictures they need taken, the articles that say you need to have a disc of your high res pictures, [...]

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    Reviewing Work Over Time

    June 13th, 2011 | arts, inspiration, portraits | christopher | No Comments

    After shooting this year’s TCDSB Staff Arts headshots, I did what I usually do, and I analyzed my work. I’ve shot the headshots for their musicals the past 5 years, and since then, I’ve gone from doing what they ask for – very basic (and very boring) – to setting up shots in a more [...]

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    The Annual Staff Arts Musical Shoot!

    June 13th, 2011 | arts, portraits | christopher | No Comments

    Another year, another big musical production that needs creative headshots and production pics… This year, the TCDSB Staff Arts group put on “The Drowsy Chaperone,” a musical by Bob Martin and Don McKellar and music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison that won numerous Tony awards, as well as critical (and audience) acclaim [...]

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    Wrestling Portraits Pop Up In Oshawa

    June 1st, 2011 | comments, my life, projects | christopher | No Comments

    Driving home from a shoot one beautiful afternoon, I happen to notice two separate flyers posted for wrestling shows in the Oshawa area.  Both utilized photos of mine from a while back! One of them was just outside the Jiffy Lube I go to, just a few seconds drive from my house!!  Can you believe [...]

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    TEDxUOIT 2011

    January 25th, 2011 | charity, events | christopher | 2 Comments

    On January 22nd, students at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) put on a TEDx – an independent TED event. I was invited to shoot TEDxUOIT by Greg Rozdeba about a week and a half before. I was planning to attend anyways… The topic was “Ideas for a Sustainable Future.” It was a [...]

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    To a prosperous 2011 for a Durham Region Photographer

    January 25th, 2011 | editorial, my life | christopher | No Comments

    Hey,. I’d like to thank everyone for their support and love over 2010 and I hope I was able to return every bit of it to every one of you. On the Facebook Fan Page, I mentioned a few new projects, and I don’t want to give away any details until they’re ready, but I [...]

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    Fun using SEO

    December 15th, 2010 | articles, comments | christopher | 2 Comments

    SEO means Search Engine Optimization. It’s really cute, it’s how companies usually suck money out of businesses by telling them they need to be at the very top of search engine results to get their business going in lieu of actual advertising and marketing, or using tried and true methods to build a clientèle that [...]

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    Home Portraits So Nice, I Did It Twice!! (in a week)

    November 28th, 2010 | my life, portraits | christopher | 2 Comments

    Hannah’s first big trip was to Sudbury this weekend to meet her Nana and cousins for the first time. And while here, why not do Christmas card pictures of my sister/brother-in-law’s family? Unfortunately, unlike Ronin and Connor last weekend, who were just wound up and excited, my nephew Matthew was REALLY grumpy and it’s surprising [...]

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