Today I took some more photographs for AirdrieLIFE magazine, this time at Volleydome in Calgary.

Yesterday I photographed a hockey game, which was the last game of the season for me. Mount Royal College Cougars won and they are playing tonight in the championship game against SAIT's Trojans. I didn't finish editing all of the photographs yet but here are a few of my favorites.

Yesterday was a long day for me! First, my friend Greg and I played some curling in a tournament that his company organized. This was the first time I ever played and I was terrible at it. I had lots of fun and met some great people but I don't think this would be the sport for me. Below is a photo of Greg and a photo of me, thank you Greg for taking it for me.

Second, right after curling I headed off to photograph hockey playoff game at Mount Royal College, they played against University of Calgary. I was pretty tired but it was a good game so I had a great time. On my way home I drove over some kind of a hole on the road and my tire blew up. I have 2 big holes in the tire and my rim is bent a bit as well :(

Today was a very long day for me. I had to wake up at 3:30 am and drive for six and a half hours from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to go straight to photograph six hours of volleyball games. I made it in time and photographed ACAC volleyball finals with lots of emotions and great action.

It was very hard for me to select some of my favorites from a basketball tournament that I just finished photographing, I literally took hundreds of photographs. Two weeks ago I photographed Bowness Trojans Classic Basketball Tournament at Bowness High School in Calgary and this was the same tournament only for girls. Tracy did an amazing job helping me with all the sales and processing, without her I would never be able to do it!

I just came back from a great photo shoot. I had a wonderful time hanging out at the pool and the models did a great job! I photographed some people at Mount Royal College swimming pool to be used for the "Rec Guide" cover and some photographs to be used inside of the magazine as well. Here are a few of my favorites.

It was pretty dark at the swimming pool. On my blog I'm trying to share some information on what I do when I photograph, so I thought I would post two of the following shots. I used 4 x 1600 AlienBees strobes set on light stands around the swimming pool and triggered by PocketWizards. All of them were pointed up and bounced of the ceiling. You can see one shot was taken with strobes turned on and one with out them using the same camera settings. I love shooting available light whenever is possible so every time I use strobes I'm trying to set them up in a way that the light would look very natural.

I photographed a couple of games at Mount Royal College tonight. Cougars played against SAIT's Trojans. I was pretty happy with the photographs that I got and thought I would share some of my favorites. Its 12 in the morning and Tracy and I are driving to Banff National Park with a couple of our good friends in about 7 hours so I better go and get some sleep :)

I finally have some time to update my blog :) This weekend I photographed Bowness Trojans Classic Basketball Tournament at Bowness High School in Calgary. This was my 3rd year photographing it and I always enjoy being there. In two weeks Bowness high school will be hosting another basketball tournament, this time it will be for girls, and I will be photographing it as well.

I was asked to take some photographs of Mount Royal College Cougars badminton team while they were practicing this evening. I had a pretty hard time getting good shots. The gym they practice at is very dark to photograph at and badminton is a very fast game. Shooting through the badminton net didn't really help either. I have to get some sleep now and tomorrow I'm away for a couple of days to photograph a basketball tournament.

Yesterday evening I had a great time photogrpahing hockey! Mount Royal College Cougars played against SAIT's Trojans. I was hired by Mount Royal college and because they won 9-1 it was great for me to photograph. The game had lots of goals and many great hits.

Mount Royal College President Dr. David Marshall enjoying the game.

Some people were asking me about my setup and what I use for hockey games so I thought I would post this photo. This is what I bring for a hockey game. I usually use 6 AlienBees strobes all with PocketWizards remotes. I have four 1600 and two 800 strobes. The amount of cords would wary from game to game :) I sometimes bring light stands but mostly use Manfrotto super clamps to hang my strobes around the ice surface.