After a long day of relaxing at Calgary Stampede with my family I'm back to work :) Today I had a photo shoot for Mount Royal College Recreation. I was asked to take some shots to be used on a cover of the Rec Guide and some shots for the inside of it as well.

We have some relatives staying with us for a couple of days so today we spent the day at Spruce Meadows watching The 'North American' Tournament. I didn't have all my camera equipment and only used wide angle lens, having a good access I still ended up with some usable images.

Tracy and I spent some time at U of C today. Tracy's cousin Megan Mulder (#5) is playing in the West National Volleyball Championships so we went to watch some games. I took my camera with me and grabbed some snapshots of her. The lights were pretty much the worst I ever photographed in. I had to go with ISO 6400 and 1/400 and I still was a bit underexposing for my liking. Good luck tomorrow Megan!

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 :)