This morning I woke up early and headed to the gym. No not to work out, to photograph somebody who does. I was hired for a photo shoot of a triathalete in Airdrie named Janet Sima for an AirdrieLIFE magazine.

This was a long night for me. I photographed a Foothills Composite High school basketball game in Okotoks. This was the second year this team hired me to take some action photographs of them and its always great to be there.

We finally finished processing all the photographs from a hockey tournament we did on December 28-30, 2007. We already sent out all the DVD's for the Novice teams (if you purchased photographs, you already got it or should be getting it any day now). We will send out Tyke teams in the next couple of days. The tournament turned out great! I love doing tournaments in Airdrie because arena is only 5 min away from my home and it makes a huge difference. All together I ended up with more than 55 gigabytes of photographs stored from this tournament, I think its time to get another hard drive.

Mount Royal College Cougars against SAIT Trojans.

Mount Royal College Cougars against SAIT Trojans. It was a high scoring game, Trojans beat Cougars 8-5. It was a great game to watch!

I'm back and still alive... barely!
This last weekend Tracy and I worked on a ringette tournament in Airdrie. We had 3 very hard days but it was all worth it. I barely had any breaks, just the time when they had to flood the ice. By the end of the first day I couldn't lift my arms, they were so sore from holding my camera. On the second day I mounted my camera on the monopod and it worked much better. By the end of the 3rd day, in the middle of the game, 3 out of 6 lights stopped working. The batteries in my PocketWizards had died and I had to run around and climb the ladder to replace all my batteries. It was stressful but not as bad as I thought it would be.
Now we just finished processing all the files and Tracy is burning DVDs to send out to the teams. I would like to thank all the organizers and volunteers, the tournament turned out great!

Mount Royal College girls volleyball action.

Mount Royal College Cougars against NAIT Ooks. MRC won 4-2.

Shot some badminton action at Mount Royal College this evening. It was hard to photograph just a practice and not a tournament or an actual game, but I think I got a few good shots.

It's my birthday today, and what am I doing? Working! Which isn't a bad thing by any means :) Today I had to take some shots for the cover of a magazine at Mount Royal College. I still have to do a couple more shots, but these are the 2 I liked. It didn't all go very smoothly, I was panicking for a bit, I had to fight the light for about 20-30 min before I got the white balance right and all the other details