Commercial Photography 2019 Round Up.

Ansel Adam’s said the twelve significant photos in a year is a good crop. I’m starting to believe him. This year I took thousands of images, all over Canada, but I can distill it down to a very small handful of favourites very easily. Its funny the longer I do this the more I am critical of what is good and what looks like everything else.

This year, I felt like I really grew into my own. Its only taken nine years but I am finally shooting work that I feel like I have been meant to be shooting all along. They say nothing good ever happens quickly, and I’m so impatient but it is true. I’m working with lighting more than ever before, and I am in love with portraits. I have always been a “in the moment” kind of photographer but the awkwardness and stillness of the portraits has been challenging and so much fun to push myself into.

I choose two new cameras to play with this year - a Hasselblad X1D2 and a DJI drone and they have both pushed me in new ways. Though I never will become a “drone” only photographer the ability to get an ariel perspective on the conservation shoots I am doing now really level’s up the whole story, and for that reason alone it was worth getting my pilot’s license.

I shot in the heart of Downtown Toronto and the logging roads around Prince George BC. Travel isn’t the best part of photography for me, but this ability to see someone else’s day to day, get a glimpse into a life different than my own, that is what gets me. When I first started my Mom thought it would be a phase. To be fair I had been through a lot of phases, but photography has never gotten “old”. The camera has just been getting me into more interesting places as I’ve gotten better.

So onto 2020 a year where for the first time in my life I have a dedicated studio space, and I feel like I have some great projects on the horizon.

Let’s see what trouble I can get into this decade.