Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Five Day B&W Photo Challenge

Day 1

Seagull on a rock on the Bow River. Shot with the Pentax K-5. Edited with Nik Silver Effex Pro 2 and PhotoShop CS5.

This is Day One of a B + W photo challenge issued to me by Kerry Snelson. The aim is to post a black and white photo each day for five consecutive days and each time nominate someone to do the same. 

I accepted the challenge and here's my Day 1 shot posted to Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/pEWoXb

Today I nominated James Tworow who does amazing street photography.

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Day 2

Sun shining through a doorway at a Starbucks.  Shot with the Pentax K-5. Edited with Nik Silver Effex Pro 2 and PhotoShop CS5.

This is Day Two of a B + W photo challenge issued to me by Kerry Snelson. The aim is to post a black and white photo each day for five consecutive days and each time nominating someone to do the same. Today I nominate Kalpesh Modi.

This is my photo for Day 2 posted on Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/pFSqqW

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Day 3

Laptop user in Olympic Plaza at lunch time.  Shot with the Canon PowerShot G15. Edited with Nik Silver Effex Pro 2 and PhotoShop CS5.

This is Day Three of a B + W photo challenge issued to me by Kerry Snelson. The aim is to post a black and white photo each day for five consecutive days and each time nominating someone to do the same. Today I nominate Andrew Barron [http://blackandlightimagesbybarron.blogspot.ca/].

This is my photo for Day 3 posted on Flickr. https://flic.kr/p/p3b5PC

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Day 4

In Confederation Park with Mehran, UofC portrait photography instructor.  Shot with the Canon 50D. Edited with Nik Silver Effex Pro 2 and PhotoShop CS5.

This is Day Four of a B + W photo challenge issued to me by Kerry Snelson. The aim is to post a black and white photo each day for five consecutive days and each time nominating someone to do the same. Today I nominate Helen DuWors.
This is my photo for Day 4 posted to Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/pZycze

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Day 5

Somewhere, on a snowy day, in a Tim's.  Shot with the Canon PowerShot G15. Edited with Nik Silver Effex Pro 2 and PhotoShop CS5.

This is Day Five of a B + W photo challenge issued to me by Kerry Snelson. The aim is to post a black and white photo each day for five consecutive days and each time nominating someone to do the same. Today I nominate Zena Woron-Quinn.


This is my photo for Day 5 posted to Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/q1a5ff

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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

It was a quiet weekend, compared to most.  The Library asked me to photograph the Library's One Book One Calgary (OBOC) launch, which was really low key compared to past OBOC opening nights. Every November the Library picks a book that it recommends everyone in Calgary read and talk about. So far I've read every one and every year I've been asked to take photos of the opening night events and VIP gathering.  Last year Laurence Hill's "Book of Negroes" was the chosen one.  Other books include "The Book of Awesome" (which I didn't bother finish reading and "Cellist of Sarajevo" (which was intense, but in a good way).

This year's selection,Walls: Travels Along the Barricades by Calgary author Marcello Di Cintio, is the best book yet, I think. Di Cintio travels the world to explore areas that have erected walls (Gaza, Cyprus, Belfast, US/Mexico) and talk to the people that live on both sides.

This year there was no gathering of VIPs, which was a nice break... I'm always challenged by the elderly ladies with snow white hair.  Instead I took quick shots of the author, the two poets (one the new Calgary poet laureate), the Library's CEO  (or as one fellow asked me, "Is that Mr. Library?"), the Library Board chair, and the entertainment.  No stress.


Derek Beaulieu (Calgary's poet laureate), Marcello Di Cintio (author), and Bertrand Bickersteth (poet)

Marcello Di Cintio in front of a photo he took in Belfast, Ireland.

Mr. Bill Ptacek, Library CEO


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