Published on February 2, 2011
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After talking about it for so long, I finally had the chance to visit some of Ottawa’s nicest highlights. Parliament Hill was one of them, you can’t say it isn’t a must when you consider you were one of three million who took the time to visit. Inside or outside the architecture is just stunning but the most impressive area has to be the library of Parliament. I had the chance to briefly see it but we were advised not to take any pictures and trust me, with the number of guards you really don’t want to mess around. You can take the guided tour which is about 20-60min, make sure you stay close to the tour guide has it’s not always easy to listen an follow along, especially when it’s large group.
Parliament Architecture 2010
The Royal Canadian Mint located at 320 Sussex drive, the guide tour only cost a few bucks but is well worth the money. It’s a great experience to get to see how it processed etc… You don’t get to go up close but at least you get chance to watch the worker from a window overlooking their work area. I’ve never seen so much gold, silver in my entire life.
Visiting Ottawa at the end of October isn’t the best time of the year, it’s cold and windy but even with those conditions you must make sure you take the time to walk in ByWard market. Even when it’s not the high season there are some pretty interesting things to see.
Published on August 8, 2010
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Time is precious and sometime you have to utilize to its best use. Taking the time to shoot at sunrise or sunset had become secondary. One of the reasons had to be the lack of sleep, the other was to support my wife in all the household task while taking good care of our little daughter. Even if I knew it would be hard it was nowhere near what I had in mind. It’s worth every second, especially when she wakes up after a good night sleep and looks you in the eye with a big smile and chuckles.
Sure, she does have her days where there’s lots of crying but it usually only last for a few minutes. Those ups and down all are totally normal, after all we all have our days. We are shorthly hitting the 3 month mark and everything is gone for the best. Hopefully my post with be more constant than they were in the last 6 months.
On that note I would like to thank all the follower who have been visiting my blog even without new posts.
Little Bundle of Joy
Published on April 20, 2010
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Not only had I been working in my basement, part of it was spent on designing a wedding album for an amazing couple. This was my first experience dealing with Kiss and I must say I’m quite impressed with the results. The leather quality is awesome, printing is accurate (if your monitor is calibrated) and the paper quality is fantastic. I’m thrilled and can’t wait to deliver them.
Kiss Wedding Book, 12inch with brown leather
Dealing with Kiss has been really simple, even if it was the first one I created with this particular company. Their moto is “The World’s Simplest Book Company”, sure there are others out there that may be similar but… it still ain’t a Kiss Book.
Everything was super easy, uploading, preview of the book before printing and submit and that’s all you have to worry about. Once it was uploaded to their site the next day it was already printing and the day after it was binding time. If it would not have been for shipping/customs , it would’ve been here in about 3-4 days max.
The only downer was the brokerage/customs fees I had to pay. This is something I had not thought about initially and in our area UPS can be a pain since they don’t cover this area so it’s a subcontracted to another company. It then becomes harder to track your parcel or even get the hand on it.
Published on October 18, 2009
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Tout deux, moi et ma femme voulions annoncer de façon original à nos parents qu’il serait bientôt grands-parents, je dois dire que j’ai cherché sur la toile à trouver une idée original que nous aurions pus utiliser mais en vain. Nous avons donc pensé à notre propre idée! Mes parents étais déjà en route pour nous rendre visite alors nous avons pensé d’y écrire dans notre cours un petit mot avec des crayons Crayola, couramment utilisé par les enfants et parfois… les grands. Cela m’a prit environ 5min à écrire et attiré bien des curieux et en a fait rire plus d’un, surtout mes parents qui étaient fou de joie lorsqu’ils ont lus la nouvelle. D’ici la, je croit le temps ne passera pas assez vite.
Published on October 12, 2009
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Autumn is my favorite season of all, there is always a cool breeze, huge cummulus clouds and when it’s not overcast, stunning light conditions. When the light peaks thru the clouds back lighting the colored leaves still hanging on, it gives an amazing show not everyone is able to witness. Most places I visited this year had yellow colored leaves mostly because it was land of the White Birch, sometime you could spot the contrasting bright red of a great Canadian Maple. The fallen leaves will again decompose and it will be the beginning of a new cycle for new life. This shot might seem like a water reflection but in autumn with the constant wind it would be almost impossible to get a calm body of water. To get the desired shot I’ve used a low shutter speed of 1/25th at F16 using the multiple exposure Nikon camera has, this was 3 shots panning up.
Autumn Reflection, Daily Point Reserve
Published on September 21, 2009
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Yep, a photo tree, even with an explanation or a drawing to show my friends it wasn’t hard to see they were still confused. Before anyone would start thinking I was crazy with my ideas I put a plan into action, on the weekend I went to seek for old wood left by the sea. It wasn’t an easy task has I had to find a tree trunk with roots that could be stable enough and about four rustic log with an about 5 to 6 inch in diameter, everything had to fit in our 2 door Cavalier. After searching for about an hour I had found all I needed and more to go forward with my Photo Tree project.
Where have I gotten the idea? Nowhere, a brainstorm of ideas to better display my work at the Chal-Baie Artisans Boutique was initial reason of all this. This project would’ve never came to life if it wasn’t for my wife for all her time getting the 4×6 ready, my dad for is chainsaw, my friend Daniel for his chainsaw skills and drill bits and Yves for his electric drill. It’s now almost done, there’s a few things to tweak here and there but you will get the idea.
Photo Tree made with old wood log / Original idea by Micaël Savoie
Published on April 5, 2009
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This weekend was busy but a lot of fun since I got to spend time with my wife and do what I like the most, photography. I’m currently working on a project and there’s a bit of traveling involved so Saturday morning we woke up, went to Tim’s to get our fuel for the day and took the highway toward Miramichi then all the way up to Caraquet. For lunch we went to the best bakery around, “Boulangerie Grains de folie” in Caraquet where I got homemade pizza with Feta cheese and brocoli salad and my wife got a quiche with a garden salad. The food is excelent, they have a good variety of cheese and good bread and you can’t go wrong with a chocolat croissant. Where are they located? Easy, 171 bldv. Saint-Pierre Ouest, Caraquet.
Boulangerie Grains de folie, Caraquet
After eating all that great food we headed to our next assignment, set the light and as usual I use my beautiful wife as a model to fine tune my lighting before the client comes into place. In this shot there was still a few tweaking to be done like to get a better rim light etc… We were limited in time and area that we could use for the shot so it had to be very minimalist while keeping an excellent photo quality.
Published on January 28, 2009
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If you’re ever driving in northern NB, instead of taking Hwy11 it would be worth it to take the old Hwy 134 to be able to go thru all the small little villages and see some old houses and fishing community. In Point la Nim, near Dalhousie Junction, they set up their bobhouse every year to ice fish Smelt which is a small little fish about 20cm long and very good. I’ve always loved how colorful these little shanty are, especially the pink and yellow one.
Fishing Shanties on the Chaleur Bay, New Brunswick
Published on December 21, 2008
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I’d like to take the opportunity to thank all of those who take the time to read/view my blog. More post coming up shortly but I’ll be “disconnected” for a short period during holidays, I’ll be traveling and haven’t decided on the purchase of a laptop yet but… I can smell it, I’ll get one soon enough :0).
May joy and comfort be with you and yours during this Holiday Season!
Here’s the original file – Season’s Greetings
I’m still alive, been pretty busy lately with different things. One was my photo exhibit, which is still on at this time, I had overwhelming amount of guest at the opening, about 150 people showed up. The musician Jimmy Abud did an amazing job playing the piano/sax and clarinet. For those of you who didn’t had the chance to visit the gallery, here’s an overview of the exhibit showing (21) 11×17 prints.
Shortly I’ll be posting shots of my trip I did in BC and AB over the past few weeks, that’s the reason why I haven’t posted in a while, I had no internet access. Post should be steady from now on.
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