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The End of Summer

When writing a blog about your own photography it is very hard not to sound self serving, but it is something that needs to be done. I haven’t posted in awhile and some big things have happened over the last 2 months. From the flood portraits, my first, second and third cover and joining Stocksy United after winning their monthly assignment for back to school. You can check out my small library at www.Stocksy.com/Robinson  Things are picking up for the fall and I am looking forward to everything coming up in the near future. And now some photo highlights!

Faces of the Flood Pt 2

Annick – Mission Volunteer

So I guess it was yesterday now, and I headed down to the community of Mission, it is along the Elbow river. It was a very similar story to all of the stories being told about the kind acts by strangers. Again spirits were high, lots of smiles and even Wildrose brewery was passing out beers. I have to say it is very strange, when you go into a place and you tear down walls, there are no leaders, everyone just finds a roll and fills it. One or two tear down walls, two or three shovel and haul the garbage out and two or three are there to take that garbage to a dumpster. Everything just gets to where its supposed to be, everyone just wants to get things done. So again, here are some volunteers and residents of a community damaged by the floods.

Kiri and Aaron – Mission Volunteer

Shawn – Mission Volunteer

Dai – Mission Volunteer

Phil – Mission Volunteer

Andrea – Mission Volunteer

Megan – Mission Volunteer

Wyatt – Mission Volunteer

Phillip – Mission Volunteer

Dennis – Mission Volunteer

Devon, Emily, John, Josh and Numa – Mission Volunteers

Alex – Mission Volunteer

Brandon and Amanda – Mission Volunteers

Austin – Mission Volunteer

Javier – City of Calgary

Marg – City of Calgary

Lara – Mission Volunteer

Daniel – Contractor

Brooke, Christine, Javier, Brian, Shane, Jade, Barry and Anna Mission Volunteers and Residents

Jessica – Mission Volunteer

Faces of the Flood

Today I went down to Bow Crescent in Bowness, again basements and some main floors of houses devastated. People are doing their best to get the water out as fast as they can so maybe they don’t have to knock down their property. The overwhelming support has been felt across the city with volunteers showing up on door steps to help with the clean up of random home owners. I would think this happens everywhere, but then again… Who knows. All I can say it is amazing to witness the community pulling together. So here are some of the faces from Bow Crescent. Please give it up to all the volunteers and victims, everyone is working hard.

Don – Bow Crescent

Scott – Bow Crescent Volunteer

Chris – Bow Crescent Volunteer

Brian – Bow Crescent Home Owner

Adam. Jake, Conner, and Josh – Bow Crescent Volunteers

Nancy and Brent – Bow Crescent Volunteers

Trisha and Sabrina – Bow Crescent Volunteers

Darren – Bow Crescent Volunteer

Jamie and Marcus – Bow Crescent Residents

Carolina, Amanda, Kat Steven and Curt – Bow Crescent Volunteers

Rodger, Darren, Danielle, and Murry – Bow Crescent Volunteers

Pat and Dave – Bow Crescent Volunteers

Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -Bow Crescent Volunteers

Natalie, Erika and Alyssia – Bow Crescent Volunteers

Karolina and Kirsten – Bow Crescent Volunteers

Dustin – Bow Crescent Volunteer

Alex – Bow Crescent Volunteer

Bruce – Bow Crescent Volunteer

Sara – Bow Crescent Volunteer

Crystal – Bow Crescent Volunteer

Maria – Bow Crescent Volunteer

YYC Flood

Well here we are in the clean up stage in Calgary after a flood devastated Southern Alberta this past weekend. I went out into some of the hardest hit communities along the Elbow river to see how much damage there was, and there was a lot. Some people lost everything in their homes, and it was for some it was very somber, but the silver lining in it all was the way Calgary pulled together for each other. Friends and family all showed up to lend a helping hand to the those affected by the River.

Check out http://www.yychelps.ca/

and the Red Cross is also accepting donations. Or take a page out of the many of the volunteers book and just head down and help someone who needs it, lots to be done.

 

Suzanne in her backyard in Roxboro

Neighbourhood kids in Roxboro go door to door with sandwiches and cookies for those working to clean up.

Greg helps his friends clean out their home.

Jean outside his home. He had 2 strangers helping clean his home out

Dave just headed down to the areas heaviest hit with a couple of his friends so they could help out.

Don was helping out a friend of his.

Family and friends take a break with some much deserved beers

Mission was one of the hardest hit areas

Tenants clean out a lower suite in mission

Hey, I got something for you to look at!

Here are Alana in Astrid again, but this time they are in different clothes and in different locations!

And now for the rest of the story

Special thanks to all those involved

Models: Astrid W and  Alana (Numa) and Jay

Make Up: Nicole Richey (Numa)

Hair and Styling: Jolene Friesen

Teaser

Should have some more images up from this shoot sometime soon, meanwhile here is first image. The goal of this was to get away from the studio and start producing more lifestyle stuff, and since summer finally arrived I figured I would take the bull by the horns and go and set up some shoots.

Alberta Views

So waaay back in the Summer of 2012 I was commissioned by Alberta Views to shoot portraits of three women for an article written by Miranda Martini called “Women in Charge” The portraits were of Melanie Léonard conductor of the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Sherri Brillon CFO of Encana and Danielle Smith the current leader of the Wildrose Party. Well it was published this month and here are the photographs they published. It was a great experience, the Art Director Beate Wichman trusted my style and allowed me a lot of freedom. And now Photos!

 

Top Ten of 2012

Top ten lists are fan favourites, everyone loves them and typically they come out before the end of the year, but I didn’t have the time between the gift buying and the drinking and the eating and the drinking and the visiting to really sit down to take the time to compile a list of the favourite TEN photos I took in the last year. Yup this is a completely self serving list. I suppose if I were to rationalize it, I could use this list to see how my work evolved over the course of the year. Although its just something to keep this blog going and show my work. Now some of the photos you will have seen and others you wouldn’t have seen, so without further ado….

#10

This is Anouk, she was 5 when I took this, I think she is six now. This was the first shot of a about 20 I took of her, I told her I was just checking the light.

#9

Liz, she is breath of fresh air, always honest and probably one of the wittiest people I have ever met.

#8

I don’t take a lot of landscapes but I really like this one from Fortress Mountain. I was scouting for a car commercial when I shot this, I always will remember it as my favourite ski hill and the windiest until it was shut down. Now it is used for all sorts of movies, commercials, and photo shoots. This is where the final climactic scene in Inception takes place FYI.

#7

Tony Kaye, the acclaimed director was working on a commercial here last January and I had the honour of driving him around. It was a very interesting experience.

#6

This Hatchet is part of a series of hand tools used by my girlfriends father, he passed away a few years ago and I took the series for her family. If you look back at the blog I did some tools in colour, I think the black and white suits these objects more than the colour.

#5

Thats right, its me. How can I not!

#4

This Lorrie Matheson, he is a Calgary singer/ songwriter/ producer and all around good dude. This portrait was taken for a project Vanessa Conely and I are working on called the Recon, so consider this a little teaser.

#3

Moeed is the head of Al Jazeera New Media, I shot a couple of pictures of him at the TEDxYYc event in 2012. It truly is amazing what Twitter and Facebook did during the uprisings in the Middle East.

#2

Christian Campbell was a surprise this year, met him on set of a film here in Calgary and we talked photography for almost 2 hours, I invited him to my studio and viola.

#1

No other photo I took this year seemed to get as much attention as this one I took of a gentleman at the Millarville Races. His face tells a story like no other and even though he may look very intense in this photo, after I took it, he gave me a huge smile.

And there it is, the top ten pictures I took last year. Lets hope I take better ones this year!!!!