Sometimes I wish I was more of a morning person, mainly because of sunrises. Twice in the last month I’ve gotten myself up for the sunrise and it has been incredibly rewarding.

This first sunrise was taken from Mt Doug (yes another picture from there, its one of the few high places in Victoria and has a pretty great view) Looking towards Washington, and Mt Baker.

The following pictures were taken on Saltspring Island. My roommate and myself went for a short weekend trip to the island camping at Ruckle Park on the south end of the island. As it was only a short last minuet trip, and the island offers all the amenities one could possibly want, so I spent little time packing. The clothes on my back, a sleeping bag and a 6 man tent.

Trouble is, even though we are on the Coast, it still is winter. I had a 14 year old sleeping bag, it was designed for spring/summer camping, and meant for a person at least 1 foot shorter than me. I was using a half thick yoga mat for a sleeping pad (basically on the ground), with normal street clothing, in a six man tent with two people. Needless to say it was a bit of a chilly night camping beside the ocean.

After I had enough of freezing to death I got out of the tent at least 2 hours before sunrise to run around and do jumping jacks until my body started to warm up. This also gave me the opportunity to take some pictures of stars, followed by the sunrise.

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I sit here thinking about this picture, is it a lifestyle? No, it couldn’t be, could it? No person in their right mind finds themselves sitting at a kitchen table in the middle of a road.

For me, I love this picture of Matt, to me it shows… well him. Would he be found in the middle of a road relaxing at a table on a regular basis? Nope. (At least not that I know of)

So how on earth can this picture show who he is even though this isn’t his every day habits? After random (mis)adventures, late night bike escapades, bombing around Victoria in a truck with straight pipes I see that the moments in-between regularity are what he is all about.

What makes a lifestyle shot for you?

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Its really fun taking a character and doing your own shots on it. I have never taken an already well-known personality or shot and done my version on it. This, Batman, is my first go at it.

The idea was actually spurred by my good friend JLP aka The Champ when he mentioned Batman in class in relation to gobos and cookies (no not cookie monster type cookies). A bit of planning, emails and a drive to pick up the costume, a short arts and craft session to make the symbol, I was ready to go.

I took about fifteen minuets to setup equipment and just began dialing in my lightning when we got booted by a security guard.

Ten minuets of taking stuff down, and two more security guards later we left and went to our second location.

This shoot was one of my more challenging, frustrating and rewarding shoots. I was using some borrowed equipment, a relatively new camera, new lighting techniques, and on location shooting. But if it was all easy what fun would it be?

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Don’t you love it when you forget to read instructions?

I was slowly getting myself ready to go take these shots downtown, but about an hour and a half before i planned to leave i got a surprise call from Ian:

“Reuben, there is a car crash out front of the Save on Foods Center downtown. You might not get another good chance to shoot for the hard news project.”

He was talking about an assignment we have had about a month to try to shoot for, its a photojournalism project to cover a hard news subject. I scramble, grab things and run out the door.

I shot the car crash and got my pictures, and continued on to bar code to shoot there, did my stuff and went home. Toss the pictures on my computer and then didn’t touch them until the night i needed to get my assignment together to hand them in.

Looking over the assignment i see ‘Eye Contact’ as one of the requirements… uh oh! I had shoot the whole night without trying for eye contact.

Luckily enough this was close enough that it worked and i got a great mark too. woot!

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