The same bear, before it approached my car, on a remote highway leading to Sultan, Ontario.

A bear approaches the far side of my car, on a remote highway leading to Sultan, Ontario. I snapped this through the passenger window with my tele zoom, shortly before taking off. . . .

A young guest takes advantage of the complimentary bubble solution at the wedding.

The bride’s hands, decorated in the style of the Indian component of the ‘Indo-Polska’ wedding.

I wanted to get a bit of a glamor shoot making-of in this shot, so I shot directly into the flash and umbrella.

Strobist info: shot directly into SB-28 in a shoot-through umbrella on light-stand, in-camera.

I have not been posting for a lot of reasons: I have been traveling, I have had a lot to do, and I have been editing tons of photos from Sheila and Peter’s wedding, which I shot in July. I didn’t want to share any of the images before they had seen all of the edits, and I have been long in doing them due to my research trip the HMML in Minnesota. Now that I am working on the final edits, I thought I would push a few of them over here to flickr and my weblog, to share some of what I have been doing. It was my first wedding, and any comments or feedback are welcome.

Peter and Sheila made their own bouquets, corsages, and the like, which I appropriated before they were distributed, in order to capture them in their pristine state.

I had awful problems with the color temperature of the shadows in this flash-lit, indoor photo being too blue–after much color correction, I still had to desaturate blues and cyans in order to make it look really white–has anyone else dealt with this specific problem, and has a workaround?

A priest’s cat sits on some news-sheets, patiently waiting for her master’s interview to be completed.

Abraham at the moment of sacrificing Isaac, as part of the 2010 Chester Plays at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, under the direction of the PLS.

God studies his lines while the wagon stage is set up,and unfurls the rainbow signaling his promise to Noah to never flood the earth again, at the end of the play of Noah’s Ark and The Flood, one of the plays of the Chester Cycle, performed in their entirety at Victoria College, the University of Toronto, under the auspices of Poculis Ludique Societas (Drinking and Gaming Society), a group devoted to medieval and early modern theatre and associated with the Centre for Drama at the U of T.

I wanted to experiment a bit with a punchier, more-saturated look, and this is what came out of a shoot with Pop the cat.

Strobist info: 1 SB-28 in a shoot through umbrella camera right to fill open shade.