I was fortunate to return this year as Telus’ photographer for their “Give Where We Live” charity event. This is where the Telus community board (located in Ottawa) sit down and hand out all the money the employess gave, and then Telus matches. All told, Telus and it’s employees gave back about $1.3 Million into Ottawa this year.

While this is a cheque presentation “event” I’d say it’s pretty well paced and not boring like so many others are. Maybe it’s because everyone there is genuinely interested in helping others out, or because they gave everyone yummy cookies beforehand. Either way, it was a lot of fun to shoot again.

Just playing around with some of the “quicker” shots we took last Sunday. I’m shooting a corporate event today – maybe I’ll have something to share, maybe I won’t 😉

Parking… stalled, not moving. I think it happens to everyone once in a while, maybe the body and mind need it? Maybe there’s a reason we’re not out there shooting, drawing, creating. We sit at the desk, digging through our archives – “crap, crap, crap” – uninterested, uninspired…

I think it’s part of the process… the sit, because it’s forcing creativity to build up inside of me. It does create some tension and angst when I can’t explore it – but that makes me THAT MUCH MORE motivated to freakin’ ace the next shoot, the next shot, the next execution of a plan.

I have a couple ideas now – having been parked for a few weeks – now I just need the time to execute them. Kids, work, eat, sleep, plan… then shoot. Next week I’m going to create some photographs – I can’t wait to show them to you.

If the mantra of “show what you want to shoot” applied to me I’d be doing macro’s of plants and architectural photos from alleys.

Thankfully that’s not the case and I should have some cool family portraits (not my family – whee!) coming up next week after what’s sure to be an awesome Sunday family portrait session!