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January 11, 2012

New Business Portraits for Kevin Whetham – Parry Sound, Cambridge Photographer

Filed under: Portraits — Tags: Business Photography, Parry Sound, Portraits — johnbrisbane @ 9:18 am

Kevin Whetham, a broker with Remax Parry Sound Muskoka Realty Ltd, in Parry Sound contacted me in October and then dropped by my Parry Sound area studio to do some updates of his business portraits.

It had been a while since Kevin had his portrait taken and he was a bit nervous as we got underway. As we talked about his background and experience in the real estate business in the Parry Sound area Kevin began to relax. While Kevin updated me on local market conditions I kept shooting, while giving a bit of gentle coaching for some of the poses.

As with most business portriats sessions, I had asked Kevin to bring a couple of changes of clothes so he would end up with a fairly diverse range of images to use in promoting his business. As with wedding and portrait photography, word of mouth and a solid on line presence are important in Real Estate.

Kevin is a life long resident of the Parry Sound area and has several years of experience working in the Parry Sound area real estate market, so if your looking to buy or sell a property in the area you should touch base with Kevin and see how he can help you.

December 29, 2011

John Campbell New Business Portriats – Parry Sound – Cambridge Photographer

Filed under: Business Photography — Tags: Business Photography, Parry Sound, Portraits — johnbrisbane @ 10:11 am

Last summer when doing some family portraits for Lori Lahti, of Dentistry on the Bay and John Campbell, Royal LePage Team Advantage Realty – Parry Sound, we ended the session by doing some images of John, alone.

John is a well know real-estate agent in the Parry Sound area and it had been quite a while since he had updated his business photos so we used the white key set up I had been using for some of the family images and got a range of shots for John’s business use.

John is a life long resident of Parry Sound and his friendly, outgoing nature serve him well in chosen profession. If your looking to buy or sell a property in the Parry Sound area give John a call.

August 26, 2011

Hidden Bay Leadership and Outdoor Education Center – Parry Sound, Cambridge Photographer

Filed under: Commercial Photography,Event Photography,Portraits — Tags: Business Photography, Commercial Photography, Event Photography, Parry Sound, Portraits — johnbrisbane @ 6:04 am

Early this summer I had the pleasure of working with Hidden Bay Leadership Camp and Outdoor Education Center on Lake Shebeshekong, near Parry Sound, Ontario to capture some images for their promotional material. Carinna, the Center’s director, and I worked out a date for the shoot and a fall back date, just in case the weather wasn’t co-operating. As luck would have it, the weather gods co-operated on the day we had selected and I had a great morning taking in the site, and meeting many of the kids and staff while getting a good selection of images.

Leadership and fun are big themes at the camp and as I talked to the kids and staff it became clear to me that everyone absolutely loved being there. Several had been there for 2, 3, 4 years and more, and many of the staff had originally attended as campers.

While I was at the camp I saw kids getting instruction in wilderness first aid, kayaking, canoeing, and archery, while others were building one of a kind creations in the craft center.

The camp has a large forested acreage on Lake Shebeshekong, a great beach and waterfront, a series of comfortable platform tents and a huge, modern dining hall and main building, that has a large, clean, kitchen staffed by a skilled chef. As well there are a number of out buildings.

As I wrapped up the shoot at the camp and we got some group shots I circled back for a chat with Carinna and found out they also have the capability to host weddings, so for folks looking for an alternative wedding venue it may be worthwhile giving Hidden Bay Leadership Camp & Outdoor Education Center a call at 705-342-7345 and speaking to their director, Carinna Pellett.

August 8, 2011

Portriats for Author – Matt Lennox – Parry Sound, Cambridge Photographer

Filed under: Business Photography,Portraits — Tags: Business Photography, Commercial Photography, Corporate Photography, Parry Sound, Portraits — johnbrisbane @ 7:02 pm

One of the things I enjoy about being a photographer is the diverse and interesting range of people I meet and work with. Matt Lennox is an good example. We met earlier this summer when Matt contacted me about doing his portrait for his publisher HarperCollins Canada’s spring book catalogue.

Matt is a young, rugged, well travelled, soul who served in Kandahar between 2008 and 2009 as a Captain with the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves. He has also travelled to many interesting far east countries.

Matt’s new, and first book of fiction -”The Carpenter” is being published by HarperCollins in the spring of 2012 and promises to be a great read. HarperCollins describes the novel as a suspenceful, tightly plotted story set in a god-fearing small town in the eighties, rift with poisonous secrets, grudges passed on through the generataion and a dark undercurrent of crime. HarperCollins also describes Matt’s writing style that is uniquely direct.

As we worked away shooting the images, and as Matt described his novel to me I wondered to myself… hmm…was I photographing his generation’s future Hemingway?

Matt’s other previously published work is a collection of short stories he wrote while in Kandahr. Entitled Men of Salt, Men of Earth. the collection was published by Oberon in 2009. The collection was shortlisted for the 2010 ReLit award.

A few of the images we created during Matt’s portrait session follow.

July 2, 2011

Awesome Art – “Instruments for Free Space” Cambridge Galleries – Cambridge-Parry Sound Photographer

Filed under: Event Photography — Tags: Business Photography, Cambridge, Commercial Photography, Event Photography, Kitchener Waterloo — johnbrisbane @ 9:05 am

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting a unique and intersting display at Cambridge Gallieries – Queens Square. Named Instruments for Free Space - The display was striking in that it sits bathed in light, in the middle of a large darkened room. When patrons enter the room there is silence and then within a few seconds a magical sound creation that blends with the visual display to transport the mind to a place of peace and thought.

The display runs until July 2 so if your in the Cambridge area I urge you to stop by and experience it. I was fortunate to be allowed to take some images of the display and have posted a few of them below along with some information on the artists and the gallery.

Instruments for Free Space

[The User] & Xiaojing Yan

CURATED BY IGA JANIK

May 20 – July 2, 2011

Instruments for Free Space combines two very distinct installation works in sound and sculpture respectively. While both works are created with the use of common objects their ultimate function is an architectural undertaking of sorts, making the instruments in the exhibition a tool for activating space in unorthodox ways.

Created by [The User] – Thomas McIntosh & Emmanuel Madan, a Montreal based collective, Quartet for Dot Matrix Printers is a full scale musical composition written for and performed by a collection of obsolete dot matrix printers. The quartet, while nostalgically and imposingly reminding us that it is being performed by a team of industrial machines, is a unique composition vaguely resembling a classical music score. Its impeccable recording combined with precise sound requirements for installation animates the space through a physical experience of sound as an architectural tool.

In contrast, the grandness of Bridge, an installation work by Xiaojing Yan, exists in the silence of this sculptural work comprised of over 1500 Chinese porcelain spoons suspended from the ceiling and hung in mid air. Their rigorous arrangement gives full form of a Chinese bridge structure. While it is silent and delicate the composition as a whole commands itself as a full scale architectural structure. Its industrial history of mass produced objects (the spoons) is emphasized by the continuous aria of printers’ composition.

ARTISTS BIOGRAPHIES:

[The User] is a contemporary art collective comprised of architect and installation artist Thomas McIntosh, and composer and sound artist Emmanuel Madan. This Canadian duo has attained wide international recognition for their ground-breaking projects Silophone and Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers, which re-imagine relationships between technological systems, culture and human experience in striking ways.

Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers was commissioned in 2004 and nominated for the Nam June Paik Award by Kunststiftung North Rhine-Westphalia. Concept, design & construction: [The User] – Thomas McIntosh and Emmanuel Madan. Software: Thaddeus Thomas, ReDada software. Electronic engineering and manufacture: David Ozsvari.

Xiaojing Yan is a Chinese-Canadian artist living in Toronto. She received her M.F.A in Sculpture from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA and B.F.A from Nanjing Arts Institution, China. Her work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and public spaces in China, Canada and United States. Her solo exhibition New Growth will be exhibited at Glenhyrst Gallery of Brant in 2011.

Yan’s works has been published on many magazines, newspapers and books internationally including most recently Sculpture Magazine, Taiwan International Forum and Now Magazine. She is the recipient of numerous grants including most recently CAA(College of Art Association) Travel Grant, Project Grant from Toronto Arts Council, Exhibition Assistant Grant from Ontario Arts Council and Project Grant from Canada Council for the Arts.

ARTISTS WEBSITES:

www.undefine.ca/en/artists/the-user

www.yanxiaojing.com

CAMBRIDGE GALLERIES QUEEN’S SQUARE
1 North Square
Cambridge, ON
N1S 2K6

www.cambridgegalleries.ca

June 16, 2011

Real Estate Pros – Business Portraits – Parry Sound – Cambridge Photographer

Filed under: Business Photography — Tags: Business Photography, Kitchener Waterloo, Parry Sound, Portraits — johnbrisbane @ 8:12 am

Recently I had the pleasure of working once again with Nicole and Claudette Boyd, brokers with Royal LePage Team Advantage Realty in Parry Sound. I had first met the Boyd girls five years ago when I first did their business portriats. When they felt it was time for some portait updates for their website and promotional material I was pleased to have them call to arrange another portait session. As it was still winter in the Parry Sound area when we did the shoot, we opted to do the session in studio. A few of the shots from our session are below.

December 29, 2010

Thank You and have a Happy, Healthy New Year from Bayshore Photography – Parry Sound & Cambridge Studios

Filed under: Baby and Child photography,Business Photography,Commercial Photography,Corporate Photography,Destination Wedding Photography,Landscape Photography,Travel,Weddings,Wildlife Photography — Tags: Business Photography, Commercial Photography, Corporate Photography, Engagement, Georgian Bay Landscape, Parry Sound, Portraits, Wedding Photography — johnbrisbane @ 10:33 am

As 2010 draws to a close I want say a HUGE THANK YOU to all the wonderful couples, families and businesses Bayshore Photography met and worked with this past year. You kept us busy, energized and engaged and we thank you from the bottom of my hearts.

You came from far (London, England) and near (Parry Sound and Cambridge) and you took us to some amazing venues. From intimate, lake side settings in Northern Ontario to wonderful cottages and luxury resorts throughout Parry Sound and Muskoka, and even out of the country to a fabulous five star resort in sunny, Cabo San Lucas, on the tip of Mexico’s Baja Penninula!

You helped expand our product range with orders for several custom sign in books and story-book albums, large canvas gallery wraps, and custom designed cards.

This past fall I have been playing catch up doing blog posts on some of the amazing weddings, engagements, portrait and commercial sessions that made up 2010 and I will do my best to continue to do regular blog posts on much of the rest of the 2010 line up in the coming months, in between working through the custom album orders from 2010 and preparing or another interesting year.

Best wishes to one and all for 2011! May we all have a wonderful year!

Below are a few late evening, December images from right outside the door of our Georgian Bay studio, just north of Parry Sound. Enjoy Life!

November 17, 2010

Custom Cards for all occassions – A note from Barb Kerr

Filed under: Business Photography,Landscape Photography — Tags: Business Photography, Georgian Bay Wedding, Parry Sound — johnbrisbane @ 7:15 am

It’s always great when past clients call to ask if you can supply something they have been purchasing from other sources. This happend to us recently when Barb Kerr of Investors Group Financial Services Inc. called to ask if we could do custom cards with a local Georgian Bay scene on them. I said “Sure” and sent Barb a selection of Georgian Bay images I shot this past summer. Barb quickly got back to me with her choice… a deeply coloured sunset shot I took among the islands just a few minute seadoo ride from our dock.

The inside page and front cover from Barb’s new 5 x7 inch custom cards are shown below.

If your interested in some custom folded cards, give us a call. We can do virtually any design and messaging, including custom Christmas cards using portrait images from past shoots. Something different than using a Hallmark card!

September 28, 2010

We’re growing!!! A new studio, new cards…

Filed under: Baby and Child photography,Business Photography,Commercial Photography,Corporate Photography,Event Photography,Portraits,Weddings — Tags: Baby and Child photography, Business Photography, Commercial Photography, Corporate Photography, Event Photography, Kitchener Waterloo, Parry Sound, Portraits, Wedding Photography — johnbrisbane @ 10:12 pm

Those of you who follow my blog and facebook page know we have recently opened a southern Ontario studio in Cambridge to help us better serve the Southern Ontario market. We will be continuing to have a strong presence throughout the Parry Sound – Muskoka region through our studio on the shores of Georgian Bay, near Parry Sound, while using the Cambridge studio as our base for Southern Ontario.

The new Cambridge studio has nice high ceilings, tons of storeage, and awesome natural light. As well, it has lots of room to display our ever expanding portfolio, a great office space, and a wonderful room for client consults. To reflect these changes we now have a toll free number for Canadian and USA based clients 1-877-942-1661 and new business cards. The back and front sides of the cards are shown below. Our e-mail contact is info@bayshorephotography or john@bayshorephotography

June 24, 2010

The Girls of Dentistry on the Bay – Parry Sound

Filed under: Business Photography,Corporate Photography,Portraits — Tags: Business Photography, Commercial Photography, Parry Sound, Portraits — johnbrisbane @ 10:23 am

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of doing a series of business portraits for Dr. Lori Lahti and the associates and staff of Dentistry on the Bay, a modern, professional dental clinic located in Parry Sound Ontario. Dr. Lahti recently had an ultra modern clinic built to house her growing business and she was after a range of images of her associates and staff. As Dr. Lahti wanted white background for the images I took my portable back drop stands, a 12 foot roll of white backdrop paper, my Alien Bee studio lights , and other gear, into her clinic and we set up a portable studio in the front of the office and did the shoot during an extended lunch and business meeting that Dr. Lahti had scheduled. I opted to go for a white high key look and had a blast working with Dr. Lahti, and her team. These gals are high energy and high on life! We got some great images and I am sure that you will see many of them over time on the Dentistry on the Bay website and in Dr. Lahti’s print material. Below are a few of the images we captured. Thanks Lori, it was a fun shoot!

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