John's Photoblog

Canada Day

2012-02-20T03:15:00.012-05:00

Pictures of relatives and friends on Canada Day 2011. My mom took the picture of me at the end.

Mike

2012-02-19T23:22:00.000-05:00

My friend Mike.

My family

2012-02-14T00:45:00.000-05:00

My father, brother, sister and grandmother at my grandmother's house.

Tom and Kate

2012-02-10T00:17:00.000-05:00

My friends Tom and Kate in Montreal this summer.

Caroline Larsen

2012-01-23T00:49:00.000-05:00

Toronto artist, Caroline Larsen.

Cameron with chickens

2012-01-08T23:33:00.001-05:00

My cousin Cameron got some chickens.

Jen Mann

2012-01-03T04:21:00.002-05:00

Toronto artist, Jen Mann.

A.J.

2011-12-20T00:46:00.001-05:00

My brother, A.J.

Rachel

2011-12-05T04:25:00.000-05:00

My friend Rachel.

Evelyne

2011-12-01T02:00:00.001-05:00

My friend Evelyne.

Brendan

2011-11-25T02:38:00.000-05:00

My friend Brendan.

Mike and Keegan

2011-11-22T14:47:00.001-05:00

A couple of photos of my friends' November moustaches.

Graham Robinson

2011-11-14T02:03:00.000-05:00

Painter and illustrator, Graham Robinson.

Rachel and Evelyn

2011-11-10T15:51:00.000-05:00

My friends Rachel and Evelyn in Waterloo.

Celeste

2011-11-09T12:32:00.000-05:00

My friend Celeste in Montreal.

A.J.

2011-09-06T01:52:00.000-04:00

My brother in New York from a trip we took in February.

The Darcys

2011-08-01T22:52:00.001-04:00

Toronto band The Darcys.

Nanny

2011-07-06T01:50:00.000-04:00

My grandma Packman in her kitchen.

Andrea

2011-06-26T22:21:00.000-04:00

Musician Andrea Ramolo.

Rachel

2011-06-07T23:48:00.002-04:00

Kai

2011-05-16T02:54:00.002-04:00

My friend Kai was also in Toronto. I took some pictures of him at Trinity Bellwoods Park.

Aimée

2011-05-15T02:11:00.000-04:00

My friend Aimée was in Toronto from northern Labrador a few weeks ago.

Tom

2011-04-27T01:56:00.000-04:00

My friend Tom came to visit from Montreal.

AJ

2011-04-14T01:03:00.001-04:00

My brother standing in front of my favourite house on my street.

Katie

2011-04-05T02:48:00.000-04:00

My friend Katie in Cornwall.

Dina

2011-03-28T01:01:00.001-04:00

Janice

2011-02-12T23:28:00.002-05:00

A shot of nursing student, Janice Tang.

Jay Dart

2011-02-07T15:08:00.001-05:00

Portraits of illustrator, Jay Dart. He's a good guy. You can see his work at thedart.ca.

Alexis

2011-01-30T03:41:00.001-05:00

Alexis Hancey, actor.

Cameron and David

2011-01-20T23:50:00.001-05:00

I got back two rolls from the Mamiya I've been shooting with. These are my cousins, Cameron (top) and David at my uncle Pete's farm.

Ron Tabachnick

2011-01-09T01:02:00.001-05:00

Ron Tabachnick, of RT Planning Strategies, from a shoot I did in Scarborough last week.

Polaroids 2

2010-12-27T13:38:00.000-05:00

More test shots.

Polaroids 1

2010-12-26T02:13:00.001-05:00

I dug up my family's old Mamiya camera a couple of weeks ago and started taking pictures with it. It doesn't have a light meter so I've been using my digital camera to get the right exposure. I won't be developing the film in the Mamiya for a while so here are a couple of light tests/polaroids.

Vivian and Ryan

2010-12-14T05:37:00.000-05:00

A shot of my friend Vivian and her boyfriend Ryan.

Sidney 4

2010-12-07T00:56:00.000-05:00

The last couple of shots from my creative with Sidney.

Sidney 3

2010-12-06T23:52:00.000-05:00

Sidney 2

2010-12-01T10:00:00.000-05:00

Some more shots from the creative I did a few weeks ago with Sidney from Elite.

Grandmother's pictures

2010-11-30T00:06:00.002-05:00

I found some great pictures at my grandmother's house in Ottawa this weekend. These are some my grandfather shot during a trip with his friend Joe Leggett to Joe's uncle's cabin on the Gatineau, 1945.

I'm not sure who took this one but it's of my grandfather's boss from the Food and Agriculture Organization at the U.N., Ab Maunders and his wife.

Sidney

2010-11-26T07:53:00.004-05:00

Some shots from a creative I did with Sidney from Elite. I'll post more later. Special thanks to my assistant for the day, Stephanie Davis.

I've also been posting on this week on NPAC about my life as an assistant:

Day 1: http://npac.ca/?p=11241

Day 2: http://npac.ca/?p=11247

Day 3: http://npac.ca/?p=11386

Day 4: http://npac.ca/?p=11398

Day 5: http://npac.ca/?p=11427

Turtle Dave

2010-11-26T07:33:00.001-05:00

Dave "the Turtle Guy" Watkins at Eglinton Flats. I shot this portrait for my portfolio a few months ago.

Family portrait

2010-11-16T21:15:00.000-05:00

My parents and grandmother in Ottawa.

Jonah Hundert

2010-11-10T22:34:00.001-05:00

Some shots of Jonah Hundert, brother of activist Alex Hundert. I shot them for my friend Michael Kimber's blog. It's a nice piece of narrative non-fiction and worth a read: http://colony-of-losers.com/

Wet leaves

2010-10-29T14:57:00.000-04:00

A fashion creative I did after the storm on Tuesday. Thanks a lot to Brian Richards for styling and Damien Kim for modeling.

Woods

2010-10-28T01:25:00.000-04:00

Some shots of my friends Rachel and Alex outside Toronto.

New Hamburg

2010-10-24T22:55:00.000-04:00

Some pictures I took of my friends on a day-trip to New Hamburg, Ontario.

Chelsea

2010-10-12T23:51:00.000-04:00

A couple of pictures of my friend Chelsea. She's in Arizona now.

Algonquin summer

2010-10-03T17:46:00.000-04:00

A series of my friends Rachel and Alex from a trip to Algonquin Park.

Rockies

2010-09-20T10:00:00.000-04:00

I rented a car and took a trip to the Rockies with my friend Geoff.

Calgary softball

2010-09-18T22:23:00.000-04:00

I went to visit my friends Geoff and Christie in Calgary a few weeks ago. They took me to one of their softball games.

Maša

2010-08-18T13:57:00.000-04:00

Lisa

2010-08-08T22:11:00.000-04:00

My friend Lisa near College and Ossington.

Rachel

2010-07-27T22:24:00.000-04:00

My friend Rachel in the hydrofields near her house.

A.J.

2010-07-04T23:02:00.000-04:00

My brother A.J. outside a field on the way to my cottage.

Crowd surfers

2010-06-19T23:27:00.000-04:00

Shots of crowd surfers walking away from the stage of the Stooges concert that happened at Yonge and Dundas Square.

Fran

2010-06-06T23:22:00.000-04:00

My cottage neighbour, Fran.

2010-06-06T00:06:00.000-04:00

Benson Auto Parts, Cornwall, Ontario. My friend Katie came to visit me in Toronto while on vacation from Inuvik. I drove her to Cornwall and we drove around there.

Bethany

2010-06-01T00:24:00.000-04:00

A shot of my friend Bethany.

2010-05-24T00:19:00.000-04:00

A couple on Lake Shore Boulevard.

Roll 3

2010-05-15T01:51:00.000-04:00

Roll 2

2010-05-14T01:14:00.000-04:00

Roll 1

2010-05-13T01:28:00.000-04:00

These pictures are from film my mom never used when she took a photography class in the nineties. She found two rolls of black and white and one colour roll and I stuck them in an old Nikon point and shoot. These were shot in January and I got the pictures back today. I've haven't used film since I was a kid and I'm pretty pleased with the results.

Mother's day

2010-05-09T01:21:00.000-04:00

I took these pictures on mother's day at my Aunt Ruth's farm near Wellesley, Ontario.

2010-04-22T01:42:00.000-04:00

Street portrait, Lisbon, November 2009.

2010-04-21T20:53:00.000-04:00

King Street, Toronto.

Ride along

2010-04-20T20:37:00.000-04:00

Over the last two days I've been on a ride along with Canadian Press photographer Nathan Denette. These are the best shots. Above is Raptors GM Bryan Colangelo at press conference trying to explain why the Raptors didn't make the playoffs.

It was 4/20 so we went to the pot protest at Dundas Square. The guy being tackled pulled a gun, got kicked in the head by the guy on the left and was then arrested. I missed the kick shot.

To finish the day, we went to the baseball game against Kansas City.

2010-04-19T19:27:00.000-04:00

Street portrait, Berlin, October 2009.

2010-04-18T19:24:00.000-04:00

Berlin, October 2009.

2010-04-17T19:20:00.000-04:00

Berlin, October 2009.

2010-04-16T19:10:00.000-04:00

Street portrait, Große Freiheit, Hamburg, October 2009.

2010-04-15T19:04:00.000-04:00

Berlin, October 2009.

2010-04-13T23:33:00.000-04:00

An old restaurant on Highway 7.

2010-04-12T23:30:00.000-04:00

A defunct gas station outside Kaladar, Ontario.

Pat!

2010-04-12T18:46:00.000-04:00

My friend Pat on College Street, Toronto.

2010-04-11T18:44:00.000-04:00

Ghent, October 2009.

2010-04-10T18:42:00.000-04:00

Brussels, October 2009.

2010-04-09T01:17:00.000-04:00

Puerta del Sol, Madrid, November 2009.

2010-04-08T01:14:00.000-04:00

Nice, November 2009.

2010-04-07T01:36:00.000-04:00

My Grandma Jean at Easter, Kitchener.

2010-04-06T01:30:00.000-04:00

King's Noodle House, Chinatown, Toronto.

Tom

2010-04-05T02:41:00.000-04:00

My friend Tom came down from Montreal for the long weekend.

Cousins

2010-04-04T02:22:00.000-04:00

These are some shots of my Easter visit to my mom's side of the family near Kitchener. We had it at my aunt Joy's house, which is in a suburb that's still being built. The neighbourhood looks different every time we go but there's always a huge pile of sand to play on.

2010-04-03T00:50:00.000-04:00

Late bus, Toronto.

2010-04-02T21:49:00.000-04:00

Church elder James Eliopoulos rearranges candles lit by worshippers at the Good Friday mass at Metamorphosis Greek Orthodox Church, April 2. This was a cool assignment for Toronto Community News. I've only attended Presbyterian church and one Catholic mass and it's always interesting to see other religious ceremonies.

2010-04-01T21:46:00.000-04:00

Lagos, November 2009.

2010-03-31T02:28:00.000-04:00

Seville, November 2009.

Photo group

2010-03-30T22:30:00.000-04:00

Here are Nicole and Issa, two of three high school students in my photo class. I'm teaching a four-week mentoring/after-school program for Pathways in Lawrence Heights.

We went out to the field behind Bathurst Heights School.

They've done some good work. You can see their finished project at pathwaysphoto.blogspot.com.

2010-03-29T22:27:00.000-04:00

Barcelona, November 2009.

2010-03-28T17:34:00.000-04:00

Ain, France, November 2009.

2010-03-27T18:51:00.000-04:00

Marseilles, November 2009.

2010-03-26T18:49:00.000-04:00

Virieu-le-Grand, November 2009.

2010-03-25T18:47:00.000-04:00

Belley, November 2009.

2010-03-23T23:51:00.000-04:00

Late bus, Toronto.

2010-03-23T19:29:00.000-04:00

Courseulles-Sur-Mer, Juno Beach, November 2009.

2010-03-22T19:25:00.000-04:00

Virieu-le-Grand, November 2009.

2010-03-21T01:02:00.000-04:00

Koreatown, Toronto.

2010-03-20T00:58:00.000-04:00

Marseilles, November 2009.

2010-03-19T01:02:00.000-04:00

Lyon, November 2009. I recently read Mary Ellen Mark's Twins. It's pretty awesome.

2010-03-18T01:00:00.000-04:00

Paris Metro, November 2009.

Family portrait

2010-03-17T00:56:00.000-04:00

Lyon, November 2009.

Street portrait 10

2010-03-16T01:07:00.000-04:00

Paris, November 2009.