The assignment sheet for the Montreal Gazette freelance gig said I had an hour with Michel Audet, Quebec's recently named designate to UNESCO, for a portrait.

I arrive a bit early to scout the place, one of the many Université Laval huge campus buildings. I find two great locations that I could use as a backdrop.

I arrive at Audet’s office at the same time as the reporter, who asks him how long he will have for us. 15 minutes. Knowing that I might not be able to get him on my previously scouted location, I start to take pictures as the journalist interview him. The office is small, there is nothing I can use as a backdrop, so I just put an off camera flash and I try to created something.

After 15 minutes, he have to leave. I ask if I can have him for 5 more minutes in the hall downstairs. I know I don’t have a lot of time, so I decide to use the second best location I found. Less potential, but safer. The other one has some mixed light with weird reflection on the floor so I want to play safe.

No time to be artsy fartsy. “Get the best picture in the time allowed”, was saying Frank O'Connor, one of my teachers at Loyalist College. I just put a side flash on a light stand and I shoot a couple of frame. “Thank you for your time, sir!”

At the end, the Gazette used the one in the office. The picture ran pretty small and I guess they wanted a tighter one.

I did not talked a lot about myself since we came back from Windsor. That’s mainly because they are not a lot to say. I went back to my old job to repay some debt before I can start to freelance more seriously.

Well... I *AM* freelancing. It’s just that I do not really advertise myself for now. However, the Montreal Gazette call me for freelance jobs here and there. Saturday, they publish two pictures of mine for a story on Tran Trieu Quan. This one was on the front of the business section, and this one inside on page C4.