I’m back from GWNW! The annual photojournalist conference and workshop in Toronto is an absolute must for any Canadian news photographer.
I’m so glad to see Loyalist friends have I not seen in month. Ryan Jackson, Aaron Lynett, Tara Walter, Kevin Hill, Joe, Natalie Bay, Alexandra Stephanson, and some now second year student that where in their first year while I was in my second.
Some folks from the Windsor Star where there too. I was so glad to see Tyler Brownbridge, Bob Carroll and Rob Gurdebeke.
Sadly, Lisa King could not make it.
That was also funny to realize that so many people, including some that I had never met before, are reading my blog.
Anyway. Enough with the names dropping.
The conference was really inspiring. When you see some of Peter Power’s best pictures in his feature hunting workshop, you just want to go out and shoot-shoot-shoot.
I missed the last conference on Saturday because I had to leave, but Chris Bolin, Vincent Laforet, Jim Young and Lana Slezic where just great. Everyone was shacken after Slezic shoed her images and spoke about Afghanistan.
On my way back, I was carpooling with Jacques Boissinot (CP staff in Quebec City) and Bernard Breault (staff photog at La Presse in Montreal). They are friends for years now and they are so funny together. They act like an old couple, pretending to argue and fight all the time with each other. They ruined Cindy’s makeup because of the laughing tears that where running from her eyes.
Can’t wait to next year conference!
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Tuesday, October 24
New syndication feed
by
Francis Vachon
on Tue 24 Oct 2006 07:10 PM EDT
For you reading my blog through a RSS reader, please note that the feed has changed. The feed is now available here. The current feed will no longer work in a couple of days.
Monday, October 16
Dove - Evolution
by
Francis Vachon
on Mon 16 Oct 2006 01:40 PM EDT
Here is why I don't want to work in the fashion industry
It's the photographer, not the camera
by
Francis Vachon
on Mon 16 Oct 2006 11:33 AM EDT
On a SportsShooter thread about “is it the photographer or the camera that makes great pictures”, I really like Jeff Blake’ comment:
Sunday, October 8
Losing a hand
by
Francis Vachon
on Sun 08 Oct 2006 01:07 PM EDT
In a recent issue, Times reporeter Michael Weisskopf recall his struggle to learn how to use his new prosthesis after his right hand exploded when he tried to pick a grenade that landed into a military humvee, saving at the same time the life of photojournalist James Nachtwey.
The whole story is very touching – and sometime very funny.  Despite weeks of training on a computer, I had difficulty with the basic functions: my stronger outer forearm muscle kept flexing and involuntarily opening the hand--even when I was trying to close it. I had no more success with the mechanism to rotate the wrist. The simultaneous contraction of both muscles was unnatural and hard to remember in real time. When I did it right, I couldn't keep the hand from spinning 360˚, an annoying loss of control--and embarrassing in public.(…) Even putting on a tie remained a challenge, one fraught with danger. Rushing to a TV appearance a few weeks earlier, I tried to knot one in the backseat of a taxi. I gripped the short end with my prosthetic hand, which began to spin uncontrollably, almost strangling me before I managed to extricate myself. Friday, October 6
What the Duck TV!
by
Francis Vachon
on Fri 06 Oct 2006 09:03 AM EDT
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