Daniel Sénécal skates with old schools quad roller skates in the Parc Lafontaine Park in Montreal November 3, 2008
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/125 at f3,5 with a 24-70 at 64mm - ISO 200

2 asian men chat on a bench in Sun-Yat-Sen park in the Montreal China town October 30, 2008.
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/250 at f4 with a 70-200 at 200mm - ISO 400

SOLD!

ADQ leader Mario Dumont is reflected into a ceiling mirror as he speaks to journalists after meeting with UPA (union des producteurs agricoles - Farmer’s union) in a Quebec City hotel Tuesday November 18, 2008. (THE GAZETTE/Francis Vachon)
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/125 at f3.2 with a 24-70 at 45mm - ISO 3200

How would you like to have a person unknown to you before calling in to ask if he could send you a check in the hundreds? Sounds like the Nigerian scam? It might, but with a solid stock archive this will be true.

After Lance et Compte, Infoman and Air Farce, one of my photo will be used in a TV show. The Rick Mercer Report called me last week to inquire about one of my photos, and today they confirmed that it will be used in this week Tuesday show.

Julien Marbach takes a rest to enjoy the sun as his friends do some shoping nearby on avenue du Mont-Royal in the trendy Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood of Montreal November 3, 2008.
Technical: Canon EOS Mark III, 1/3200 at f3.5 with a 70-200 at 200mm - ISO 200

A photo editor I worked with in the past had a good way to describe what working at a daily newspaper is.

He was saying that a newspaper is like a big monster. You feed him all day long with photos and stories. And no matter how many pages you produced, how many photos you put in, how many texts you wrote, at 12h01 in the morning, you go back with a hundred blank pages to fill.
Being a freelancer is more or less the same. You can have a great month with many assignments and money is coming in. But it does not matter how much money you made on the 31 of the month, because on the first day of the next one you go back to zero, and you have to reach your overhead to stay out of the water.

And when you reach it before the 10th of the month like I just did this month, it’s pretty reassuring.

David Tejada just put online a new video of him on assignment. I particularly love his use of three speedligth flashes with the huge octobox.

Back from a 3 days of shooting stock in Montreal. I shot about 350 frames in two days (Edward couldn’t sleep the second night, so I was way too tired to go shoot on Sunday) and just finished a selection of about 85 photos that will be submitted to various photo banks. A lot of post-processing in the next few days! I stumbled into a couple of feature photos while walking the street, so I’ll post some of that here eventually (already did with this one).

As planned and explained in my previous French post, I sat with 5 young photographers who would like to break into this business. 4 of them are still student at the CEGEP du Vieux-Montreal college. There was a lot of talent there! It went pretty well. I mainly reviewed their portfolio and answered general questions about the business. Apparently, Carl-Antoine Mainville Larocque was happy with the time he spent with me, even posting a picture of me suggesting a tighter crop to a photo with the help of some napkin paper.