Florida ~ Magic Kingdom...re-visited

Ok, so every once in a while opportunity tends to knock, and I have always been told to answer the door at no matter what cost. Well, 10 days ago I got a phone call from my Step Dad Peter asking if I was interested in doing a quick little weekend trip down to Disney World. Well, me being the kind of person I am said HECK YEAH! SO off to the doctors to get some Larazapan(it helps me fly, and if you know me I hate flying) and then hop on an O'l Jet Blue Embraer 190 for a short 2 hour flight south. So anyways we get here and it's beautiful 30 degree weather, some clouds but hey it ain’t home. Today, being Saturday, we decided to go to Disney but were told we had to be there by 7:30. Well me being a Disney geek knew the park wasn't open till 9 so something was up. We pulled up to the Grand Floridian at 7:30 am to be met by Dan, who is the Executive Dir. of sale for Walt Disney resorts & Kim who works for Dan. Dan and Peter do a lot of work together so Dan decided to give us a true Disney experience. He introduced up to Kevin who would be our personal chaperone for the remainder of the day.....sweet.....no lines anywhere. We headed to the park at about 8ish thinking what a great time to get a few shots, which of course I did of an empty Main St and Cinderella's Castle. A few minutes later, we were greeted by Regina, a photographer and she asked all of us to head over there.....when I looked over there I saw Mickey mouse, all by himself waiting for a personal greeting with Lucas. This had to be the coolest experience ever. Much thanks to everyone, Dan, Kim, and especially Regina who did the photos. You can check out Regina's site at the following link http://www.reginablaneyphoto.com/

Much love to everyone back home.
Rick, Amy & Lucas

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Portraits ~ Lucas Walker Denham

Ahhhhh! Finally some Lucas time. We went the other day to do a photo shoot with the little guy. It's been a while and seeing as I am trying to go in a different direction with my style these days, I figured he would make a great test subject. A lot of photographers these days are using "off camera flash" and it's becoming the style d'jour very quickly. As much as I like it, and believe me I really like it when it is done right, I wanted to start developing a style with the use of the light that is available to me. I will never lose off camera flash because there is so much you can do with it, especially when you know what you are doing, but available light to me captures the moment as it's meant to be. Very "late 70's Polaroid picture-ish on a beach in Florida that is being used as an Abercrombie ad" if that makes any sense. Anyways, here are a few of the shots we ended up with over two days of shooting, hope you enjoy.

Cheers
RD!

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Commercial ~ Goin to the Dogs

Saturday I headed up to do some shooting at the 2009 Toronto Sportsmen's Show. I had two jobs this day, one was to shoot some candids for the show promoters, and two was to grab a few shots of the 2009 Gold Whistle Retriever Trials (I had a friend running his dog in them). The candids shots are boring, as always, but I did add a few at the end that I liked. They Retriever shots are below as well. On a side not, shooting fast paced dogs in a dimly lit arena is much harder than shooting hockey. But to start things off I also grabbed a few shots of the Big Air Dog Jump, enjoy. For those of you looking for more images from the Retriever Trials, follow this LINK

Cheers
Rick Denham

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Wedding ~ Celia & D'Arcy

I spent Saturday with Celia & D'Arcy at the Casablanca Winery Inn, in Grimsby. This was a great location, everything on site that you need to shoot. Large winding staircases, gorgeous wall treatments, what more could you ask for. These two were ready for just about anything, and even though time was a little short, they did everything they could to get some amazing photos. Here are just a few from the day, hope ya'll enjoy.

Cheers
Rick Denham

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Hockey ~ Memorial Arena, The end of an Era

On Sunday March 1st, the Niagara IceDogs defeated the Ottawa 67's in what is to be the Last Major Junior hockey game played at the Niagara Falls Memorial Arena. It was built in 1950 and will be torn down as a new arena will be built on the other side of the city. Both the OHL's Niagara Falls Flyer's & Thunder played out of this arena with many players going on to have great career's in the NHL. Below are a few of my favourite images from the game, with a cool time lapse video at the end.

Below is a short little Time Lapse video we did as well. Click on the HD (hi-def) link to view it at it's best.






Cheers
Rick Denham

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