Seeing best colors when looking at photos on web sites

If you want to see the best colours for photos on web sites, you have the best chance using Firefox 3 or better and going to http://news.datacolor.eu/en/archives/2009/02/get-your-colors.html to turn on the ability to use ICC profiles.

A few recent shots from sessions.







These two are of Nathan Rogers, an excellent Canadian singer/songwriter based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He wanted an "industrial feel" to the shots. That's a very sharp Japanese sword he's holding, by the way. Not an ancient one, but pretty lethal in any case.


Here is one of the shots I did of international speaker and business coach Don Steirer.

Strange collisions and other accidents

The collision between two communications over Siberia this week (http://tinyurl.com/cxu2v9) brought to mind some pictures my dad had of two tracked vehicles in the Arctic. He was flying by in a helicopter and photographed one heading south, and one heading west, they got closer, then collided. In the middle of nowhere, they hit each other. Last picture of the two drivers standing and presumably arguing over whose fault it was.

I remember stories of one tree in the desert in Africa that got hit repeatedly by military drivers - it was the only tree in hundreds of miles.

Then there's these pictures of Strange and Stupid accidents.

Also found this listing of Weird and Freak Accidents. Like the woman who was crushed by a car falling from second floor of a parking garage.

Amazing.

half a Nikon D3

Interesting pic on TokyoBling's blog about a Nikon D3 cut in half for display.

http://tokyobling.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/nikon-d3-cut-in-half/

Bed and Breakfast

I was staying and shooting at the wonderful Bilodeau Bed and Breakfast in Kelowna, BC last weekend, this was one of my breakfasts. After shooting it, I gobbled it down and it was good. Of course I was stuffed, and then Sid said most people share it. Still, really enjoyed my stay with Sid and Emily.

New page for event photography

I've added a page to my site specifically for promoting event photography. You can see it at event_photos.speersphoto.com/ (Yes, its event underscore photos). If you're an event manager or event planner, please check out the page.

Me on Parliament Hill

Traded shots with another tourist - if you can see it, there's a Tim Horton's coffee in my hand - how Canadian is that? From my http://www.justoverthehorizon.ca project.

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Newer shots

A couple of shots of Jen Nguyen who modeled for me and stood in my booth at a trade show.

The owners of Centini's Restaurant in downtown Calgary, shot for a magazine layout.

Love that bottle of wine!

Twitter, twellow and me

Well, joined the twitter gang - kind of neat to see what people are doing and thinking throughout the day. The constant updates of what people are doing - of course - is a great anti-productivity tool. But does give you some insight to what is happening in people's lives. From the mundane like what they are about to eat, to the humorous, to the scary (tales of lost cats on moving day, etc.)

Along with that is twellow.com where even more information and updates are available - if you're looking for people who identify with Mac Geek or musician, you can find those people who twitter on twellow. Found Henry Rollins - punk/rocker who influenced many up and comers. (However, his posts are not always suitable for family entertainment.)

My alter ego "Hardwire Speers" (I play music as a solo songwriter performer when not doing photography) has a twitter account you can check out.

Print winner from Speers Photography

Last week I had a booth at the SOHO trade show here in Calgary. As part of that I gave away a print of a photo I'd taken (see right) of lightening over a pile of rocks on a green field.

The shot was mostly luck, and no, it's not a "combined shot" built in Photoshop - I did some colour and tone adjustments but otherwise was what I caught in my camera.

The winner of the print was Bill Webster of Speedpro Signs on 14th St SW in the Beltline district.

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and saw my work. And thanks to Jen for manning the booth while I was wandering around shooting pics of the tradeshow and the excellent speakers giving presentations.