Glowstick Play, January 6th, 2012

       An activity I've wanted to do for quite some time now, is to take some glowsticks, break em, shake em, and then spill the contents all over interesting objects and then photograph them in the dark. I've long wanted a picture that would be a Gunderson's Shooting Gallery Trademark; something that was very recognizeable and decided that a camera doused in glowstick goo was appropriate. I enjoy doing this very much, however, and imagine I'll be dousing many more things in glowing goop, maybe even a whole person some day!

Tunes for Refuge, Songs for Japan

       Here's a few charity concerts I shot in early to mid 2011. Tunes for Refuge was a shoot for the Y Women's Shelter in Kamloops (first 5), and songs for Japan was a charity event for the victims of the 2011 tsunami disaster in Japan (second 5). I don't feel that either of these shoots are my strongest work, but I might be my own worst critic in this case. Several shots from both events made it into local newspapers, and I know one of the artists used one of the shots from Tunes for Refuge as her album's cover art.

May 17th, 2011, Turner-Marr Wedding

       I'm a good friend of Kathleen Marr and Brendan Turner, the newly we couple in these pictures, and so when I was invited to their wedding in May of last year, I decided to bring my camera along to try my hand at shooting a wedding. Plus, their wedding offered a great excuse to upgrade from Nikon's D5000 camera, to the D7000! It would appear in some of the samples here that I was liberal in my use of contrasty, black and white post processing, but the rest of the pictures on the GSG Facebook page include many more colorful samples. I delivered somewhere just over 200 pictures to Kathleen and Brendan within 48 hours of the ceremony. If you like what you see here and would like me to shoot at your wedding, please note that I do prefer to be the "candid second shooter" at events such as these and recommend leaving the very formal, posed, group shots to photographer's with additional training in those areas. 

August 13, 2011, Valken Tactical, First Response Duty Gear Shoot

       Sticking with the vein of paintball, I'd like to shoot forward from the previous shoot by several months and share some of the photos from another gear shoot done as repayment to paintball sponsors. This time, my model, Mike, and myself went to a quiet parkade some time after 9pm one summer night in 2011 to photograph some of the black/urban sort of gear available to paintball teams from Valken Paintball. I was quite a bit more pleased with how these turned out in comparison to those taken in February. There were 30 shots in this set.

Can't shoot duty gear without doughnuts!