#487 Good news!

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We are very pleased to say we will be again be offering a fall photo workshop with David Trattles in Ottawa.

Photographer David Trattles

Photographer David Trattles

Dave is a leading social documentary photography – published widely and well traveled. His work is defined by people and their stories:”All photography that involves people. Documentary, Travel, Portrait and Weddings.”

David Trattles photo

David Trattles photo

David’s workshops have sold out every time he comes to Ottawa. He wows participants with a mix of experiential stories, new ideas and critique:

“My biggest photo self discovery on this course was that I needed to be a little “messy”. My work was too “square” and “nice” as David put it.” Jessie

“I really appreciated the challenge Dave gave me to see outside my photographic box. I feel a lot freer from my viewfinder, squaring images up and having everything in focus!” Ross

“Harry – thank you for introducing me to David.  This course has changed the way I take photographs.  More importantly it has changed the way I see myself and the world around me.”  Prasad

Interested? Please contact us to sign up.

#483 Fast car photos

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Remember the Luskville Dragway shoot for Ottawa Magazine?

It hit the news stands recently featuring fun summer options around Ottawa. There was a full page from the shoot of the race cars. I was pretty pleased.

And, speaking of fast cars, tomorrow I will be shooting part of the Ferrari Festival as part of Italian week on Preston Street in Ottawa. My shoot will be at Calabogie Motorsports Club. Very fun!

Stay tuned for updates.

Luskville Dragway Photo

Luskville Dragway Photo

#482 Kids photography

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On Tuesday night Christine Denis finished the Photographing Children Workshop in Ottawa.

It was the first time we have offered this course but it went very well! Christine commented on her blog:

“I’m so happy to report that the workshop participants went from knowing nothing about how their camera worked… to shooting in full Manual Mode for the practical session.”

It went so well that we are hosting the workshop again in September – people are already on the list . The dates are September 14, 18, 21. Contact us to register!

Some photos from the session on Saturday:

Photographing Children Workshop - Ottawa - Christine Denis

Photographing Children Workshop - Ottawa - Christine Denis

Photographing Children Workshop - Ottawa - Christine Denis

Photographing Children Workshop - Ottawa - Christine Denis

Photographing Children Workshop - Ottawa - Christine Denis

Photographing Children Workshop - Ottawa - Christine Denis

#481 Student Success!

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If you are a regular reader you will know about our ProProgram – a long term course in photography to help people get their photo aspirations into a real business.

Hagen Hohn joined the program last fall and has made great progress – photo classes, networking, work experience and now, after significant work he has launched his new website:

2Hphotography.ca

Please visit and cheer him on!

Hagen in action on our studio photo workshop in January

Hagen in action on our studio photo workshop in January, 2010. (He's on the right - photographing a father and son.)

#480 Oh no!

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Yikes.

We had a bit of a fright. Wednesday night I went to check our blog to upload a new post and I got a dire warning (see below) about nasty things ON OUR site that could harm computers. I gasped!

We are a small-ish business with good intentions. Over almost 20 years we have worked hard to develop lots of goodwill in the community. Much of our new business comes from searches via Google and other search engines. This nasty hacked in code was not good for business. I was aghast!

After a late night of interventions, finding the hijacked-in code and resubmitting to Google we waited and, ta-daa, our site is live and safe to surf.

We apologize profusely for the nasty, scary messages. Our research discovered these tidbits from Google reports:

• “Over the past 90 days, harrynowell.com did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.”

• “How did this happen?
In some cases, third parties can add malicious code to legitimate sites, which would cause us to show the warning message.”

Thanks for your patience!

We now resume normal programming.

Yikes!

#479 Children’s Photography

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Tonight Christine Denis started teaching her “Photographing Children” Photo workshop in Ottawa. There was an enthusiastic group of parents ready to soak up tips for better photos of their young families.

We are offering the session again in the fall – September 14, 18, 21, 2010. It’ll be posted soon on the workshops page.

I also got asked by a former workshop student about the possibility of running a film photography workshop. Prasad discovered the wondefulness of film – especially B&W on recent photo workshops in the fall and winter.

Those of you who know me are sure to remember my love of film – it has many very desireable attributes!

Anyone else interested in a film photo workshop? Please let us know. We may run an experimental workshop this summer!

Christine Denis - photographing children workshop

Christine Denis - photographing children workshop