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BIG NEWS! The Improv Theatre-Vancouver is OURS for 6 days of photo workshops! – Please ‘LIKE’ our new Toucan Shoot Photography fan page – click the LIKE button at the top of the http://www.facebook.com/pages/Toucan-Shoot/197237980346808 page
Shane Kelley and I are teaching beginner photo workshops…fun fun days where I’ll share my knowledge and experience working as a professional photography & Computer Animation teacher – Shane is my talented photo partner and was an awesome photojournalist at major newspapers and magazines for 20+ years. We can’t wait to share our passion for photography with our students!
http://www.toucanshoot.com/workshops/

If you were around the Cloveradale Rodeo in Surrey the May long weekend, you might have had the chance to catch this great act… Danica Danielsen. I believe she has, or is in the process of recording an album in Nashville. She was backed up by some very talented musicians on stage, one of them (her dad), a well-know local recording artist, Steve Danielsen. Click the photo link to check out some nice sunny Cloverdale Rodeo music photos.
I was at the grand opening of the Jinshei Mind Body Healing Centre in Langley and had the pleasure of photographing a great up and coming band, Behind Sapphire. Check out some of the photos by clicking on the image below.
Don’t forget to check out the Jinshei Mind Body Healing Centre. They have a Life Coach, Reiki Practitioner (great for athletic injury, insomina, stess), Yoga Instructor, a variety of products in store (Wild Women Enchanted products and apparel, crystals, and more..) and a Community Library. They are located at:
Unit 106-20505 Fraser Highway, Langley (Parking lot around back-facing Value Village)
Phone no.604-813-5425

Mark these dates on your summer calendar. Pacific Coast Terminals and TD Canada Trust present:
The lineup is awesome and you will see, for free, some of the big name bands that play at the Yale Hotel. Bring your kids, friends, blankets, chairs, toys, food, suntan lotion and come to enjoy free jazz, rhythm and blues concerts every Sunday at Rocky Point Park in Port Moody this summer. Shows start at 2:00pm. See www.summersundays.ca for details.
Select the links to view photos of Brick House and Incognito at the 2009 concerts.
If you are into some great cod, halibut or salmon and chips, Pajo’s Fish and Chips has a concession restaurant right in the park near the stage.
I’ll see you there…look for the guy buzzing around the stage area with a camera.
I posted some pictures of Incognito taken at Rocky Point Park last summer. They are an awesome blues band. You can often find them at the Yale Hotel in Vancouver. Check them out when they are there. Click on the image for band photos.
The band website is http://www.sonicbids.com/epk/epk.aspx?epk_id=8790 and on MySpace at http://www.myspace.com/incognitobandvancouver
If you haven’t heard about it, you should check out The Music Matters Project website. This is the brain child of an awesome professional music photographer, Greg Taylor. After looking around and being grateful for all the things the industry has allowed him, he decided to try and give something back. This project is his answer.
The Music Matters Project benefits the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund which is a registered charity that provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians who are struggling to make ends meet while facing illness, disability, or age-related problems. Greg is calling for submissions of concert photos from all photographers, beginners through amateurs, to professionals. These photographic donations will result in the compilation of a book to be published in November of 2010. The proceeds of this book will go to the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund.
This is a most worthwhile project, and I hope you will support it by either contributing your work, buying the book or both.
For more information, check out Greg’s website at The Music Matters Project, or contact him at info@musicmattersproject.org.

The Music Matters Project
So I’ve been working on this website thing behind the scenes for a little while. Did I mention that it was a work-in-progress?!
Here is the latest incarnation of it. Please feel free to leave comments, both positive and constructive. I’m open to suggestions to improve the aesthetics, as well as the clarity and ease of navigation.
Please come by regularly and see what’s new at:
I had the opportunity to shoot the Jimmy Bowskill Band when they were in town last weekend at the Yale Hotel. Here are a couple of preview pics from the evening. ![]()