• 02/04/2010

Well, what do you know, I just made the frontpage of Oak Bay News!  Well, at least my photo did.  In colour, no less.

Yup, that’s my photo, the one of the lady in the pink coat.

And that’s not all, I had another photo published today.  And! I have a rather funny story to go along with it… at least I think it’s funny.

A few weeks ago, we had an architecture assignment at school.  We were to shoot with a 4×5 view camera, and after driving around for a while I found this beautiful building – the jail on Wilkinson Road. Without getting my hopes up too high, I ventured into the parking lot, got out of the car, and into the main building.  As soon as I stepped in, I was confronted by a voice coming out of nowhere (it seemed), asking me how it could help me.  I wondered how a cracked voice could possibly help me, but I did state my purpose of being there; I’m a student, and could I please take one photograph of the building.

The voice said it would need to ask its supervisor (presumably another voice… probably deeper – rumbling even), and so I stood there waiting, daydreaming about from which angle I would photograph the jail.  A few moments passed, and then the voice came on again.  Startled, I listened as the voice explained that the rumbling boss-voice had said no, I couldn’t photograph the building for security reasons.  So off I went.

So you can imagine my surprise when the photo editor at Black Press, Don Denton, asked me if I knew where the Wilkinson jail was, because he needed me to go there and take pictures of a prison guard standing outside it.  I did just that, and the result was a colour photo on page A31 in Saanich News.

I would have really liked to photograph that building on the 4×5 camera.

I guess it’s a pretty good way to start.

Loka