In the past month or so I’ve participated three times in photographing a day in the life of different communities on Vancouver Island. The first batch of photos, taken on June 14th, was published in the Oak Bay News last Wednesday, which makes it okay for me to post some of them here. I did a similar thing last fall in Esquimalt, going from midnight until 7 am, but this time I went from around 4 pm until 10 pm at night. Much better.
Preparation for one of these is good exercise. My photo editor gave me a brief description of what types of shots he wanted from me, and approximately where in town he wanted me to shoot. The rest was pretty much up to me. I sent him a list of ideas, he OK’d them and made some suggestions as to what else I might add, and then I started making phone calls. Most places were fine with me coming in to shoot, others were not, and that’s just how it goes.
All in all it was a fun afternoon. It was definitely different from the shoot in Esquimalt (which was fun too), because now most people were still awake when I was shooting, as you can see.
