DAVID ELLINGSEN PHOTOGRAPHY

Photo Donuts?
I hadn’t heard of them either…until I found their site was directing traffic my way and my curiosity got the better of me. I was a little weirded out that someone has pulled a whole collection off my site to theirs without permission, but looks like someone there likes this work.

Finally…a donut I like…still naughty, but good for me.

I am excited to have received five Honorable Mentions at this year’s International Photography Awards out of the approximately 15,000 submissions.

Some of the new Polaroid work I have been shooting was awarded in the following categories:
Portrait Professional
Fine Art Portrait-Professional
Self Promotion-Professional
People Other-Professional

And the image of Vancouver harbour during the 2010 Winter Olympics was awarded in the following category:
Cityscapes-Professional

Yah…

Showing “fresh works from creative professionals”, Photography Served has featured my recent collection of Polaroid Corporate portraits.

Some of the work I photographed for BC Place Stadium last year has been included in the updated website for the new renovations…

We had a very successful event this past week with the 2nd Annual CAPIC Vancouver Portfolio Speed Reviews. I won’t go into great detail myself as I’ll re-post the official wrap up below, but this has to be the second best possible reason to join CAPIC (the first is getting those Canadian copyright laws changed!).

Without doubt, one of the most successful and rewarding events that CAPIC Vancouver has put together! There was a fantastic turnout of reviewers representing the best design houses and advertising agencies in the city including Cossette, Karacters, Emdoublyou Design, and Hangar 18. This was matched by a real cross-section of photographers showing their best work. According to the reviewers, there were some stunning world class quality portfolios being shown.
Reviewers repeatedly noted that artists that they had seen last year had taken and acted on their advice to greatly improve the overall impact and quality of their books. This was a clear indication to them of the value of the event. The designers all felt that this was time well spent. Meeting new talent, reacquainting themselves with others and being part of the community was worth every minute.
Each of the artists felt the quality of the reviews. Although five minutes often felt like only two, it created a focused and intense session which was truly like speed dating ( for those who have done that) after which they hoped that could lead to follow-up meetings and potential work.
There is no other comparable business environment that brings so many artists and buyers together to meet.
The event committee, volunteers and board members all worked hard to organize this event that saw virtually every participant in the reviews having their portfolio seen and commented on by every one of the 12 reviewers. To everyone’s real appreciation, that exceeded all expectations. A giant thank you to all of the reviewers for staying on to finish!

Comments and quotes from the evening:

It really was a fabulous evening. It was exhausting, but extremely
rewarding. The reviews are a great opportunity for us to offer some
guidance on how to get the most impact from a well designed portfolio
presentation.
Vida Jurcic – Hangar 18

It was a pleasure. Overall I found the night very organized and quality
of work shown to be quite high. A shame not one illustrators showed up.
Local reps should be slapped for not encouraging their clients to attend.
Thank you again for inviting us to participate,
Mark Busse – Industrial Brand Creative

Thanks for having me last night, it was my pleasure.
Calvin Ho  Vancouver  MacLaren McCann

“Good to see some new younger talent, not sure how you attract this and
even getting some of the more established shooters to attend.”
James Bateman – Karacters Design Group

“Thanks for the opportunity to present my work to a variety of art directors
in an atmosphere that is both relaxed and analytical. It has been invaluable
to my development as a photographer.”
Leanna Rathkelly – Whistler

“If you need a reason to join CAPIC, it is the Portfolio Speed Review. A must
attend event for both professionals and amateurs.”
Pooya Nabei -  Pooya Nabei Photography

We added some of the wonderful new Polaroid film to the portrait shoot last night at Sugar Studios. Pretty stellar if I say so myself.
Thanks to Brent, Nathaniel, Matthew and Theo at Richards, Patricia Lagmay for styling, Katrina Molson for hair + grooming, photo assistant Sandra Nieuwenhuijsen and of course Sugar Studios for the amazing space. The rest of the shoot will be forthcoming…
Cheers.

We wrapped another portrait shoot for the ongoing series for BC Hydro’s Team Powersmart campaign. The subjects this time around were Matt Hill and Stephanie Tait who run an organization called Run for One Planet. These two are a pretty cool duo, and talk about inspiring. They ran one marathon per day for a whole year and all in the name of promoting environmental action. I asked Matt if that really meant they ran 365 days in a row and he mentioned they usually took a day or two off each week…your body simply couldn’t take that much action with no recovery time.

Now that’s pretty amazing, but my favorite thing about their website was a blog posting called “Where Does Your Garbage Go?“, a fascinating article about an organization down in Seattle, headed by MIT, called Trash Track. They electronically tag items in the trash and track their journey to their ultimate destination, wherever that may be. Kind of like the other end of the 100 Mile Diet…

“Imagine a future where immense amounts of trash didn’t pile up on the peripheries of our cities: a future where we understand the ‘removal-chain’ as we do the ‘supply-chain’, and where we can use this knowledge to not only build more efficient and sustainable infrastructures but to promote behavioral change.”

Nice.

Finally…Canada has it’s own source-site for our commercial photography industry. Industry veteran Anna Goodson introduces “The MEATMARKET™”.

“The MEATMARKET™ provides a high-end, online platform to showcase and promote the superb talents of the Canadian Commercial Photography Industry to the global advertising and marketing community.” With everything from studio rentals and prop sourcing to photographers and stylists, this site promises to be a great resource for art buyers specifically in this country.

Very proud to be invited to join and a part of this new venture. Yah Canada!

Hot off the press.

I photographed Mike Dennison a while back for his new “Runner’s Yoga” DVD which has now just been released. Mike has been teaching yoga and running for years now and quickly saw the benefits of combining the two into a complete training program. Now you can too!

Get going….