A Passionate Wine Experience

We spent the day shooting for The Great Waterway in Prince Edward County yesterday, including a few hours photographing and talking to Caroline Granger the owner of the The Grange Winery. She was so generous with her time and sharing her passion for her grapes, her land, her family and for making wine. And yes, her wine was delicious! :)




© Dwayne Brown - Caroline Granger, owner of The Grange of Prince Edward Vineyards & Estate Winery

Eddy Belleville

Brent and I are in the fair town of Belleville tonight, getting ready for our last day tomorrow of shooting for the Great Waterway project, and we thought we'd venture out for a quite bite to eat. Well........in the short time between leaving the hotel and finding a place to eat, we got to see a small arson fire beside the road (and later saw a very suspect man carrying a couple of red gas cans walking down the road), then we were super lucky enough to see this adorable little girl carrying a chicken by the Marina. And it wasn't just any chicken, it was her pet chicken named Eddy. Who knew Belleville would be so charming? ;)


© Dwayne Brown

Political Heart

Today Dalton McGuinty was in Ottawa announcing funding for an expansion project to The University of Ottawa Heart Institute and I got to cover it for the Institute. I don't really follow politics, but I follow life. I don't really follow the news closely enough, but I know what good news is. All of that said, and regardless if anyone thinks today was a politically motivated announcement, I know that the talented and gifted folks at the Heart Institute are doing awesome work and an expanded facility will definitely allow them to help even more people and their hearts. An incredibly good news thing! :)


© Dwayne Brown - Dalton McGuinty

The Kind and Creative Face of Research

I had an awesome day shooting at The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute today - we were photographing a series of research scientists who are doing such amazing medical research here in Ottawa. I was also so impressed what creative and kind people we got to meet and photograph today - such high level researchers heading up awesome teams of creative scientists! Another fun and interesting day for us. :)


© Dwayne Brown - Dr. Michael Schlossmacher

About Face

We just got back from a super long day in Prescott shooting for Parks Canada at Fort Wellington - loads of folks in period uniform and costume, as well as loads of kids and families.

Thanks Nathaniel, Fraser, Lisa, J.P., Emily, Melanie, Joanne and all of the other great staff from the Fort!


© Dwayne Brown

Congratulations

For those who know me professionally, they know that I'm not a wedding photographer. And for those who know me personally, they likely know I'm somewhat of a romantic. Yesterday I got to be both. I got to take photographs at Eric and Kim's wedding. It was such a nice day - they're such nice people and so in love. :)


© Dwayne Brown

A Taste of Humble Sky

The sky tonight was so beautiful and so humbling as I sat at my favorite spot in Ottawa - facing west.


© Dwayne Brown

WEEKEND FREE DOWNLOAD - BRIDGE

This Weekend's Free Download is a shot I did last night while I was out shooting some color stock images of The Alexandria Bridge. I love this B&W shot I did while I was waiting for the light to fall for the color shots - the movement, the darkness and the lack of scale is so cool.


© Dwayne Brown > brownstock

Please use this 'link to download the file'. Feel free to print, frame it, just please don't use it for any commercial applications.

Hat Man

Not all men can wear a hat - not all men want to. I really love hats on men if they can pull it off. Charles McFarland, the artistic producer for Centrepoint Theatres can totally pull it off. We got to work with Charles last Friday while we were shooting some new campaign imagery for the Theatre, with Clare from FIFTY. Although the shot was just a quick snap in between our other shooting, I absolutely love how soft and stoic it is.

Facing Up

Some days - sometimes, the only direction to face.......is up. :)


© Dwayne Brown