So, first things first…no it ISN’T possible to have a longer title, I ran out of characters on the blog title input. Actually that’s a lie, but it’s more interesting that way. Written on a blog = fact. Everyone knows that. The next question you may have is how exactly these three things fit together for us folks over here at Kevin Clark Photography. Well, it’s been awhile since the last post, so I suppose things have been building up, but this all sort of hit us with one big awesome wave.
Let’s start with the CTV BC News Team. Is that okay with you? Okay then, I’m going to start with that anyways. Starting back in April of this year (Tuesday, April 15th 2008 to be exact) Kevin began several days of shooting all the On-Air Talent for CTV BC. And here we are now on Wednesday, August 6th and finally have worked through the entire lot of images and have supplied CTV with 60 total headshots of 31 different personalities. Here are two samples of Pamela Martin and Bill Good. Most of the rest can be found on Kevin’s Headshot website at www.kevinclarkheadshots.com under the “feature” section.
I didn’t have a chance to be at the shoot, but Kevin mentioned that all of the Talent were just great to work with. Being on TV constantly, I’m sure they are used to exactly how they should look in front of the camera. None better than Bill Good, who after looking through his shots, I nick-named “The Rock”. He is amazing, 60 shots apart and his smile is dead on. Sincere, trustworthy and friendly, everything a great anchor should always be. Many of these headshots are already showing up on the CTV BC website (www.ctvbc.ctv.ca) including promos for some shows such as Bill Good’s “A Good Point”.
As for the ‘CIBC Run for the Cure’ supporting Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, we were just finishing up the retouching on the CTV images, Kevin was called out to shoot Pamela Martin one more time for a brochure they were putting together for “Team Pamela”, a training and donation program. They needed it shot and the image produced fast. Luckily Kevin had an opening only a day or two away and we were able to retouch and submit the final image the same day which was quickly sent off to the printers. Kevin shot Pamela on location down at Stanley Park, running on the beach. Always a fun challenge to shoot motion on a bright day and have your lights balance with the Sun. Luckily Pamela was game for anything so we got some great enthusiastic shots of her running repeatedly in the same spot and crossing an imaginary finish line. Kevin’s assistant David DuChemin was great help that day too, wrangling everything together so all Kevin had to worry about was getting the best shot. And as always Kevin got some great looks which turned out to be the perfect shot for the brochure. *Notice how clean that beautiful Vancouver shoreline looks? You’re welcome.
For more information on how to donate or participate in this years Run for the Cure, please visit their website by visiting this site: CIBC Breast Cancer Run for the Cure
So if I hadn’t been so busy with these first two topics the last few weeks, I may have actually have had time to blog about them and then the Pride Parade wouldn’t have made it in this post. But since it’s been so busy around here, time just goes by and luckily all of these fit together quite nicely. It just so happens that also because of how busy the studio is, I haven’t been able to spend any quality time with my dear ol’ Mum lately, so I called her up on Saturday afternoon and said “So Mom, how would you like to go to the Pride Parade with me?” And of course my Mom, being the wonderful lady she is, was delighted and said that she was actually already going to ask me. Cutest…Mom…Ever (Sorry Trish!). I’ve always been too busy in past years, but this year with my Mom by my side, we finally had a chance to take part in the amazing celebrations that literally filled Robson Street (and I mean ALL of Robson Street) and several others. We were actually almost in the parade for a short time, but when the bustle near the beginning of the parade cleared out we headed for the sidewalk so we wouldn’t get in the way. And yes, we both caught beads…and then went to Batman! (different blog post altogether). If you haven’t been to the Pride Parade yet, you really should next year. It’s one of the most touching events in Vancouver by far. It’s great to see a half million people come together to support equality.
This brings us to why all these topics are related today. A small group of these half million people were none other than CTV’s Pamela Martin, Colleen Christie, Tamara Taggart and I think I saw Mike Killeen out there too on a giant TV shaped float. There were probably a few more, but those were all I could make out through the crowd. Here is a link to the story on CTV’s website: Read More… There were so many amazing floats and just great people walking through the parade. From the first appearance of the RCMP in the history of the parade, to the revolutionary Sikh float, to the random naked old men, Vancouver really had a chance to show what a great city it is that day. Hopefully we keep it up.
– ROBERT MARKS
Studio Manager
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