Kara Lang, an amazingly talented soccer player who plays for the Canadian women’s Olympic and World Cup soccer team, as well as the Vancouver Whitecaps, came to me to get some photos taken for her personal website last week. We wandered around Acadia Beach, part of Wreck Beach, and I tried to avoid getting naked people in the backgrounds of my pictures (I had some success). She was an amazing person to have the opportunity to photograph, I think her personality and beauty come through in the photos. It was one of the easiest, funnest shoots I’ve had in a while.

I was up in Whistler shooting Crankworx this past Saturday for the Globe & Mail. Huge crowds, a massive party, and some epic mountain biking.

On Saturday I cruised back to Vancouver from a short two-day holiday down in Washinton state to photograph the Terminal City Rollergirls Championship Bout for The Globe & Mail. It was an action-packed night, was fun to photograph and looked like the crowd had a great time. The photos were for the front of The Globe’s BC Section yesterday.

I can say that judging by the bills I have had with the new tax, we in BC are definitely paying a lot more to eat out these days. (As if this province needed to get any more expensive.) I still don’t understand how Colin Hansen and the BC Libs can try to tell people we are saving money.

August 3, 2010 – Vancouver, BC – Perry Bourpoulas, owner of the Slocan Restaurant in Vancouver, says business is down since the introduction of the HST. A month after the HST was introduced a BC Restaurant Association survey says its members report a 10% drop in business. Photo by Brett Beadle for The Globe and Mail

I got up early on Monday morning last week and got rewarded with some nice light to shoot near Lynn Canyon in North Vancouver.  Shot with my 35mm 1.4 and a 45mm TS-E.  Two of my all-time favourite lenses.

Read the piece in the Globe & Mail here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/after-dropping-50-lbs-chef-anthony-sedlak-cant-stop-hitting-the-road/article1659913/


Celebrity chef Anthony Sedlak (foreground) and his friend and business partner Bryan Kelly ride through the Seymour Demonstration Forest in North Vancouver on Monday morning.

I was out photographing the Pride Parade for the Globe & Mail yesterday. Some shots:

Took a trip to the Aquarium yesterday to photograph the whales and dolphins for the front of the Globe’s BC section.  I am kind of stuck on the issue, I don’t think those tanks are any place for these amazing animals but I guess a lot of them have been born in captivity and couldn’t survive in the wild.  Still, it’s kind of heartbreaking to see them in there. Coincidentally, I was just reading this article: http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/201007/killer-whale-behavior-trainer-death-seaworld.html in Outside magazine (I usually read it every month.)  It’s worth a read, and outlines a lot of what has happened with killer whales in aquariums.  Sad stuff.

July 19, 2010 -  Vancouver, BC – Visitors watch as a Pacific white-sided dolphin swims at the Vancouver Aquarium on Monday.  Vancouver’s park commissioners voted Monday night to reject a motion urging a non-binding plebiscite concerning the whale and dolphin exhibits at the city’s aquarium for next year’s civic election.

I got to run alongside Teri and her running group fully kitted out in my motorcycle jacket and rain pants yesterday. A hell of a workout to start the day.




Teri Christopher, front centre, and the women she run with are hooked: ‘We actually call ourselves a coffee group with a running disorder.’ Race directors say it won’t be long before women make up the majority in marathons across Canada.

As far as assignments go, this one was rad. Jennifer had Band of Horses playing on the stereo and I got to take home some brownies and sugar-free banana fig date muffins. Doesn’t get much better than that!





While not a celiac herself, Jennifer Yong took up gluten-free baking to tap into a burgeoning market. Her business, Homestead Specialty Baking, sells gluten-free baked goods at local farmers’ markets. Brett Beadle for The Globe and Mail

I was just thinking last week about how I feel like an actor in a movie every time I ride my motorcycle over the Lions Gate bridge. It’s just almost too good, you know? That view, coming out of Stanley Park and seeing the North Shore, and the ocean out to the Straight of Georgia, it is just too epic. I remember getting stuck in traffic up there last year and actually being happy, in Vancouver when you get in a traffic jam, you get a 360 degree view of awesomeness!

May 23, 2010 – West Vancouver, BC – The Lions Gate bridge, seen from Ambleside Park in West Vancouver, was commemorated as a national historic site of Canada Sunday. Brett Beadle for The Globe and Mail