November 3, 2011 – Vancouver, BC – A man hugs another Occupy Vancouver protester and thanks her for saving his life at the tent site on the lawn the Vancouver Art Gallery Thursday.  Earlier Thursday, it was reported that a protester at the site had been treated for a drug overdose. Photo by Brett Beadle for The Globe and Mail

Turner Prize-winning artist Martin Creed is currently exhibiting at the Rennie Collection at Wing Sang in Chinatown. Condo marketer Bob Rennie, 54, is the largest collector of Creed’s work.

I have been shooting a fair amount recently but just haven’t been keeping the blog up to date with my work. Just more a general lack of interest in spending more time on the computer than absolutely necessary. Anyways, here are some shots from on top of Grouse Mountain I did the other day for the Globe and Mail. Got to whiz around on a ski-doo all over Grouse, it was a tough day for sure!!!

I was sent to cover Vancouver Fashion Week for the Globe and Mail on Wednesday night. On stage and backstage – a look at opening night.

I was sent down to Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to shoot some photos for the Globe & Mail the other day, and ended up meeting up with Vancouver PD constable Sherman Soo as he was walking the beat. While I was following Sherman, all I could think about was my favourite TV show The Wire. The dealers, the fiends, the cops, everything is constantly going down and although at times depressing and saddening, it is a fascinating part of our city.

September 22, 2010 – North Delta, BC – Radio India broadcaster Gurpreet Singh sits in his North Delta home Wednesday afternoon. Singh recieved a death threat letter Monday, this coming after shots were fired at the home of his boss, Maninder Gill. Brett Beadle for The Globe and Mail

A shot from a while ago which appeared in page A4 in today’s Globe & Mail. She was a very cool person to get a chance to meet and a true inspiration. The article is here: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/skilled-interpreter-shortage-presents-hurdle-in-deaf-mds-quest-to-become-dermatologist/article1717651/

Jessica Dunkley is the first deaf, female Metis medical doctor in Canada. A skilled-interpreter shortage presents a hurdle in Dunkley’s quest to become dermatologist while doing her residency at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. Brett Beadle for the Globe and Mail.

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.

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.