Labelle Photo

The Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year and are also hosting their annual conference here in Ottawa.
To kick off the 4 day meeting, a donors reception was held at the Rideau Club and I, along with my friend Leon Switzer of TotolPhoto, were asked to photograph the event.
Here I am wih Mrs. Mila Mulroney, wife of the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, Brian Mulroney, and the Honourable Jim Flaherty, Canada’s Minister of Finance.

Thanks for the photos Leon!

I had the wonderful opportunity of meeting Myles, his sister Jillian and Mom and Dad last weekend.

Here I am trying to make our meeting a little more interpersonal by showing Myles a mind blowing card trick I know. He smiles when I’m done and says “that’s neat” and then proceeds to jack my show and lays down about six tricks he knows on me…

I think he’s a ringer.

I let Noah press the TEST button on my Pocket Wizard to show him how it triggered the flashes in my softboxes. After our session, he was so eager to teach everyone how my camera worked and that he could now take a picture.

I just love these sessions with kids!!!

WOW… What a day!

Our day began at 8 A.M setting up the 5 “studios” at the Caldwell Family Centre.
With 7 photographers on hand, we were raring to go when the first participants arrived at 9 A.M.
We had so much fun shooting, talking with and connecting with some of the most awesome people you can imagine.
A couple of folks were telling us they have not had their picture taken in over twenty years!
We had a couple of large families and one with 5 very young children who were a blast. The kids kept screaming at us “One More!, One More!”
There was so much laughter and joy throughout the day.
Our last session was at 5:30 P.M… it was a long day but worth every minute of it.
This is a day that I will remember always and cannot wait until next year.

Special thanks go out to Jeremy Cowart, Kyle Chowning, Annie Downs and the whole Help-Portrait team founders.
I would also like to thank all the Ottawa photographers,  Richard, who did all the leg work for this site, Peter, Christine, Mike, Julian, Graeme, and Jennifer, you guys rock! See you next year.

A few shots of our team:

Jean Beliveau, NHL Superstar who played with the Montreal Canadians for 20 seasons.
He has his name on the Stanley Cup a record seventeen times, including seven times as
an executive for the Canadiens 1973, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1986, 1993.
Here he is being welcomed by Mr. Herman Yeh, President of Northern Micro to the companies annual Partner Showcase.

As an aside, back in 1968-69, while watching hockey with my father, I "chose" my favorite number, 4,
as this was Jean Beliveau's sweater number...
or maybe it was because we had the same first name???
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_B%C3%A9liveau