Well, what do you know, I just made the frontpage of Oak Bay News! Well, at least my photo did. In colour, no less.
And that’s not all, I had another photo published today. And! I have a rather funny story to go along with it… at least I think it’s funny.
A few weeks ago, we had an architecture assignment at school. We were to shoot with a 4×5 view camera, and after driving around for a while I found this beautiful building – the jail on Wilkinson Road. Without getting my hopes up too high, I ventured into the parking lot, got out of the car, and into the main building. As soon as I stepped in, I was confronted by a voice coming out of nowhere (it seemed), asking me how it could help me. I wondered how a cracked voice could possibly help me, but I did state my purpose of being there; I’m a student, and could I please take one photograph of the building.
The voice said it would need to ask its supervisor (presumably another voice… probably deeper – rumbling even), and so I stood there waiting, daydreaming about from which angle I would photograph the jail. A few moments passed, and then the voice came on again. Startled, I listened as the voice explained that the rumbling boss-voice had said no, I couldn’t photograph the building for security reasons. So off I went.
So you can imagine my surprise when the photo editor at Black Press, Don Denton, asked me if I knew where the Wilkinson jail was, because he needed me to go there and take pictures of a prison guard standing outside it. I did just that, and the result was a colour photo on page A31 in Saanich News.
I guess it’s a pretty good way to start.