I love Mayo on on almost anything and i was stoked to find out the Raptor does too. So when I was asked to photograph the elusive raptor in the wild I grabbed the biggest wild life lens and headed to aisle 5 and waited.
The Raptor ransacked the Mayo section and we had to run to keep up with him it was the moments of genuine surprise and joy that unfolded as he interacted with the shoppers around him.
The raptor is random and bounces around so this is a awesome way to work, you never know where it is going.
Big thanks to everyone who made this shoot a success, and to the Raptor for filling his cart—and our hearts—with so much fun!
It was great to work with Fall For Dance North. Toronto’s Premier International Dance Festival who hosted the Tkaronto Open II. Tkaronto Open II celebrates and honours indigenous dance forms.
Tkaronto Open II, is a Powwow style competition. Dancers dance at the same time in front of a set of judges. The music is live from Drummers singing and drumming one single drum. The sound shakes your whole body. The dancers move forward round by round until the last two dancers battle it out to win the cash prizes and title.
It is epic to see the speed and physical stamina of the dances mixed with regalia and the crowed cheering.
The event was produced by Freddy Gipp and Thunder Jack for the second year.
For many years, Indigenous dance was illegal in Canada. To experience a multigenerational Indigenous community of dancers coming together to dance openly is a symbol of the strength of many generations.
Thanks so much to dancers for taking a moment to be photographed after rounds and rounds of dance battle.
It’s great to see the TD Women in Enterprise images out in the world.
I have always been proud to be part of the FUZE team, a Women owned and operated production company here in Toronto. We worked with Ogilvy & TD to feature TD Women in Enterprise. Classical Music Conservatory CMC’s Lusiana and Wanda, partners in business and life. Arnold St Agency’s Emily Silverman and Kids Physio clinic owners Jennifer Halfin and Hillary Abramsky. Their business are super inspiring.
Birds see a wider spectrum of light than humans can , Birds can see UV light, because their lenses and other ocular media transmit UV light. They have special photoreceptors that vary by species and are sensitive to deep violet and UV light.
How do birds detect ultraviolet (UV) light? The human retina has three kinds of cone cells (receptors used for color vision): red, green and blue. By contrast, birds have four kinds, including one that’s specifically sensitive to UV wavelengths. There’s also another difference: In birds, each cone cell contains a tiny drop of colored oil that human cells lack. The oil drop functions much like a filter on a camera lens. The result is that birds not only see UV light, they are much better than humans at detecting differences between two similar colors.
We have worked out how to photograph live moving squawking animals with our “Bridvision” set up. We are shooting with two cameras at the same instant so we have matching / overlaying files. One camera see the spectrum a bird sees the other the human vision
Keel-billed toucans have zygodactyl feet (or feet with toes 2 and 3 facing forwards, and toes 1 and 4 facing backwards) – two toes face forward and two face back. Because toucans spend a large portion of time in the trees, this helps the birds to stay on the branches of the trees and jump from one branch to another.
Thanks so much to @ravengalleryto for the space to work in keeping and and Hands-on exotics for great models
GEM’s mission is “When girls know their power, they can live their purpose. We believe that women mentoring girls is essential in fostering the success of the next generation, and critical to creating gender equity in Canada. Young women with socioeconomic barriers face a proven disadvantage in their future prosperity. GEM was founded in 2012 from a vision that all young women should have the opportunity to succeed despite where they’ve come from or what barriers they’ve faced.”
We had a very tight budget, which often leads to some of the most creative solutions, shot in one day at in the studio / office of @localeverything. The talent were all mentees and mentors that are part of the Girls-E-Mentorship program.
Andrew Brudz and his fabulous collection of treasure!
We are starting a series about treasure hunters in the modern world, people who find treasure in plain site and re sell it, The arbitrage of things (Arbitrage) simultaneous purchase and sale of the same or similar asset in different markets in order to profit from tiny differences in the asset’s.
Andrew Brudz:
“A friend came over to my house during the pandemic and asked me if I had started collecting parrots and I was kind of surprised and said no ……. Why do you ask
Maybe I missed traveling and especially traveling to Mexico. Perhaps I thought I was going to capture all these exotic birds as a way of recapturing the experience of traveling, of being free. So my best friend Gayna created online vintage shop etsy @ArchipelagoFinds & @Archipelago
I guess I’ve always been a bit of a collector – when I was a kid I obsessively cataloged and numbered my collection of Smurfs.
Fred WhippyPainting by Fred Whippy
Once I found a painting and absolutely fell in love with it. It was this gorgeous woman with a whale tooth necklace. It looks like she’d been painted by candlelight, it was moody and atmospheric.
Painted by an artist named Fred Whippy who was from Fiji and worked predominantly in the 60s and 70s. He was a bit of a protege as a teenager and was able to travel to America for his first exhibition in 1970s.
I love this piece so much that I thought I had overpriced it so that nobody would buy it, and I would just get to keep it forever and say, “Well I tried to sell it and nobody wants it.” I also hoped that it would somehow make its way back to Fiji one day.
I actually found many of Fred Whippy’s relatives. They were happy to see it, and said, “Oh yeah, that’s Uncle Fred,” but none of them seem really interested in bringing it back to where it came from. (He passed away a couple of years ago.)
But one day, I was contacted by a couple who own a hotel in Fiji. They were decorating the space with artwork by Fijian artists, and they really loved this piece. So, I boxed it up and shipped it off with some reluctance and regret. It was a beautiful piece and, you know, the money they paid is obviously long spent. A part of me still wishes I had that painting.
I bought it for $40.00 and sold it for $400.00. I wish I had never sold it.”
