2 religious processions from my neighbourhood this summer. The top 2 are the Portuguese Catholic community and the bottom 3 are the Hassidic community.

Cars from Georgia, Florida, and Virginia, respectively.

Disguise number 2 for a kid who lives on my block. Check out June 27th for his previous costume. Mr Bean is out and Spidey is in. I also saw him as Batman recently. I'll have to capture that before he becomes something else.

More from this summer's Americade in Lake George, NY.

Images from Lake George during this year's Americade.

On the first day of this summer's road trip we stopped for lunch in Lake George and to our surprise the place was full of motorcycles. Well it wasn't really a surprise because this was the third year in a row that we stumbled upon Americade on our way through New York State. So I have been to Lake George 3 times and have never seen it without thousands and thousands of bickers and their bikes! We now know that Americade takes place during the first week of June every summer. We only spent an hour or 2 in town so right after lunch I ran around asking people if I could photograph them with their bikes. In truth I'm not that happy with the results. I wish I could have spent more time there in order to really capture this amazing group of people.

A photo I took of author Heather O'Neill was featured in this month's L'Actualite.

2 more images from our recent trip down south. Some skim borders on Daytona Beach and the parking lot at "South of the Border" in South Carolina.

As well as getting quite a few interesting assignments, this summer has once again been filled with f/start. F/start is a photography workshop for teenagers founded by myself and 2 friends of mine 2 1/2 years ago. This time around I'm once again working with the wonderful Nancy Kendle and Peter Berra. Above are some images from our field trip to the Old Port this past Wednesday. From top to bottom it's: our students, Nancy and Peter.

Sorry that I haven't been posting recently. I've been kept busy by a recent assignment which had me photographing Montreal from above and from street level. These images are 2 self portraits that I took while on the quest for the right light and the right vantage point. The first one is on the top floor of the Marriott in the women's washroom. There's a great view of the city from up there!

Two more scenes from Florida. Weird empty parking lot at "The Best Beach in Florida!", and storm looming on another Floridian beach.

I'm going global! Brasilian magazine Revista Gloss featured my "Why am I marrying him?" series in their latest issue. I've been getting emails from Brasilian fans but have been having a hard time communicating since I don't know Portuguese. I think I will go outside with the magazine and ask one of my Portuguese neighbours to translate it for me.

Update: So my neighbour doesn't have great eye sight but he was able to make out the title which says something to the effect of: "Would you marry a person with this face?" Hilarious!

Back to Florida and a cheesy Motel of ours.

More from Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern College. I do hope that you all took the time to look at Chris Mottalini's work. I was just looking at his images again and there is so much going on in them. I mean there's the window light, the graphics and form of the architect's lines, the textures of the materials, and the way in which these beautiful buildings fit in with their surroundings. He is definitely doing Paul Rudolph justice. I am preparing an architecture slideshow for my class tomorrow. Now all I have to do is infect my students with the enthusiasm I have. Hopefully early tomorrow morning that will still be possible!

While in Florida we made a quick stop in Lakeland to see the Florida Southern College whose whole campus and 12 of its buildings were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I was definitely inspired to tackle this subject by Chris Mottalini's work which I become aware of just before our trip. Check out his images of Paul Rudolph homes that were slatted to be demolished here. They are quite something.

More images from our recent road trip. This was my first time ever to Florida and it was really nice to see the pastel-cement-block-bungalow in its natural habitat. Occasionally you see one here and I always thought that they looked so weird. In fact I thought that they were quite ugly, but seeing them as they are meant to be allowed me to really appreciate them. In fact I became quite enamoured with this style and spent some time trying to capture it. As an aside the birds in the second photo are White Ibis. Perhaps not exciting to locals but I just loved watching them forage on this person's front lawn.

First photos from my recent trip down south. These cars were all photographed in Florida. The palm trees and the colours that exist down there really made an impression on me and I was often trying to adjust my eye to this new situation. The fact that there were so many of these old classics was also completely different and something that I really enjoyed. Our northern winter with its cold and salt doesn't allow for cars to have such a long lifespan.

Some recent photos I took of author Rawi Hage for the Canadian literary magazine Quill & Quire. Just two weeks ago Rawi found out that he was this year's winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. This is the world's richest literary award and it went to a Montrealer! Congrats Rawi! His book "DeNiro's Game" is a really interesting inside look at Lebanon's civil war. Before his very successful literary career Rawi was a successful fine art photographer. Such a wealth of creativity found in one person!

In reorganizing my photos I found some more hockey fan portraits and I couldn't pass up on the chance to show you these 2. What great characters. I got back the tons of images from my recent honeymoon road trip and will post them very soon!

This is a kid who lives across the street from me. He's always out riding around on his "Big Wheel". Well a few weeks ago I noticed that he was dressed in a suit and thought what an interesting photo that would make. I figured he must have just have come home from some formal event and went straight to playing. So I crossed the street with my camera, chatted with the grandfather, and found out that in fact he had come home from school and decided to dress up like Mr. Bean for the rest of the day! What a character. This week I saw him in full Spidey get-up, again on the Big Wheel, but by the time I had gone inside and gotten my camera he was gone.