Open pit, underground, in the shops, warehouses and in the field, the faces of mining span across so many different jobs, positions and environments.
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A few faces I captured while walking through the various MacLean Engineering facilities. It’s the people that make this company a leader in the industry and I always enjoy my time photographing them within their work environment.
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When I am on a *”walkabout” I still try to incorporate some creativity within those captures even though they are gone within a few seconds. I never know what I will capture next but that is what is exciting about the job.
* a walkabout in my terms is when I am on site driving/walking around capturing the day to day. I don’t know what I will be capturing and whatever happens happens, nothing is planned.
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A few more images I captured while visiting LDI site in Northern Ontario. Throughout my visit I captured mining life above and below the surface.
I have a fascination for mechanics and when I look back I wish I took more classes in school but at the time I had no interest, in fact I had no interest in school at all lol. With the amount of trades within the mining industry today anyone can find something that will appeal to their inner talent, something that will challenge them as well as give them a sense of accomplishment and professionalism.
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Jasper took the time to drive us around to all our locations while we were on site so it was only fitting to capture an image of her and our ride. We managed to capture some great images while we were there and we are looking forward to our next visit.
I captured this portrait of Don Toporowski for his profile (and other uses) after we finished with our creative photography session for RockMass Technologies.
Some factors I consider when creating these profile portraits:
– I tend to capture them horizontal to show the surrounding environment if used in other media besides a profile
– I leave enough space so the image can be cropped vertical for profile templates
– use lighting from background equipment (when possible) &drag the shutter for the exposure.
– Capture the smiling, serious and in between facial expressions (all have their uses).
This is what I call my “standard portrait” and after setup will only take a few seconds to capture a few portraits like this.
Thanks Don and the rest of the crew at RockMass for that opportunity to create.
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Brent, my assistant, moved onto bigger and better things out West and I am truly happy for him and his decision. We had a great run.
Please welcome McKean to the “picture”, pun intended. McKean has assisted me in the past with studio work, we get a long great and I have known him his whole life. He is also my Nephew. Keep it in the family I say. 🙂 McKean is familiar with the work as he has worked the past few years stitching vent tubes for the mining industry. We managed to get his boots dirty with a quick underground shoot and of course we had to commemorate the end of the shoot with a selfie.
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Congratulations again to Negar Saeidi for her 40 Under Forty Award. I photographed Negar this past September at Vale’s North Atlantic Operations. You can read here 40 Under forty Q&A here: 40underforty
A familiar image popped up in my “memories” feed today so I revisited this session that took place way back in October 2008 when I started to photograph more underground sessions around Sudbury, Ontario. I created some underground work environment images as well as a “Family Portrait” for one proud father as both his daughters are involved in the Mining Industry and still are today. We were fortunate to have all three on site during this shoot so of course I create a keepsake memento for them.
