Justin Morissette At Fondation Véro Et Louis

I ended up spending a portion of my Saturday at the annual fundraising event held by the Fondation Véro et Louis. It's a large garage sale type event with items donated by celebrities with the money going towards the creation of five special homes meant to help people with autism.  You can find out more about them by following the provided link.  I was there to shoot some photographs of the musical act as I try not to miss any opportunity I can to shoot some concerts.  In between sets however, as a bonus, Justin Morissette, took the stage to sing a few songs by popular Québec rapper, Loud.  Speaking of which, you can see some photographs that I took of Loud while he was in Saint-Lambert last month by following the link.  The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/640sec, ISO 100 at 200mm.  Here are some more photographs of his performance.

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 100 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 100 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 100 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 100 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 100 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 100 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 100 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 100 at 200mm

 

f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 100 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 100 at 200mm

I don't have much experience shooting rap artists, but I think I'm learning it a little bit.  The hand and body movements are an important part of the presentation, so I tried to focus on photographing those.  I think they ended up pretty well.

Late Summer Sunset

It's always advisable to listen to your mother.  Recently, mine mentioned that it had been a while since she had seen one of my photographs on the television.  Since I spent most of the last two months shooting fireworks and concerts, I didn't have much time for the usual landscape shots that sometimes find their way to the television viewing audience.  With Mom's words in mind, I head out to try and grab a shot of the Jacques Cartier Bridge with the setting sun next to it.  However, I think my seasonal timing was a little off as the sun was nowhere near close enough to the structure to get the shot I had in mind.  I still chose to stick around as I had the feeling that the sunset would be a nice colour.  My intuition paid off as just before the sun disappeared, the sky turned a nice orange.  As a bonus, in one of those instances that I like to think are guided by some hidden helping hands, a plane and some birds appeared in my viewfinder to add a little something extra to the sky.  The photograph was taken at f/10, 1/320sec, ISO 100 at 200mm.  Thanks once again to Lori Graham and the gang at CTV Montreal.  It's always a pleasure to see my photographs on the big screen.  Hope you liked it Mom.

Head In The Clouds

After the two most active months in the history of the old blog, it felt good to get away for a little while, sit in the sand and look at the clouds.  My Lovely Assistant and I visited Lac Simon, which is in the Outaouais region of Québec, for a couple of days.  We were walking along the beachfront of the lake when I looked to the sky.  It had been raining for much of the morning, but the sky had slowly begun to clear as we arrived.  Little bits of blue sky and streaks of the sun began to fight their way through the clouds and made for what I thought was a rather peaceful and calming sight.  The photograph was taken at f/8, 1/1600sec, ISO 400 at 24mm.  I may already be missing the fireworks and loud guitars, but there's something to be said for a little peace and quiet as well.

Sylvain Cossette At Saint-Lambert En Fête

We've reached the end of our musical Saint-Lambert En Fête journey.  The Saturday night headliner of the event this year was Sylvain Cossette.  Continuing with the retro theme, he brought his popular 'La tournée 80s' show to town.  It features several hit songs from the decade, as well as a few of his own from when he was in the band Paradox.  His list of accomplishments is long, 32 #1 Hits, over one million albums sold, numerous Félix & SOCAN awards as well as Juno nominations.  Most impressive of all though, is the fact that he managed to get the Saint-Lambert crowd to leave the comfort of their lawn chairs for the biggest 'slow dance' in town history while singing the Chris De Burgh song, 'Lady In Red'.  After that, they never really sat back down as the town went rocking into the night.  The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 90mm.  Here are several more that I took of the performance.

f/2.8, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 115mm

f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 90mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 6400 at 53mm

f/2.8, 1/160sec, ISO 3200 at 110mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 95mm

f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 6400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/125sec, ISO 6400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 6400 at 41mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/200sec, ISO 6400 at 47mm

f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/100sec, ISO 6400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/500sec, ISO 6400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/640sec, ISO 6400 at 70mm

f/16, 1/100sec, ISO 6400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 6400 at 53mm

f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 3200 at 70mm

Whit that, my photographic weekend at Saint-Lambert en Fête comes to an end.  A very big thank-you to Jean-Pier Doucet and all of the staff and security at the event. Everything was handled perfectly.  Some fun little statistics before we go.  I ended up photographing 11 musical groups over the four days, resulting in 163 published photographs.  We won't discuss how many didn't get published.  Several km's walked up and down Victoria, Elm & Green Avenue going to and from the stages and looking at the boutiques.  Four delicious sausage dogs (don't worry, My Lovely Assistant had two of them) from the Boucherie-Charcuterie Saint-Lambert and a slice of pizza from Kapetan Restaurant.  If you'd like to see the other photographs, here is the list in the order they appear on the blog.  Just click on the links to see the photographs.  Jon MacAulay, Benny Adam, Loud, Noémi B Trio, Jerome 50, Coeur de Pirate, Onefortyseven, The Tina Trons, The Preville Big Band and The Luckies.  As for this update, if you'd like to find out more about Sylvain Cossette and his music, don't forget to visit his website. Phew!  I think I need a vacation.

The Luckies At Saint-Lambert En Fête

The final band to hit the stage the Saint-Lambert en Fête festivities this year was a Rockabilly outfit out of Montreal called The Luckies.  They fit in perfectly with the retro theme of the year as their repertoire consists of a few of their own original songs mixed with with some old Country and Rock songs that everyone knows and gets the feet a tapping.  They had a great presence on the stage and they did their best to rock the brave few who braved the concrete and sun to get close to the stage for the show.  Those who stayed in the shade were having a good time as well as I noticed several of them swaying to the music as well.  The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 400 at 50mm.  Here are several more photographs that I took of the performance.

f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 400 at 24mm

f/2.8, 1//1000sec, ISO 400 at 24mm

f/2.8, 1/1600sec, ISO 400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/640sec, ISO 400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/320sec, ISO 400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 400 at 67mm

f/2.8, 1/400sec, ISO 400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/1000sec, ISO 400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/250sec, ISO 400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 400 at 123mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 400 at 75mm

f/2.8, 1/1000sec, ISO 400 at 150mm

f/2.8, 1/2000sec, ISO 400 at 165mm

f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 400 at 142mm

f/2.8, 1/1600sec, ISO 400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 400 at 70mm

f/2.8, 1/640sec, ISO 400 at 42mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 400 at 200mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 400 at 55mm

f/2.8, 1/1000sec, ISO 400 at 105mm

f/2.8, 1/800sec, ISO 400 at 24mm

The band gave me a nice boost of energy after three days of walking the festival site grabbing photographs of the action.  Stay tuned, there's still one more update to go.  If you're a fan of old time rock and country, you can't go wrong with The Luckies.  To find out more about the band and their music, don't forget to follow the link to their website.