Charlie Sheen arrives to BIG crowd of media and fans at Toronto’s Massey Hall for his Violent Torpedo of Truth tour

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Jacob Hoggard of Hedley gives away autographed guitar at Juno FanFest 2011

BLOG: Big crowds take to Queen’s Park with a provocative message in first ever SlutWalk Toronto (Mom, don’t read.)

When there is a demonstration going off on a spring-like Sunday afternoon in Toronto, called #slutwalk – it’s hard not to think a few interesting photo opportunities might present themselves (all photos Richard Budman.) The demonstration turned out bigger than expected as maybe thousands turned out to Queen’s Park, then marched a short distance to [...]

BLOG: Walking home from the office, stumbled into an interesting Toronto Police scene on St. Nicholas st. (just north of Wellesley at Yonge.)

A St. Paddy’s Day walk home after leaving the office had me stumble into an interesting scene unfolding on St. Nicholas st. around 7pm (it’s the small alley / street that’s just west of Yonge and north of Wellesley.) After a usual Rabba grocery stop, I headed north up St. Nicholas only to be stopped [...]

Sammy Hagar helps old friends Randy Bachman and Fred Turner ‘Take Care Of Business’ on stage at Mod Club

BLOG: Ensuring a good spot to shoot Sarah McLachlan during Canadian Music Week at the Royal York Hotel

Canadian Music Week has arrived for another year at the host hotel in Toronto – The Royal York. The week usually brings a few interesting music personalities and photo ops. When I was told months ago Sarah McLachlan was going to be honored at a CMW related awards gala, and give a short performance, the [...]

Sarah McLachlan opens the annual Canadian Music & Broadcast Industry Awards at the Royal York Hotel

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BLOG: Shooting the PEOPLE of the 2011 Toronto Auto Show for Chevrolet Canada social media

One thing I greatly appreciate in my role shooting photos and producing video for Chevrolet Canada social media is that it’s not just about capturing the excitement of the cars – it’s also about the people. I just wrapped spending a couple of weeks in the Chevrolet area of the 2011 Canadian International Auto Show [...]

The Artist Project opening night preview in Queen Elizabeth Building at Toronto’s Exhibition Place

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BLOG: Playing my own game of Terminator in Toronto – getting a good shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger in the two hours I got

While my increasing social media responsibilities don’t allow me the time on the streets shootin’ I once fooled with, there was no way I could ignore icon Arnold Schwarzenegger making a post-Governorship speaking stop in Toronto. I was there for The Governator’s previous Toronto stop in 2007, but I was shooting video for a tv [...]

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s first stop after his Toronto talk; take-out coffee at his downtown hotel

Thousands of Toronto Police assemble on University ave. for Sgt. Russell funeral procession

BLOG: When my Twitter stream tells of BIG fire on Yonge st. – the early morning run includes me packing the camera

I had gotten up early, a little before six a.m. Didn’t want to be up that early, but since I was, figured I’d go for a run. Powered up the iPhone and after a quick check of my Twitter stream, saw some disturbing tweets about a big fire raging at the old “Salad King” building. [...]

Six-alarm fire at Salad King building on Gould shuts down Yonge st. and causes Ryerson University to cancel all classes

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BLOG: My favorite photo moments shooting around Toronto in 2010

If the holiday season is good for anything – it’s a good time to look back on the year and reflect. And if your somebody that likes to take news pictures around the city of Toronto – 2010 certainly provided a wealth of interesting photo opportunities (I would normally link here to the team of [...]

Toronto Photo Story of the Year: G20 Protests and Police actions

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Black Swan actor Vincent Cassel exits 2010 TIFF press conference for film that had the Toronto Festival buzzing

BLOG: To show off Windows 7 cloud interactivity, Microsoft took people Up #InTheCloud with a helicopter ride around Toronto [PHOTOS]

The Canadian Air & Space Museum provided an interesting and appropriate place to show off the Microsoft Windows 7 operating system and it’s seemless integration with various Windows Live cloud-based services and office web apps Microsoft is offering. I was very interested in seeing what Windows 7 was all about. I’m actually still running Windows [...]

Naked Gun star Leslie Neilsen passes at age 84

Muhammad Ali arrives to downtown Toronto hotel on eve of appearing at David Foster fundraiser

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Natalie Portman at Toronto Film Festival press conference for BLACK SWAN