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Fitness Shoots

I had a few fitness shoots this last weekend and I decided to check out Old East Village Fitness as the location for the shoots. Great gym for personal training. Here's a couple of teasers from the weekend.

Mary Valid looking awesome 13 days out from Nationals

Jodian looking relaxed just hanging out at the gym

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Boxing Tonight at the Motor City Casino

Night of Knockouts VII is tonight at the Motor City Casino. That place had the best lighting I ever shot in. I'm looking forward to a good night of fights in Detroit.

Here's a few images I took the last time I was there.

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Amatuer MMA Images from Maple City Cagefighting

It was a good night of fights in Chatham with Maple City Cagefighting on Saturday. There were some really fast knock outs in the first round including Tony Laramie's 0:17 destruction of his opponent. It was great seeing a lot of familiar people and Thomas Armstrong is always calm in a sea of chaos that is fight night. I'm looking forward to their next event of Nov 5th. Get you tickets! To see all of the photos from that night, click here.

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Photographing Fight #300 at MCC3

A picture from the first fight I ever shot. PFC #2 - March 2014.

This weekend at Maple City Cagefighting #3 I will shoot my 300th fight since March of 2014. It has been a great couple of years and I have met tonnes of awesome people. I'd like to thank Jamie Champion for giving me a shot even though I had no experience.I love to shoot fights, fighters and promotional material for fights. I'd like to think I've become more skilled at fight pictures and hopefully I'll continue to grow. Looking forward to #300, then onto #500 and a world title fight. 

A picture from fight #295 - United Boxing Promotions - May 2016

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Maple City Cagefighting - MMA

I'll be shooting Maple City Cagefighting #3 in Chatham this weekend. I've shot all of their events so far and they put on good fights. I believe there are a few tickets left for Saturday. MCC is now part of the Amateur Mixed Martial Arts of Ontario (AMMAO) There will be a 145 lbs tournament to determine who will fight for the belt. I'm really looking forward to some of the fights and Thomas Armstrong of Gracie-Barra Chatham always treats me well and promotes a good night of entertainment.

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Kevin Higson vs. Junmar Emon

I've shot both of these guys before and I knew it was going to be a fast-paced, high action fight. Junmar always gives me great fights to shoot. Some fighters are easier to photograph than others. It was a great back and forth 10 rounds. Thanks to United Boxing for having me out.

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Fitness Weekend

It was a busy weekend, I had 3 fitness shoots and shot a clothing line. Saturday night I was in studio with a bikini class competitor, Sunday was gym shoots with a physique competitor who took 2nd in his class and a grand masters bikini competitor who won her class of 12. We also shot a behind the scenes video of the one session that will come out in a month or so. That was a lot of fun, once I forgot the cameras were on me this time. Thanks to Lucky Horseshoe Films for making the trip. We ended the weekend with a trip to Toronto to shoot a bunch of male models in the gym, featuring gym wear. I'll be showing some of the pictures over the next week and a bit.

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Makeup Shoot with Sarah

Sometimes I like to do non-fitness / fight photography to improve and keep skills sharp. I teamed up with Sarah (model) and Melissa O'Leary (makeup) to do some beauty pictures last week. Here's a sneak peak. A simple 2 light setup with a reflector

Model: Sarah Cur Makeup: Melissa O Makeup

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Fitness Shoot

A few more with fitness model Samuel. I'm looking forward to working with him on some more projects in the near future.

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United Boxing

I was down at the Hershey Centre, in Mississauga, on the weekend photographing fights for United Boxing. 6 good matches in total. It is always a fun time shooting in the GTA.

Winners were Jessie Wilcox, Abokan Bokpe, Josh O'Reilly, Aurey Cox, Kevin Higson, Brandon Cook.

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Steve "The Renegade" Rainford

I met Steve back in 2014 and have shot 2 of his 3 professional fights and countless bouts where he has cornered, refereed or judged plus a promotional shoot. Steve climbs back into the ring Saturday night in Mississauga in a rematch vs. Aurey Cox. There first fight was close and this one should be better. Best of Luck Steve and I'll be ringside Saturday.

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Fitness Shoot with Lori

Lori came into studio last Saturday before the fights to shoot fitness images. We shot some standard fitness images which turned out great. Then we also shot some images for my athlete bodies project. (A series of implied nudes featuring the bodies of male and female athletes from many different types of sports / competition)

Athlete Bodies Project

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Fitness Shoot with Samuel

Before shooting the fights on Saturday night, I slipped into Peter House Studios for a fitness shoot with Samuel. He was a great model, in awesome shape and had super poses. Here's a teaser image.

Samuel in his Calvins

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