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Author Archives: John Mitchell
Mammoth favourite
The Big Dump Impressive! Created for Komdresco Manufacturing in Cambridge in the late 1980’s, this image of a welder working on a dump box for a mining truck needed to express the mammoth task of […]
Posted in Commercial, What I Do, What I See
Tagged @Cbridge, #Great_People, #Important_People, Corporate Photography, Favourites, John Mitchell Photography, What I Do
Time and change
Time and tide wait for no man – Geoffrey Chaucer Keep up with the times or fall behind and become irrelevant. How many times have we heard that? Yet, it becomes increasingly more difficult with […]
Out with the old, in with the new
Out with the old, in with the new, so the saying goes. Death, taxes and change are the only certainties in life. These are two familiar sayings, or at least two that I am familiar […]
Posted in Community, Opinion, Public Relations
Tagged @Cbridge, #BeSeenBeKnown, #StorytellerArtistPhotographer, What I Do
Favourites: Brotherhood
Brotherhood: It’s a special bond. In the twenty-five years that I had my studio on King Street in Preston I spent many November 11ths photographing the Remembrance Day service at the cenotaph just down the […]
Posted in Opinion, Public Relations, What I Do, What I See
Tagged #Great_People, #Important_People, Business Portraits, Favourites, John Mitchell Photography
Favourites: Fill the frame
Fill the frame The year was 1971 and I was in my first year of photographic study at Conestoga College. Looking back, I’m am amazed I was there. There were only 20 positions open and […]
Posted in What I Do, What I See
Tagged #StorytellerArtistPhotographer, Favourites, John Mitchell Photography, What I Do
Favourites
Favourites; every photographer has them. Favourite images, some took hours or even days to plan out and execute. Others happened so quick there was no time to plan anything. But they all have one thing […]
Posted in Commercial, Public Relations, Uncategorized, What I Do
Tagged Corporate Photography, Favourites, John Mitchell Photography
What would you do?
What would you do? I want to know. Thirty-five years ago when I was deciding to move my studio into a store front location, one of the chores facing me was deciding on a sign […]
Posted in Opinion, Public Relations
Tagged John Mitchell Photography
Driftwood and a log cabin
Driftwood and a log cabin, or a study in black and white, or Inspiration Point; all are possible titles for this black and white toned print. The title is, as of yet undecided. The location […]
Posted in Opinion, Portrait, What I Do, What I See
Tagged #AlgonquinPark, #StorytellerArtistPhotographer, fine art, Portraits, What I Do
Seeing the hidden Algonquin
Algonquin’s sausage – lumbering. I was told there are two things you don’t want to see how they are made; taxes and sausage. Lumbering is a verb not a noun. It’s an action not a […]
Posted in Opinion, Public Relations, What I See
Tagged #AlgonquinPark, #StorytellerArtistPhotographer, John Mitchell Photography, What I Do
