Sony Diaries Day 60: Pileated Woodpecker

March 1st.

Sony Diaries Day 57: Swimming

February 25th.

a call to join a march on March 1, 2015 in support of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada

Draft promo video calling for participation in a March to highlight the plight of migrant workers in Canada.
Starting February 28th, migrants and supporters across the country are escalating the campaign to call on the Federal Government to reverse the four and four rule.
When this rule comes into effect on April 1st, 2015, all low-waged migrant workers employed under the Temporary Foreign Workers Program and Live-In Caregiver / Caregiver Program who have worked in Canada for more than four years will be banned from continuing to work in Canada and forced to leave. They will also be barred from returning to Canada as workers for a further four years. Those that choose to stay will become undocumented.
These changes are effectively a mass deportation. These rules will tear apart families, friends and communities across the country. Migrant workers pay tens of thousands of dollars to come to Canada and work at minimum wage jobs to provide an opportunity for their family; so that their children can go to school; and to have a better life. The 4 & 4 rule strips away migrant workers’ dignity, forces workers already in precarity into further uncertainty, and criminalises them by imposing discriminatory and arbitrary barriers.


We demand that:
An immediate moratorium be placed on the 4 & 4 rule, so workers here may continue to work.
Permanent residency be given to migrant workers already in Canada.
Migrant workers receive access to all social benefits and entitlements
Legislation be enacted providing permanent residency for all migrants upon arrival.

Sony Alpha Diaries Day 45: Birds on Valentine's Day

February 14th.

Sony Alpha Diaries Day 37: Canadian multiculturalism in practice

A wonderful holiday presentation brought to us by an all-volunteer group. Successful multiculturalism in practice, unique to Canada!

Sony Alpha Diaries Day 27: Video with the CX900, Audio with the NX30

From a series of videos advocating for the rights of Migrant Workers, Caregivers, and other Temporary Workers.

Sony Alpha Diaries Day 20: a guest post using both Sony CX900 & Sony NX30

Shane Philips and the Monarch with the broken wing

While on a break on a video shoot in a cornfield for Shane's "Freedom", this monarch butterfly with a mortally-torn wing dropped in. On the spot, David and Shane composed a little song to mourn, and celebrate, this fragile creature

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Pauline Kiely, author, at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival

Pauline Kiely was one of the writers in attendance at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival. She was nice enough to give me an autographed copy of her book, "No Poverty Between The Sheets". Artists and other creative types make the human condition more bearable!
For the techies wondering about the wash-out look of the video, it is not intentional. A week after this shoot, I discovered the ND filter settings on my camera.
(Any video device, traditional or DSLR, should have ND filters!) September 14th.

Zombies

September 27, 2014

Smile

Just some folks having a good ole time!

Video from the Heritage Meadows Gracious Retirement Living in Cambridge. Aug 27th.