Introducing Topaz. . .one of my favorite models!   I can’t say that we’ve ever had a bad shoot together.  She has developed exceptionally over the years and always brings a great body and creative concepts.  We started out years ago with alley shots and a pink wig,  and although we’ve done a range of looks,  i think currently she is looking her very best.  

I’ve recently had an open house and this is one of the images i now have presented in my hallway.  I really like the simplicity of this one!  Wind adds such an organic feel to a shoot. . .  you really just have to work with the random movements of the fabric and wait until it compliments the pose.  I love coordinating colors to backgrounds and her outfit and fabric were a perfect fit.  The reflection was created in photoshop with one of my favorite filters ‘flood’ from the creators ‘Flaming Pear’  . . . yea, thats really the name of the company!

Have you ever gone looking for yourself on the internet and found that ‘you’ are not ‘you’?  Well being that my name is popular and there are other ‘Bryan’ and ‘Brian’s’ about,  I thought that i would distinguish myself with my middle initial ‘K’.   I was a little suprised to find another ‘Bryan K Ward’ out there who also happens to be in a very similar field . . . Advertising.   The universe never ceases to suprise me!  I decided to contact the other Bryan. . . something just compelled me.  Apparently he was once through Vancouver himself, has been aware of me for the last few years, and almost called me.    The other Bryan added me to his blog today . . .check it out:        http://giantideasblog.blogspot.com/

I just thought i would share a very frustrating moment from this weekend.  I recently rebuilt my whole computer system and was reloading software.  One particular program i had purchased did not provide serial numbers on their site (which i had lost).  Being a rather impatient fellow at times,  i decided to use a crack til they sent me my serial.  I pulled this number from my laptop and entered it into my main computer,  On hitting ‘enter’ my computer went into speed freak meltdown. . . windows were opening and closing, screensavers were changing, and i could not even control the mouse.  I was sure they wrote in a virus that was unleased by this crack.  Well a couple hours later,  rebooting, restarting, system disks, etc,  I picked up my laptop and all of a sudden it all stopped.   I guess when i placed my laptop on top of the wacom tablet it created some from of electrical interference.   Imagine in one moment, worrying about client deadlines, computer repairs, reshuffling your life, and then simply moving a computer and all is good . . . Whew!