Ottawa International Writers Festival spring festival line-up now online

via:
http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2011/03/ottawa-international-writers-festival.html

Liberal Party Rally

Liberal Party Rally in Ottawa with Michael Ignatieff.
More photos here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwmacdonald/sets/72157626235534475/show/

Carleton Tavern Reading

span-o (the small press action network - ottawa) & above/ground press present:
three poets

with readings by:
Aurian Haller, Brenda Leifso, and Teresa Yang lovingly hosted by rob mclennan

Friday, March 25, 2011;
doors 7pm; reading 7:30pm
The Carleton Tavern, 223 Armstrong Street (at Parkdale; upstairs)

Jaspreet Singh - tearsheet

L'actualité, a news magazine based in Montreal, recently published a nice portrait of author Jaspreet Singh.

Atomic Tom - Don't You Want Me

video: Atomic Tom - Don't You Want Me (dir. Isaac Rentz)

Estrellita Karsh

A black and white version of tihs photo of Estrellita Karsh from 2007.
weblog.johnwmacdonald.com/2007/07/estrellita-karsh.html

Pretenders - The Wait

video
Pretenders The Wait - Dortmund 1984

VERSeFest - Ottawa

more pics here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwmacdonald/sets/72157626106613781/with/5519194089

Ian Keteku - Versefest

Ian Keteku: http://www.ianketeku.com/

Popular Photography - Tearsheet

Marilyn's photo appears in Popular Photography magazine (April 2011). The original photo was published online here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnwmacdonald/4872247719/in/set-72157600949844151
- More details on my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/johnwmacdonaldphotography
- Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/johnwmacdonald

Alison Gresik

I had known of Alison for about six years and I even photographed her at a literary reading way back in 2007. Last week I was fortunate to get to know her better and be her photographer for some social media head shots. We did these portraits on location - some with a softbox and some with natural light with a silver reflector.

Hair and make-up was done at Ottawa's York Street Spa, and they did a phenomenal job. To say she she showed up for the session 'photo-ready' was an understatement! She was perfect! She had several wardrobe changes for different looks. Some with glasses and some without. The afternoon was extremely fun and energetic!
www.gresik.ca/
twitter.com/#!/alisongresik

did a few in black & white to see how it would look. used the new Silver Efex Pro 2 plug in.

VERSeFest - Ottawa

Saturday, March 5, 2011
pre-festival launch party starts at 7pm
at Gallery 101
301 1/2 Bank Street - Ottawa, Ontario

More info about this new, week-long, annual poetry fest here: http://versefest.ca/

Pearl - Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry

Glad to say that our friend Pearl won a poetry award of late.
More info here! http://pagehalffull.com/pesbo/2011/03/02/robert-kroetsch-award-2/
and here http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2011/03/pearl-pirie-wins-2011-robert-kroetsch.html

A few other awesome Ottawa notable writers were on the short list, too:
- Christine McNair, Amanda Earl, and Sandra Ridley. Congratulations all!