Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008-

I hit the road today and headed up to Waterloo to do an assignment at Research In Motion, makers of the BlackBerry. It took about an hour and a half from Toronto so I used the time to work on my French (I am learning French through audio while in the car, as I mentioned in a pervious post.)

I don’t think the story ran so I probably shouldn’t talk about it, but it basically related to how cool it was to work at RIM.

I have never been to RIM before and it was a pretty cool. They have 20 buildings spread out all over Waterloo that they use as offices and labs.

The security was pretty tight and so where the shooting restrictions. I did not have to be blind folded and lead into the lab, but they asked me only to shoot in this one room and if I could make the employees unidentifiable- that would be great.

I could have gone two ways with the photo; I could have concentrated on the BlackBerry, or the people working. The assignment was not specifically about the BlackBerry, more about working there. I decided to shoot it nice and wide and use the space to make an interesting photo.

Daryl-Lynn Carlson story for FP working Section-- Three staff members at Research in Motion pose for a photograph in a test room for RF frequencies of BlackBerrys and their accessories, Wednesday, December 10, 2008, at RIMÕs Waterloo headquarters.

The room was very visual, it was used to test the RF frequencies of the devices. It was kind of a cheesy situation, I needed a picture of the people working but it had to be set up. I asked the guys what they would do in the room and we worked with that. I labeled it as a portrait in my caption information.

I shot the assignment and filed it from out there and headed back into the city. I did not have any assignments for the rest of the night so that left me free to work on a project that I have been working on for the last couple of months.

I don’t want to talk about this story too much either, but it is basically about this apartment in Toronto. It will be done hopefully by the end of the month so my secrets will be revealed then.

I have been working on this project in my spare time and it is definitely the best piece of work that I have done so far in my career, I’m really happy with it. The thing that impresses me the most is that I am making the pictures for me, not with any type of publication in mind. If they get published, that is a bonus, but this type of thinking frees me up and really lets me explore who I am as a photographer. I think I have grown photographically while working on it and I am pleased with the results.

It was pretty late when I finished. I went home and finished off my wedding photos and stayed up late watching a movie with my girlfriend.

The end.

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