Shooting Wherever wherever......

I love working with the Wildcraft Wherever crew.  They are such incredible professionals, who can bring high class service and fantastic food to literally any setting you can imagine while catering an event.

I have recently had the unique honour of providing some corporate photoshoot services to their team, working behind the scenes to capture them working their magic in places ranging in diversity from Victoria Park pavilion, to Waterloo Town Square, and even an abandoned factory pending development.   Each and every time I am truly amazed at what amazing foods their chefs are able to create, and their flair for presentation by the catering crew and waiting staff.

When I decided that I wanted to get the shot below during the Breithaupt Block Party media launch I had one major challenge - how do I find my way through the abandoned darkened Breithaupt buildings and up a couple of floors to find a hole in the wall which looked like it would be safe enough to take my weight for a while, without plunging down a deep hole never to be heard from again?

A few wet and scary stairwells later I found myself overlooking the street through broken windows on one side and a solid wall on the other with one dark and very ominous corridor reaching out in front of me.  "I can do this!" I thought to myself, without waiting to ponder the dangers of my overactive imagination beating my sensible head to a pulp with the mallet of childhood nightmares, so off I wandered to find the hole and get the shot.

I faced a phobia to do something that I truly wanted to do.  I am quite proud of myself for doing it as well.  It's funny how your emotions can have this internal tug of war and struggle for dominance over you in certain situations.  My love and passion for what I do had the upper hand.  In many ways I wish I had carried a camera with me my entire life - perhaps many dark and lonely corridors along the journey could have been tackled very differently if that extra nudge of courage had been there to help me.

I'm pleased with how it turned out, and I look forward to the next gig, but I am just hoping that my phone is busy the day that Wildcraft is catering an event at the insect house in Toronto Zoo.

The rest of the shots can be viewed on the Wildcraft Grill & bar Facebook page