What “Off Season”?
Wow, it’s the racing off-season. After warming up with the 2011 Eastern Canada Gymnastics Championship this spring, it’s been non-stop motorsport and sports photography all summer/fall. I have made some behind-the-scenes changes to this WordPress blog, so I’m hoping this will allow me to update more regularly and keep our conversation going. I’m also hoping [...]
2011 Eastern Canadian Trampoline and Tumbling!
Hello/Bonjour athletes, friends, family and coaches from the 2011 Eastern Championships! I had a fantastic time photographing the meet this past weekend and am honoured to have been invited as your official photographer. I’m currently sifting and sorting through over 12,000+ images of all the amazing performances. Over the next couple of days, galleries for [...]
Lime Rock Historic Festival 2010
Wow! Once again, it’s been a while since my last post here, but I am not being intentionally neglectful of the blog – I’ve just been completely busy taking photographs this summer, which is good news in my books. The Carquest Maritime Pro Stock Tour and Scotia Speedworld weekly racing series have both been keeping [...]
Off To The Pro Stock Races
July 3, 2010: Maritime Pro Stock Tour Lockhart 100 – Images by Matt Jacques Wow, it’s been a while since my last post! Lots of photography projects lately, and none more fun than getting out and shooting the races for the Maritime Pro Stock Tour. This past weekend was the Lockhart Truck Centre 100 at [...]
Best Of Maritime Pro Stock Tour 2009
Best of Maritime Pro Stock Tour 2009 – Images by Matt Jacques I’m getting geared up for a second season of shooting motorsports in Atlantic Canada for both Scotia Speedworld and the Maritime Pro Stock Tour. It’s still almost two months until the first green flag drops in 2010, but I’ve taken some time to [...]
Lastolite Ezybox Hotshoe 24″ Testing
In case you hadn’t heard, check out my post here about one of my images being selected as the official 10 millionth image on Shutterstock. The kind folks at Shutterstock were generous enough to send me a little gift card to use at B&H photo. Approximately 5 minutes after receiving the card in the mail, [...]
Next Challenge: Urban Snowboarding
Urban Butter Snowboarding at Waterfront Winterfest – Images by Matt Jacques I was lucky to work with Sports Entertainment Atlantic for Tall Ships Nova Scotia 2009, so I was very excited to have another call from SEA this past week. The assignment this time was to catch all the snowboard action at the Urban Butter [...]
Tall Ship Concordia Lost
Breaking news today that Tall Ship Concordia was lost at sea off the coast of Brazil near Rio de Janeiro. Very relieved to hear that all aboard were rescued safely, although it must have been a horrifying experience. Hopefully more details on this accident will become available soon. In the meantime, here is a mini-gallery [...]
The Power Of Ten Million
Well, what were the odds of this? I’ve been submitting images to stock photo agency Shutterstock for almost four years now, and I just learned that one of my images ended up being their 10,000,000th image! This feat required absolutely no special skill on my part, but it still feels like a great little thing [...]
Ready To Roll
Welcome to my brand new Matt Jacques Photography website! My goal is for this page to be the launching point for visitors to see samples of my work, read about my latest adventures in this blog section, and explore my stock image archives. I really hope to connect with visitors, clients and other photographers not [...]
Maritime Pro Stock Tour 2009 Awards Banquet
2009 Maritime Pro Stock Tour Awards Banquet – Images by Matt Jacques Had a great time at the 2009 Maritime Pro Stock Tour season awards banquet last night. Congratulations to points champion Shawn Turple and all of the other great drivers and crew!
