I want to consume less and create more...

It made my day when I got an email from photographer Clay Enos that said simply: I dig your mantra.

I'm Travis Jon Allison. I'm a photographer from Southern Ontario, Canada and making art has always been my passion. Getting to be a photographer was one of my goals since I first borrowed my mom's Pentax Spotmatic camera and took it with me to camp for the weekend.

I thank you and my clients who have allowed me to share that passion and keep creating. It makes me very happy.

This blog is all part of my creating bug. I use it to keep a record of what's going on with me so that my clients can get to know me better and so my friends and family can keep up with what is going on in our world. One part photo album, one part journal and all me. Thanks for reading!

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Andrew & Amanda’s Wedding

I just realized that I had posted these pictures elsewhere and for some reason had forgotten to make a blog post about them.

It was a great treat to be invited to shoot Andrew and Amanda’s wedding in La Malbaie, QC this summer. Both Andrew and Amanda have worked as counsellors and senior staff members with us at camp and we were so excited to go to this amazing location near where Andrew’s family has a cottage. The beautiful chapel only seats 40 people and is perched on the north shore of the St. Lawrence River. It’s pretty significant to his family because the pulpit and stained glass came out of another chapel that Andrew’s grandfather built.

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It was great to also get to spend time with Sarah and John. You might remember them from the pictures of their wedding last spring at Acadia University in Wolfville, NS. (Everybody remembers that picture of Sarah in the field of flowers!) Sarah was the minister who performed the marriage and she always does amazing wedding ceremonies.

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Take a minute and check out Andrew’s photography. He is really well known for his work photographing rally racing across North America. He and two other guests at the wedding run a website called Flat Over Crest that reports on the Canadian Rally racing season.

Maverick and the Lake

This numbskull decided to kill a skunk in our backyard last night (at midnight). What a disgusting mess.

Here’s shot’s from a cleaner day:

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Shot while visiting Camp Kintail this summer – one of my favourite places in the world.

Family Portraits – Our Family

Andrew Laughs.

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Spencer & his girlfriend, Stephanie.

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Lensbaby Mantis

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Star Trails

A couple of camp star-trails shots:

Camp Kintail

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CAIRN (a longer exposure so the sky is lighter, plus the effect of a heavy dew on my lens)

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