Shannon Tweed and Gene Simmons KISS Ottawa.

Shannon Tweed and Gene Simmons are set to arrive in Ottawa and from the Tuesday evening party to the Bluesfest concert it should be lots of fun.

We will be covering most of the events so stay tuned to the blog and you will see a post on Wednesday showing how much fun you can have in the town that fun forgot...Its your backstage pass to the party of the year in Ottawa.

I want to thank all the residents of Ottawa who called and wrote in offering their support for
Shannon Tweed Day and their kind offers of goods and services to show Shannon and Gene that we really do know how to party. The response from the real people of Ottawa has been outstanding.

One bit of media I did want to clear up is the report that I shot Shannon for Playboy. While I do shoot for such publications for Time, Newsweek,Macleans and Businessweek...the feature in Playboy was shot by their staff photographer. The image I sold Playboy...my first big magazine sale about a quarter century ago..was a model test shot done for Lorraine Hammond modelling agency.

To those in Ottawa who tongues are still wagging over the Tweed Day debacle, I should note that Marilyn Monroe and Gina Lollobrigida appeared topless in film and print over 50 years ago.

Someone once wrote that living well is the best revenge...I think laughing well ain`t bad either.

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Web site concept and Executive Photography.

Now what do these funky family shots have to do with commercial photography. For the answer, go to Winning Charities and check out their site, especially the staff head shots.This group came to our studio in Ottawa from Brockville just to do the shoot. We came up with the concept and I think it really works in todays business environment where showing more than a corporate look
can separate you from the crowd. Nice working with you guys and gals.

BTW....this just came in from the client....unsolicited.

Hello Paul

I wanted to let you know that our website is slowing working its way to completion. We have a few pages online, at www.winningcharities.com

Thanks again for the great day at your studios. We had a great time, and the website (and soon to be marketing materials) are going to look great because of it.

Hope we can work together again. We highly recommend you!

Abby MacIntosh-Hooper

Vice President, Marketing | Winning Charities

Ottawa Fashion Headshot

We shot this for a makeup salon in Saudi Arabia... How did I get a client in Saudi Arabia...that's a long story. Our model btw was from Angies in Ottawa...very nice working with them as always.

Karsh and I

I am honored that the Ottawa Citizen has chosen to feature me in their story on Yousuf Karsh of Ottawa.
We met many times and I told him of the influence he had on my career. My one regret is never having had him take my own portrait or never having taken his, thought I did have the pleasure of taking a portrait of his brother Malak Karsh. As well, I wisely purchased an original print by Yousuf that he signed for me. The image is, in my opinion his finest work, a portrait of Pablo Casals.
My Karsh stories are many and I will save them for my own eventual book, but suffice to say I
was honored when he referred a number of clients to me upon closing his studio and equally honored when a number of corporate clients considered me as his replacement. Karsh was an artist, a businessman and one of the most refined gentlemen I have ever met...he truly possessed an old world charm that is rarely seen today. Without Karsh, I doubt my career would have developed technically and artistically as it did.

Click on this link to the Citizen page and if you click on my self portrait you can hear me speak on Karsh.

Xmas Card by Couvrette Studio

To those who aren`t on our list...here is our 2008 Christmas card. Each year for the last 20 years I have created a custom card for the studio, with the last 13 years featuring my daughters in a range of timely concepts. This year they were both into gymnastics and dance...

Group Portrait at our Ottawa Studio

We shot this for a local ad agency last week...a fun afternoon was had by all..even though
we all had to battle a snowstorm and the OC strike to get here. These are all member of
the Armed Forces band who were dressed to the nines for these shots which will eventually be used for PR.

My fifteen seconds of fame...lol

An Ottawa U student, Hamed Tinafer decided to make ME his term project...and created a Wiki
page that tells the tale. Funny, he never mentioned my skills at poker and golf...oh well. But seriously, I was blown away by all the work he put into it...hope he got an A!

Welcome to Ottawa Commercial Photographer Paul Couvrette's Blog!

Welcome to my Commercial Photography Blog....

No, thats not me, its of course Rick Mercer in a shot I did for CBC this year at the Next Great
Canadian Prime Ministers shoot. It was great to see that the CBC began using it as one of its
key shots in promoting the show and Rick too.

For more of my Commercial Photography, take a look here.

To look at my entire Blog from the latest post on down...CLICK HERE.


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