Gord Mellor (Owner/Operator)
Thanks for taking the time to visit this section of the website. I was born and raised in Regina a long time ago,,, a long, long time ago. The earth was not in the cooling stage but not long after that. I had an interest in photography for long as I can remember and took several classes through the then, W.I.A.A.S. I spent a couple of years working under a gentlemen by the name of Al (sorry the last name escapes me), who was without question one of the most miserable S.O.B’s I have ever met, but he knew his stuff. In his world there were two types of criticism, “bad” and “real bad”. If you could get past the verbal beating you stood to learn a lot. Al’s specialty was the more formal, studio wedding and portrait photography.
I also mentored with Robert (Bob) Watson. Bob was a photojournalist with the London Free Press and The Regina Leader Post before he retired and opened his own company. Bob is the one that pushed me more into the sports and event type photography, while at the same time, the more non-traditional type of wedding photography. You know the wedding party not only in front of the fountain but “in it” as well. We still stay in contact on a regular basis discussing allsorts of photography topics and techniques. I keeping telling him that I have become a better photographer then him but he will argue that point with me to his dieing day,,, but since it this my biography, he looses. Truth be known, I wish I knew half of what he has forgotten,,, but we won’t tell him that.
I believe that if you’re not having fun, “go home”, and I try to apply this to the images I shoot. Now standing on a poorly lit football field, as the thermometer slowly drops and you can actually see the rain turn to snow or shooting a wedding in a downpour when the weather channel called for “sunny skies”, is not my idea of “fun”, but stepping out of the box to create that special memory is something I believe in.
