This is a stylized shot of the Straight of Georgia in Vancouver. Sandra and I climbed the Grouse Grind to capture some incredible…
It has been 3 weeks since I safely arrived in Vancouver on my 4300+km solo cross country road trip from Toronto. I permanently relocated to Vancouver on June 1st…
This is a stylized shot of an alert (and hungry) hunter and it’s prey. I composed this shot using the rule of thirds while keeping a heavy center weight of focus on the…
Madison Square Garden is a major client of an agency I work with. Our job is to bring a fresh new look to MSG.com utilizing some of the latest in in social media…
Early tomorrow morning (May 29th) marks my last day in Toronto and the beginning of my ambitious solo road trip from Toronto to Vancouver for our permanent relocation.
‘ve seen some nice sunsets in my day but nothing in my life could compare to this incredible moment. This was the scene upon exiting the Rocky Mountains…
This is a shot from a few thousand feet above the country side in Waterloo, Ontario. Sandra won a contest for two to take a flight…
Waterloo had one great attraction, the St. Jacobs Market. It it is a great place to buy fresh and delicious produce, meats, cheese, anything really…
Meet Sandra Howard, my future wife and the owner of the photography blog SandyCanvas.com. I am such a nice boy to this little…
When living in Waterloo, I would often venture out into the country looking for scenes to shoot. This particular shot is on one such day…
This is a shot Sandra and I took while practicing some light techniques. In my opinion our kitchen is full of life in a tacky way so I thought it would be fun to try…
A shot of some Canon prime lenses and a telephoto lens. Check the critiques section below to see some further impressions…
Here is a simple shot of some flags set against the sky. What I liked about this composition was the shapes and colours. The shapes and colours of the flags…
Sandra came to me looking to add an article section to her blog to post some of her University publications. We decided despite lesser…
The timing is right, the location is ideal and I couldn’t be more excited. Sandra and I have decided to relocate to Vancouver from Toronto…
This is a stylized edit of the CN Tower in Toronto taken on one of our urban photo walks. Here is some information from Wikipedia…
Peafactory.com was originally designed as a place conceived by Sandra. She intended to use this as her personal portfolio however after much discussion…
During the first day of the winter thaw, the temperatures seem to cause some strange weather. Driving to work one day I stumbled upon this scene…
This is a 180 degree panorama of Toronto from the CN Tower’s highest observation deck. This was a joint shoot with Sandra…
This image was an attempt to create an interesting balance and contrast using texture, colour and shapes. It contains two people placed in such…
After a dark, cold winter in Ontario, there comes a day where the sun shines high, the sky is blue, and the warm temperatures…
I created this poster based on tight brand guidelines and business requirements for the New York Rangers fanclub known as The Blueshirts United…
This shot of a model on a couch, with the killer 60’s style curtains was a fun image to work on. What I like about this image is the colour palette…
This is a shot of a 2007 Toyota Yaris RS a day or two after it was purchased. The photoshoot was a way of remembering not only the location…
StevePell.ca is a complete re-design of my old site, Pellphoto.com. After years of procrastination I decided it was time to focus on illustration and graphic design as well as…
This is a shot along a valley near Osoyoos,British Columbia, Canada. This is part of a series of images shot from a road trip we took…
In 2006, Burlington, Ontario (where I was living at the time) did not get a lot of snow that winter, the weather was rather strange. This is a shot on the…
A friend of mine asked me if I could touch up a photo of one of his clients Grandmothers plus I wanted the opportunity to take on a photo…
This is a shot from my old Canon S50 point and shoot camera at the Auto Show in Toronto in 2005. The reason why I like this shot…
This was a figure and light study. The setup was two Alien Bee 800’s with softboxes and a white seamless backdrop. Overall I was pleased…
I thought this was an interesting scene when I stumbled across it in a construction yard. I really liked the way the light was coming…
This is a drawing back from 1998 of a scene out of the film Saving Private Ryan. When I was doing these drawings, I never really finished…
A stylized shot of Kennedy Lake on Vancouver Island on the way to Tofino…
As motorcycle season approaches I am reminded of how once upon a time I decided it would be a great idea to purchase a…
According to their 2009 campaign, The Weekend to End Breast Cancer ensures that “Breast Cancer is hard, walking isn’t“…
Welcome my new online presence. The purpose of this site is pretty straight forward, a place for me to post my latest explorations…
Here are a few additional drawings from 1997/1998 when I used to draw at a much higher frequency. Top left is an alien from the movie Aliens…
SandyCanvas is technically the first iteration of this site. This site was created for my fiance Sandra Howard to facilitate a spot for her to post her photographic…
This is a shot of a co-worker of mine from 2006. The idea of this shoot was to get the model to pose with one of her favorite things to do…
Walking down Victoria Street in Kitchener, Ontario, you will come across a store called “KW Surplus”. On the top of the building is a large scale replica of a Spitfire…
Back in 2005 when Sandra and I were first starting out with digital photography, we were challenged to a silly contest based…
A friend of mine, Giancarlo Brun Del Re (found often on this site) tends to lend me his likeness for practicing various shooting and editing…
Well, I finally did it, Sandra and I got engaged. We decided to do a fun pseudo Tiffany advertising shoot. Not quite as…
I shot this image as a chance to practice with the new lighting I had at the time, Alien Bees with some soft boxes and umbrellas…
This was a shot of a really old and really dead tree. What I really love about this image is the Moon which is real…
This was a shot for a lingerie shoot in Guelph, Ontario. The idea was to use it for one of the websites for a company I was…
I had a blast creating this image. When I was a kid I was tortured… no HAUNTED by the movie E.T. (that scene when he was sick…
When I first got into photography shot a lot of photos of the Skyway Bridge in Burlington, Ontario. This composition was shot…
This image is a composite of 2 images shot about 30 minutes apart. First was 5 trainers flying around in formation, the second…
This is a shot is one of my favourites. It is is a shot of her looking at a book of her with a face lined up where her head actually is…
One of the huge motivations for this site design is for me to get back into my illustrations. Here is a series of drawings I did back in 1997 in High School…
Here is a shot of Sandra edited to look as it does. I centered the eye and positioned it in such a way that it was split somewhat 30/60…
Similar to the Zombie Sandra image this utilizes the technique of sucking all the colour out of the image and creating a heavy contrast…
PellPhoto.com is no more, it has turned into this site. PellPhoto.com was a place for me to post my photographic explorations…
A shot of a duck taking off as I approached. My goal was to take a shot of it in mid flight jumping off the dock. What I really love about this…
My friend Giancarlo again letting me use his likeness to practice with my gear and lighting. I also wanted to practice with a new…
A shot of a train engine. I love the symmetry created by centering the image since the train itself is very symmetrical. I also loved the…
This is a shot of the moon rising over a cornfield during sunset. What I loved about this image was the drastic change in direction of the tree…
This image was shot in our makeshift home studio with a bed sheet in front of the subject. The goal here was to make it look like the subject…
A shot of the Rocky Mountains on the way out of British Columbia and entering Alberta. I was driving for about 16 hours at this point…
This is a shot stylized to look somewhat like the perspective from a WW1 trench. The planes are not that old but it’s not everyday…
