About Leanna
| Whistler Photographer Leanna Rathkelly specializes in photographing people and travel for tourism advertising, editorial and corporate clients. Check out my BLOG for what have shot recently or follow my Twitter feed. For info about what I am working on now check out my Latest Projects list below. For a partial client list scroll down. For a biography of my 25-year career (yes, I started working as a photographer in 1985...) scroll way, way down. Briefly: I shoot healthy living, for advertising and editorial use. Through my own business, as well as Getty Images worldwide and First Light in Canada, I sell ready-to-license stock photography of people enjoying life. I am also available for your assignment work. You can license much of the imagery on this website for your advertising or editorial needs, and I’d be happy to send a link to a gallery of images customized to your requests. My home in Whistler, BC Canada is a wonderful location for outdoor sports and the people I hire as models are healthy local athletes. I also shoot portraits for families and for business with an emphasis on portraying personalities. When the weather is not suitable you can find me shooting in my home studio, fitted with a variety of backgrounds, lights, the latest Mac computer gear and Nikon digital camera equipment. When I’m not shooting I’m out there doing research on healthy living - playing golf, skate skiing, or just walking the dog. Latest Projects: - Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games: A totally fun experience and an incredibly adrenaline-filled month. I held three contracts for the Games: 1. Photographer for Tourism Whistler: to shoot ambience and village animation for daily use in internet marketing and some usage after the Games. 2. House of Switzerland: to shoot daily events at the House, special medal presentations to winning Swiss athletes, exterior and interior shots of the house 3. Whistler Legacies Society: to photograph Olympic venues as the events took place for general records. - Whistler Golf Course: create iconic images of the game of golf for general advertising. - Mentor for CAPIC: participated as a mentor to a new professional photographer from Sept-December, 2008 - Banners commissioned by the Resort Municipality of Whistler to decorate the multitude of light stands that line the roadways. Four photographs of winter mountain landscapes were printed on 3x6 banners, with vibrant block colors to add brilliance to the white and grey winter landscape. - Photo paintings: photographs are printed on canvas, then mounted on 3x3 canvases that are hand-painted with oils. The images are framed in antique yellow cedar windows that once belonged in my Father’s Okanagan orchard home. The Italian Collection, images of Venice, Tuscany and Cinque Terre, hung in the office of Sea to Sky Premier Properties for the Whistler Arts Council summer 2008 Artwalk show. - Celebration 2010 DVD production for Whistler Arts Showcase: this project included curating an exhibition of photography from local photographers and jurying local musicians to create an original DVD for large-screen projection. - Art Banner: the Resort Municipality of Whistler commissioned a large 7‚Äô banner for to decorate the side of the village Bridge in 2005. - Charity fundraisers: provided all the images for a scenic landscape calendar for the Whistler Health Care Society, and created all the photos for the fundraising campaign, "Giving Back to your Community" for the Community Foundation of Whistler. - Silent auction art donations to the Whistler-Blackcomb Foundation, Soul Funktion dance studio, and Whistler Health Care Society among others. - Establish Whistler Photographic Society: a non-profit organization of professional and amateur photographers was established in 2001 with the mission of increasing the recognition of photography as a form of artistic expression while building a strong sense of community for Whistler-area photographers. Partial Client List, in no particular order…. Tourism Whistler Whistler-Blackcomb and Intrawest ULC Canadian Tourism Commission Marriott Hotels Fuji Film More Magazine Air Miles Magazine and Rogers Media Canadian Geographic Magazine Sports Illustrated for Women Popular Photography Magazine NorthWest Adventure Magazine British Columbia Magazine Origin Design Whistler Real Estate ReMax Sea to Sky Real Estate Resort Municipality of Whistler Community Foundation of Whistler Custom Fit Communications Memberships: CAPIC (Canadian Association for Photographers and Illustrators in Communications) Whistler Arts Council Facilities: Home studio with 18-foot ceilings, wood floor, floor to ceiling windows. Digital Nikon camera gear, selection of Hensel lights, Softboxes, reflectors, diffusion screens, portable background, Mac Pro computer, Epson 4000 printer. Photoshop CS5. Kitchen MakeUp and Hair stylist available Complete Biography: From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine art work, Leanna has developed a distinctive and unique style in her profession. As a contributing photographer for stock agencies Getty Images, First Light, and through her own company, Travelling Light Photography, Leanna's photography has been purchased worldwide. She has also provided imagery for The Canadian Tourism Commission, Tourism BC and Tourism Whistler, Whistler-Blackcomb, and contributed to many North American magazines, including Canadian Geographic, British Columbia Magazine, and Popular Photography magazine. In 1984 Leanna began working as an assistant to a wedding photographer in her hometown of Calgary, Alberta, followed by a year-long stint as a portrait photographer with the Bay Portrait Studios. Her love for outdoor sports and a young man brought her to Whistler in 1985 where she was a photojournalist for the Whistler Question newspaper for four years. With the birth of their son, Leanna started her own company, Travelling Light Photography. She created a stock image library for Tourism Whistler as her first project. Since then, she has done portraits of many of Whistler’s business people, photographed hundreds of weddings, and contributed lifestyle and Whistler imagery for magazine articles about the resort. She lives in the mountain resort of Whistler, British Columbia, Canada with her family. |
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