David Lipnowski Photography, Winnipeg, MB (2026)

03/25/2026

An example of what I create for my clients; a series of lifestyle and architectural photography, as well as drone photography (and video for all of the Qualico Communities, you may have seen the drone videos in YouTube ads).

06/27/2024

Sad to hear of the passing of country music legend, Ray St. Germain. It feels like yesterday, we were hanging out shooting these portraits, but was in fact, it was 16 vears ago.

03/04/2024

Portraits of for

12/09/2023

12/08/2013 - Ariel Posen- 12:31PM - Winnipeg, Canada

I have had many people contact me lately wanting to be in this project, and they have proposed a shot with them playing their guitar. I’ve shot a couple of those types of portraits already in this project, and I definitely don’t want anymore, so I’ve been saying ‘no’ to those concepts. I figured if I have one more guitar in a photo, it definitely has to be of Ariel.

Ariel has been a great friend since we were very young. We grew up together, and amongst our close friends in our year, I believe that we are the only two people that work full time as artists. Ariel is regarded as one of the top Winnipeg guitarists, and is well known in the local, and national music scenes. Ariel is sessional/touring musician, and has been touring a lot over North America this year with many bands as well. I haven’t seen him recently, and we managed to schedule this shoot just a few hours before he left for his next tour.

I went to his condo, not knowing exactly what I wanted to do, but when I saw the steam streaming outside of his window, I knew what the background would be.

Ariel has been into the process of making coffee lately, and he wanted to incorporate that into a simple portrait, rather a portrait with his guitar (which is obviously a big part of his life). I, on the other hand, have been thinking about how to make a portrait of him for a while now (we started talking about his portrait for this project early in the year, before the leaves turned green), and knew I wanted his guitar in the frame, but I wanted it to be subtle.

EXIF: f/4.5 @ 1/125 ISO100 @ 35mm - 1 flash in a softbox camera left, 1 bare flash camera right behind Ariel, and 1 flash in a silver umbrella on axis for fill

12/07/2023

12/07/2013 - Cheron Long-Landes- 12:36PM - Winnipeg, Canada

Today was the annual Help-Portrait event. This was the 5th annual event, and we tried something new this year. There were 3 stations set up around the city. One at Siloam Mission where photographers were photographing the clients of the shelter, who are without a home at this time of the year. Another group of photographers were set up in a school, and low income families were invited to drop in for free family portraits. The station that I was volunteering at was set up at Aspire Studios, and the public could drop in and have portraits made by professional photographers for the very, very, very low price of only $20 each. Many chose to have family portraits made, couple shots, and we shot quite a few business head shots as well. I was one of three photographers set up, and along with a lot of fantastic support staff we were able to raise over $2000 that was donated to Siloam Mission.

Cheron was one of the supporters of the event who came in for new updated headshots for her business, and soon to be launched website. Cheron is a Health and Wellness Professional, specializing in Reiko and intuitive healing. She recently moved to Winnipeg from Durban, South Africa where she worked in the fashion industry as a designer. After we had finished with the head shots, I explained my project, and she was happy to be a part of it. I shot a few different setups a lot looser than the headshots, and thats what you see here.

EXIF: f/5.6 @ 1/125 ISO100 @ 102mm - 1 strobe in a parabolic umbrella camera left, and 1 strobe with a reflector on the white background

11/22/2023

Another one of my faves! After publishing this, I was told it had a striking resemblance to the 1889 painting titled “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear” by Vincent van Gogh.

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11/21/2013 - Colleen - 4:24PM - Winnipeg, Canada

It was another brutally cold day, but I vowed to find someone outside. It took well over an hour, and asking several people outside in the -20C temperature before Colleen agreed.

When I first met Colleen, I told her I really liked the green, and that she must as well. She told me that green is the colour of growth, and that all of the people in her life are like flowers in a garden. She really enjoyed the portrait process, and was so great to get to know (albeit quickly).

Colleen is 80 years old, and is a retired Paediatric Nurse. She spent many years living up north, working in small northern communities. She told me that she helped to first open Whitehorse General Hospital back in 1957. She also regaled me with stories of working with the dog teams in Gods Lake, Manitoba. She explained that she would go out with the the dog sled to pick up patients; basically a dog sled ambulance service.

This image was made in a parking lot, slightly sheltered from the wind. We just missed the setting sun by about 5 minutes, so I had to use a wall as a background. The entire shoot took 2 minutes and 5 seconds long, but by feathering the light of the umbrella, I was able to create this painterly look to the portrait, which I really love.

EXIF: f/5 @ 1/80 ISO100 @ 70mm - 1 flash in shoot through umbrella camera right

11/14/2023

11/13/2013 - Commander Chris Hadfield - 3:54PM - Winnipeg, Canada

This man needs no introduction, he is probably the most recognizable Canadian at the moment. Commander Hadfield was the first Canadian to walk in space and command the International Space Station, and now that he is retired, he is on a world tour promoting his recently released book, An Astronaut’s Guide to Life on Earth. He was in Winnipeg today to speak at the Winnipeg Free Press News Cafe, as well as at McNally Robinson to sign copies of his book.

Knowing that the Astronaut was going to be at the Cafe, I contact my colleagues there, and they said there would be a chance that he might agree to a portrait before he spoke to a packed house at 4pm.

My colleague at the paper, Mike Deal is also shooting a 365 portrait project with his iPhone, and the two of us waited outside to try to get him in each of our respective projects before he went inside to speak. After Mike had gotten his shot, I managed a 38 second shoot with the Commander. During that time I shot a few frames, and we briefly chatted about photography; the gear I was using, and his training in photography. It was a huge honour to photograph and shake the hand of a living legend.

A big thanks to Geoff, Tyler, Melissa, and Mike at the Free Press for helping to make this happen.

EXIF: f/7.1 @ 1/200 ISO100 @ 160mm - 1 flash in a softbox camera left

11/14/2023

11/12/2013 - Sebastian Love - 11:22AM - Winnipeg, Canada

Back in May I met Sebastian and his owner Jenny at the Forks. I had just finished shooting my portrait a day, but definitely wanted them in the project. I gave Jenny my contact info and we were finally able to set up the portrait for today. Sebastian is a very well behaved dog, and at one point we got him wearing his mini converse shoes, and an argyle shirt. Jenny wrote me a description, which is slightly edited, and follows below.

Sebastian Love is a Chinese Crested dog named after the Prime Minister's Private Secretary on BBC’s Little Britain (they both are always flipping their hair out of their eyes). Sebsy is a month shy of 3 years old and was a dog show reject (his ears don't stand up, and he is larger than average for his breed) before he moved in with his owners Jenny & Bruno. He is hated by their cat but doted upon by everyone else. He is normally not allowed on the counter…especially when he is wearing shoes.

EXIF: f/4 @ 1/80 ISO100 @ 52mm - 1 flash in an softbox camera right, and 1 flash in shoot through umbrella camera left behind Sebatian

10/24/2023

Another case is of looking back through the original edit, and preferring this first frame of originally published portrait (2nd image).

10/22/2013 - Anah Ali - 5:31PM - Winnipeg, Canada

Anah and I met about 4 years ago through a mutual friend, and like most of my friends from my university days, is living and studying in Toronto. She studied Interior Design at the University of Manitoba, and last year made the big move to Toronto to follow a dream of studying fashion in the Fashion Management program at George Brown College.

She has been following the project and we met up while she was back in the 'Peg visiting family and friends on an intersession break. Anah is currently in school full time while interning at Sporting Life, and continues to play soccer weekly. She tells me that she hopes to become a buyer when she is finished her program in a few months.

EXIF: f/5.6 @ 1/125 ISO100 @ 56mm - 1 flash in shoot through umbrella camera left directly underneath 1 flash in a softbox camera left (i.e. both flashes combined to illuminate Anah)

10/17/2023

Join us this Sunday, October 22, from 5:30pm to 7pm for the opening reception of our group art exhibit at Rady JCC.
The art exhibit is a part of Tarbut Festival and will run October 22-28.

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