Toronto Photography Meetup Group

Guys I need you help on this.

For the last four years since discovering his war medal which led me to the only military grave in Canada of a Sikh Soldier from the World Wars, I've been organizing a Sikh Remembrance Day Service at the grave site in Kitchener.

Every year the ceremony has continued to grow bigger and bigger featuring Sikh military veterans, and members of the Canadian Forces including turban Sikh soldiers. This years ceremony we will be having Lt.-Col. Harjit Singh Sajjan, Canada's highest ranking Sikh officer in attendance. He is the Commander of the British Columbia Regiment, Duke of Canaught's Own and a veteran of Bosnia and 3 tours of duty in Afghanistan.
see a nice photo of him here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flungingpi ... otostream/

We will also have a Brigadier General from Ottawa as well as members of Parliament, including Minister Tim Uppal, currently the only turbaned member of Parliament.

CBC will be doing a story on the ceremony and it will be appearing on TV Sunday night on The National, so it will have coast-to-coast media coverage.

The ceremony is this Sunday Nov 6 from 2:00 to 3:30pm at Kitchener's Mount Hope Ceremony. This has been a labour of love for me, so I can't pay you anything but I really need a photographer to take high quality images of the ceremony and photograph those in attendance and take some portraits of various individuals and soldiers during and after the ceremony, some group shots at the grave of Canadian War War I hero Pvt. Buckam Singh where we will be laying the wreaths.

To give you some idea of the event, see these photographs of last years ceremony and think bigger and better:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sikhmuseum ... 17/detail/

Here is the website about the Ceremony:
http://www.sikhmuseum.com/remember/

And here is the online exhibit I created about Pvt. Buckam Singh, the soldier whose grave site I discovered after 90 years of neglect where we hold the ceremony.
http://www.sikhmuseum.com/buckam/

So if you would like a chance to photograph a unique high-profile ceremony and unique subjects let me know by emailing me and sending me your contact info and we'll talk over the phone. I'll need you to shoot RAW, download all the RAW files to my computer at the end of the ceremony, so that I can work on them and send them out to the press as well as put them up on the remembrance website and Flickr account. We will co-share rights to the photographs and their use and I'll make sure you get photo credits in the Flickr captions where the images will be hosted.

Wrong section i think.

But did i read this right? You want someone to come volunteer their time, then hand over all the photos and youll offer to co-share the righs to photos you didnt even take?

I believe this fits under the 'impromptu shoots' description given for the Photography in General category forum as this is not a commercial job request.

To clarify, as the entire Remembrance Day ceremony is a non-commercial event and SikhMuseum.com the sponsor is a non-commercial entity, I would have the rights to use the photographs in relation to promotion of the ceremony & SikhMuseum.com. The photographer would have the rights for personal use or general exhibition.

Any commercial use of the images by the photographer such as selling of the photographs would require me to clear the use first after checking with the individual(s) photographed and my fellow organizers.

Hope this clarifies usage rights. I don't want to turn this thread into a debate, it's a request thread, any questions or further clarifications needed if you are interested contact me. Not interested and want to start a debate, start a new thread.

my reply got posted twice by accident

Good luck with that!

A member of the community is asking a favour of others in the group, for what is to my eyes a worthy cause. I would hope that someone will be able to do this. I don't have the gear (or the day free) to do it or I would do it myself.

Well put Sean. Hopefully someone can step up for Sandeep. Wish I could help. Good luck Sandeep!!

I also agree.

Thanks for all the support guys. Following up on a couple of photographer leads so hopefully things work out.

Hey Sundeep,

I hope you found help yesterday.
This morning the event was mentioned on CBC radio.
They reffered to you as "an amateur historian", did not give your name.

Post some pics when you have them.

I'll post some pictures of the ceremony when I get a chance.

Meanwhile you can watch the CBC The National News report here:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/s ... rance.html

As Remembrance Day approaches, may we honour and remember those who have served in the past and those who serve today.

Here are the photographs from the ceremony:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sikhmuseum ... 083636922/
(switch to the Flickr 'Detail' view for captions of the various photographs)