2005.11.23: Bill Rancic Speaks

Two days ago Bill Rancic, first winner of NBC's The Apprentice, Patrick LaForge, president and CEO of the Edmonton Oilers hockey club, Jim Dinning, past minister of Education and Provincial Treasurer of Alberta, LuAn Mitchell-Halter, Chatelaine and Profit Magazines Canada's Number One Female Entrepreneur three years in a row and chairperson of Mitchell's Gourmet Foods, and Kelly Hrudey, full-time analyst on CBC's Hockey Night in Canada and former NHL player with the New York Islanders, LA Kings, and San Jose Sharks, spoke at the Alberta Professionals & Entrepreneurs Conference. I've included some photos and a short video clip. Photos are a bit bigger than normal at 250px tall. They'll be back to normal once the excitement of shooting with a P&S camera that can produce dSLR-like photos wears off a bit.

Wide angle environmental shot of the auditorium, Winspear Centre. ISO 1600, F/2.8, roughly 1/8s with Fuji F10 hand held from third balcony.

People always have different interpretations for what is appropriate business attire. Here, LuAn Mitchelle-Halter illustrates that it is really alright to wear a costume crown and Snow White's evil step mother's mirror. Maximum zoom on Fuji F10, F/5, ISO 1600, 1/75s from about 150' away. In the full resolution photo the speaker's face is recognizeable.

Whoever said that "there is no such thing as a stupid question" obviously never met the old guy to the right. Well, maybe his question wasn't as stupid as it was rhetorical or attention-mongering. Thanks for taking floor time away from people with more insightful questions. Like the one about whether or not Donald Trump's hair is real.

Cover of a Queen CD less one person. Left to right: me, George who graduated from high school with me, and Scott who graduated from the U of A with me. Making hand-held self-portraits is a double-edged sword: one may think that they can do a better job than anyone else but when one does a shitty job, there's no one to blame it on. Man, I need a nose.

Right click and save a short clip of Bill Rancic's account of his life as an entrepreneur during post-secondary school and beyond. Going into the conference, I wasn't sure what to expect. In fact, I'm not a big fan of Donald Trump and wasn't interested enough in the series description to ever watch an episode of The Apprentice. But now I'll be looking for the show.