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About Me

Greetings! My name is Clay Mercredi, and I have an addiction. I CAN'T STOP TAKING PICTURES!! Not only that, but I share hundreds, nay, thousands of photos via my website and right here at MySpace. MySpacer's tend to know the name 'ClearAsDirt' as a band photographer, but that's not all I do. Scenic, abstract, glamour/fashion, candid portraiture.. Yes, I am addicted to photography and I want you to share that with me. Buy my prints and visit often for more!
Equipment:
Cameras:
Canon 30D (main), RebelXT (back up)
Flash:
Sigma EF 500 DG Super
Lenses:
Sigma 70-200 f/2.8 EX
Sigma 24-70 f/2.8 EX
Sigma 10-20 f/4-5.6 EX
Canon 75-300 f/4-5.6
Canon 28-105 f/3.5-4.5
Canon 18-55 f/3.5-5.6
Canon 50 f/1.8
Zennitar 16mm fisheye
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All prints are produced by a pro photo lab on high gloss photo paper. Once the PayPal transaction has completed, a print will be produced and shipped to you through Canada Post in a cardboard tube to minimize the chance of damage to the print(s). Please allow up to 10 business days for larger prints for delivery.
20"x30" - $175
16"x24" - $120
12"x18" - $75
8"x12" - $30
4"x6" - $7.50




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My Interests


I have a personal profile where I can be my stupid fun loving self but since interest in my photography is growing faster than I anticipated and MySpace isn't slowing down, I made this page so people can keep track of my newest works (I know you slackers won't leave MySpace to view the real www.clearasdirt.com ) and contact me for commissions. That way I can keep business and pleasure separate and it's about time!
Profiles and sites I support and view for info:
WPG Events
Backstage Winnipeg
The Royal Albert
Winnipegbands.com
Winnipeg
Collective Cabaret
Shannons Irish Pub
Shock Hazzard Presents
Sidelined Productions
Osborne Village Inn
The Pyramid

Peg city groups:
Winnipeg Black Metal
Winnipeg Hardcore
Former Winnipeggers
thepeg204
Other cool Winnipeg happening sites Dirt digs:
What's up Winnipeg
Winnipeg Movies"
MTS Center

I'd like to meet:

Models, Bands, Promoters, Photographers, Make up artists, Actors/Actresses and of course, people who buy art.

Music:

I listen to all kinds of crap, and can't get enough of live shows. Something about the energy and soul put into live performances is just plain moving... So much so, I've taken thousands of live music photos to try capture that essence and share with those who were there, or missed the show entirely. All that live music photography has led me to shoot several band promo materials too for bands like Jaw, The Nods, Tin Foil Phoenix, Killdare, Indy Nosebone, HCE, with several more shooting dates in the works for folks like Alverstone, Streets of Rage, Mad Young Darlings, The Cruelty, and more...The thumbnails below were taken by me, and they'll lead you to the MySpace pages of the bands in them. Go take a peek at my website to see more or click on the thumbnails to preview their musical material.

Aerocar Model Four

Angelic Sorrows

Annelid

Becoming the Martyr

Broken Army

Mike Burnard

Cannae

Damascus

Domenica

Dreadnaut

Exense

Forgetful jones

George and the Class of ‘84

God Forbid

HCE

Indy Nosebone

Infraction

Inwolven

JAW

Katelyn Dawn

Killdare

Lady Venom

Little Hawk

Lynchpin

Mad Young Darlings

Marianas Trench

Nocturnal Divinity

Port Amoral

Pretty Train Crash

Pyschotic Gardening

Scarlet Halo

Still Village

Sworn Enemy

Tele

Theory of a Deadman

The Nods

Tin Foil Phoenix

Torn Into

Xplicit

My Blog

This is the End for my MySpace blogging. *read on*

This is my last MySpace blog post. I'm tired of the errors and spam this site is famous for. I'm not done with MySpace as a site, but I'm no longer posting my pictures here. Instead you'll have to vis...
Posted by clearasdirt.com on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 06:00:00 PST

Save the Elms @ the Lyric... and listen to some tunes

Wow... I'm redesigning www.clearasdirt.com again becuase wow, it takes too effin long to upload stuff. I found a pretty good solution, and it's in keeping with the simple is better philosophy for visu...
Posted by clearasdirt.com on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:25:00 PST

A Night at the Collective...

The Collective sported a bill Friday night of several kickass bands I hadn't seen in a while, so naturally I had to clear the calendar and show for this devine event. CodaBroken ArmyPerditionNoct...
Posted by clearasdirt.com on Mon, 28 May 2007 11:34:00 PST

Dreadnaut at the Park

I wanted to test my 70-200 Sigma EX in low light, so what better place than the Park Theatre? That place is reknown among photographers as crapville for stage lighting unless the promoters fork in the...
Posted by clearasdirt.com on Tue, 22 May 2007 06:08:00 PST

More Nods Promo Material

The Nods are all awesome guys, and they really keep the conversation and atmosphere going... I prefer the candid sort of shot, so with these guys it's super easy. Just set them up in some lo...
Posted by clearasdirt.com on Fri, 04 May 2007 03:05:00 PST

Tin Foil Phoenix promos

The Winnipeg band, Tin Foil Phoenix, has a new percussionist, whether permanent or not, I don't know. But they did need some new promotional material to reflect this fact. It wasn't all that easy...
Posted by clearasdirt.com on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:08:00 PST

Metallic Graveyard

Not another band shoot, but very metal nonetheless. Winnipeg offers tonnes of scenery and interesting sites that the locals often forget about, or don't even know about for that matter. I learned of t...
Posted by clearasdirt.com on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 06:54:00 PST

HCE at Ellice Theatre - Masters of Noise

I've decided there is no better band out there at making noise sound fantastic. I mean, the kind of noise that normally makes you go, "wtf is this? do they know what they're doing?" Yeah, that kind of...
Posted by clearasdirt.com on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:09:00 PST

Winnipeg to Vancouver Road Trip 2007

There are 30 pics in this flash movie from my Winnipeg to Vancouver road trip. There are of course LOTS more. There are about 40 more on my website right now if you go to the gallery menu. Go to ...
Posted by clearasdirt.com on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:29:00 PST

Indy Nosebone's gooder Thursday

Since sweet F*** all (wtf, I'm censored?) happens on Good Friday, Indy Nosebone's tradition is to make a gooder Thursday at the Zoo. Since I havent seen these guys since the last gooder Thursday, I ha...
Posted by clearasdirt.com on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:06:00 PST