Friday, March 4, 2011

Natsumi Hayashi




The levitating girl. What an amazing project.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

145/365



Hanna checking out baby Chloe.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

144/365

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

143/365



Making home made playdough!

Monday, February 28, 2011

142/365



Building kitty houses.

Sunday, February 27, 2011

141/365




Okay, I said it before - I know these are supposed to be portraits of me - but she's definitely better looking than me.

Saturday, February 26, 2011

140/365



Mi familia.
<3

I really have to watch my focus point.

Friday, February 25, 2011

139/365



Sleeping Beauty.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

138/365



We took a trip to the library to pick out bedtime stories. Hanna was more interested in running through the stacks screaming.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

137/365



We're watching American Idol.

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

136/365



ISO 200, f2.8, 1/60sec

Just Hanna and Mom and a house full of chaos.

Monday, February 21, 2011

135/365

Sunday, February 20, 2011

134/365



12 hours of overtime. Bed is good now. REAL good.

Saturday, February 19, 2011

133/365



Saturday afternoon at our favorite coffee shop, waiting for Liz and Koa.

Friday, February 18, 2011

132/365



Oh hai there.

Thursday, February 17, 2011

131/365

Wow, look what keeps coming out of boxes.



Syx bought this for me a few years ago and I never used it. Sorry honey, but I'm excited about it today!

Hidden in a box.


Contax G1, Carl Zeiss Planar 45mm, f2 lens

Doing a little early spring cleaning and my husband pulled this out of a box. I can't wait to get this little gem some batteries and try it out!

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

130/365




....and we're back on track. HP went down to bed, Syx is at school so I decided to break out the sparklers and glow sticks and try light painting, which I have never tried on my own. It took a bit of trial and error with materials and exposure time- I found the glow sticks didn't give off enough light in this setting, but I suspect they would be great in a darker setting. This was using a sparkler and I'm at ISO 100, f9, with a 6 second exposure, no edits

It looks magical in my living room tonight!

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Big fails.

I've been having a hard time keeping up with the 365 project between working, participating (trying to) in a writing class and planning an up and coming toddler art class at the Mt. Pleasant Community center. So here's to pressing forward and not obsessing over the missed days, like I would normally do. So here's what I do have, there are gaps in days and I'm not sure that they're all in order - expect to see me back tomorrow with day 130.

121/365

a rare afternoon off together these days. the cloud broke just long enough for us to go play.

122/365

i'm smiling because Hanna is napping.


123/365


i'm kinda obsessed with my hair. my hair has never been this long in my life.

124/365

losing steam. power nap


125/365


tuff girl.

126/365

i'm not really sure what's going on here.


127/365


writing assignments. the things we carry.


a beautiful day in the park.

129/365

her mother's daughter.

Monday, February 14, 2011

This is Ian.



My husband told a great story about our dear friend and neighbor Ian McKay over on his blog today.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Alex Stoddard

Alex Stoddard is 17, and had never used his camera outside of it's auto settings before he started the 365 project. His work is completely inspiring and thought provoking. If he's producing these types of images at 17, I can't even begin to imagine what he'll be shooting in 10 years.



Anyhow. He also uses flickr like a lot of my peers seem to be- plus I just downloaded Lightroom 3.3 which has an option to directly upload to flickr- so I jumped on the bandwagon - I'll probably be uploading some images in the next few days and checking things out.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

120/365



Sitting in on Tim's weekend workshop!

Saturday, January 22, 2011

119/365



Lighting test. Always lighting tests. Taking my parents anniversary portrait. Syx took this one! Wearing the best t shirt ever!

Friday, January 21, 2011

118/365



Friday night out! Sauna and junk food! REALLY good company!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

117/365



Alphabet Soup.
(I know it's supposed to be a photo of you a day but my daughter is way cuter than me.)

Lens: Lucifer VI
Film: Kodot XGrizzled

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

The World Around You (116/365)






Inspired by the topic of Photohaus Gallery's upcoming show on Friday January 28th, I took these at work one slow evening for a bit of practice.

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

115/365



Remembering when...

f4.0, 1/125, ISO 1600
Introducing, my watermark!

Monday, January 17, 2011

114/365



Lens: Lucifer VI
Film: Alfred Infrared

Mommy's reading list.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

113/365



Lens: John S
Film: BlacKeys B&W

Late nights writing.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

112/365



Mila Valentina and Hanna Panda.
BFFs.

Friday, January 14, 2011

111/365




We always makes a little time for each other in the morning.

Thursday, January 13, 2011

110/365



Hanna likes cats and jam. Fer reals.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!

As you can see, I've done a whole lot of back-posting. It's been a crazy couple weeks back in Vancouver. We've all been under the weather with a few different seasonal goodies despite our desperate attempts to avoid them. Point being, I got a bit behind on a few things but am really trying to start the New Year off positively! Now that we're all on the mend it's time to clean house and start some projects.

Over the holidays I had the chance to help Syx shoot a wedding for an old friend of his. What an amazing experience, both photographically and personally. There's a great energy in a room filled with that much love. And on the photographic side, Syx took some rad creative shots and go real creative with lighting and it was nice to be able to observe and learn.

I can actually feel myself slowly becoming a photo geek. All of a sudden my eyes aren't glazing over when the boys are talking gear or lightroom.

We stayed in Niagara Falls after for a few nights and got a chance to hang out with our friends Holly and Eric which also turned into a great impromptu lesson. Syx ended up shooting Eric in his attic workspace and I helped! We got creative, and the shots turned out great!





I'm hoping all these lessons help fuel my own creativity this year. I really feel like I have this itch I need to scratch.