Senior Session Saturdays #3

Heather is my senior spokesmodel for this year, she's just finished high school and contacted me with a huge enthusiasm for doing a shoot around the city, with the architecture of downtown London and we also headed to City Lights, an amazing bookstore on Richmond. It was a pleasure to spend the lovely summer afternoon walking around discovering new places, hearing stories about certain parts and also remembering what it was like to be this age and how much there is to look forward to. Enjoy!

Memory Mondays Week 8

It is nearing the beginning of spring again and my Aussie blood can hardly wait. I love how different the seasons are in Canada compared to back home, you truly see the 4 seasons. Spring is where everything comes alive, especially the maple trees.

I was on couch surfing around this time last year and saw that there was someone from the Central Coast (where i'm from) in Halifax, I messaged him and he was living there also. We all decided to go to a place about 1 and a half hr drive out of the city called Sugar Moon farms and if that name doesn't make you want to go there then the fact that it is where they make real maple syrup sure should!

We happened to go there at the right time because on our particular tour was when they fired up the oven and started boiling the sap to make the syrup and boy was that one time that I wish I had more of a sense of smell! After learning all about how it is made we then made some maple candies rolling up the warm syrup from the snow on our sticks. After going for a walk in the woods we came back to the restaurant for an all around maple flavored lunch. To top it all off I got a maple leaf tattoo that night because I said I would if Canada won the Gold in the Ice hockey in the Vancouver Olympics.

Take a Lifetimes worth..

Sometimes life throws curve balls and I always just take the experience and learn and grow from it.

Take a lifetimes worth is all about making the most of what you've got and doing everything the best you can. It is also a (somewhat changed) quote from a small Canadian movie that I love called One week starring Joshua Jackson.

The camera is my Canon 30d which in my lifetime I have taken more photos on than any other camera (I hate to know what the shutter count is) and the rolls of film coming in from in behind are showing my background, my beginnings.

The sunset is based on the one I would see every afternoon after coming home from school and there was a less than 5 minute interval where the colours in the sky would change violently sometimes, gradually others. I remember taking photos on my 2 megapixel olympus camera, trying capture that space of time where it is all there and then it isn't, how tangible it all can be.