Cuba baby!

"Wednesday, when, huh, what day? Thursday, the third day" is approaching, and with each passing day it gets closer and closer to our new adventure, an all inclusive island holiday!

I honestly dont know what i'm looking forward to most,

Reason 1: having another adventure (well, an adventure inside an adventure as at the moment i'm living it up in k-nad-town but life does still get a bit monotonous and at times and different situations can make it a little stressful, so an island get away is exactly what the doctor ordered! (or not because as it stands i've had to pay almost $500 in doctors bills in the last 2 weeks because of the stupid Canadian health care system not reaching out to poor Aussies..)

Reason 2: I can't wait to have spare time to take a bunch of photos, I'll be taking my Olympuswaterproof, shockproof camera (for drunken nights out) my Canon 30d (for taking 'real' photos) a Canon D10 (because the Olympus takes shocking photos and i'll be taking it to the beach and underwater) and my Polaroid, and yes, I'm one of the only ones still with film. Ha.

Reason 3: It's all inclusive, and when i say all inclusive I mean everything, Alcohol, beach sports, food, everything..

Reason 4: Last but not least, I'm looking forward to some quality time with my boy.. Who is finishing his exams/ whole undergraduate degree right about now and so we'll be free to just chill out (and heres the best bit) together. :)

Here is an article that I found on the Lomography website which is set in Cuba, not the same place i'm going but yeah..

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.

Blogging for the man..

So today I eventually posted a blog that I was writing for my work (They have their own blog) at Atlantic Photo Supply, a locally owned and loved Camera shop and professional lab. I really like working there, being able to get to know all the newest cameras, talk to all the professional photographer clients and even help all the little old ladies get reprints from their old slides.. All the different characters that I get to interact with throughout the day are also what make it feel like it was meant to be for me to work there..

So, take a look at the blog and as always feel free to leave comments, I've left it pretty open for discussion..

Here is a link to one of my favorite photographers who walks through the doors.. I think i'll have to make a follow up blog of all of my favorites because there are so many to choose from.

And to leave you with a photo, heres one I took last week.. I love old people holding hands :)

We all get a little bit weird, sometimes..

Everyone has a dirty little secret, or at least something that they wouldn't usually disclose to people when first meeting because you know for a fact that they would judge you there and then.. Well, heres mine.

My favorite band is Hanson. Yes, the kids that looked like girls who sang mmmbop.

What alot of people dont realize is that that was 12 years ago, and honestly, how much have you changed in 12 years? Do you still collect pokemon cards, go to see Titanic 10 times at the cinema while wearing your cargo pants and rocking a 'rachel' haircut.. no, i thought not..

So, like all of us, these guys have changed alot since the mmmbop days. Their 2004 album underneath was a big departure from the cookie cutter world of pop and anthems like "Strong enough to break" got me through my last year of high school and I was even lucky enough to go and see them in concert (the best day of my life thus far.. but thats another story).

The Walk was released in 2007 and they have been doing alot of charity work and making babies with their wives (yes, they're all married with kids) since then. Taylor even did a side project 'Tinted Windows", which when i first heard their song on Triple J I almost ran my car off the road.

So, if you know and love me, or if you're at all interested, check out their new single. I know that this will be the one cd that i will actually go out and buy this year.

I have this photo as a poster on the back of my door back home, much larger than life size..

My favorite kind of photography..

As I explained in the last post, I love Street Photography. Taking natural photos, capturing a moment that you can't repeat. Being able to do Documentary Photography is what I love and here are some photos from around a year ago that I took at the Sydney Royal Easter Show.

A really nice blog post..

While at work doing some social networking for the store.. I found this beautiful blog post about a street person and their dog. I know for a fact that if i had the choice between being completely alone or having to share what little I had with a dog for company I would definitely do it if i could.

I generally really like street photography but yeah its always a fine line when taking photographs of anyone in public, particularly 'street people'. When I was in my last year of uni I did a photography series taking portraits of these people, mainly just of their hands but yeah I had to be very careful with doing it because of all of the history of misuse of the photography form in these kinds of situations.

The following two photographs were from that series, taken here in Halifax for an algorithm project, the only limitations of the project were that you had to follow a set of rules (made up by you) and take a series, I interpreted this as like the ultimate algorithmic photographs, Passport photos, which always end up looking like mug shots, which got me thinking about other mug shots, there is of course, like any art alot more to be said about them but i'll let you find that for yourself. These were my favorites.

Antiques..

Awhile ago I was blogging about going for a walk on Valentines Day and mentioned that I bought some things in an antique store and said I'd put up photos.. Its been awhile but here they are..

Venetian bookmarks

Dad in a previous life

Tower of london collector cards