no love lost, no love found

The lovely Teagan and myself spent a Sunday afternoon driving into nowhere's ville looking for an abandoned field. We found many good fields, unfortunately they had fences around them and we didn't think it would be a good idea to jump the fence of a farmer. Thankfully we found a random field that was over grown, perfect. It was literally in the middle of nowhere. And there were kids on dirt bikes near by. I think we hit the boonies on this one. However, with the sun on its way behind the horizon, the lighting was perfect. Next thing I know Teagan has changed six times, shes starting to get cold and I have taken 400 photos. I think this is one of my favorite shoots to date.

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youve got me laughing while i sing

Photo shoot with Ms. Sarah deBourcier a couple Fridays ago. Editing is probably one of the most boring past times ever... Guess I picked the wrong career eh? This whole trying to get into Emily Carr, busting my ass every Friday even though I don't have school, is encroaching into my beauty sleep. (And we all know I need that.) But at the end of the day I remember that it's not about getting into Emily Carr, it's about doing what I love. And the lack of sleep, and countless hours of editing, are so worth it to me. So here it is, I know the anticipation is killing you.

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i feel a seperation coming on

Finally now that I am out of school I have loads more time to take some creative shots. The lovely Kristen helped me out with this one, oh and with the help of my high school I was able to finally have some studio space. I wanted to do a self portrait shoot and ended up making it into a little bit of a fashion/self portrait shoot. The second one down of Kristen and I is by far my favorite. I don't know, what do you think? The whole gluing-feathers-to-your-face-thing not the smartest idea, but it made for some great shots. However ripping them, and copious amounts of glue off our eyelashes, at the end of it... Yeah, not so fun. I think we may have lost some eyebrows and eyelashes. Good thing they grow back right?






Oh insomnia, thanks for the effort to get this done, but please, leave me alone.

can't you feel my heart is beating

Shot my first wedding September 4th 2010. First off, congratulations are in order to the lovely Ally and Dylan. I have never seen two people more in love and meant for each other then the two of them.
I must say, you can finally call yourself a photographer once you have shot a wedding. The work that one puts in to it, the stress up until it happens, it's unbelievable. But at the end of the day, it flows smoothly and I get to be a part of the most magical moment in someones life. It was an amazing opportunity that I was so happy to have. Of course, this is only a taste of the day. But you guys can't always have your cake and eat it too. Right?

















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everything just looks the same

You'd think that in summer I would actually be able to get stuff done, but life has a way of well... getting in the way. Here's a shoot I did a while ago with the lovely Mrs. Jessica Iida. Unfortunately I haven't quite finished the editing so it's only a little sample to satisfy your taste.








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in your eyes i see the eyes of somebody i knew before

Rottnest Island^

Sorry to all my blog followers, aka mom, that it has taken me so long to update my blog! So Monday we were off to Rotto Island, probably the best four days of the trip so far! It was so much fun. The first day Sasha and I caught the 10:30 ferry and everyone else was on the 2:30, so me and Sasha just tooled around the island and saw what the island had to offer*. The island is absolutely stunning. The water is the bluest I have ever seen water, and for the first time ever I actually wanted to swim in an ocean. It was a pretty warm day and I actually ended up tanning on the beach that was right near our cabin. We were about a two minute walk to this beach called Pinkys and every morning I went for a nice, cold, refreshing swim. There was a lighthouse at the beach so it was really easy to find where our cabin was because we would just look to the light house and start walking. In the first picture you can see it off in the distance, and that picture was taken from right off the ferry that we had to take to the Island.I stuck my feet into the Indian Ocean for the first time in my life! The water thankfully wasn't too cold, and the sand was so soft. After tanning I basically exfoliated my body and my skin was nice and silky smooth. There were six of us in a cabin, Sasha and myself and four of Sasha's friends. There was Charlotte, Nat, Will and Robbie. Apparently anyone who hung out with Sasha or me became Canadian because one night everyone kept asking Robbie questions about Vancouver (he's never been there) and another night Charlotte and Sasha became team Canada. You'd think that their accents would give it away that they weren't from Canada. But oh well! Everyday/night was basically the same thing. We would get up around ten and then me and Will would go for a swim, then we would hang around the cabin or walk around Rottnest, and then a couple people would take a nap, we'd make lunch and then around four we would start the party. It sounds repetitive but it was really fun. On the second night we had a camp fire and I got eaten alive by mosquito's. Australian mosquito's are ruthless and apparently love the Canadian blood because my legs are absolutely covered in bites! On the third day Will left early to go home so our cabin was uneven and I think there might have been a little too much estrogen for Robbie....Clockwise from left; Nat, Robbie, Sasha, Rachelle, Charlotte

We got home from Rotto on Thursday and were so beat that we just slept all afternoon and then that night we went to Toy Story 3. If you haven't seen it and you have seen one and two I highly suggest you go to it! I think me and Sasha were the only people in the entire theater crying. How could you not though! It's the final one and Andy goes to college!! The theaters in Australia are crazy.. The concession is all self serve and the girls who work there wear candy stripper dresses. Uh, can I work there!? I think we should have to wear candy stripper dresses in our theaters because that is just wicked. Friday we just sat around the house because we didn't get up early enough to do anything. I finally got to tan! I don't think it did anything though, but that's okay. That night we went to the casino in Perth and it started off pretty badly. Charlotte and I were loosing so we were going to take a break because there was a draw for 200, 000 dollars. After the draw we went back and played one more game and I ended up winning a hundred dollars! It was a great finish to the night! They have this awesome game that I am now in love with because I won a hundred dollars off it called Casino Wars. It's really simple, basically what happens is the dealer deals everyone one card face up, and then they deal themselves one card, and if your card is higher then the dealer, you win. But if your card is the same you go to war, but only if you bet on the tie space. And all war is is you match your bet and then the dealer deals three cards face down, one up to you one up to them, your car is higher, you win. Simple eh? And it's easy to read because there are only four decks in this machine that shuffles the cards as you put them in, but it doesn't shuffle all the decks together every time. So if a whole bunch of high cards come out you can be pretty sure that a bunch of low cards are going to come out after.
So on Saturday we went to the Perth zoo*. Usually I don't support zoo's because I think it is animal abuse, but this one was actually really awesome. It was huge! There was an African area, an Australian area and and Asian area. They had every animal you could think of, and an entire area just for primates! The thing I was most excited about was the tigers! I love tigers. I think they are the most majestic animals in the entire world, and in support of how much I love tigers I wore my tiger shirt. That way they would know I was friend, not foe.Today we just went back to freo markets to pick some stuff up before I embark on the second leg of my journey. We got lost today though and ended up finding this little plaza that had th craziest little shake shack! You could put anything in it. And I mean ANYTHING. TimTams, nerds, muffins, cheese cake, skittles, Zappos, Sour Straps.. The list goes on! I got sour straps with pop rocks on top. It was amazingly good!! Anyways, off for dins!
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i really want to come kick it with you

Hello hello!
Well, today we went to the Perth Art Gallery to see the exhibition called Relativity. The artist, Patricia Piccinini, uses nature, the environment, science and art to show the relations between humans and the mutant beings she has created. It was quiet freaky in a weird awesome way. Everything looked so real. When you first walked in there were these two prematurely aged little boys playing game boy that I honestly thought were real. I actually jumped. The 'creatures' that she created weren't all the scary because they were so obviously fake, but it was the children that got me. They looked as though at any minute they were going to move, or blink, or say something. Heres the link in case you wanted to take a look at some of the work. http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/patricia-piccinini-relativity.asp Unfortunately this is not all of the work, but photographs were not allowed. One exhibit even had a mountain goat, not that I have ever seen a mountain goat. After the museum we walked down Murray st which is the Perth equivalent to Robson. Starting to see a pattern? I find that everything in Perth has a similarity to Vancouver, whether or not it really does, I like to try and find some. We went into a few shops, not really a huge shopping day. I have to set aside a day for that because to just spur of the moment shop is really tiring and I am never really in the mood when it's a spur of the moment thing. Plus Perth is outrageously expensive so I want to get all the tourist things done before I spend money shopping. Well off to Rotto tomorrow so you won't be hearing from me for the next four days! I'll try and remember everything that happens whilst I am on the Island.

(Ps. Sorry for the alcohol mom. It is for the next week or so. And can you believe wine down here is only ten dollars a bottle!? Three of those bottles were actually only 6! Crazy eh?)

Keep on keepin' on!