15 photos of a pear

So this week I finally tried another photo project. Basically, I have to take 15 photos of a single object without touching or moving it. Good times lol

Little Secrets

So I went out to a nice little coffee shop with some friends this week. It's kind of in an awkward place, with a misleading exterior. But inside, it is simply beautiful. I had gone past the place a dozen times since it opened up a year or two ago, but only went for the first time this summer. It's nice to have these little places where places where not many people seem to know about lol

Bleh

To be honest, this has been a very uneventful week. For the first time in a long time, I only worked on 2 days. I had 5 days to do whatever the hell I wanted. Unfortunately, I didn't really know what to do with my time. Unlike in previous years, most of my friends were in class. So this resulted in a lot of:

-sleeping
-wondering what to do
-looking outside at the gloomy, Vancouver weather
-watching reruns of Scrubs
-cleaning room
-misc. errands

Looking at this list just makes me sad. I really gotta do more stuff lol

Track Dolly

So this week my friend and I built a track dolly to use for videos. We shot some footage to test it out, and this video is what came of it (make sure your speakers are on). I'm not particularly experienced with video yet, so I'm hoping that I'll get better at it throughout the year lol.

Anyways, it's kind of nice to have more time between posts. I'm looking forward to posting higher quality content. Check back next Sunday for the next post :)

Happy New Year!

So uh yeah, it's now 2011. I've got a lot of things on my mind right now, the first being that I've just finished living through my first full decade. I don't mean that I'm ten years old, I'm saying that I lived all the way through the 2000's. Crazy stuff.

On that note, 2010 was an extremely eventful year for me. I (barely) graduated from high school. I gave up on applying to many schools due to my grades, and got turned down from the only school I applied to during the school year. I then broke my clavicle at the beginning of the summer.

But hey, I also got accepted into a post secondary program that actually appeals to my interests. I also found out who my closest friends truly are (wow that sounded a lot less cheesy in my mind). I experienced many "firsts" too. I'm slowly finding out what I want to do within the next few years. Although nothing is ever written in stone, I would definitely like to do some traveling. At the very least, I want to see Canada's eastern shores. Wouldn't be fair to call myself Canadian otherwise lol.

Now in terms of my photography, I think that's where I experienced the most growth. Looking back to my first few posts on this blog, I can't help but laugh. I started this whole thing because I wanted to get better at photography. What ended up happening was my passion grew instead. I started seeing photography everywhere I went. I would think about compositions and lighting at the most random times and places. I now know for certain that photography is something that will never leave me. I may go through many different cameras in my life, but photography in itself will always be present in some way, shape, or form.

So I guess the last thing to address is what happens now? Well my plan to stop doing the whole take/post a photo a day this year. Although doing this for a whole year really forced me to get involved and committed to photography, I often felt like I had to take a photo of some random object in my house just to get a blog post up. I felt like my creativity was extremely limited at times due to time restraints and my own negligence/procrastination. So this year, I will put up one new post each week. I'm not exactly sure what each post will have. It might be a photo project I did that week, it might be a video I shot with friends, it might be a graphic poster I made for class, I don't know. Point is, I want 2011 to be all about creativity and freedom.

So yeah, it should be fun times. I want to give a huge thank-you to all those who helped me through this year. It's been a hell of a year, here's to another!