I love how wet things look so much more colourful and have way more contrast. It may even explain my love of the rain :)
Tag Archive for Sidewalk
Lawnmower & bike racks
After a quick walk for free coffee at waves (i have wave’s ‘dollars’) I took this photos on the way back. Typical me however, I totally didn’t even see this when i walked by it 5 min earlier because I was looking at the minutiae of the wall beside it. More specifically the molding around a window on the wall beside it :)
it has been a busy weekend and first half of a week. Tonight i should be able to start remembering what the hell has been going on and write it down. Right now I must prepare for a small wedding :)
A Walk To Drop Off Some PinHole Film.
Yesterday morning I went to drop of some redscale sprocket pinhole film that I took to the lab. Gearing up for World Pinhole day this weekend I needed to fire a test roll to perfect my pinhole camera. Of course on route I took photos.
I make no apologies for liking the Black & White so much as of late.
I am off to run some errands in a few moments one of which is collecting said film from the lab. Excited I am! :)
It Will Be Sad When This Is Finally Gone…
…because it has sorta become part of Vancouver for me. It has been up nearly as long as I have lived here and I have taken 10 billion photos of it. Alas however, it looks as though they are finally nearing completion of the Fairmont Residences (the project that this walkway is protecting us from) so I am sure that this tunnel that has been a part of the landscape will soon be gone.
It Takes More Than Fucking Someone You Don’t Know To Keep Warm.
So yesterday after a band practice – that I am not going to talk about – I was drug out to the Media Club to see this UK band called Frightened Rabbit and I am glad for it. COMPLETE AND UTTER GENIUS!! I had given one of their albums a spin the other day on Coaxial‘s recommendation, but I didn’t make the connection that the band that I was listening to was the same band we were seeing, until part way though the first song. Also this was the first show that I had seen at the Media Club and while it as packed I was still standing ten feet from the stage for a wicked show, which makes it my kind of venue :)
In other news, I am having a really hard time visualizing what I am going to do for my “Scenes From A Movie” entry. For those that are not in the know, Stephanie had this awesome idea. A group of us pulled the names of a bunch of awesome movie directors from a hat with the idea that we take a photo in the style of the director. I pulled Akira Kurasawa and Stanley Kubrick out of the hat. Akira Kurasawa I didn’t even know who he was until I pulled his name. I know of his work, I just didn’t realize that it was his. The only Kubrick movie I have ever seen was The Shining and that was a long time ago.
I have noticed a couple of themes that are prevalent with both directors. I have noticed that Kubrick loves the wide lenses! Both A Clockwork Orange & 2001 A Space Odyssey has scenes that heavily used extremely wide angle lenses, nearly fish eye in some cases. I may use something like that in my Kubrick photo. Kurasawa was a genius with framing and such. There are a lot of scenes in The Seven Samurai that are shoot throughs (shooting with an object in the foreground that you shoot through to the actual scene beyond) as well as other fun framing so I may experiment with that. He also painted his story boards, so experimenting with that may be interesting. All said and done I have nothing really. I will watch more movies and see what comes of it I guess.
Today was also a hang out at VGH day so I wandered about and took some photos.
Black & White in Colour Photos
Today I went for a wander to two differnt Staples stores looking for a particular type of envelope for mailing things. I also happened to have a camera in hand when I came across a whole lot of black and white things, which I chose to shoot in colour. :)
Some shots from a beach photowalk at last
I know I know that this was a long time ago but i have been resonably sucsessfull at avoiding my computer the last while so they haven’t been posted!
Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II Aperture: 4.5 Shutter: 1/250 Lens: Canon EF 50mm 1.4 ISO: 400 Date Taken: Jan.13.2008
Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II Aperture: 1.4 Shutter: 1/800 Lens: Canon EF 50mm 1.4 ISO: 400 Date Taken: Jan.13.2008
Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II Aperture: 4.5 Shutter: 1/320 Lens: Canon EF 50mm 1.4 ISO: 400 Date Taken: Jan.13.2008
Street Mosaic
This is a photo that I grabbed when I went for a photowander/delivery trip the other day. I find its always interesting what you find when you look down. :)
Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 1.4
Shutter: 1/400
Lens: Canon EF 50mm 1.4
ISO: 125
Date Taken: July.03.2007
