April 2009
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By Sabrina on April 30, 2009
vanilla sakura van dusen gardens, vancouver first tulips van dusen gardens, vancouver It has been a very busy month for me and Resistance almost stopped me from getting to the Van Dusen Gardens for my monthly shoot. I’m glad I made it there though as Spring has firmly taken up residence at the 55 acre [...]
Posted in flowers, macro |
By Sabrina on April 28, 2009
japanese dolls asakusa, tokyo ninja dolls asakusa, tokyo ice cream asakusa, tokyo One of the interesting purchases I made in Japan was at the beginning of my trip when on our first day there, I bought a Kenko No. 3 close-up filter at Bic Camera. It was a rather serendipitous find for only US$14. [...]
Posted in closeup |
By Sabrina on April 26, 2009
Posted in flowers, photo of the day, tokyo |
By Sabrina on April 25, 2009
wind in the wisterias hama-rikyu gardens, tokyo
Posted in flowers, photo of the day, tokyo |
By Sabrina on April 24, 2009
tokyo skyline roppongi hills, tokyo Roppongi Hills was completed in 2003, long after my last visit here fifteen years ago. Built by Japan’s wealthy property magnate, Minoru Mori, the building has been the site of a number of unfortunate accidents and deaths feeding into feng shui beliefs that the location is cursed. None of that [...]
Posted in architecture, HDR, landscape, tokyo |
By Sabrina on April 22, 2009
african montage * photos used with the permission of Ryan Snider Today’s photo might be a bit confusing considering I am in Tokyo at the moment but good news must be shared no matter what. I am very pleased to let you know that I am joining David duChemin and Ryan Snider on a socially [...]
Posted in animals |
By Sabrina on April 21, 2009
temple lights asakusa, tokyo
Posted in photo of the day, tokyo |
By Sabrina on April 20, 2009
cocoon building tokyo, japan Not much chance to take pictures yet so here’s one from our first day out and about in Tokyo. Hopefully tomorrow we’ll get a chance to photograph “old Japan”.
Posted in architecture, photo of the day, tokyo |
By Sabrina on April 18, 2009
ohayo tokyo shinjiku, tokyo Good morning from Tokyo! One thing about jet lag is that as a photographer you have no trouble getting up in the morning when you first arrive in a time zone 15 hours ahead. We were all up before 5 am today and I shot this image from our balcony on [...]
Posted in landscape, photo of the day, tokyo |
By Sabrina on April 17, 2009
sayonara vancouver yrv We are on our way! Not much time to blog right now so I’ll catch you on the other side of the Pacific
Posted in black and white, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on April 15, 2009
It’s been a while since I did a news news posting so time to catch up with everyone on a few things. Two more days until I leave for Japan–sugoi! It has been 15 years since I was last in Japan so it will be interesting to see how much it has changed. Of course [...]
Posted in musings |
By Sabrina on April 9, 2009
hello hellebores! vancouver bc It seems we have another aspiring photographer in the family–my sister. Recently she received her very own copy of Bryan Peterson’s Understanding Exposure from yours truly because I refused to share my signed copy with her. An avid gardener, she sent me the photo above from her spring garden with a [...]
Posted in black and white, flowers, photoshop |
By Sabrina on April 5, 2009
We’ve hit the halfway mark in my Microstock course and my brain is on overload. I’ve taken a peek at Lesson 5 and it doesn’t look like Pete is going to let up on us. Each week he has challenged everyone to research the business and make choices about what to shoot based on what [...]
Posted in food, microstock |
By Sabrina on April 2, 2009
burrard bridge vancouver, bc
Posted in architecture, photo of the day, photoshop |
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