September 2009

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be brave

be brave

spin st martins, new brunswick We all knew it was going to be quite the week when Freeman Patterson declared “rules are an insult to creativity” and asked us to “be brave enough to think for ourselves” at our very first lecture. In Photographing the World Around You he writes: The first thing to be aware of [...]

learning to explore

learning to explore

obliques st. martins, new brunswick Yesterday I wrote briefly about the language of visual expression using the building blocks of visual design. The arrangement of line, shape, texture, and perspective, in a photograph are akin to arranging words in a sentence so that you can express yourself to be understood by others. This was the [...]

patterson-gallant visual design workshop

patterson-gallant visual design workshop

freeman patterson st.martins, new brunswick Earlier this month I had the opportunity–and privilege–to be part of a group of photographers attending a week long workshop with Freeman Patterson and his teaching partner of fourteen years, André Gallant. For those of you who have not heard of Freeman Patterson, he is a photographer, writer, and teacher who [...]

september in the gardens

september in the gardens

dancing van dusen gardens, vancouver It seems fitting that the first post in my new blog home on WordPress is for my long term project of shooting monthly at the Van Dusen Gardens. Today I spent an hour at the gardens enjoying the beginning of the change in seasons and while I was quite taken with [...]

already there

already there

mmmmmaccha momento coffee, vancouver 141 posts and one year later, I am celebrating the first anniversary of my blog! When I first started out on this adventure it was just to share my photos with family and friends. Somewhere along the way it morphed into what it is today–a blog about my journey to learn [...]

photo of the day

photo of the day

garden art 2 van dusen gardens, vancouver