By Sabrina on January 30, 2012
Back in the fall, I was in Port Townsend for the “Close to Home” workshop with Stuart Sipahigil and Ray Ketcham. There I spent some time with old friends, Ellie and Dorothy, and had a chance to meet one of my blog readers, Franz Amador.
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By Sabrina on January 27, 2012
Two years after returning from my African safari, my sister requested a large canvas for a big wall space. Finally a piece of my work that would hang in her beautifully decorated home
Posted in africa, giveaways |
By Sabrina on January 26, 2012
Bao bei directly translated means “my darling”. As long as I can remember I’ve loved these buns. The version I had as a child
Posted in stories, stuff |
By Sabrina on January 25, 2012
The strangest stores in Chinatown have always been places where you buy dehydrated or preserved foods–at least to me because other than a couple of remedies for bruises and sore throats
Posted in stories, stuff |
By Sabrina on January 23, 2012
The Year of the Water Dragon is here and with it comes the traditional celebrations and family gatherings. On the weekend I headed down to Vancouver’s Chinatown
Posted in stories, stuff |
By Sabrina on January 17, 2012
Your voice is so much a part of who you are that you might not even recognize it yourself. I think many photographers don’t but thankfully though others do
Posted in artist round table, lessons in learning, projects, stories, voice, workshops |
By Sabrina on January 11, 2012
Did you receive a new digital camera for Christmas? Are you a newbie photographer and aren’t sure where to start?
Posted in lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on January 2, 2012
Last year Ray Ketcham led the very first Artist Round Table on “Discovering Your Voice“. It was a bit of an experiment
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By Sabrina on December 23, 2011
A promise remembered each year at this time, that we are loved and to love. Truth be told, I’m one of those annoying people
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By Sabrina on December 19, 2011
I took a little break from Christmas shopping and stepped below street level to enjoy the people ice-skating at Robson Square.
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By Sabrina on December 16, 2011
There’s nothing quite like Christmas through the eyes of a child. My friend Matt Connors did a wonderful post on his blog
Posted in musings, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on December 9, 2011
Only two more weeks until Christmas break! I am looking forward to a couple of weeks off to catch up on ten million things I have to do
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By Sabrina on December 7, 2011
As I was preparing to give my photographic adventure in Morocco a little over a month ago, I was thinking how I could maximize my experience. There were several constraints I had to work with. Though this was not a workshop,
Posted in guest blogger, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on December 2, 2011
It’s understandable if you haven’t heard of Fred Herzog. He is now 81 years old and it was only five years ago his work began to find acclaim.
Posted in lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on November 30, 2011
Back in May, I was in Toronto for the Magnum Workshop and I found myself against the wall struggling to find a few more images
Posted in dogs, musings, workshops |
By Sabrina on November 21, 2011
The gestational period for an elephant is 22 months. I can’t imagine what it would be like to wait that long for something so amazing
Posted in projects, rear curtain, stories |
By Sabrina on November 11, 2011
You might remember my friend Ellie and I were in Port Townsend in August and experienced some wonderful fog. As luck would have it,
Posted in photo of the day |
By Sabrina on November 7, 2011
For some time now I’ve been contemplating how I feel about black and white images and more specifically why I am attracted to black and white photography.
Posted in black and white, lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on October 31, 2011
One of the things I love about blogging that I hadn’t anticipated, is the opportunity to connect with others in a meaningful way. Somehow we’ve been able to cross the miles virtually and even in person
Posted in interview, lessons in learning, stories |
By Sabrina on October 24, 2011
As you know I’ve been shooting with an Olympus EP-2 camera these days and in fact, it was the only camera I took on my trip down to the Finger Lakes area of New York state a couple of weekends ago. I am really impressed with this little camera
Posted in photo of the day, voice |
By Sabrina on October 12, 2011
In April I posted a couple of images for a project I had in mind. I wasn’t certain if the project would materialize and
Posted in lessons in learning, stories |
By Sabrina on October 10, 2011
I had to stop and photograph this scene at the back of Undertown coffee shop in Port Townsend last weekend. The dog and the bike brought a smile to my face
Posted in black and white, dogs, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on October 9, 2011
Last weekend I was in Port Townsend for the Close to Home Workshop with Ray and Stuart. Although I wasn’t able to participate
Posted in black and white, workshops |
By Sabrina on September 23, 2011
Lately I’ve become obsessed. It started when I saw a tweet about a certain website where photographers can pay $7.95 for another photographer to do an image critique.
Posted in black and white, dogs, lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on September 20, 2011
After much thought and reflection, Ray and I came to the decision this past weekend to hold another Artist Round Table in 2012. We don’t know exactly what it will look like
Posted in artist round table, lessons in learning, voice |
By Sabrina on September 11, 2011
In a coincidence, I will be flying to Ottawa for work on this the 10th anniversary of 9/11. I find it somewhat encouraging
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By Sabrina on September 6, 2011
Last month I entered five images for consideration for a show of work for former students of Vancouver Photo Workshops and a couple of weeks ago I learned that
Posted in black and white, dogs, shows, workshops |
By Sabrina on September 4, 2011
Since moving from Africa to North America a number of years ago, I learned to really appreciate September. When I lived on the prairies,
Posted in musings, voice |
By Sabrina on September 2, 2011
A few images from my visit last weekend to Port Townsend with Ellie Ericson. It was the first time I’ve been out photographing in PT when the fog was so heavy.
Posted in landscape, nature, stuff |
By Sabrina on August 26, 2011
Another image from my day at Steveston a few weeks ago. It’s a bit ordinary other than I found it interesting how many things
Posted in photo of the day, stuff |
By Sabrina on August 22, 2011
Today I am delighted to introduce Julie Treanor to you all. I say “introduce” because I don’t think many of you know Julie but by the time you finish reading this interview with her
Posted in animals, in focus, interview, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on August 19, 2011
More images from my night walk around Port Townsend! If you followed us during ART, you know food is a big part of the PT experience
Posted in black and white, lessons in learning, musings, stuff |
By Sabrina on August 18, 2011
It all began with a book. Not like the books in this image but an eBook. Close to Home. Before it was released and became a smash hit,
Posted in black and white, stories, workshops |
By Sabrina on August 17, 2011
Today on my blog I am very pleased to have the second in what I hope will be my series of guest posts by Craft and Vision authors. This time I’d like to welcome Piet van den Eynde
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By Sabrina on August 11, 2011
First of all, this image has nothing to do with the topic of my post today. I just wanted to share it and at the same time
Posted in lessons in learning, people, stuff, voice |
By Sabrina on August 10, 2011
Here’s another image from my day with Ellie Ericson. Steveston is a former fishing village close to where I live
Posted in architecture, musings, photo of the day, workshops |
By Sabrina on August 7, 2011
Last weekend I had the pleasure of spending the day with Ellie Ericson at Steveston. I first met Ellie earlier this year
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By Sabrina on August 2, 2011
I am very pleased to have Andrew Gibson on my blog once again. Andrew is a freelance writer and photographer
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By Sabrina on July 27, 2011
When I was at the Magnum workshop, one of the issues that came to the forefront was my shooting style. It became clearer that
Posted in black and white, landscape, lessons in learning, nature, travel, utah |
By Sabrina on July 26, 2011
Shortly before I left on my road trip, I received a copy of Harold Davis’ Creative Landscapes and I am sure the cover of that book
Posted in black and white, landscape, photo of the day, travel, utah |
By Sabrina on July 25, 2011
Here’s an image from Canyonlands National Park taken at sunset. We had come out earlier in the day when it was much hotter
Posted in landscape, nature, photo of the day, travel, utah |
By Sabrina on July 22, 2011
This image was so much fun from start to finish. Can I say that? Really I can’t recall the last time I bounced up and down and ran around furiously when photographing something
Posted in before and after, landscape, lighting, nature, photoshop, travel, utah |
By Sabrina on July 21, 2011
Before you say it, I will–yes it is a ubiquitous image of sunrise at the Courthouse Towers in Arches National Park. I realize people will tell you to find something different
Posted in black and white, landscape, nature, photo of the day, stuff, utah |
By Sabrina on July 20, 2011
Arches National Park, Moab. Another place that has been photographed to death. One approach to photographing an iconic place is
Posted in landscape, nature, photo of the day, utah |
By Sabrina on July 15, 2011
I realize this post on the Artist Round Table is long overdue as some of you have been waiting patiently to hear what I had to say about the whole experience. Truth is I just wasn’t ready
Posted in artist round table, lessons in learning, musings, people |
By Sabrina on July 13, 2011
This is one of my favourite images from Bryce Canyon although I’m not exactly sure why. I think it’s because
Posted in black and white, landscape, nature, photo of the day, travel, utah |
By Sabrina on July 12, 2011
If you are a regular visitor to my blog, you’ve probably been expecting this image. It occurred to me
Posted in landscape, nature, photo of the day, travel, utah, voice |
By Sabrina on July 11, 2011
Another image from Bryce Canyon but this time cropped to a square. When I look at the the square crop,
Posted in landscape, nature, photo of the day, travel, utah |
By Sabrina on July 10, 2011
Bryce Canyon is best viewed in the morning as it faces East. All that red rock was a shock to my visual system
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By Sabrina on July 8, 2011
Three days into the road trip and we were in Utah. I still didn’t have any idea of where we would finally pitch the tent
Posted in landscape, nature, photo of the day, travel, utah |
By Sabrina on July 6, 2011
The Bonneville Salt Flats, bordered by hills to the north, stretch out as far as the eye can see. If you didn’t know you were looking
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By Sabrina on July 5, 2011
The Bonneville Salt Flats, home to a number of the land speed records but we didn’t move much. It occurred to me on the second day photographing here that perhaps
Posted in black and white, landscape, lessons in learning, photo of the day, stuff, utah |
By Sabrina on July 2, 2011
I apologize for the lengthy absence from my blog. With the Artist Round Table and heading off on a two-week road trip, I haven’t had time to update it.
Posted in black and white, landscape, nature, photo of the day, travel, utah |
By Sabrina on June 6, 2011
It’s been almost three weeks since the Magnum workshop and I’m still digesting much of what I learned there. Since my return I’ve had a chance to read Larry Towell’s book
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By Sabrina on May 28, 2011
Image Courtesy of Jeffrey George Hladun © One of the highlights of my week at the Magnum workshop were the lectures by each of the six Magnum photographers
Posted in black and white, giveaways, interview, lessons in learning, people, workshops |
By Sabrina on May 19, 2011
“If you keep the ordinary images, you reward yourself in the wrong way” ~ Larry Towell
Posted in animals, black and white, dogs, workshops |
By Sabrina on May 18, 2011
After chasing dogs around on the street, I was happy to head out to the beaches, an area along the lake where dogs can run unleashed.
Posted in animals, black and white, dogs, workshops |
By Sabrina on May 17, 2011
As if on cue, the fire alarm sounded just as we gathered to register for the Magnum workshop at Ryerson University. In amongst the crowd I caught a glimpse of Larry Towell
Posted in animals, black and white, dogs, workshops |
By Sabrina on May 16, 2011
I arrived home last night and am trying to get back into the groove of this other life. From the tweets and and emails I received last week,
Posted in animals, black and white, dogs, photo of the day, workshops |
By Sabrina on May 6, 2011
I love bicycles. When I saw this one leaning against the wall, I knew I needed to photograph it. As I head to Toronto
Posted in musings, stuff |
By Sabrina on May 4, 2011
A couple of weekends ago I spent a morning at the annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. I am not very happy with my images and the main reason is that
Posted in flowers, landscape, nature, panorama |
By Sabrina on May 2, 2011
It doesn’t matter which way you vote; just go out and vote today!
Posted in musings, people |
By Sabrina on April 26, 2011
We are just over 6 weeks away from the Artist Round Table: Discovering Visual Voice in Port Townsend from June 16 to 19, 2011. ART is
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By Sabrina on April 19, 2011
Back in February, my friends Dave, David, and I attended a workshop called “The Passionate Photographer” led by Steve Simon. I haven’t blogged about the workshop at all,
Posted in lessons in learning, musings, stories, workshops |
By Sabrina on April 11, 2011
I’m really excited today! Last year I started working with several photographers on a project called Rear Curtain. The project is the brain child of
Posted in stories |
By Sabrina on April 5, 2011
Yesterday I started a new job. Third one in six months. Hopefully the drama of the last few months will be just a distant memory
Posted in black and white, musings, workshops |
By Sabrina on April 1, 2011
Meet David Noble. Performer. Painter. Photographer. And one of the artist presenters at the Artist Round Table – Discovering Visual Voice. I promise that when you get to meet David in June
Posted in artist round table, black and white, lessons in learning, stuff, voice |
By Sabrina on March 28, 2011
Port Townsend has a couple of working harbors in town and I often go there to shoot when I’m in town. By the way, the food down there is pretty good too
Posted in black and white, musings, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on March 27, 2011
Last weekend my good friend Maureen Murphy was visiting from Ottawa and “somehow” we found our way down to Port Townsend
Posted in black and white, flash, great faces, lessons in learning, lighting, people |
By Sabrina on March 19, 2011
My friend Mark Krajnak suggested I post the final version of the behind-the-scenes image from my last post
Posted in people, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on March 15, 2011
A whole new chapter has begun at the Chronicles, well two chapters really. This weekend I became the proud owner of a previously loved
Posted in musings, people |
By Sabrina on March 14, 2011
As some of you know, my brother-in-law was in Japan at the time the earthquake hit. He is a lean management consultant
Posted in tokyo, travel |
By Sabrina on March 7, 2011
© Ray Ketcham I’ve been absent for a few weeks and today’s post might explain one of the reasons why. Last year Ray Ketcham and I planted the seeds for a number of collaborative projects and since then we’ve been working very hard to make them happen.
Posted in artist round table, lessons in learning, stuff |
By Sabrina on February 15, 2011
Last November one of the employees at work came to see me because he had heard that I was “some kind of professional photographer”.
Posted in photoshop, stories |
By Sabrina on February 14, 2011
Posted in musings, stuff, voice |
By Sabrina on February 7, 2011
A couple of weekends ago I attended a lecture by Freeman Patterson called “Gardening with What You Have“. It was loosely based on the idea that the best place to see and make photographs is wherever you are
Posted in musings, nature, stuff |
By Sabrina on February 4, 2011
Doors can represent a number of things. I think though, one of the most universal aspects they reflect is opportunity. The question is
Posted in stuff |
By Sabrina on January 29, 2011
During the winter months, the Pacific Northwest is full of flat, grey light. I find it difficult to photograph something that fits what I’m feeling these days
Posted in photo of the day, photoshop |
By Sabrina on January 28, 2011
Turn 180 degrees from the image in my last post and you’ll see the path wanders down towards this home on Finn Slough.
Posted in photo of the day |
By Sabrina on January 26, 2011
There’s a small wooden foot bridge that crosses Finn Slough and the morning that we went out, it was cold, frosty and very slippery.
Posted in photo of the day |
By Sabrina on January 25, 2011
I’m away for the next few days so I thought I’d post some of my images from Finn Slough taken over the holidays. It’s the kind of place
Posted in photo of the day |
By Sabrina on January 21, 2011
So let’s go dancing in the minefields Let’s go sailing in the storms Oh let’s go dancing in the minefields And kicking down the doors Oh let’s go dancing in the minefields And sailing in the storms Oh this is harder than we dreamed But I believe that’s what the promise is for ~andrew peterson [...]
Posted in musings |
By Sabrina on January 20, 2011
It’s a bit of a funny story how Michael Houlden came to be interviewed for my “in focus” series. Michael and I attended
Posted in in focus, interview, people, weddings |
By Sabrina on January 13, 2011
Just a quick post this morning to try to get back on my blogging schedule. My cousin Marc is on his way home
Posted in black and white, landscape, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on January 7, 2011
It’s been quiet here since the New Year but only because I’ve been very busy and really haven’t had time to blog. One of the main reasons is
Posted in black and white, cityscapes, musings |
By Sabrina on December 31, 2010
As 2010 draws to a close, it only seems fitting–albeit a cliché–to look back and reflect on the past twelve months. To say this has been a year of growth for me
Posted in lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on December 29, 2010
From time to time people email me asking questions about my blog and now is as good a time as any to share some of my thoughts on blogging and what’s worked for me.
Posted in lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on December 25, 2010
We’re all stuffed right about now. My sister always puts on a fabulous spread for Christmas and I wish you could all be here
Posted in christmas, food |
By Sabrina on December 24, 2010
It’s Christmas Eve. Soon we’ll be gathered around the table at my sister’s house, giving thanks for all the blessings of this season. I wish you all a very Happy Christmas and best wishes for the New Year.
Posted in christmas |
By Sabrina on December 22, 2010
Please welcome my friend Chris Plante to the blog today. Chris is a fellow photographer located here in the Lower Mainland.
Posted in architecture, guest blogger, people, travel |
By Sabrina on December 17, 2010
The dreaded notebook. Just between us, I’ve always thought it a little pretentious when artists and creatives
Posted in california, giveaways, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on December 10, 2010
I decided I’m closing the week with a bit of a bang photographically. Here’s to colour and motion. During my San Francisco trip I borrowed Ray’s D300
Posted in nature, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on December 6, 2010
The post today is probably going to be scattered as it’s one of those posts where I need to bring together a bunch of things flowing through my brain
Posted in black and white, california, lessons in learning, musings, nature |
By Sabrina on December 3, 2010
Photography really took center stage for me two and a half years ago when I found myself with a lot of time on my hands.
Posted in guest blogger, lessons in learning, people |
By Sabrina on December 2, 2010
For some reason I like this image. It isn’t a blow-your-socks off kind of photograph by any stretch of the imagination but it just feels right to me.
Posted in california, nature |
By Sabrina on December 1, 2010
Just a short post today to thank everyone who took up Andrew’s challenge on moving to the next level. I’d also like to thank Andrew for doing the guest post
Posted in california, giveaways, landscape, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on November 26, 2010
andrew s. gibson © How would you describe your ability as a photographer? Do you think of yourself as a beginner? Competent? Expert?
Posted in guest blogger, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on November 25, 2010
Chinatown was our second stop of the day. There was so much to see and as usual I found it quite overwhelming.
Posted in black and white, california, people |
By Sabrina on November 23, 2010
I have a few images from our time at the next stop on our tour of San Francisco. Today I thought I’d share
Posted in black and white, california, cityscapes |
By Sabrina on November 19, 2010
I’m apologizing yet again but I really am sorry I haven’t been able to blog more promptly about my San Francisco trip.
Posted in california |
By Sabrina on November 12, 2010
Sorry about my absence from the blog over the last two weeks. About three months ago I learnt that my position was to be eliminated in restructuring exercise
Posted in california, cityscapes, lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on October 28, 2010
To say that I’m excited today would be an understatement. For the last few months I’ve been keeping a confidence and I’m delighted to be able to tell everyone
Posted in lessons in learning, one mile project |
By Sabrina on October 27, 2010
LITTLE WORLD When I quit this mortal shore, And mosey ’round the earth no more, Don’t weep, don’t sigh, don’t sob; I may have found a better job.
Posted in black and white, musings, people |
By Sabrina on October 25, 2010
It’s that time of year again; the snow geese have arrived at the bird sanctuary. I’ve been wanting to get down there for a while now
Posted in birds, nature, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on October 21, 2010
Over the summer I was quite busy with things at work and also with traveling to Chicago and New York. Next month
Posted in one mile project, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on October 18, 2010
Yesterday memories of my time at Shamper’s Bluff (seen above) came flooding back as I listened to an interview Freeman Patterson
Posted in landscape, musings, nature |
By Sabrina on October 15, 2010
You don’t have to be creative to be creative ~Paul Arden Last weekend I visited the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. I’m rather ashamed to say that it was my first visit there
Posted in musings |
By Sabrina on October 12, 2010
Last week, as my friend Simon Beaumont said to me, I was a bit of a blogging machine churning out three rather lengthy blog posts.
Posted in architecture, photo of the day, workshops |
By Sabrina on October 8, 2010
Self-Portrait by Ray Ketcham I just love this photograph of Ray. By now you know that he has taken on the role of a photography mentor for me
Posted in lessons in learning, people |
By Sabrina on October 6, 2010
When I was in New York City, I was able to have some personal time with Bryan Peterson. In addition to going over the images I created while I was there,
Posted in black and white, lessons in learning, people |
By Sabrina on October 4, 2010
With apologies to “you know who” for today’s title but this one has been playing in my head for a long time and after my weekend with Ray Ketcham, I think it’s time to put it out there.
Posted in lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on October 1, 2010
This weekend I’m heading south across the border to spend some quality time with my friend and mentor, Ray Ketcham.
Posted in architecture, photo of the day, workshops |
By Sabrina on September 26, 2010
Some images aren’t created to be masterpieces but they are meant to be more than just memories. Something stronger.
Posted in lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on September 20, 2010
Today I thought I’d share what’s it like to take a Bryan Peterson workshop just in case anyone is thinking about hopping on board
Posted in birds, black and white, cityscapes, flash, lessons in learning, macro, people, travel, workshops |
By Sabrina on September 17, 2010
Norman – Stranger #59 by Mark Krajnak Mom always said: “Don’t talk to strangers.”
Posted in black and white, great faces, guest blogger, people |
By Sabrina on September 15, 2010
Apparently I have a sense of humour, if you are to believe my friend Marco Ryan. So this one’s for you, Marco.
Posted in photo of the day, workshops |
By Sabrina on September 12, 2010
Yesterday I posted images to mark the 9th anniversary of 9-11. I was moved to be in New York City on this solemn occasion
Posted in people, travel |
By Sabrina on September 11, 2010
Posted in people, travel |
By Sabrina on September 6, 2010
This past weekend I received an incredible gift from my good friend Krista Fox. You may remember her from this post earlier in the year.
Posted in flowers, landscape, travel, weddings |
By Sabrina on September 2, 2010
It’s been almost two weeks since my visit to the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibit at The Art Institute of Chicago and I am still processing the experience and probably will be for a while.
Posted in black and white, musings |
By Sabrina on August 30, 2010
What began as a story of the real Chicago in my last post has come to a screeching halt as I’ve struggled to process the remaining images from my early morning venture
Posted in architecture, black and white, travel |
By Sabrina on August 26, 2010
Forget San Francisco; I’ve left my heart in Chicago. I arrived with only one goal in mind–to see the Henri Cartier-Bresson Exhibit with friends. The whole trip started out
Posted in black and white, cityscapes, people, travel |
By Sabrina on August 18, 2010
My apologies for being absent from the blog for a few days; I promise I’ll make it up to you in the days ahead. On Friday
Posted in photo of the day, travel |
By Sabrina on August 13, 2010
Sometimes when you substitute one word for another, it changes how you see things. I’ll admit just to you that for the longest time
Posted in lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on August 12, 2010
Believe it or not, I’ve never owned a bicycle. Sad but true. Growing up, I think my parents worried I would run away from home
Posted in black and white, musings, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on August 9, 2010
“Once upon a time, when we were very young, every moment of our day and every item and event within it were novel.
Posted in black and white, giveaways, musings |
By Sabrina on August 5, 2010
We were able to spend a bit of time with Andrew and to get to know him better. Many small towns across Canada have fire departments
Posted in black and white, lighting, people |
By Sabrina on August 3, 2010
This post is a shout-out to Erin and Chris. Photographing people IS scary. Very scary for me too. We were walking down the road in Longview
Posted in lessons in learning, lighting, people |
By Sabrina on August 1, 2010
There’s less than a week to go before the “10 ways to kill creativity” contest ends on Friday August 6. We’ve noticed that there aren’t that many entries and it has me asking my favourite question: “Why?”
Posted in musings, people |
By Sabrina on July 30, 2010
We wandered down the road at the Bar U Ranch and came upon the cookhouse. It was there that we met Pat. He had the most charming smile
Posted in black and white, lessons in learning, people |
By Sabrina on July 28, 2010
They say that to create unique images, you should photograph your secrets. That’s a tall order when you and 49 other people gather in one spot for two hours for Scott Kelby’s World Wide Photo Walk.
Posted in black and white, great faces, people |
By Sabrina on July 26, 2010
field of dreams #1 field of dreams #2 I’m back from my weekend in Alberta and working on processing some of the keepers to share with you. Today I’m posting two versions of the canola fields we saw for miles and miles
Posted in landscape, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on July 22, 2010
This image is from the archives. It was taken one year ago at the Worldwide Photo Walk in Vancouver. In a way this photograph is a testament
Posted in people, photo of the day, photoshop |
By Sabrina on July 19, 2010
Friday’s blog post on mistakes generated more conversation than I expected. It made me think about the things we’ve been told that slowly killed the natural tendency we have to express ourselves creatively.
Posted in giveaways, lessons in learning, musings, people |
By Sabrina on July 16, 2010
Back at the end of May, I did a post on rethinking learning in which I talked about the need to slow down and reflect on the direction of my learning journey.
Posted in architecture, black and white, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on July 13, 2010
Early one morning in April I was settling into my routine of signing on to Twitter and reviewing my favourite blogs when I received an email
Posted in lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on July 9, 2010
My definition of success is about family, friends, learning, contributing to the lives of others. Although this included expressing myself, it never included being an “artist”
Posted in guest blogger, lessons in learning, people |
By Sabrina on July 7, 2010
First, a thank you to Stuart Sipahigil for his guest post as part of my series on celebrating success. What a great story to motivate us to push through our doubts on the way to living our dream.
Posted in birds, musings |
By Sabrina on July 5, 2010
Success is a funny thing. After having succeeded at something, you wonder why you ever doubted that it would work. It seems so obvious now that you chuckle at all the hesitation and the butterflies and the doubts.
Posted in guest blogger, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on July 4, 2010
Let me preface this by saying Steve McCurry doesn’t need me to defend to him; this is more a defence of the idea behind the work he is about to embark on
Posted in africa, lessons in learning, musings, people |
By Sabrina on July 2, 2010
First of all I would like to thank Sabrina for inviting me to write a guest post on her blog. It is not easy for me to write about myself, but we thought sharing a few small success stories might encourage and motivate others.
Posted in africa, animals, guest blogger, lessons in learning, nature |
By Sabrina on July 1, 2010
I’d like to thank Mark Olwick for sharing the story of his recent success. If you follow Mark over on his own blog, you will know that he writes very thoughtful pieces from the heart.
Posted in musings, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on June 28, 2010
Sometimes success can be completely different from what you thought it would be. I grew up wanting to be the next great National Geographic photographer.
Posted in guest blogger, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on June 27, 2010
Last week I only did one post. It wasn’t because I was deliberating over some insurmountable obstacle on this artistic journey; it’s because I’ve actually been very busy. Life is a funny thing.
Posted in lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on June 21, 2010
This past weekend I had a long conversation with my friend Ray. You may recall that he was photographing the tulips with me and my friends a couple of months ago. Ray is a sculptor, photographer and artist
Posted in black and white, flowers, lessons in learning, one mile project |
By Sabrina on June 18, 2010
“Your life is a paradigm of the process of being an artist, a witness and record to the way time and circumstance, event and emotion, courage and fear surround the making of art.
Posted in musings |
By Sabrina on June 15, 2010
Nothing big today folks–just some more playing around with black and white and the square frame. Sometimes it’s good to just play in the sandbox
Posted in black and white, flowers, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on June 11, 2010
World Cup 2010 begins today. I was in South Africa at the beginning of the year and there were lots of unfinished projects related to the World Cup. Hopefully the country will be able to put their best foot forward
Posted in food, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on June 9, 2010
“Whatever you’ve been in your life, you will bring it to your work. You cannot help but be who you are and who you’ve been.” ~Jay Maisel~
Posted in food, lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on June 7, 2010
If you don’t like this photograph, please keep it to yourself. Forgive me for that but I just cannot bear to hear anything negative about this one because I love everything about this image. Everything. From beginning to end.
Posted in black and white, musings, people |
By Sabrina on June 4, 2010
I’ve been a little absent from the blog this week but not to worry it’s only because I’m still reflecting on the question I asked myself in my last post. Of course I couldn’t let the week end without posting at least a photo of the day. Enjoy!
Posted in flowers, nature, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on May 31, 2010
At the risk of stirring the pot rather than the paint, here goes. My last post and the responses to it left me at a loss for words. And I don’t mean in the traditional sense that what was said was bad; none of it was. It was all good.
Posted in musings, nature |
By Sabrina on May 27, 2010
For the last few days I’ve been messing around with the images I made on the weekend at the Cloverdale Rodeo and Country Fair. Sorry Mark K., no spurs or cow noses good enough to share.
Posted in black and white, people |
By Sabrina on May 24, 2010
It’s a holiday Monday here in my part of the world but it doesn’t feel like it at all. I had planned a leisurely fun post for earlier today and now it’s afternoon and I still have a million things I’d like to do.
Posted in food, musings, people |
By Sabrina on May 21, 2010
One of the things I love about photography is the idea of it being a visual language that transcends all communication barriers. It can be as simple as you make it or as complex as you’d like it to be
Posted in architecture, black and white, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on May 20, 2010
Ever seen one of those job ads where they say “must have” and then list a bunch of requirements and then they list the assets–”the nice to haves”? Photography is a little bit like those ads.
Posted in black and white, flowers, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on May 17, 2010
Much has been written about how to find your vision as an artist and as a photographer but you won’t find any advice about it here. There are more sage visionmasters than I could ever profess to be but what I am is a student of those masters.
Posted in food, musings |
By Sabrina on May 14, 2010
Here’s the last image I’ll share from my experiment to limit my lenses. For this one I used my “new” wide angle 17-35mm lens that I fondly call “The Fox” after I first borrowed it from my safari roomie, Krista Fox.
Posted in photo of the day |
By Sabrina on May 13, 2010
A very short post today illustrating my “one lens only” exercise but this time with my 300mm f/4. It was such a relief to have the longer lens with me but of course I saw other things where I wished I had one of my other lenses with me.
Posted in birds, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on May 12, 2010
Two months ago I came upon an older post on the design of the Fedex logo via Kathleen Connally. The post was an interview with the designer of the Fedex logo you see everywhere. I have to admit that when I got to the fifth interview question I felt a bit stupid.
Posted in lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on May 10, 2010
Just a quick post this Monday morning, folks. Fellow photographer Ed Brydon had excellent questions in response to my post on Lightroom last week. His questions reminded me of something that, once I understood, made a big difference to my learning curve.
Posted in food, lightroom |
By Sabrina on May 7, 2010
This has been an exciting week for me with the launch of “The Chronicles of Learning Photography“. We’ve been able to attract 100 people and seen some sharing and learning already taking place. It’s the kind of stuff that really excites me. As a thank you, I have something special to announce today.
Posted in africa, giveaways, landscape |
By Sabrina on May 5, 2010
A few years there was an anti-drug television commercial that tried to illustrate your brain on drugs by showing a fried egg. Well the image above was my brain when I first started to learn Lightroom.
Posted in birds, lightroom |
By Sabrina on May 2, 2010
Yesterday I did a soft launch for the new Facebook Page for The Chronicles of Learning Photography.
Posted in birds, lessons in learning, one mile project |
By Sabrina on April 28, 2010
Yesterday Nikon announced their new 200-400mm f4 ED VRII lens. It is a professional lens
Posted in musings, nature, one mile project |
By Sabrina on April 26, 2010
At last, the One Mile Project is off the ground. Thankfully I’ve relied on the wisdom of fellow photographer
Posted in lessons in learning, nature, one mile project |
By Sabrina on April 19, 2010
Last weekend I did something I haven’t done in eons. I took out one of my father’s Rollei TLRs and
Posted in black and white, people |
By Sabrina on April 16, 2010
Image #6 The idea for this post came from my friend Ray. We spent two days photographing together in the tulip fields
Posted in flowers, lessons in learning, people |
By Sabrina on April 15, 2010
some lucky lady skagit valley tulip festival I have a lot of images from the tulip festival but I won’t assault you with them all. This is one of my favourites.
Posted in flowers, people, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on April 14, 2010
We are often drawn to looking at photographs taken by well-known, successful artists for inspiration and to study how to create meaningful images. However my good friend Sue Ables reminded me the other day
Posted in blooper of the day, flowers, lessons in learning, people |
By Sabrina on April 11, 2010
Several months ago I was in Ottawa to relaunch our Action Learning program in which I facilitate two groups to help solve problems or resolve issues. In this process participants are not allowed to give advice only to ask questions.
Posted in lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on April 1, 2010
At the risk of wading knee-deep into the debate on the professional photographer’s shrinking market, I wanted to share my thoughts as someone who does not make any money from photography.
Posted in marketing, musings |
By Sabrina on March 30, 2010
A couple of months ago I was on the PPSOP Forum reading a post where someone was seeking feedback on their image. Although the names have been changed to protect the parties, the exact conversation went like this.
Posted in musings, nature |
By Sabrina on March 29, 2010
Yesterday was the kind of day for curling up on the couch and catching up on my reading. I purchased the latest eBook from Craft & Vision entitled “The Magic of Black and White: Part One – Vision” by Andrew Gibson earlier in the week
Posted in architecture, black and white |
By Sabrina on March 26, 2010
Good artists copy; great artists steal. — Pablo Picasso First of all, I have to say it was quite a thrill when Sabrina asked me to write a guest post for her blog. Then I realized what that really meant. Sabrina’s writing is always thoughtful and insightful, so I hope I can measure up. Feel [...]
Posted in guest blogger, landscape, lessons in learning, nature |
By Sabrina on March 25, 2010
Yesterday I discussed an image that was recognized with a third place award by World Press Photo and later disqualified because it did not follow the rules which did not allow cloning. A link I included showed both the rather ordinary original RAW image and the final processed image that was submitted. I was curious to know [...]
Posted in before and after, musings, people, photoshop |
By Sabrina on March 24, 2010
the food line A side trip to learn a little bit more on how to more effectively assess my own images led to spending the better part of a sunny day on the weekend inside, where judging was taking place for the Professional Photographers Association of British Columbia (PPABC) 2010 Image Competition.
Posted in lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on March 22, 2010
Wow! I can’t believe it has been over six months since my last in focus interview. Time to remedy that but first let me review. The main reason why I do these interviews is to introduce you to some of the photographers from whom I gain inspiration and who have helped me in my learning journey.
Posted in in focus, interview |
By Sabrina on March 19, 2010
Serendipity is a lovely thing. I didn’t always appreciate happy discoveries instead I preferred the control of planned spontaneity but my photography journey is changing me–for the better.
Posted in food, lessons in learning, travel |
By Sabrina on March 16, 2010
I’m on the road for work again so not much time to do regular posts. There’s nothing special about this image that I shot on the weekend but I do have a reason for sharing it.
Posted in photo of the day |
By Sabrina on March 11, 2010
Norm, the computer guy, dropped by my desk the other day. Every office has a Norm–a likeable, geeky guy who speaks the Truth without even realizing it. He saw my new photo canvas of the leopard in a tree and commented how a picture like that could have been taken in a zoo.
Posted in africa, animals, people |
By Sabrina on March 8, 2010
Memories of Sugar Bush 2008 Several unrelated things happened this past week that gave me pause to think about why we should take photographs. And I do mean take photographs in the conventional sense rather than make photographs.
Posted in musings |
By Sabrina on March 3, 2010
Most, if not all, photographers know about Henri Cartier-Bresson’s “decisive moment”. To loosely paraphrase, it’s a fleeting slice of time when as a photographer, your eye and camera are synchronized by intuition to capture something that once it passes, is forever lost.
Posted in africa, animals, lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on March 2, 2010
As I mentioned yesterday I am nearing the end of my posts dedicated to my African safari. I’m sure you’ve all had your fill over the past five weeks and you are ready to move on with me. I thought I’d wrap things up with a slideshow of my images some of which you will [...]
Posted in africa |
By Sabrina on March 1, 2010
A really quick post this morning…I am coming to the end of the initial processing of my images from Africa. It has been slow going for several reasons, one of which is that I am trying to learn Lightroom and integrate it into my workflow.
Posted in africa, animals, lightroom, photoshop |
By Sabrina on February 26, 2010
Today–well last night really–Dave Delnea released his much anticipated eBook through the Craft & Vision store. Titled Below The Horizon, Understanding Light at the Edges of Day, this eBook will get you excited about shooting when no-one’s around at first light or when most people have packed up and headed home after the sun’s gone down.
Posted in africa, architecture, lighting |
By Sabrina on February 25, 2010
young male lion maasai mara, kenya
Posted in africa, animals, lightroom, photoshop |
By Sabrina on February 24, 2010
You’ve all heard it before. “Take nothing but pictures…leave nothing but footprints“. If you subscribe to this way of thinking then a socially responsible photographic safari might be for you. To tell you the truth, it wasn’t the “socially responsible” part of the trip that attracted me as much as the “photographic” part but when you get [...]
Posted in africa, lightroom, photoshop |
By Sabrina on February 23, 2010
Last month on my blog I mentioned I was invited to be part of a very special project Images without Borders. This week I am chuffed to be one of the featured photographers on their website along with Craig Ferguson, an Asia-based photographer from Australia.
Posted in africa, animals, black and white, lessons in learning, lightroom, photoshop |
By Sabrina on February 22, 2010
I am breaking into the “feel good” programming of the last few weeks with a posting on gear. If you prefer not to read my safari gear report, feel free to take a nap.
Posted in africa, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on February 19, 2010
Date: October 5, 2009 From: Ryan Snider Subject: Krista meet Sabrina Message: You two will be sharing a tent on the January photo safari (2 beds) and should feel free to email one another…I think you two will get along really well!
Posted in africa, musings, people |
By Sabrina on February 18, 2010
In yesterday’s post I mentioned that we made an unscheduled visit to a Maasai village; here’s the full story. The day before five of us clambered into a van best-suited for three shooters and we had had a decidedly mediocre shoot.
Posted in africa, lightroom, people, photoshop |
By Sabrina on February 17, 2010
Not a long post today, folks but always a photo This image was taken at an impromptu visit to a Maasai Village but more on that tomorrow. Today I wanted to share an image that I processed using Lightroom and Photoshop.
Posted in africa, lightroom, people |
By Sabrina on February 16, 2010
Pssst…want to know a little secret? Sometimes those amazing images of people taken by professionals require hard work by someone other than the photographer. Not to downplay the talent of the photographer but I never appreciated the kind of system that is sometimes needed to help create an image.
Posted in africa, people |
By Sabrina on February 15, 2010
As some of you know might know, I don’t photograph people. Every aspect of shooting people I find scary or overwhelming or both. I always feel that the expectations people have of what they want to look like in a photograph can never be met.
Posted in africa, people |
By Sabrina on February 12, 2010
It was great to have company on my lone tree post yesterday; thanks everyone! If you haven’t checked out the links in the Comments yet, I encourage you to do so. My safari mate, Beate Dalbec, blogged three of her lone tree images from our trip
Posted in africa, landscape, nature |
By Sabrina on February 11, 2010
What is it with us photographers and lone trees? When I was down in Oregon on Bryan Peterson’s workshop last fall, there was a beautiful oak tree in the middle of a field. We couldn’t contain our excitement as we lined up to shoot it with the sun behind. Fast forward to last month.
Posted in africa, black and white, landscape, nature |
By Sabrina on February 10, 2010
running gnus on our walking safari
Posted in africa, animals, photo of the day |
By Sabrina on February 9, 2010
The opportunity to see the Maasai Mara from the air was just too good to pass up. We imagined floating a few hundred feet over the open plains with nothing to obstruct our view of the herds of elephants, zebras, antelope, and the like. Breathtaking, right?
Posted in africa, landscape |
By Sabrina on February 8, 2010
This week I thought I’d post some landscapes from my trip. For the most part, I used my 70-300 mm lens but once in a while I pulled out the Sigma 10-20 mm or my kit 18-55 mm kit lens to capture the vastness of space around us. On a safari we all want to [...]
Posted in africa, animals, landscape, lessons in learning, photoshop |
By Sabrina on February 5, 2010
It’s Friday and I’m heading home today after some morning meetings. As promised on Twitter last night, today I’m posting my favourite animal image from my Kenyan safari.
Posted in africa, animals |
By Sabrina on February 4, 2010
pair of giraffe on our walking safari
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By Sabrina on February 3, 2010
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By Sabrina on February 2, 2010
lone cheetah on the savannah
Posted in africa, animals |
By Sabrina on February 1, 2010
vervet monkey: mother and child This week I’m on the road again but it’s all work-related so each day I’ll be posting an image from my safari but not writing too much. I’ve always admired the work of Nick Brandt and Andy Biggs but what I now have is a new found respect for just how [...]
Posted in africa, animals, lessons in learning, photo of the day, photoshop |
By Sabrina on January 31, 2010
We were a world away in the Samburu National Park when the news broke about the devasting earthquake in Haiti. In fact I saw the breaking news on Twitter but ran out of internet access so Bea, one of our travelmates, briefed us on the reports coming out of Port-au-Prince.
Posted in marketing |
By Sabrina on January 30, 2010
The list of constaints on a safari are long. You’re usually stuck in a van, shooting through the roof or a partially open window from the road, and as luck would have it, the sun is probably at the wrong angle. Then there’s those pesky animals.
Posted in africa, animals, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on January 28, 2010
Part of our day in the city of Nairobi was spent in Kibera. A Nubian word meaning “forest” or “jungle”, Kibera is the second largest urban slum in Africa and said to be the size of 20 football fields and home to at least 800,000 of Nairobi’s residents perhaps even 1 million.
Posted in africa, cityscapes, people |
By Sabrina on January 25, 2010
First let me say thank you to everyone who responded to my post yesterday. Your advice, encouragement and support are like the beads above strung together as part of my photographic journey that make it rich and more beautiful. How’s that for a segue into today’s post!
Posted in africa |
By Sabrina on January 24, 2010
Since my return from Kenya a few days ago I’ve been reconnecting with friends and family on Twitter, Facebook, and in person. It’s been a warm welcome home and everyone has expressed excitement at the prospect of seeing the images and hearing my stories. While I am very touched by the interest and enthusiasm, this has made today’s post particularly [...]
Posted in africa, lessons in learning, musings |
By Sabrina on January 22, 2010
Today is my first day blogging after my return from Kenya and I’m excited to let you all know about the latest eBook from David duChemin. The Inspired Eye 2 is the sequel to The Inspired Eye, both of which explore the creative process. Volume 2 in particular reflects David’s return to film photography as [...]
Posted in africa, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on January 11, 2010
One of the things I was hoping to do during my short stay in South Africa was to visit animal centres to learn more about some of the creatures I’d be shooting while in Kenya. On Saturday my family piled into the car and headed north to the Ann van Dyk Cheetah Research Centre for what [...]
Posted in africa, animals |
By Sabrina on January 9, 2010
Before you ask, I did leave my vehicle to take this shot; I had to as it was taken with my Sigma 10-20mm. Ever since I took the Vancouver workshop with Bryan Peterson, I’ve loved using this lens. The secret I learnt is
Posted in africa, animals |
By Sabrina on January 8, 2010
Learning happens through planned activities but also more serendipitously and not always so pleasantly. I was of two minds whether or not to write about happened over the past 24 hours but as this is a blog about the chronicles of learning, I couldn’t not write about it. At the very least you might have a good laugh [...]
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By Sabrina on January 6, 2010
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By Sabrina on December 30, 2009
The day is finally here and I am on my way to what promises to be a magical trip. I had a number of things I wanted to do before I left but ran out of time as usual–side effects of being a procrastinator I’m afraid. Confessions first.
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By Sabrina on December 25, 2009
It’s Christmas Day. All the gifts have been opened and the turkey and trimmings devoured. We are so blessed with an abundance of the comforts of hearth and home and food aplenty, and the love of friends new and old. Living in North America we have much to be grateful for so let’s take some [...]
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By Sabrina on December 24, 2009
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By Sabrina on December 19, 2009
At the stroke of midnight last night, my Christmas Giveaway closed. A big thank you to all who entered by leaving a comment on what you’ve learned over the past year. It appears that if your name was Mark, your odds were decidedly better than if it wasn’t. Rest assured, there was no fix just [...]
Posted in christmas, giveaways |
By Sabrina on December 13, 2009
There’s a poll over at John Batdorff’s blog today asking if people would still take pictures even if no-one ever saw them. It comes as no surprise to me that 100% of respondents said that they would. In the wonderful words of Oscar Hammerstein II from the musical Showboat “fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly”
Posted in food, lighting, musings |
By Sabrina on December 11, 2009
It’s my favourite time of the year and I’ve been wondering what I could do to spread the love. As luck would have it, this morning I learned that Bryan Peterson has moved into his new studio in Chicago and in the process found several copies of his best-selling book
Posted in food, giveaways, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on December 9, 2009
After a few posts on learning, I thought it was time for something different: a post on unlearning. This week I’ve been in Ottawa to relaunch our Action Learning program at work. Action Learning is where a group of people come together to help one person resolve an issue or problem by posing questions for that person. The idea [...]
Posted in black and white, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on December 3, 2009
questions and answers tampa, florida The last few posts about learning were inspired by a question from one of the readers of my blog (yes I have at least one–two if you count my good friend Sue). It seems that the posts themselves raised another question from one more reader so I thought I’d respond [...]
Posted in black and white, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on November 29, 2009
winter beauty van dusen gardens, vancouver For the last few weeks it’s been dull and dreary off and on (mostly on) so I wasn’t sure what the Van Dusen Gardens would have in store for me today. As I wandered along the Sino-Himalayan path I found these beauty berries. They reminded me that even though we [...]
Posted in nature |
By Sabrina on November 23, 2009
the forbidden city vancouver public library, vancouver I love books. Each time our father went to town my sister and I would eagerly wait for him to return knowing there would be a bag from Kingston’s Bookstore just for us. When I was about eight years old, we created our own public library complete with a system of checking [...]
Posted in architecture, black and white, lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on November 15, 2009
example of frame within a frame PPSOP Fundamentals of Composition There are many choices when it comes to learning photography. Books, weekend classes, videos, workshops, whole degree programs, just to name a few. Perhaps you’ve tried some of these and discovered what works for you or maybe you’re still looking for a winning formula.
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By Sabrina on November 10, 2009
untitled vancouver, british columbia Research has shown that successful people have a high degree of understanding of what makes them tick. More than knowing their abilities, they understand what motivates and satisfies them and therefore they make wise choices in focusing their strengths and addressing their weaknesses to achieve results.
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By Sabrina on November 9, 2009
what the squirrel saw van dusen gardens, vancouver According to the Chinese horoscope, those born in the Year of the Horse are known for their passionate nature but beware if you should have a daughter born in the Year of the Fire Horse for their unbridled passions will be multiplied many times over and bring [...]
Posted in black and white, musings, nature |
By Sabrina on November 4, 2009
for the love of colour 2010 calendar cover My last post finally motivated me to get off my duff and start working on a little project that I’ve been wanting to do in time for the end of the year.
Posted in nature, projects |
By Sabrina on November 2, 2009
One of the main reasons why this craft continues to attract me are the people that you’ll meet along the way. Some of the photographers I’ve come to know have become an important part of my learning and the interaction I have with them has helped me improve immensely. Recently two of my favourite photographers [...]
Posted in black and white, landscape, people |
By Sabrina on October 31, 2009
the last hurrah van dusen gardens, vancouver Forty percent chance of showers today, they said. I just love it when the weather man is wrong but especially when I am at the Van Dusen Gardens for my monthly shoot. It’s been dreary most of the week so I wasn’t quite expecting the beautiful fall day [...]
Posted in nature |
By Sabrina on October 31, 2009
la citrouille vancouver, bc As you might know from last year’s post on this day, I’m not really a fan of Hallowe’en. However I do like some aspects of this time of the year like fresh pumpkin pie and mini O’Henry bars. It’s also when we launch our annual Charitable Donations Campaign at work and [...]
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By Sabrina on October 29, 2009
in a hurry portland, oregon One month ago I moved over from Blogspot to WordPress and launched a new look on my blog. Since then I’ve done more than a dozen posts and on the weekend I upgraded to the latest version of WordPress without incident. So it’s time to share the process I went through and the steps [...]
Posted in lessons in learning |
By Sabrina on October 27, 2009
Whether or not we’d like to admit it, our families have a strong influence on us. I was once told that the things deep in our psyche can go back five generations and that by knowing and understanding them, we can better know and understand ourselves. And while I myself haven’t explored this in any [...]
Posted in black and white, musings |
By Sabrina on October 23, 2009
holding on to autumn portland, oregon
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By Sabrina on October 21, 2009
journey to winter silver falls state park, oregon
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By Sabrina on October 20, 2009
swept away silver falls state park, oregon On the weekend I realized I’ve reached a new point in my photographic journey. Our group was at Silver Falls State Park in Oregon shooting the Falls from the creek. On the way down it was wet and Robyn, one of the participants, slipped and slid a few feet but she was fine. [...]
Posted in landscape, musings, workshops |
By Sabrina on October 19, 2009
lake portland portland, oregon Discovering new frontiers in photography is for the long serving or most talented artists among us. For each of us on our learning journey, we are the beneficiaries of their work as we get to explore those frontiers and in doing so, we discover something about ourselves.
Posted in cityscapes, workshops |
By Sabrina on October 12, 2009
I wonder finn slough, richmond, bc Finn Slough, just 15 minutes from my home, was settled in the early 1900′s by Finnish fishermen who came to Canada to escape poverty and apparent repression in Finland. They lived in float houses, net sheds, or even on their boats while they worked to establish their new lives.
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By Sabrina on October 9, 2009
hopes and dreams st. martins, new brunswick All good things must come to an end. And so it was with our week long workshop with Freeman and Andre but not before the final lecture. As usual we crowded into the basement of the Inn but this time not really knowing what to expect since we [...]
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By Sabrina on October 8, 2009
dreaming st. martins, new brunswick One of the best aspects of a photography workshop is the amount of time you get to spend immersed in the craft. You can eat, drink, and breathe nothing but photography; it’s wonderful. What’s more, if you are lucky enough to be in the company of such talented people as [...]
Posted in animals, workshops |
By Sabrina on October 7, 2009
waiting for company st martins, new brunswick Day 4 rolled around and we were all anxious to learn what our assignments would be. We chuckled when they announced Anne’s assignment was “these boots were made for walking” since we were all taken with the bright orange boots she donned for our early morning shoots. And we [...]
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By Sabrina on October 6, 2009
out on a limb st martins, new brunswick Getting a critique on your images can be a scary process especially when you’re in a room full of strangers. However I found myself geniunely looking forward to this part of the workshop each day when we would submit three images for evaluation by Andre and Freeman. [...]
Posted in musings, nature, workshops |
By Sabrina on October 5, 2009
fern garden shamper’s bluff, new brunswick Shamper’s Bluff is a magical place. From the moment we arrived, all of us were under its spell, drawn to the beauty of the nature that enveloped us at every turn and to the endless possibilities as creatives. To tell you the truth, most of us were a little [...]
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By Sabrina on October 4, 2009
view from freeman patterson’s house shamper’s bluff, new brunswick
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By Sabrina on October 1, 2009
tranquility st martins, new brunswick Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant have been teaching together for fourteen years and they have also co-authored two books: Photography for the Joy of It and Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image. It is no wonder then that their workshop is seamless in teaching style and content. While Freeman lectured on line, [...]
Posted in photoshop, workshops |
By Sabrina on September 30, 2009
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 [...]
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By Sabrina on September 29, 2009
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 [...]
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By Sabrina on September 28, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in black and white, people, workshops |
By Sabrina on September 27, 2009
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 [...]
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By Sabrina on September 2, 2009
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 [...]
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By Sabrina on September 1, 2009
garden art 2 van dusen gardens, vancouver
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By Sabrina on August 31, 2009
garden art 1 van dusen gardens, vancouver My assignment of shooting at the Van Dusen Gardens took on a personal twist this month with an exhibit of Shona stone sculptures from Zimbabwe, my home country. The exhibition of between 150 to 200 sculptures is traveling the world and Vancouver is the only North American stop [...]
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By Sabrina on August 29, 2009
ferris and needle seattle, washington This is one of my favourite images but I’ve never included it as a blog posting. It was taken about a year ago during my very first workshop with Bryan Peterson in Seattle. Playing around with the free Photoshop Actions I downloaded from The Pioneer Woman I mentioned in my [...]
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By Sabrina on August 27, 2009
shopping list gastown, vancouver This image is from my weekend photowalk in Vancouver’s Gastown. It was processed in Photoshop using Actions from The Pioneer Woman, Ree Drummond. Download them for free here. This is the first time I’ve used Photoshop Actions; I like them!
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By Sabrina on August 25, 2009
a study in flash vancouver bc Last Saturday a small group of photogs–inccidently all Nikon shooters–met up to do a two hour photowalk in the Gastown area of Vancouver. Most of us first met during the Vancouver Worldwide Photowalk and having had so much fun, decided to get together again to shoot around the city. [...]
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By Sabrina on August 19, 2009
ride above it all richmond to vancouver As promised here’s another shot taken from the Canada Line, this time on the Richmond side where it is all above ground. I was just lucky enough to be near a window with my G9. The shot was cropped slightly and processed in Photoshop using techniques I [...]
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By Sabrina on August 18, 2009
speed richmond to vancouver Vancouver and Whistler are hosting the next Winter Olympics and yesterday marked one of the biggest milestones on the way to February 2010. For the past four years, construction of the light rail system from the Airport/Richmond to downtown Vancouver has caused grief for both drivers and business owners along the [...]
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By Sabrina on August 16, 2009
wedding by kang l. It has been a couple of months since my first in focus interview and today I am thrilled to bring to you, Kang Leong–sometimes known as “John Woo” or simply LondonEater. Following my usual MO, I asked Kang to send me a photograph and then I fired off a set of [...]
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By Sabrina on August 13, 2009
monet’s garden queen elizabeth park, vancouver Painting with your camera is another easy technique to use to create images. I’ve used this technique that Bryan taught us many times and mostly with flowers. Recently I used this technique with Nikon’s multiple exposure feature to create a wonderfully textured image titled “Speedwell” for my long term [...]
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By Sabrina on August 11, 2009
summer nights in the city vancouver, bc Today’s posting is a the visual reminder that the camera can do some wonderful things even without Photoshop. As Bryan reminded us, zooming is a very easy technique to use even with unexpected subject matter like this city skyline at night. I threw on the only colour filter [...]
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By Sabrina on August 9, 2009
swirl queen elizabeth park, vancouver I wanted to find a way to share some of the bloopers from my weekend workshop and still preserve my dignity. The more I thought about it, the more I realized it just wasn’t going to be pretty unless Photoshop was involved. Digital manipulation has become part of photography whether [...]
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By Sabrina on August 6, 2009
irene vancouver bc Irene was one of the participants in Bryan Peterson’s workshop last weekend. I have a bone to pick with her but more about that later. This portrait was taken in a hotel parking lot in downtown Vancouver which goes to prove that a good photograph can be created almost anywhere. I feel [...]
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By Sabrina on August 5, 2009
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By Sabrina on August 3, 2009
fine feather steveston, bc One of the most interesting instructive moments of this past weekend with Bryan Peterson took place at the Britannia Heritage Shipyard in Steveston. He spoke about the controversy over Robert Capa’s photo “The Falling Soldier” and how a picture is one big lie filled with truths. Those of you who are [...]
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By Sabrina on August 2, 2009
urban cowboy downtown vancouver, bc I’ve just finished up my weekend workshop with Bryan Peterson and my head is really full. Needless to say it was a crazy ride these past few days waking up before the crack of dawn to catch the morning light and going until late into the night. Friday evening [...]
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By Sabrina on July 31, 2009
sun worshipper van dusen gardens, vancouver As usual I am cutting it close with my monthly image from the Van Dusen Gardens but I had a good reason, honest. Today is the first day of my weekend workshop with Bryan Peterson and he was bringing with him my new 300 mm f/4 lens. I [...]
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By Sabrina on July 26, 2009
No. 5 seattle, washington I get so excited when I think of the prospect of three unadulterated days of photography. The last time I did this was back in February in Tampa, Florida when I met my photog friends Sue and Ron for the first time and we played together for three days. Before [...]
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By Sabrina on July 23, 2009
elycia #3 stanley park, vancouver
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By Sabrina on July 21, 2009
elycia #2 stanley park, vancouver
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By Sabrina on July 20, 2009
elycia #1 stanley park, vancouver I really didn’t know what to expect but as you can tell from the title, this year’s Worldwide Photo Walk in Vancouver was something very special. Like +32,000 people across the world, a group of photographers met to spend a couple of hours shooting pictures. We began our walk [...]
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By Sabrina on July 19, 2009
Early on in my learning journey someone asked one of my PPSOP instructors how people were able to get their images looking so sharp and rich in colour. Until then I was still shooting jpgs and wasn’t using Photoshop very much at all. When it was explained to us that many photographers shoot in RAW [...]
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By Sabrina on July 18, 2009
stanley park seawall vancouver Just posting a quick snap of some of the photogs on Vancouver’s Photowalk today…we sure created a stir. Over the next few days I’ll post some of the better images but as it stands right now, I am not sure I’ll have anything decent to submit to the contest. We [...]
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By Sabrina on July 15, 2009
lily pond van dusen garden, vancouver Today I participated one of the rituals of life–a funeral. It was a beautiful service punctuated by a teary-eyed solo by the deceased’s son-in-law and a heartfelt eulogy by her grand-daughter. Mrs. Hentzen was a teacher and through her vocation she had an influence on a great many people [...]
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By Sabrina on July 12, 2009
free fall van dusen garden, vancouver This past week I had a bit of a free fall, a sudden, sharp decrease in the quantity of time I normally reserve for learning photography. Last year all my ducks were in a row. I changed jobs resulting in a work-life balance I hadn’t had in the previous [...]
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By Sabrina on July 9, 2009
the bird garden van dusen private garden tour
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By Sabrina on July 8, 2009
midas touch world rose festival, vancouver I have decided to make a small–or big–change depending on how you see it. By using a wider template for my blog, you can now view the images I upload in their full web size. The blog that inspired this change is called The Big Picture. The images you’ll [...]
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By Sabrina on July 5, 2009
the wood shed mayne island, bc
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By Sabrina on July 2, 2009
the gift Weddings are about details and moments. The thing about moments is that by their very definition, they are fleeting. Catching them requires a little bit of luck and a healthy dose of anticipation. Since most weddings follow a similar path, anticipation becomes a photographer’s best friend in the quest to capture the important [...]
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By Sabrina on July 1, 2009
the rings the favours the reception tent So much about a wedding is in the details. Brides know it and so do the photographers. This past weekend I had the opportunity to see what this was like first hand when my friend and co-worker Rebecca graciously allowed me to tag along as she got ready [...]
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By Sabrina on June 30, 2009
speedwell van dusen gardens, vancouver It’s all about colour at the Van Dusen Gardens! Flowering dogwood trees greet visitors at the gate followed by the last whispers of Japanese irises and then garden comes alive with all the colours of summer. In this month’s photo I used two techniques that I would normally use on [...]
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By Sabrina on June 28, 2009
giant arbutus mount parke, mayne island
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By Sabrina on June 26, 2009
tequila sunrise world rose festival, vancouver
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By Sabrina on June 22, 2009
five sails vancouver bc Today I have just a short post that should bring a little chuckle to you all. For a few weeks now I’ve been meaning to get my eyes checked. I was having trouble focusing when taking pictures and by this I do mean ” I ” and not my camera. This [...]
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By Sabrina on June 21, 2009
marilyn monroe world rose festival, vancouver There are times when I especially miss my father and today is one of them: Father’s Day. A few years ago I decided that on these special days I would try to do something that we would have done together or something he would have enjoyed. When my sister [...]
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By Sabrina on June 19, 2009
fallen flowers van dusen private garden tour A reminder to readers to leave a comment and your name will be entered into the contest for my first giveaway — a signed copy of Within the Frame by David duChemin. If you’ve been living in a cave for the past three months and haven’t heard of [...]
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By Sabrina on June 18, 2009
hebenton’s flower van dusen private garden tour, vancouver
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By Sabrina on June 16, 2009
snap! van dusen private garden tour
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By Sabrina on June 15, 2009
david and me “within the frame” book launch party, vancouver The title of today’s post comes courtesy of the big guy himself, David duChemin. A few months ago David was on a list of top ten photographers along with Gavin Gough He tweeted to me: “in the company of giants..always nice to be among people [...]
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By Sabrina on June 14, 2009
house beautiful vancouver bc It was an early start this morning to do the annual Van Dusen Private Gardens Tour; nine gardens on the list but five that we definitely wanted to see. The photo of the day goes to the Shepherd Garden on Somerset Crescent. There was nothing–absolutely nothing–I would change about this garden. [...]
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By Sabrina on June 10, 2009
Last night I tweeted a link on 80+ photographers to follow on Twitter and a couple of hours later @MattBrandon replied that he was hurt his name wasn’t on the list. He was only joking of course and promptly responded by creating his own “Follow Wednesday” list that included only me and @GavinGough. What’s funny [...]
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By Sabrina on June 8, 2009
hush by donald cameron Gaining inspiration and valuable insight through the works of others has become an important part of my learning and so today I am introducing a new feature to my blog titled in focus where I’ll interview photographers I’ve stumbled upon on this journey. These are not necessarily well-known people but photographers [...]
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By Sabrina on June 5, 2009
african montage 2 photos used with the permission of ryan snider Great news this week via an email from Ryan Snider who is leading a socially responsible photographic safari to Kenya in January 2010; we have met the minimum number of participants to start planning our trip! There is still room for others to join [...]
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By Sabrina on June 1, 2009
poppies van dusen gardens, vancouver In three simple words uttered by a child is something I’ve only just begun to understand and fully appreciate: the “why” we take photographs. David Sanger’s recent entry on his blog titled “Authenticity” explains this well. Photographers should seek to make images that mean something and our images should reflect [...]
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By Sabrina on May 31, 2009
onions van dusen gardens, vancouver It was a beautiful sunny day in Vancouver, perfect for my monthly trip to the Van Dusen Gardens where I spent almost two hours just soaking in all the colour. The Rhododendron walk was in full bloom and so were the Golden Chain Laburnums. Sitting under the sunny yellow laburnums [...]
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By Sabrina on May 30, 2009
maples on the pond narita, japan
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By Sabrina on May 29, 2009
marilyn and rebecca Because summer is just around the corner and my friend Rebecca is getting married next month, I decided to have a bit of fun and take a Weddings photography course. That’s Rebecca in the photo above which was taken yesterday when she went for her final dress fitting. We had a blast [...]
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By Sabrina on May 26, 2009
reflections of tokyo roppongi hills, tokyo
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By Sabrina on May 25, 2009
a walk in the forest mayne island, bc
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By Sabrina on May 24, 2009
miner’s bay mayne island, bc There is the old adage that a picture’s worth a thousand words but great photographers often have wonderful stories beyond their images and once in a while, they share them with the rest of the world. In each of these stories are pearls of wisdom some of which I thought [...]
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By Sabrina on May 19, 2009
bennett bay mayne island, british columbia A couple of months ago my brother-in-law and I combined our resources to buy the Sigma 10-20mm wide angle lens for our Nikons. It wasn’t until our trip to Japan that I realized how much fun this lens could be. Then last weekend I did a little bit of [...]
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By Sabrina on May 18, 2009
campbell point mayne island, british columbia
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By Sabrina on May 13, 2009
school girls asakusa, tokyo My friends and I are fans of the Perfect Picture School of Photography for a number of reasons, one of which are the weekly critiques that the instructors give and the comments other students leave when we post up our images. They are an integral part of our learning and [...]
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By Sabrina on May 9, 2009
dave howlett by braden hanna This past week I was in Ottawa attending our annual staff meetings where Dave Howlett was our keynote speaker. If you have never heard Dave speak, you should find a way to attend his “Knocking Down Silos” presentation. You won’t regret it. His philosophy is simple yet powerful and when [...]
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By Sabrina on May 4, 2009
class trip sodwana bay, south africa As a person learning this craft, I like to read about the journey other photographers have taken. Invariably their stories always include something about where it all started for them. In some cases it was a long road with many bumps and detours along the way and in others, [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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By Sabrina on April 26, 2009
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By Sabrina on April 25, 2009
wind in the wisterias hama-rikyu gardens, tokyo
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By Sabrina on April 21, 2009
temple lights asakusa, tokyo
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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”.
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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 [...]
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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
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By Sabrina on April 2, 2009
burrard bridge vancouver, bc
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By Sabrina on March 29, 2009
now that’s what I’m talking about! vancouver Resistance, according to Steven Pressfield is very clever and dastedly evil and will take on other forms to stop us from achieving the life we should be living. Pressfield is the author of The War of Art, a book introduced to me by Pixelated Image’s David duChemin. Thursday [...]
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By Sabrina on March 25, 2009
abstract thinking somewhere between vancouver and victoria
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By Sabrina on March 23, 2009
In July 2008, Google reported that there were over 1 trillion unique URL’s on the information highway based on results returned by Google Search. That’s one URL for every dollar estimated in the current US budget but you didn’t tune in for politics so let me get to the crux of my posting today. There [...]
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By Sabrina on March 22, 2009
greeting spring van dusen gardens, vancouver What a difference three weeks makes! Spring has arrived and the signs were everywhere at the Van Dusen Gardens. The first heralders–snow drops, crocuses, and daffodills–were all there singing out loud. Across the water, they were doing the 33rd Annual Flower Count in Victoria where by Tuesday, they were [...]
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By Sabrina on March 18, 2009
I just finished viewing a short interview with Joe McNally on the newly revamped Vancouver Photoworkshops website. One thing Joe said resonated with me and that was the notion of mistakes. Look up the word “mistake” and you’ll typically see it defined as “a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention“. I [...]
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By Sabrina on March 16, 2009
office yoga vancouver Yesterday marked the end of the first week of my Microstock (MS) course so I thought I would share some of the key things I learned. PPSOP is an online photography school founded by Bryan Peterson who has been able to attract talent like Pete Saloutos, our instructor. Pete’s images are accepted [...]
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By Sabrina on March 14, 2009
granville island public market vancouver
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By Sabrina on March 12, 2009
enthusiasm butchart gardens, victoria
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By Sabrina on March 8, 2009
BEFORE AFTER Okay, the title is an attempt at humour à la Scott Kelby. If you’ve read any of his books you’ll know what I mean. In reality I did spend a few hours today learning more about his 7-point system for Photoshop and the way Scott writes he might as well have been sitting [...]
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By Sabrina on March 6, 2009
Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you. Getting to like you, Getting to hope you like me. Getting to know you, Putting it my way, But nicely, You are precisely, My cup of tea. ~ anna, from the king and i ~ Some random events came together today and I think they [...]
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By Sabrina on March 4, 2009
hemlock chalet hemlock, bc The planets were aligned, and not so nicely I might add. I’ve had a case of writer’s block for more than a week which is why you’ve only seen photos posted with very little narrative. Coincidently I am also having a case of photographer’s block. As I shared with my friend [...]
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By Sabrina on March 3, 2009
hemlock slopes hemlock valley, bc
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By Sabrina on February 28, 2009
canada goose van dusen gardens, vancouver It’s the last day of February and time to head to the Van Dusen Gardens as part of my project to document the gardens each month this year. Other than a sprinkling of snowdrops to remind us spring is just around the corner, the scene was as to be [...]
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By Sabrina on February 27, 2009
evergreen hemlock valley, bc
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By Sabrina on February 24, 2009
retired skis hemlock valley, bc
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By Sabrina on February 23, 2009
I’ve been off line for a few days due to my travel and social schedule but the world keeps turning so here are some updates… Pete Souza, the official White House photographer, has popped a signed copy of his latest book in the mail. In his email he mentioned that he was in Ottawa on [...]
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By Sabrina on February 18, 2009
sabrina’s beach clearwater, florida Line is considered by photographers as one of the most important building blocks of visual imagery. Expressed through length, character, orientation, thickness and in relation to other lines, this fundamental element is visible through its tone and colour and because of the area each side of the line. A line of [...]
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By Sabrina on February 16, 2009
frozen wall single hdr image winterlude, ottawa
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By Sabrina on February 13, 2009
florida palm tampa bay, florida As the images from our Tampa weekend begin to trickle in, I am most curious to see how each of the workshop participants viewed the world around us. Standing in the same spot, it seems our photographs would be similar and this is made even more so because we are [...]
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By Sabrina on February 12, 2009
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By Sabrina on February 9, 2009
egret’s wing homosassa springs, florida Right now I am enjoying the last few hours of beautiful Tampa weather before I have to head back into the cold. This has been an absolutely fabulous weekend, topped off yesterday with our visit to Homosassa Springs where virtually every species of animal and bird found in Florida can [...]
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By Sabrina on February 7, 2009
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By Sabrina on February 6, 2009
tampa evening skyline tampa, florida
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By Sabrina on February 5, 2009
original image processed in photomatix Julieanne Kost based on her book Window Seat. This wonderful collection of images reminded me of when, as a child, I used to fly into JHB (Johannesburg, South Africa) and see all the swimming pools below. I can’t remember when I changed my mind and started to choose the aisle [...]
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By Sabrina on January 31, 2009
bamboo grove van dusen gardens, vancouver One of the projects I decided to do this year was to photograph the Van Dusen Gardens each month from January to December. Today being the last day of January I went to see what was blooming but I actually had a very specific place in mind to photograph, [...]
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By Sabrina on January 31, 2009
korean pavillion at van dusen gardens Nikon D80 iso 100 7 shots (1/320 sec to 1 second) 1EV @ f/11 detail enhanced in photomatix processed further in photoshop David Nightingale’s version I’ve been thinking about this image all week and wondering how it might turn out if the sun came out on the weekend. I [...]
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By Sabrina on January 30, 2009
This picture was actually taken last year when I was in Seattle with Bryan Peterson. I can’t believe that I am still harvesting images from that two day workshop. This is our last week of my HDR class and I’ve skipped ahead a little with this post which is using a single RAW file for [...]
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By Sabrina on January 25, 2009
poster wisdom richmond olympic oval I spent the day in a workshop getting to know my D80 more intimately. This is the fourth workshop I’ve taken with Vancouver Photoworkshops and they’ve all start out pretty much the same. Disorganized, no introductions, and a sinking feeling that I shouldn’t have signed up. I have to take [...]
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By Sabrina on January 24, 2009
oval roof Nikon D80 iso 100 1/15s to 1/1000s (4 shots) @ f/11 Nikon D80 iso 100 1/8s to 1/1000s (8 shots) @ f/11 Finally after 19 days of fog, a little sun. I will be in a Nikon workshop all day tomorrow so today was my only chance to complete my assignment for [...]
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By Sabrina on January 21, 2009
fog ‘n posts stevenston village, richmond
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By Sabrina on January 19, 2009
Extra, extra, read all about it! Today there is big news… I received an email today confirming my application to attend Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant’s September workshop in St. Martin’s, New Brunswick. There are only 36 spots at this location and in total only 60 spots that represent a chance to learn from this [...]
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By Sabrina on January 18, 2009
sitting ducks steveston village, richmond There was a brief reprieve from the fog today. By the time I made it to Steveston, it was clear the fog was back to stay but I decided to stick around anyway. A flock of ducks flew over the boardwalk so I followed them, landing up at a nearby [...]
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By Sabrina on January 17, 2009
roadside eagle squamish Driving north this morning, the fog that has lingered here for the past few days was still thick and showed no sign of abating. I worried our trip to visit the eagles in Brackendale was going to be hampered by the weather and then just as we turned on to Hwy 99, [...]
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By Sabrina on January 15, 2009
BEFORE AFTER trees for the forest deep cove, north vancouver I am waiting patiently for the pea soup-like fog to lift and hopefully this Saturday we will get some good shots of the eagles at Brackendale. In the meantime here is a photo taken last year at Deep Cove. I’ve been playing with Photoshop some [...]
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By Sabrina on January 13, 2009
Nikon D80 iso 100 8 seconds @ f/11 Nikon D80 iso 100 1/8s @ f/11 Final Photoshop HDR (LDR) Image Nikon D80 iso 100 1/8s to 8 seconds (4 shots) @ f/11 Exposure Blended Image in Photomatix This is the first week of my HDR course. I am just learning about this technique but [...]
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By Sabrina on January 9, 2009
I’m starting a feature on my blog today called “news news“. The title has a nice ring to it but it is also an ode to my brother-in-law, David who has a propensity to use a word twice for emphasis. The posting is intended to keep everyone up to date with the latest tidbits so [...]
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By Sabrina on January 9, 2009
ichiro (david) ichiro, steveston This evening to celebrate my sister’s birthday, we went to Ichiro in Steveston, an authentic restaurant in what used to be a Japanese fishing village. I used this occasion to challenge my brother-in-law, David, to a Canon shootout as we both have Canon point-and-shoot cameras–mine a G9 and his a [...]
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By Sabrina on January 5, 2009
Lioness in Bent Grass Andy Biggs After more than two weeks of eager anticipation, the newest member of our family finally arrived today. Lioness in Bent Grass by Andy Biggs is a combined Christmas and birthday present to my sister. Andy is one of my favourite animal photographers and is best known for his [...]
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By Sabrina on January 4, 2009
BEFORE AFTER This week I start my next PPSOP class and so I am trying to finish up my self-study in Camera RAW. Today I managed to get through the lessons on converting to black and white and working on portraits. Unfortunately I can’t post the portrait files I worked on because I would need [...]
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By Sabrina on January 2, 2009
contemplation van dusen gardens, vancouver It is commonplace to think about making changes at the beginning of the year and although I am not one for making New Year’s resolutions, I do believe that to succeed at anything, we need to periodically stop and contemplate if we are heading in the right direction. Just the [...]
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By Sabrina on December 31, 2008
Happy New Year to all the readers of my blog! Thanks for dropping by to see my work and to read about my progress over the past year. I hope you will continue to visit throughout 2009 and maybe provide comments to help me improve my photography. On this last day of 2008, I will [...]
Posted in black and white, photoshop |
By Sabrina on December 29, 2008
autumn in black and white Part of today was spent cleaning up my computer and memory cards and backing up my files in preparation for the new year. I came across this photo taken in October in Ottawa. It is one of those classic “room with a view” images snapped from my hotel room. Although [...]
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By Sabrina on December 27, 2008
BEFORE AFTER Vancouver had a record snowfall over the past week making it rather difficult to go anywhere. However the weather conditions presented an opportunity to stay indoors and catch up on the Camera RAW self-study I was supposed to do in late November/early December. The self-study group was arranged by one of my classmates [...]
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By Sabrina on December 23, 2008
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