Fall Films

I can't tell you how much I missed art this semester. Political science courses just don't fulfil me the way a good studio class can, and I've found myself searching for new outlets to satisfy my creative urges. One of these was film making. I'm not too fancy, using the record setting on my DSLR, piecing together the clips on iMovie, and adding filters on Photoshop, but I'm happy with the results and the stories I was able to communicate.

Paris: Clips I salvaged from my travel study to Paris (and London) two summer's ago.
Ottawa: An introduction to the Laurentian Leadership Centre and the people there.
Montreal: Documentation of a whirlwind road trip.
Gatineau: An update on life in the mansion at Thanksgiving time.

Stillwood Highlights

I spent all summer working as camp photographer at Stillwood Camp and Conference Centre. During this time, I took hundreds of photos to be used for promotional purposes, documentation, and to increase traffic to the camp's Facebook page. Below are a few highlights from the collection.

Mouse Ears & Blue Skies

Over reading break I took a trip to LA with Taylor's family. After agonizing for days over which camera to bring along, I decided on my Holga Toy Camera loaded with cross processed colour slide film for unpredictable shots with lots of colour. I think it did a good job of capturing our experiences at In N Out Burgers, LAX, Disneyland, and LACMA.

BLOGSHOP Seattle

Founded by Bri Emery of DESIGNLOVEFEST and photographer Angela Kohler, BLOGSHOP has become a major hit in the blogging community. This weekend intensive workshop is an intro to photoshop specially catered to the design needs of the blog world. Needless to say, when I received an e-mail from Angela Thursday afternoon asking if I was interested in interning for them, I immediately cancelled all my weekend plans and booked a room in downtown Seattle. Even though I was already familiar with the techniques Bri and Angela taught, I was able to pick up some very valuable tips and tricks which I'm excited to make use of in my own design work. Whether it was the teachers, students or sponsors, everyone I interacted with had wonderful creative attitudes and amazing style. Needless to say, it was a fabulous weekend and I'm crossing my fingers BLOGSHOP comes to Vancouver next.

Olivia + Marianne

Beautiful day, fresh snow, and good friends: the perfect excuse for a photo shoot. 

Lisa & Andrew

 

  

   

These photos were taken on a trip to UBC to attend the annual Christmas at the Chan concert with my lovely roommate Lisa and our dear friend Andrew. Before the performance began, we took advantage of our beautiful surroundings for an impromptu photo shoot. 

Paint Fight

This odd photo shoot was organized by Amanda and Cody in honour of their friend Andrew's birthday.  I think I had just as much fun photographing them as they did spraying each other with paint!

Chelsea

Today Chelsea and I went location scouting for the wedding we're shooting on Saturday. We found a marvellous little farm with rolling green hills and wonderfully distressed buildings. This is one of the test shots I took of Chelsea in front of an old shed on the property. 

Madalen

Back in October, Madalen and I went on a small photo adventure. Due to a series of unfortunate events, I was not able to develop and scan the film till today. So here they are, shot with my Pentax SLR on 35mm b+w film.

Holga in Europe

Making room in my suit case for my Holga toy camera and a role of 120 slide film was one of the best decisions I made for my recent trip to Europe. The following were taken at Windsor Castle, Oxford, Kensington, Islington, and Paris. 

London & Paris

This May I went on a travel study with Trinity Western University to study art, music, and culture in the concert halls and art galleries of London and Paris. Here are some shots I snapped using my Nikon D3100 and Natalie's 50mm lens (which I fell in love with).