Posts Tagged urban
When my husband and I got married, my in-laws generously offered to send us on a vacation, as a wedding present. We already had the Morocco workshop and Spain planned right after the wedding, then we had to sell the house and move, then it was a gorgeous summer followed by a busy fall… long [...]
Dipping into my trip pictures yet again, but things have been crazy around here in the last few weeks. I am vowing to take some time to shoot for myself this week! besos, a
This is a mini-series of frames from a roll of el cheapo drugstore film I shot downtown a couple of months ago. At the time I didn’t realize it, but I was on a ‘bird’s eye view of a lone figure in a sea of concrete’ kick that day – I love when a thread [...]
Last week I was scouting for some interesting portrait locations within 5 minutes’ walk of Laurier and Elgin (more on that next week!). My better half, knowing my penchant for grungy parking lots, suggested I check out the underground garage at City Hall. I’m not sure what fascinates me about parking structures. I suppose it’s [...]
My goal with this mini-series (actually, it’s more like a series-that-turned-into-a-mini-series-by-default-through-laziness-and-subsequent-moving-away-from-the-city, but that sounds a just a little bit clunky) was to counteract the stereotype that Toronto is a grey, boring, soulless city with no personality. I wanted to photograph the façades head-on elevation style both for consistency and because I found the subject matter [...]
So, I have been waffling over whether to enter the London Street Photography Festival contest. I’m intrigued, of course, by the prizes – £1000 and a flight to Jolly Olde, or £500 second place. I’m dissuaded by the £30 entry fee; you do get a blurb coupon worth £28.95, but… still. I have mixed feelings [...]