A Photography Blog
While getting all the decorations for Easter out of the closet, my mom found these two Easter rabbit costumes (a pair of ears and a tutu with a bunny tail) and the two 3 year-olds decided they needed a test run before Easter. A whole lot of fun, and quite a few pictures ensued as the girls yelled at me to capture their every move. "Alex, take a picture of this!" "No, take one of this!".
I often show pictures here of my home neighbourhood, but I tend to leave out much of the city in my photos. Mostly because I tend to stay in Old South and Downtown. But that isn't to say that I never see the rest of the city. My brother lives on Quebec street, in Old East, and since I see him there often, and always have my camera with me, I do occasionally acquire photos of Old East. And from what I've seen, it seems to be a completely different atmosphere to Old South; not better or worse, just different. Last time I cycled my way over there I stopped on a train bridge on Quebec St. and made these two photographs.
I am currently having the best kind of problem. I have too many photographs to blog! I've been shooting rather steadily and I just keep pumping out images that I quite like. So fast, in fact, that I have been unable to blog them all. So are three single images that represent full photo-stories. There is one of a massive amount of photos featuring the children I babysat over March Break (the example being of my niece Kendra), the second is one of my series of close up duck pictures from feeding the ducks at the Fork of The Thames last week, and, and finally one of a short series I made on the walk home from my girlfriends house the other night (all gritty, wasteland-esque architectural shots). So here they are, little pieces of a photographers busy life.
As a photographer, and especially a photographer without a job, one of the most valuable things you can get is inspiration. I've said this time and time again, because it remains as true as ever. It doesn't matter how well you can craft and create a photograph, if you don't know what you want to create. Occasionally one just walks into a situation that beckons to make art out of it, but most of the time one needs to go out and find it themselves. One of my largest sources of inspiration is my family's cottage outside of Grand Bend. I had a miniature holiday there this past weekend (before spending the rest of the March Break working) and made several new images. Noteworthy of those being these two, Tundra Swan Migration and Drift.
When it comes to cameras, the difference between a DSLR and a Point-and-Shoot is growing smaller. The technology in a DSLR is getting better, but on a much slower curve than the technology in Point-and-Shoots. But there are still many examples of photographs where it is clear that the photo is made with a DSLR. I find that many of these photos show their origin through the amount of detail they contain. A DSLR photo almost always holds scads of detail (provided of course the light balance is kept and the appropriate lens is used). So with that in mind, here are two photos I would not have been able to make without a DSLR. The first being I, a macro shot of my girlfriend Rachelle's eye, and the second Rio Grande, a macro of my dog Rio.
