Over the past year 6 months we have built a pretty good relationship, I write my posts and you, the reader, keep reading them and seem to enjoy them. As such I have only used this platform to promote certain causes that truly need our help and often get forgotten.
That is why I started the blood donation challenge last year. Everyone when they heard I got sick signed up for One Match (which is another great cause) but didn't know how important blood donations were to our healthcare system. The challenge not only raised awareness but a lot of blood was donated in the process and many people were converted into donors.
The time has come when I need to call on all our your compassion and support once again.
June 09, 2011
June 08, 2011
Loneliness
For the past little while I have been participating in a weekly project called Street Photography Now. Each week a famous street photography gives a theme that we have to interpret and then we have that week to go out find a moment that fits our vision and interpretation of the assignment.
Last week we were given the chance to pick our own theme. It was actually more difficult at first than you would think because usually when you go out to shoot you just go with the flow and photgraph what comes to you. But in this circumstance we were going out with theme in mind and searching for the moments to match it.
I had a very hard time picking a theme, so I decided to just go out with my camera and as I was walking and thinking one would come to me. It was a very busy saturday down here in Port Credit (nothing out of the norm for a weekend) and lots of tourists were in town. As I was walking there was a large group laughing and playing while walking in front of me and for some reason it made me think of the elderly lady I had photographed by the water a few weeks earlier, and the theme came to me; loneliness.
Last week we were given the chance to pick our own theme. It was actually more difficult at first than you would think because usually when you go out to shoot you just go with the flow and photgraph what comes to you. But in this circumstance we were going out with theme in mind and searching for the moments to match it.
I had a very hard time picking a theme, so I decided to just go out with my camera and as I was walking and thinking one would come to me. It was a very busy saturday down here in Port Credit (nothing out of the norm for a weekend) and lots of tourists were in town. As I was walking there was a large group laughing and playing while walking in front of me and for some reason it made me think of the elderly lady I had photographed by the water a few weeks earlier, and the theme came to me; loneliness.
June 07, 2011
Passion on a Whim
Many of you would be surprised to learn that photography wasn't something I always aspired to do. To be truthful I had never had any interest in the visual arts. All throughout my life I have spent time learning different musical instruments but I also felt I wasn't creative enough to enter into the world of visual arts. So if I had no interest in visual arts how did I get started in photography you may ask?
Taking up photography for me was something of a last resort. As we spoke about recently in my sense of self post,
when I got out of the hospital I was lost. Everything I had spent the last few years focusing on were no longer. It was despressing being stuck at home everyday while everyone else started to pick back up their regular lives and I was slowly getting into a deep funk. I knew I needed something to fill the void and give me back a sense of self.
I had always dreamed of learning to sail so I signed up for some lessons in late April eager to learn. My plan was to get my boating license, get a small sailboat to dock at the marina across the street from me and spend my summer days sailing. What a dream!!
Taking up photography for me was something of a last resort. As we spoke about recently in my sense of self post,
when I got out of the hospital I was lost. Everything I had spent the last few years focusing on were no longer. It was despressing being stuck at home everyday while everyone else started to pick back up their regular lives and I was slowly getting into a deep funk. I knew I needed something to fill the void and give me back a sense of self.
I had always dreamed of learning to sail so I signed up for some lessons in late April eager to learn. My plan was to get my boating license, get a small sailboat to dock at the marina across the street from me and spend my summer days sailing. What a dream!!
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