Persuasive Silence: June 2011

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Never to young

You can never be to young nor to old to take up an interest in photography as was proven on a recent trip too Yangshuo, China where we had the opportunity thanks to Olympus to teach a few elementary school children how to use a camera. The children were given the cameras to take home for a weekend to document their everyday lives and surroundings including towns that aren't so easily accessible to travellers due to distance and time to get there. Not only were the children able to learn photography but their photographs will also be featured in our May 2012 gallery exhibit during Toronto's Contact festival! Stay tuned for more info & photo's in the mean while here are a few photos of the children and a sneak peak of one of their photographs ^-^

This is Samuel say Hi!...okay now that you introduced yourselves I'll introduce him ^_^ This is Samuel and he's 7 yrs old (if I remember correctly...) he's also a very humble person always saying thank you! He's a secret Canadian at heart lol Anyways me, Ashley D.,& Amanda M. had the pleasure of working with Samuel during our trip and for that we say Thank You ^_^

This photograph is one of many that Samuel had taken during his free time and will be featured in the upcoming gallery show; however, if this is the final edit of the photo only time will tell and your visit to the gallery! ^_^

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Edit, Edit, & Edit

(Just for fun ^_^ )

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Restless NIght

Tonight's just one of those restless nights of tossing and turning, I always find it hard sleeping during the summer also feel as if I should be doing something. I did end up doing something to tire me out, I started editing a image from the day before which you can check out bellow along with some behind the scene snaps of the "set". To cure my restlessness I was also researching for a weekend get away with friends coming up in August to New York, but then I got side tracked and starting looking into places for my trip next year (can you tell I like to plan ahead?) found some really good deals and these are the following places I'm thinking of; South Korea(#1), Japan, Greece, India, Sri Lanka, & Australia. Might even do a two in one trip since some of these places are near each other. If anyones been to any of these places let me know what you thought or if you want to be my travel buddy speak now or forever hold your peace! ^_^

I went to clean my glass as soon as I touched it the glass snapped in my hands....fail!! Still used it though and will continue too :) p.s please ignore the bread thats a whole other issue. ^_^

Say hello to my mothers jungle back there and my pot of rice hanging out on our house printer ^_^

I guarantee the tv was off when I shooting...Ghost Whisperer.....

Sunday, June 19, 2011

China 2011

China 2011, a set on Flickr.

Some more images from my recent trip to china.
Click on thumbnails for larger images in flickr just started a new account with them, I've had a few different accounts before with them but either I forgot the password or lost interest, heres to attempt number 3 :)

Saturday, June 18, 2011

The China Experience Pt.2

Part 2 which should really be part 1 since we went to Beijing first...oh well :)

So here's another video this is mainly of our time in Beijing with about 2 clips from Gilian I believe. Wo ai Beijing was our unofficial theme song for the trip played it every chance I got needless to say people probably got annoyed "sorry" lol ^_^

p.s I just realized the quality really goes down even more so when I upload straight to blogger. I should probably start using my Youtube account again

A Noticeable Change

Besides me uploading something other than food there has been another noticeable change...yup changed the design of my blog *pop goes the fireworks & marching band!* oh nun of that is happening? How sad back to editing :(

Friday, June 17, 2011

The China Experience Pt.1

Started making a series of videos last night using various footage I captured during a recent trip to China, sorry for the poor quality was using different cameras throughout and didn't have a hdslr on me :( Think I'll purchase a D7000 or something in the future for use purely for video. I find video with travel is a good thing helps with explaining to family and friends the experience of a trip and the dynamic. I actually didn't realize I had so much footage until last night with clips still on my phones I think I rounded maybe 2hrs of clips here and there needless to say I'm going to need to clear my laptop soon.

Presenting part one of unknown amounts:

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Still For A Moment

Still for a moment.
Generally I never shoot still life i.e fruits & Vegetables never seems right when I do it rather blah maybe thats because I never have any direction to go with it or something meh. Did a random shoot today had one idea in mind but my limitations in my knife skills stopped me from completing task one and changing it up completely fruit salad to follow. Second shoot was of Red Chili Peppers and Pepper Flakes shot on some wood planks I destroyed the other night to get a distressed feel, can't wait to shoot like a rustic food shot but that will have to wait for a while think im going to stop styling and shoot for a bit after I finish of what I have in my fridge and concentrate on editing previous sessions and work on my book and hopefully somewhere in all that get a job ...^.^

Started as a pear, apple, & fennel salad tower but I failed @ slicing thin enough pieces

so I'll try again in the future, but in the meanwhile heres a apple, pear, banana, orange, walnut and olive oil salad....can you tell I just raided the kitchen? lol