Twenty months ago, I stood on the concrete doorstep of a two-room house in the middle of nowhere. Literally the middle of nowhere. For the past two weeks, we had been cooking for a group of loud, hard working, heavy-eating Canadians. They had been busy, definitely working hard, but also playing hard. Between the lot…

I didn’t have my “real” camera. There was no time to move to a more photo-worthy location. I had no control over the focal length, the f-stop, the shutter speed, or the ISO. Its not an image that will win a prize, or make you say “wow”, or ever be published. It wasn’t even my…

I don’t understand how this has happened. I really don’t. She’s supposed to still be my baby sister. We’re still sharing a room, fighting over the closet space, nagging each other to turn off the lights earlier (or be quieter in the morning). She’s still writing me messages when we’re supposed to be going to…

I almost gave up my dream yesterday. Laugh not. Its true. I told myself — and a local photography studio — that I was not sure whether I want to be pursuing my own photography business. This photographer and I were discussing whether it would be a conflict of interest for me to help him…

First it was all over my floor. A odd jumble of boxes, hardware, software packaging, and cords. Then the pieces started coming out of the boxes. Scarily intricate pieces of equipment. Worth excessive amounts of money, yet so tiny. Once all the pieces started getting put into the case, it was a scary series of…

After the broken camera fiasco of two weeks ago, I was thoroughly excited to open my gifts and find a brand new lens with even wider aperture settings! See the beautiful picture?