Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Happy Holidays!

hope everyone had a happy holiday season! I know it's not over yet... but ya know.

christmas borris

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snowmannew


I still have no idea what to do for New Years?... what will the future hold?

Saturday, December 19, 2009

all most done!!

Aura
Aurapage

Aurapage

Aura

Aura


One class left! My business class ended today (not nearly long enough, it felt more like an intro to business course) and my last people class is on Monday! I have one batch left to edit and then it's Christmas cheer all the way!!!

I also finally got around to editing a couple more of my photos from my trip to the folks cabin this summer. I sent them out to a couple family members in Christmas cards...


lakeshift
loonshift
lake2shift


oh and also, I set up a personal CBCRadio3 account, as I've been listening so much lately. I have some play lists and stuff up, check it out here.

Sunday, December 13, 2009

music notes

I've updated my CBC Radio 3 profile. Well, I've added some songs, the rest is pretty much the same. They're not new songs, but if you're a Radio 3er you can now playlist my songs to your hearts content. Enjoy.

Saturday, December 12, 2009

portfolios

one of our assignments for the business of photography course is to assemble a portfolio. It's an on going thing and we'll be critiquing them in class next week. This is what I have so far, it will probably keep changing so feel free to come back and check it out a couple times over the next few weeks.

Music


People




I prefer flickrSLiDR as opposed to the actual flickr app I used the other day... much more visually pleasing if you ask me. I must say, I'm satisfied with the people collection but I feel the music one is lacking.

For the most part, it's a bit harder to get great images in low light concert situations especially when you're working with a D40 like I have been. So that can be a bit of a set back sometimes and I'm defiantly looking forward to upgrading sometime soon. However, the most recent shot in the music collection is from the summer where as most of the people ones have been shot within that time span. I've been learning so much and haven't made a point of going out and practicing it on the stuff I'm hoping to focus on. Silly me. Classes are winding down and I'm only enrolled in one course next semester, so I'll be making more time to get out there and shoot more. yay!

time for movies and wine. tah for now

familyfun


Daniel, Elana & Mateo
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ElanaMateopage
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Danielpage

working with people who have worked as professional models certainly is a treat...

Daniel

Daniel Elana

Daniel Elana


...things seem to go a bit smoother and there's a bit less pressure on the photographer, or maybe it just feels that way. Either way, there's a higher ratio of pictures that turn out awesome :)

Friday, December 11, 2009

music favorites

oh hi

I've been messing around with some of flickr's app's...


Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer

Thursday, December 10, 2009

kyle...


some photos for you;

Kyle
Kylepage

Kyle

Kyle



It seems like every time I get close to being caught up with school work they dish out more. go figure.

the big topic at my work today;

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

I want my money! get off my lawn.

Danika

Danikapage2

Danikapage

as always, click on the images for larger sizes.

Danika

Danika

Danika


How cute is she!! I am jealous of her basically perfect skin, seriously. She also happens to be a fellow musician, but unfortunately this time I wasn't able to get any contact info so I can not share her music with you. Maybe one day we'll see her out there fighting the good fight...I hope I spelled her name right Mrs. Roon spelled it Danica, but whatever, she's not to be trusted. ;)

I also took a few pics of Rob a little while back...

Rob

Rob
what a dream boat! ;)


So I've got that old familiar itch!! ... the music itch of course. I haven't been playing much since Aimee and I played our last show and I'm ready to pick up the guitar again. Of course I have school and Christmas to deal with, but I really want to get some tunes recorded and start booking gigs in the new year. Also of course, the main thing that's slowing me down (or so I believe) is my day job. Cursed waste of my time/thing that pays my rent. oh the eternal struggle.

speaking of recording, here's a little bit of insight into the magic of the recording studio and some of the sacrifices artists have to make when labels get involved. enjoy.



Monday, December 7, 2009

I keep getting lady gaga songs stuck in my head

that being said...

It's December and we all know what that means, it's time for another installment of Jason Collett’s Basement Revue @ the Dakota Tavern!!! I for some unknown (to me) reason, have not attended one of these events (every Tuesday all December!) but this year I intend to! I'm excited. It's pretty much the highlight of my December....... yeah, yeah, there's also Christmas. Bah. At this point I've got so much school work and holiday and birthday related soirees to worry about that Christmas has become more of a looming dreaded deadline than anything else.

there I go, getting carried away with that holiday spirit again!

so on a happier note, here's some more pictures of Borris!



Borris

Borris

Borris

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

I need more RAM

I'm unable to listen to itunes and edit photos at the same time, my computer just can't handle it.

Stephanie
Stephaniepage

Stephanie

Stephanie

more Donna

Donnapage

Donna


I wish I had more info to give you on who these people are and what they do. I know some of them are actors, models, singers and playwrights, they probably have websites and the like. Unfortunately I can't tell you where to learn more about them as I don't know much myself......

Looks like homework night was a success, I was able to edit quite a few photos, however I did fail miserably on the doing laundry side of things. Oh well, maybe I'll get that taken care of tomorrow night when homework night continues...