Jasmine 2002

Fence - Narrabeen, March 2002
It looks like I will have to visit Australia in 2006 to keep up with the tradition of photographing Jasmine by a fence in Narrabeen!

Jasmine 2004

Fence - Narrabeen Beach, April 2004

At the Beach

At the Beach - Crescent Beach, July 2005
Another from the Crescent Beach series...

Pearl

Pearl on the Rock - White Rock beach, August 2004
Continuing on the White Rock beach theme - perhaps because it's finally stopped raining and summer has shown up!! This is a shot of the menu board at Pearl on the Rock. Gorgeous restaurant design, top food, and tasty oyster selection... except the service can be unpredictable... sometimes fast, sometimes slow. (I'll talk to them about that!!) Have a look next time you are cruising down White Rock beach...

The Pier

Pier - White Rock, BC October, 2004
I love to travel because everything is new and inspiring, you hardly know where to point the camera next! I find it much harder to take pictures of images I see everyday - a challenge to see them from a new perspective. I think I got the idea to put my camera on the railing of the pier from another picture I had taken where I was trying to think outside the box. All the more reason to get out and get snapping! So, I should perhaps stop regurgitating old images and come up with some new material...

Smile

Smile - Crescent Beach, July 2005
Family pictures on the beach... a summery Friday evening, kind of. The rain drizzled down at one point, and you can see raindrops on the clothes in some of the shots. Ah, excellent representation of life in BC!

Water's Edge

At the Beach - Crescent Beach, July 2005

Cookie

Cookie - Kelowna, June 2004
I love how babies lack coordination sometimes - maybe it's because I can relate!

Hawaiian Palm Tree

Palm Tree - Waikiki Beach, January 2001
This is a cross-processed print - slide film developed as color. It works well on bright, sunny days esp. with tropical colors! I used it once on a dull Canadian winter day and the results were shocking! Hmmm... I should play around with this process again...

A World of Her Own

Flower Girl - Quallicum, September 2000
This is one of my favorite pictures... taken at a friend's wedding. She was off in a world of her own.

Luna Park

Luna Park - Sydney, April 2004
The third element of composition is Dynamics. Dynamics is about movement, the way the eye moves over a picture. Dynamics can be enhanced through the use of lines, or implied lines.

Beanie Baby

Beanie Baby - Vancouver, August 2004
My favorite photography subject... children! To continue on with the photography lesson... next subject is Balance. ( I am finding this one hard to understand...) Balance is an equal relationship between two or more things. A photograph is balanced when the various elements "weigh" the same. A photograph needs to be balanced, so that there isn't so much negative space that the eye gets lost. This effect is called "dead space". (I see why I don't understand this... and I think I am guilty of doing it with my pictures. That's why they end up boring!)

Concrete Stairs

Concrete Stairs - Mission Hill Winery, July 2005
Ok kids, this is a good picture to introduce today's lesson with. ;) Three elements of composition are: Structure, Balance and Dynamics. Focusing on Structure: As in architecture with posts and beams, structural elements in photography are the elements that hold it together. Basic structural elements are: line, shape and position. Non-structural elements are texture, light, motion and perspective.

Mission Hill

Mission Hill - Kelowna, BC, July 2005
I love film! I found a brilliant book; The Photographic Eye (Learning to See with a Camera) Michael O'Brien and Norman Sibley. In it, it speaks about Point of Departure - f/16 @ 1/125. Using a black and white film with ISO 125 such as Kodak Plus-X (as I used here... loved it!) on a bright, sunny day - it allows you to produce technically successful photographs. Thus freeing you up to concentrate on learning how to "see" with a camera. I'll post more tips from this fantastic book soon... I'll bet you can't hardly wait ;)

Shoe Fetish

Aldo Shoes - Robson Steet, Vancouver BC, November 2003
My photography class was studying different light sources.

Magnolia

Magnolia - Mukilteo USA, March 2005

Cherry Tree

Cecil Green - Vancouver, April 2001
One of my favorite pictures... I love the way the light is shining through the cherry tree. Oh, and the bride and groom look happy too!

Sailors

Sailors - Victoria Harbour, June 2005

Love

Love - White Rock Beach, January 2003

Barn Window

Barn Window - Surrey, June 2004