August 13 2011

I went for wine and cheese at Greengate (a local garden centre). You really can’t beat that combination at all, it’s amazing.

August 12 2011

August 11 2011

One of the instructors biggest tip was to bring your camera everywhere you go. I have to say that taking a picture a day for a year has really encouraged me to have a camera with me at all times. It really is interesting what you can find.

August 10 2011

Today was my very first photography class. The theme of this class is photography in the garden but our instructor describes the ‘garden’ as basically anything you would like it to be. Most of the class was spent taking pictures outside and typically everyone was taking pictures of flowers.

Since I’ve done a lot of flower shots I decided to focus my attention on objects that you wouldn’t really consider part of a garden. In this case, I choose a piece of metal artwork and just played around with under/overexposure, aperature, ISO, and shutter speed to really see what kind of difference each little change made.

Here was one of my favourite shots of the night. Let me know what you think.

August 9 2011

I attended my first alumni affairs meeting. Today’s purpose was to give new students a chance to ask graduates questions about campus. It was nice to have a little piece of Vancouver right here in Calgary. I met a few new friends and had a really nice evening.

UBC really is amazing in so many different ways.

August 8 2011

Another day at the landfill. My life is a load of garbage.Get it?! haha

August 7 2011

After two full days of wedding stuff, this is what I look like.

A silly picture to end off the week.