Sunday, July 09, 2006
Learning new stuff is so much fun.
On this past Thursday I attended a workshop for basic lighting and portrait model shooting. I hadn't realized how much fun this could be. One of the guys in the camera club has set up a basic studio in his house and has offered to teach the members of the camera club about lighting and portraiture. In these workshops, we hire a model or two and spend a few hours learning and shooting.
I went into this not knowing what to expect. Two fabulous models were lined up. One with quite a bit of experience and the other with less experience. Both were great. This is definitely something I want to learn more about.
Anyways, cutting this short for now. Check out my results of the models on my flickr page and let me know what you think.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Eventful night
What a night. I had to make a dash from work early today because Sarah had a car accident. Well, Sarah didn't have the accident, because obviously she doesn't drive :) But she was in the car that hit another. Everyone is fine. A bit shaken up and bruised but doing well none the less.
But there is that time from when you get the phone call to when you actually get to your kids that you are worried crazy like. Even though you are told on the phone that everyone is ok, it is just something that you have to see for yourself.
Like I said, everyone is fine and I am just happy for that. I don't blame anyone for the accident, sometimes these things happen. But as we are sitting in the Assesment room in the hospital emerg. I could hear the passenger from the other car. What a Drama Queen. You would think that she was missing limbs the way she was going on. Geez, lady, that's what insurance is for. To fix or replace your broken vehicle. But I figure she was more frantic because of shock. But oh well. Shit happens and life goes on. If there is anything that I have learned, is that if everyone is ok, then really there isn't that much to worry about.
Fortunately, when I needed a laugh, today's Questionable Content, gave me exactly that. Faye's comment on the 3rd panel had me in stitches :)
That's it for tonight. Happy that everyone is ok.
Sunday, July 02, 2006
Happy Belated Birthday, Canada! EH!
I know, I'm a day late. Didn't feel like writing last night.
This long weekend is basically over for me now. With my job I get the American holidays and have to work the Canadian ones. For the most part that works to my advantage, since I get paid time and a half for the Canadian holiday and get the American holiday off with pay.
Canada Day for me this year has basically been a non-event. On Saturday, Sarah and I headed into Port Credit for the Canada Day festivities. I had heard that they were going to have a cake cutting ceremony (holy aliteriation, Batman). This was suppose to happen at 12 noon. I say suppose to because when we got down there, it turned out that the paper had printed the information incorrectly. They weren't cutting the cake until 4pm. We were a full 4 hours early! Instead we wandered around Port Credit for a while. I got some nice pictures around the village.
In the afternoon, the Parental Units were borrowing my daughter to take her to a BBQ Pool Party. I wasn't planning on joining them, but since all my friend's had other plans, I figured it would be better than sitting around doing nothing. All I'll say about the pool party is that Sarah had a GREAT time.
Everyone, I hope you guys enjoy your day off tomorrow. And I really mean that, not being my usual Sarcastic self :) Hopefully on Tuesday, I can get caught up on a huge backlog of photos. I hadn't realized how far behind I had fallen.
