Photography Class Day 2/3

Today we practiced motion shots again...

And focused on lighting... creating silhouettes,

taking side-lit portraits,

and experimenting with flash... low powered

and high powered.

Photography Class

DAY 1/3 of our travel photography course.
Location: Granville Island [awesome setting to learn in]

The Husband practicing adjusting WHITE BALANCE

Learning to capture motion by panning the camera to follow the moving subject...so difficult...still learning

Playing with aperture settings and trying out various f-stops on the same subject

I'm so glad we are taking this course. The various buttons and functions on the camera actually make sense to me now although I still have so much more learning and practicing to do! Highly recommended!

Abby & Vic Get Married!

A Sweet, Sincere, Beautifully-Set and all around Lovely Wedding.

Another Blog

A couple days ago we received a phone call from some good friends in Paris. During the call, we came up with the idea of blogging together and The Husband got on it right away.

Our new blog


On a separate note, yesterday night was quite the interesting concert experience. We got free tickets to see George Michael from a box suite at GM Place. Honestly, I was not interested in going...and had to google image him before we left the house since I couldn't remember what he looked like. His stage was cool but his dancing freaked me out...not my kind of thing. We ended up leaving early.

Oh Canada!

Happy Canada Day!
What a busy and crazy day it was today. Our church hosted our 4th annual Canada Day Celebration at the park next to our building. The whole affair is an outreach and a service provided to the surrounding community and is much like a carnival. Each Bible study group is in charge of a game booth and everything is free including hot dogs, Starbucks coffee, prizes, popsicles, pony rides, bouncy castles, facepaint, etc. The Husband and I were manning the prize booth where children come to redeem their tickets from game play. Many of the families and kids are very grateful and appreciative of what the church does in the community...but there are few that make the teacher in me just want to scream. I actually think they put the both of us in charge of the prize tent because we're the only ones who have no problem saying NO to the demands of little 5 year olds and their parents. You will not believe the number of parents and children who tried to scam me for extra free prizes.
Good Golly Miss Molly!

Having said that.. all in all, it really is a great way for the community to become acquainted with the local church.


Fin, The Canucks Mascot came to visit

Fin traumatized poor Leila

Leila sat in my chair for over 4 hours while I attended to the hundereds of children (literally...we estimated over 3000 people came out to the event) who came through our prize booth.

The neighbourhood fire station sent a truck out and they set up their tall ladder and sprayed water on the delighted children.

Family

Yesterday, we got to spend some time with both our families...which also meant more subjects to experiment my new camera with.

Dad intently watching the competition at our Church's Sports Day

Mom pretending to watch the games intently but really just shielding her face away from the hot hot sun! What a scorcher it was!

A Walk at Sunset with The Husband's family

The Husband, Mom in law, and Leila's Uncle Pete (Our dog just adores Peter and he adores her just the same)

Brothers


I love color...this caught my eye while we were walking.

Pike Place Market

As soon as school finished on Thursday and we were officially on summer vacation, we headed down to Seattle to visit my BF and pick up my camera. Here are some experiments from Pike Place Market on Saturday.