Gnome with the Wind.

As usual, class time is spent watching music videos with no volume turned on. In my search for sweet music videos, I discovered this.

I'm only part way down the page, and I don't know if the song sucks, but this video is rad:



Gnomes are still rad... not done the assignment yet...

Gnome-ing About Town

Inspired by the traveling gnome phenomenon, I'm using one as the subject of a multimedia presentation.

Hey nice fash, I mean face.

Did my fashion shoot for school this afternoon, and I had 2 very different types of models to work with. One was the awkward, awesome, haute couture unusual kind of girl, while the other was a beauty/commercial/small town local model look. It was interesting working with the both of them, but I definitely found it harder to come up with shots for model #2:











And model #2:

Grey Skies.

The weather here is disgusting. No wonder I don't like this place all that much. I find Victoria's grey skies to be one of main reasons I'm so uninspired to go out and snap photos on a regular basis. When skies aren't grey, they can be quite nice. Here are some of the other snaps from Friday:

Epic.

This snap got called epic so I suppose it deserves a blog post.

Not much to say except there was some winter waiting for me when I rolled in to Whistler on Friday night. There was also a group of rambunctious Yankee friends, and a million bazillion people in the resort wanting to share the snow with me. Bah. Humbug.

Oh, and my favorite mountain had it's face ripped off. Ouch. Crown looks massive, look how far the runout goes.

912.5 Days

Photo essay complete. That was fun/hard because I was shooting at super high ISOs and the kid moves so fast! Good times though.

I now present... Joey:

Work it.

"Hey ______, I think you're really interesting. Any chance you'll let me follow you around for a day and take pictures?" "No..."

Yeah, so it's kinda tough to find someone who will agree to star in a photo essay. I had to get creative... I had to find someone who wouldn't say no. So, starting this evening, I'm shooting photos of my cousin's 2.5yr/old son. He doesn't even know what a camera is. This will be fun.

Some of my friends like to cause mischief and make movies. They also like to enter contests with their movies. Watch, and, if you like it, vote for them!

Voleurz Goes to Coldwater

Enjoy!

Aaaaand... another photo from Sunday

I've lost the feeling in my fingers... can I have yours?

Did a little Blackcomb shred on the weekend with the girls and the occasional boy. It was a lovely time and face shots were had, whether or not they were on purpose or accidental we may never know. The snow was fantastic and I took some photos of the happenings on Sunday:











I also got seasick on the drive home. How often can a person say that?!

Polar Opposites.

When one wants to become a fashion photographer, one should probably practice. Therefore... practice I did. Models = me (ginger and obviously not a model) and Jesse Holland (Far classier and classmatier.)









Then it got dark. So subject matter changed to non human objects. As seen below. Models = tree. Victoria BC.

Monday = Nofunday.

Sometimes when I'm looking for inspiration I like to check out various photo essays. David Alan Harvey's Burn magazine is consistently updated with new, really interesting photo essays. I especially like the Rodeo one, and one titled Teen Pregnancy.

I've been listening to Matt and Kim a lot lately, and here's their song Daylight. It's been snowing here on the Island, and I could use some more daylight. From the sun, please.



A photo... remembering the good times. Mathieu and I skied Fissile Mountain Banana and then Saddle Chutes over a two day period this time last winter. I wish I was playing in the snow right now. Well, other than the no centimeters of snow that have fallen in Victoria today.

Still reveling in the stoke.

So, I'm still on holiday/real life mode and can't get my mind off of the Revy good times. This time, enjoy the pictures to music:



Linds and I went for a night time adventure and inbetween jumping jacks and postholing through the snow, I captured these beauties. Composition cred goes to Lindsay for the Smokestack one.






Peace out homies, I have some homework to get back to.

Revel-stoke!

I recently had the opportunity to bust a move down to beautiful Revelstoke, BC, to do some RMR pow-slaying and Great Northern Cat-Skiing. I spent one day skiing the resort with my lovely friend Lindsay, and we were lucky to run into a Whistler friend, Ryan, while were were there:



Then I spent three days at Great Northern with my dad, brother, and sister for some pow slayage. It had snowed a meter the week before and that left the avalanche danger at a slightly unsatisfactory danger level. We dealt with it by sticking in the trees or staying on fairly mellow terrain or short steep pitches. We had fun:







I am tired. Long drive. More later.