TULIPS!

For Mother's Day my mom, my aunt and I hit the Arboretum and the Rock Garden at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington.  The only thing I love more than tulips is photographing tulips, as evidenced in the hundreds of images I took.

Here's my favourite from the day:



Here's my series of single stems:













And here are a few flowerbeds:









Check out the full 'Tulips' set on Flickr.

Happy Spring!

TORONTO, OR, THE CONDOM MACHINE SHOOT

So our friend Greg in Toronto likes to DO THINGS.  Like beach volleyball, or sailing, or hockey, or ride his motorcycle.  Also, taking random pictures.  He also has that picture itch...

(You know, that one thing that you see all the time and every time you see it you think to yourself, "One day I will have my camera and tripod and just the right light and I will shoot this elusive object.  One day."  And yet you still see said object on a semi-regular basis and never have your camera.  And when you are planning to spend an afternoon shooting, you still don't think to yourself, "I should go shoot that thing already," you head for a waterfall, or a factory, or your livingroom instead.  I have lots of these, and yet I never shoot them.)

Anyways, Greg's picture itch is for a sticker-ed and graffiti-ed condom machine and matching hand dryer in a basement of a bar in Toronto.  He wants to blow these up and hang them as art in a funky modern bathroom.  I love the idea!  Unfortunately, it is the men's room, so only Jeff and Greg can participate, while I hang out outside looking lost and perhaps a little strange.  (Who hangs out outside the men's room in a bar in the middle of the afternoon on a Saturday?)

Long story short, the shots of the condom machine and hand dryer in question came out pretty neat.  Here's the processing that Jeff and I like the most:

THIRTY THINGS

We're taking a photography course, and our first assignment is thirty pictures that say something about us.

Here's a sample, you can see Liz's set and Jeff's set on Flickr.

MELISSA AND BEAU

We had the pleasure of shooting Melissa and Beau's wedding ceremony at  Grace United Church in St. Thomas Ontario a few weekends ago.  Fabulous couple - really down to earth and a lot of fun to work with!  We didn't have a lot of one-on-one time with the couple, but we really enjoyed capturing their ceremony.

You can see Melissa and Beau's full album on our Flickr page.