I took over 700 photos today…over 500 of them were at the Alice in Wonderland play my buddy, Fiona, is directing. I just have to tell you, if you ever think the arts are not going to survive, just go to one high school play and you will see that there are people who love and can’t wait to keep the arts alive! In music! And dancing! And acting! And plays…as in, acting live, no retakes, no photoshop, just people who have taken the time to memorize so many lines and put on make up, and help each other. NOW, I’ve got photos of all those things, but I have to wait to get permission from everyone before I put any of those photos on my blog. It’s the right thing to do! I can’t wait to show you. I took all kinds of portraits at that play. It was lovely. I was the only one taking photos and could just go wherever I pleased. That is quite the privilege. I am so glad I got to do it.
After the play, I headed home to rest (because I think I’ve got a cold coming on…or something is up, but I refuse to be allergic to anything, so I’ve decided it’s a low grade cold), but got an invitation to go on a photowalk with Mike & Scott. They took me to a waste water pond and then to an overpass so we could take photos of the traffic coming off the Alex Fraser Bridge. Boy. Do they know how to show a gal a good time or what?
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Photo by Mike!
I’m not sure why I feel the need to document my haircuts, but, I got a haircut today. It feels much lighter and very summer-y. And you can hardly notice the grey hairs sprouting on the top of my head from this angle. Nice!
I also tried to take a photo of myself while waiting for Mike. I don’t usually do self portraits and I didn’t set up the tripod for this one, but I think the result is a happy accident:
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After the battery died on my cell phone on the skytrain today, I took out my camera and tried to figure out how to apply the double exposure feature right on my camera! Cool! I found this tutorial (via pinterest) and it’s for a Canon (I use a Nikon) but I thought I could figure it out somehow. I played around with that feature and came up with the photo above – that’s a skytrain seat with a rip in it put over the photo of the lady with the phone. I like how it turned out. I then tried it with a bus at Surrey Central.
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Please note: When I use the word, “Nerd”, I do it with endearment. Nerds are my favourite. In fact, I married one. I *heart* nerds!
Don’t you think people like this:
Would make standing in line for regular, day-to-day things way more fun? I think so. I’d love to be standing behind this person while waiting for the bus every morning.
Speaking of line ups, this was the LONGEST line I have ever, ever, ever seen for any event I’ve been to. At $40/person, you have to tip your hat to the Fan Expo. I got to the Conference Centre just after 11:30 and the line up went from the front of the Convention Centre, all the way past the sails to the end of the pier and BACK. Apparently there were 2 line ups – one for people with tickets, and those looking to buy tickets. The volume of people was incredible and there were some pretty great costumes. I didn’t take time to take too many photos when I first got there because I was on a mission to get to the career fair. And I got there. That was a great career fair for VFX studios and some mobile gaming companies. I shook hands and met a few people I had worked with before, so it was good to connect. I have plenty of follow up to do on Monday. This is good news!
After all the handshaking, I took out my trusty camera and took photos of the people in costumes. Like these people:
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