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A day of portraits

by Carol Browne on May 21, 2013 · 0 comments

in Family and Buddies, Photos

Truck coming behind you.

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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Haircut. Documented.

by Carol Browne on May 15, 2013 · 1 comment

in General, Photos

Mike took this photo.

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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Messing with the gimmicks on my camera

by Carol Browne on April 29, 2013 · 0 comments

in General, Photos, Vancouver

On the phone

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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NERDS! The economic miracle

by Carol Browne on April 20, 2013 · 1 comment

in Festivities, General, Photos, Vancouver

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:

Fan Expo Vancouver 2013

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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Gridlock has been alleviated

April 17, 2013

Phew! That took all night, but between Mike and I (mostly Mike) we have sorted out and reduced the backlog of all the extra photos I apparently copied two or three times in various spots on my computer. Oi. Who knew? No wonder my computer was rejecting my photos – it already had them. ANYWAY, [...]

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Ready? ACTION!

April 16, 2013

It seems I got a few good action shots at the last Bladezillas game. At least something good came out of that game, because, well, the men lost this game. And how. At one point, the game was 4-1 for the Bulldogs. UGH. But they did rally, and in the end, they lost 5-3. Not [...]

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Today I…

April 14, 2013

took photos of these flowers I received as a thank you this past week. It never fails. I always leave the Quilting Bee with more than I came there with. Today I…

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Oh! Home on the train!

April 10, 2013

I initially sat up front so I could have a place to lay my sewing stuff down.

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Going green

April 8, 2013

Before I was capturing the greatness of the hockey game last night, I was lucky enough to photograph a bridal shower. It was a lovely affair, full of giggling and a little bit of blushing (by the bride-to-be). I’ll ask for permission before I post anyone’s photo, but in the meantime, you can see the [...]

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Fashion is danger!

April 4, 2013

Tonight was the portfolio show for VCAD and I think it went pretty well. Actually, I’m too tired to know for sure – it was a long day. You know how events go…you always forget the a container for ice or a corkscrew or a buggy to carry all the signs back to the school. [...]

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