Happy New Year :) I wish you all a happy healthy 2013! A few months ago I received this email: Dear Shireen, I’ve seen your magnificent blog and fell in love with Newfoundland. We are redecorating our house and had been searching for a living…
Every year as part of our Christmas gift to our biggest client we print and frame a selection of my work – it’s always fun trying to choose the very best of what I have that year, and so awesome and satisfying to see it…
Looks like Reddit got hold of this post about my crochet camera cosy yesterday, and the blog stats went through the roof :) Thanks for the Reddit love! I’m deep in Christmas crafting, part of the gift plan this year is the restoration of these 2…
I’m one of those people that can only eat meat by never thinking too hard about where my food is coming from. So, when the abattoir truck changed it’s morning route and started going by my home I was pretty distressed. In this case it’s…
Sparrow 1. Bald Eagle 0. Taken in Tofino, BC.
Here’s something fun I found this morning, an online app that lets you create word clouds. It’s free, and didn’t require a membership. Here’s the site. I made mine by making a list of words. Words I repeated were bigger in the final word cloud.…
Lately my mind has been focused on time lapse photography and there’s been no shortage of inspiration. I have this composition, of three photos that I took over the year that I really like: I’ve decided to take it a step further this year.…
Yesterday I had to do some photography from the CN Tower as part of a project (it’s a tough gig, I know) and I got to thinking about what an amazing engineering achievement the tower is. My father is fond of telling me about how…
I’ve got the video bug, mostly driven by the fact that I purchased one of these. An intervalometer, or timed remote release for the 7D. I’ve been aiming the camera out the window at night and at dawn trying out time lapse photography and I’ve…
On the 2nd last day or our trip we went south from Wawa through Superior park again. I loved it there so much I thought it was the perfect place to spend the end of our journey. We explored some of the same sites and a…
I’ve resisted video for a long time – I always felt that somehow it was not an art form on the level of photography. However, lately I’ve become pretty obsessed with it – to the point where I lugged the video tripod through our road…