Happy 2012!

Happy New Years! I had the most relaxed new years ever, but it was really nice. Had some quality catch-up time with myself.
Looking forward to good things for 2012. After all it'll be the year I graduate university! Last year will be a pretty hard year to beat in terms of awesomeness with my exchange over to Aberdeen, Scotland, and meeting so many amazing people and seeing lots of beautiful places, but I am going to try my best to make it another fantastic year filled with fun times, hard work, amazing images and good times with good friends.
Thank you everyone who made my 2011 year so special over in Aberdeen, and to all my friends at home who are making my last year of University so much fun and filled with so many memories.
I can't believe it was almost a year ago that I left to go explore an unknown city with the expectations of having plenty of adventures and seeing so many new places. Its amazing how 6 months can fly by, but I feel that I accomplished a lot in that amount of time, and a lot of which was learning things about myself and seeing how I grew personally throughout the year. Those 6 months abroad were definitely some of the best of my life, and I cant wait to get out there and go back and visit and make many more amazing memories with the great friends that I made. 

Good luck to everyone and wishing you all the best with accomplishing everything you set out to complete in the new year (and maybe sticking to those resolutions at least for a little while).

Here are a couple highlight images from my travels that I would love to share. 

 Galway, Ireland

 Lillehammer, Norway

 Bergen, Norway

 Isle of Arran, Scotland

Holy Isle, Scotland

Once I have actually finished going through all my images from my travels and editing the best ones (one of my new years resolutions along with organizing my whole harddrive and external harddrive) I will share more memories of the year with you.

My happy song

Whenever I am having a bad day or need to be cheered up.. this song does it for me every time. Mostly it makes me happy because I like to pretend its about me. And it helps that Boyce Avenue are wonderful musicians. :)

It seems this year I still have a lot to learn about letting go of full control of my project and my images, and letting some of the natural parts of the image shine through. There are always those parts of an image that one wants to get rid of and edit out, but it seems that most people think my images are stronger without editing the images at all. I have found its really hard letting go of that control and just letting things be.
Hard to believe that term is almost over. On Thursday I'll be halfway through my final year at UVic. How did these years fly by? Not really looking forward to the day when I have to decide what to do with the rest of my life. I'll soon have to start making decisions about life, where to get a job that wont be temporary, where do I want to start my career, etc etc. Life is scary. Let's jump on that raft and see where the river of life takes me!
Enough with the cheesy metaphors and time to watch a print slowly come to life out of the lovely massive epson printer. :)

Its all about the art right now.

This song is pretty relevant to a part of my life right now, and even though its a beautiful song and really well done, it makes me kind of sad. The artfullness of the video though is just amazing and fun to watch. The lyrics make me a wee bit sad, and I think I should probably stop listening to it for a while. Just wanted to share it because its interesting to watch, so just enjoy the art.

Loch Muick

Photos from a hike around Loch Muick with my lovely Scottish lass, Fiona. Miss this country and those people so much. Its such a beautiful place, I cannot wait to go back and visit :)

Studio!

My pretty messy but fully functioning studio!! (Yes sometimes I need to stand on a chair.. the problems of being a short photographer...) Bought some tarpaper to cover one wall, which works perfectly as a black background with a bit of editing. Rented the lights and Hasselblad camera from my university to help me out with my project, and man with all the right pieces, my project is sure starting to come together. First worry was getting the outcome of the images to look like what I have pictured in my head, and so far I have been able to produce that! Next step.. figuring out what direction to take my project. I will post starting/test images for my project soon!

599!

I am amazed at how small the internet is. I started this blog in February 2011, and have already had 599 pageviews. I have also had so many people stumble over my blog from so many countries, its amazing. Of course I have given the link to my friends to check out from time to time, yet somehow others seem to find my blog via chance from the internet. I guess I better keep up the good blogging skills to get more followers and viewers!
Anyway, Happy Thanksgiving Weekend to all those from Canada! I hope your lives are filled with happiness and turkey! :) I'll be spending a lovely time with my family on a wee island going on hikes, eating turkey and drinking lots of wine!