Scrolling through social media this morning, I realised today is "National Puppy Day." My dogs are one of the biggest parts of my life, so I thought I'd share a couple of my favourite pictures of them from the past year.
Riley is my old girl... 11.5 years and I've had her since she was only 7 weeks old.
Kaia I've had for only a year and she's estimated to now be 2 years old.
Last month I made connection with a Toronto-based clothing brand called Peace Collective. We got to talking and they asked if I'd like to be one of their brand ambassadors. I said yes for 2 reasons: 1) I liked their clothing and how Canadian it is 2) I love the fact that $4 from select garments goes toward Breakfast For Learning. This is a program that gives 2 healthy meals and a snack to a Canadian child in need. Cool clothes and a cause I think is well worth it? Of course I'd love to rep them! I'm all for supporting local businesses - I'd add small businesses, but I think Peace Collective is already growing rapidly, and good for them!
I've had a couple outings with my camera and sporting their gear. Here's what we've captured so far. I had help capturing the photos thanks to Val Sissons and Calum Oliver.
If you are interested in purchasing any clothing from Peace Collective, be sure to use the discount code "amylobb" at check out. You'll receive 15% off of your order - anytime you want to order! And before you ask, no, this does not mean I make any money off of the clothes you buy - it still goes to the kids!
I have tried night photography (of landscapes on starry nights) twice. The first time was when I was a student in 2009. I was living in Melbourne and, as far as I remember, it was at least warm-ish outside. At the time, I wanted to try out star trails. I did about 18 minute exposures - which gives you a bit of a trail, but nothing too exciting; they are short trails and make the image look a bit awkward.
The second time I tried landscape photos in the dark was last night. In Whistler. In winter. My car told me it was somewhere between -6 and -9 degrees Celsius. I was feeling a bit inspired after going to the annual Deep Winter Photo Challenge on Saturday night. I got to thinking of photos of the mountains on clear nights and how beautiful they look. I looked at the weather forecast and saw it was about to cloud over and snow (yay!) so last night I had to do it! I already knew the 2 locations I wanted to go to for my first attempt so that bit was sorted. Last night, my goal was to figure out a rough idea of exposure times for performing night photography. I wanted dotted stars in my images however, not star trails, so I also needed to work out "short" exposure times.
Here's some things that I learned on my night-time adventure - and of course, some photos that I took!
Is the title to this post completely cliched? I guess for me it just happens to be true. Now that we are a couple days into the new year and I'm attempting to make some major plans for the business, I am thinking about what I accomplished for the business in 2015. To be honest, I don't feel like it was that much. I was transitioning - from a life in Melbourne Australia, to about 5 months of travelling to different special life events of friends and family, and finally to settling into our home in Whistler during mid December. Let me just say, trying to settle into a new life and set up shop is not a good plan 10 days before Christmas. Nothing gets done. Well, a lot of family time and love happens, and that's a top priority to me. But now... time to crack down and get on with it. I feel very ready to have things happen and start working in Canada. I'm actually quite excited about it. So after this post is done, it's time to stop looking back at what happened and move forward and focus on possibilities of what can be. And walk my dog. Always take breaks for dog walks.
Now I'm going to test myself and try and pick my favourite photo from last year. Maybe top 5. Ok let's be realistic, it'll be my favourite 10. In no particular order...
