A blog to document my personal experiences with a new Digital SLR - learning how it works, collecting tricks & tips, and determining my own style.

Thursday, March 18, 2010

Thailand through my camera lens

These pictures were taken on my trip to Thailand! I have been meaning for a while now to get these pictures up but have been fairly lazy! Anyway, here they are! I hope you enjoy Thailand through the lens of my camera!


This picture was taken while we were walking around in Kanchanaburi. I saw these infront of one store and had to pull the camera out!


Kanchanaburi, Thailand - This was taken while I was walking on a bridge trying to get familiar with the area. I saw the beautiful trees and noticed the house inbetween.


Kanchanaburi, Thailand - This was taken on our last of 3 days in Kanchanaburi. This view is from the Patio restaurant of the Sugar Cane guesthouse. It was early in the misty morning and I had noticed the shot as we were waiting for breakfast.


Kanchanaburi, Thailand - I noticed this man riding his motorbike and I decided to take a moving shot. Ended up pretty cool!


Kanchanaburi, Thailand - This was during the Safari Tour. This was the closest I had ever gotten to a giraffe... well two giraffes!


Kanchanaburi, Thailand - This zebra kept showing off his chops!


Kanchanaburi, Thailand - This was taken while walking through the Tiger Temple. I saw this tree ahead of my path and thought it was beautiful.


Bangkok, Thailand - This shot was taken while we were on a boat at the floating market. I was pretty nervous about pulling the camera out but couldn't resist a shot like this!


Bangkok, Thailand - These hats were some of the many things avaliable for purchase a the floating market.


Bangkok, Thailand - This was a shot of one of the stores we floated by at the floating market. The statues in the middle, I find add so much personality!


Bangkok, Thailand - This cockroach met us right infront of my friend's doorstep.


Bangkok, Thailand - This was a shot I took as a local showed his craft in mural woodcarving. The detail on this was amazing!


Tokyo Narita International Airport - This origami scene was a window display at a bookstore.


- brixxx

Sunday, January 3, 2010

"theme"

Okay... now that things aren't so crazy, I have a little more time on my hands to blog about something that I have actually been meaning to post since finishing my take home assignment for a course that I applied to at the Red River Collegiate. Since the holiday season fell right after I had finished my assignment, I have had next to no time!

Anyway, with my last holiday party wrapping up last night, and officially being on vacation until I come back from my trip to Thailand, what a better way to spend some new found time!

The take home assignment that I completed was to be done in 3 parts. The third part of which, involved photography and a concept. We were to take 5 pictures and find a central theme. After drowning myself in a tsunami of ideas and potential themes, my friend told me about alphabet photography. Basically you take a picture of something that looks like a letter, when these different pictures of different “letters” are put together, they form a word. With this great idea I then dug into my brain once again to find a 5 letter word that seemed appropriate and I came up with this:
 


I only hope that this was obvious enough!
 
 
- brixxx