Day’s two theme was emotion, and the challenge was to not show any faces. When I was brainstorming last night, I was drawn to words like grief, loss, death. So I decided to have a stream of consciousness exercise; writing nonstop for 2 minutes (might have been longer), without stopping to think or edit. The…
Okay, let’s do this! So the awesome Brooke Shaden started a challenge – to create every single day for 15 days straight. I’ve started so many projects this year and stopped halfway through (sometimes not even getting that far), but I decided to do this because I know that doing it with other people is…
I began dreaming or sinking, most nights they meant the same thing. Every now and then, I come across songs that make me tremble. I’m a music fanatic. I find solace in music and I find inspiration in music and I think it’s one of the most beautiful things ever. Sometimes it’s the lyrics, sometimes…
During the Restart The Art exhibition a couple of weeks ago, I got to chat with the lovely Fiona Hepher, who’s a part of The Sameness Project team (if you guys are interested in seeing pictures from the exhibition, check out my Facebook page). I decided to ask her if she’d be interested in modeling…
This blog post is mainly going to be about what’s been going on in my life lately and what I’ve been working on. The past few weeks have been.. quiet. I’m starting a few projects (still in the brainstorming phase) and doing a lot of research and reading. I mentioned a while ago that I…
A few days ago I watching one of Brooke Shaden’s promoting passion videos where she took a bunch of studio lights out into the forest for a shoot. She talked about trying out different and new things, and failing. It made me realize that there’s no shame in failing and it’s one of the best…
Two weeks ago, the theme for the 52 Week Project was opposites. I wasn’t planning on taking a break from the project but you know, life happens. I was also kinda stuck because I couldn’t think of a specific idea. One thing that was on my mind was Sia’s Elastic Heart music video (which is…
About time, right? I’ve apologized before for taking so long with it and I apologize again. These past two weeks felt like a blur and I’m more than ready to get back into shooting regularly and working on more projects. So anyway, lets get into it. I want to thank everyone who sent in a…
I initially wanted to write a blog post only about a project I’m involved in, called Restart The Art, but I just finished working on my new picture for the 52 Week Project and I felt like the picture works well with the idea of the project. Restart The Art is an amazing idea by…
I loooove photography contests, so I thought I’d have one! A while back a friend of mine wanted to experiment with compositing and asked me to send him some stock images he could use. That got me thinking that it would be so awesome to see how people edit my pictures. So this is how it’s…
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