Mar
04
 While waiting for Tash to finish her shift at the Theatre I decided to head down to Granville Island to do some panoramic photos of Granville Bridge at night. It was raining earlier in the day and we even had a little bit of snowfall. Most of it had melted by the time I headed out and the sky was fairly clear. The shot was taken from behind the Granville Island Public Markets from the jetty where all of the Aquabuses dock (They Aquabuses are little Taxi’s boats that transport people back and forth across the waterway). This was the only shot that I was able to salvage from the 30 minute shoot because of 2 reasons…
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It was so damn cold that I lost feeling to all my fingers, but not before some excruciating pain prior to that because of the chilly winds… so my head wasn’t really in the frame of mind of being creative and focus was more so on how to keep warm without my fingers dropping off!
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Anyone that does night photography knows (or will find out through error) that they need to remove any sort of filters on the lens. I have UV lens filters on all of my lenses mainly to protect them. If anything hits the lens, it’s the filter that will get damaged instead of the $1200 lens. Having said that, when you are doing night shots, or anything that involves long exposures and lights you should remove the filters as they cause the light to diffuse and reflect off the filter and lens creating a blurry image. You won’t notice it on the LCD when you review it because it’s too small, but once you load the photos on a PC it will appear clear as day. One very careless mistake on my part. – Not a result you want to realize after experiencing mild hypothermia…
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So from a fairly disappointing shoot I created this one photo that I quite liked. The reason I like the shot is because of the lighting and the fact that it had rained a few hours before and the moist wood in the jetty produced a beautiful texture. In the cropped version of the photo you can see every nook and crack in the wood of the jetty. Today seems like it’s going to be nicer day so I might head out again and try my luck…
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Until next time…
Mar
04
I’ve started a new job at the Arts Club Theatre Company and I have been lucky enough to have been given 2 free tickets for each show that are on either Granville Island Stage or Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage. Our first show that we went to see was called “Glorious!”.
It is a comedy show about this character- Florence Foster Jenkins (based on a true story) who cannot sing, she can’t even hit a single note… she screeches and squeals. But the beauty of it is that it doesn’t stop her from her love and desire to sing. Nicola Cavendish who plays Florence had done such a good job, she creates her as being an absolutely hilarious, witty, merry, naive and clumsy at times. A very loveable character indeed. My favourite line from her was “There are people who say I cannot sing! But…no one who can say I didn’t sing!”. I thought that was a powerful saying and it could apply to a lot of aspects of people’s lives. This play teaches us to try and live our dreams even if you fail because at least you are brave enough to try, and also to live your life that is your own.
As some of you may already know that I’ve always loved going to theatres and watched live plays, it doesn’t matter what play it is (at most times), coz I feel like I always learn something from the actors as they are exposing their souls. I have a great appreciation for theatres, I feel that theatres are much more organic (especially the local ones) and definitely not influenced by the Hollywood Syndrome. It seems to me that theatre actors actually are COMPASSIONATE people who constantly strive to be good actors and not for the fame. However, if they end up there, they would most definitely deserve it more than some. This is why I’m so ecstatic that I am now a part of this industry that I love. I’m sure I will constantly learn and explore new things as I go.
The free tickets for each show… that’s just the icing on the cake 