Christmas = <3

I adore the Christmas season. I always have. I am one of few 22 year olds who still can't sleep Christmas eve. I start counting down sometime in early September. Generally I have all my gifts bought and wrapped by the first week of December. And I always can't wait until the time is right to light up the house. So when we finally got some snow, I decided it was high time, and took some photos of the festivity!

FLASH WENDY!

I have a new old flash. You see, my mom has an old Olympus OM10 which has a flash, which, it turns out, is the wrong flash for the Olympus (not a dedicated one, and as the OM10 is not able to go all manual, no good!). BUT it will (sorta) work with my Rebel! W00t! Again, not dedicated so won't go auto, but because I can put my Rebel on Manual, it will kind of work. Here's an experiment I did:

Without flash:



Exact same settings, but with flash bounced off the ceiling:


Am very excited.

=D

Photos and Family

I have stretched my photographic fingers and creative mind. Not to their limits, mind you, but it is enough that they did get some exercise.
My cousin, Amy and her boyfriend Chris came over last Wednesday for some photos, and on Saturday they, along with Amy's brother, David came for round two.

Red!

I am in a photographic slump -- big time! So I decided to do something about it. One thing that worked for me once before was the idea to take a picture of something less tangeble -- textures, colours, etc. So I thought that to get me warmed up, I'd start with colours.

Today was red.

New Website, New Blog

I just wanted to start by saying hello.

Hello!

Also that a very awesome friend of mine who also happens to be overflowing with artistic ability is re-doing my website currently, and so I will (hopefully) be using this blog as a place to put photos for now.

I haven't done anything much recently, the rain keeps me indoors working on editing wedding photos. Since rain is depressing and it seems it's all we've had this summer, I'll just post some cheerful photos to hold you over until I do something new.