51: CYPRESS WOODS

I went snowshoeing in Cypress with my coworkers. It feels so pristine up there with all the fresh snow blanketing the trees. Sometimes I am just in awe of how beautiful nature can be.

46: STANDING AMONG THE LIGHTS

Today's photo was a failure. These were definitely not what I was going for. I just can't figure out how to properly execute the images in my head.

45: HEARTS AWAY

Happy Valentines day! I wasn't planning on doing a Valentines themed photo, but it ended up being a clear night and I came up with this idea as I was driving home. For this picture, I used my cheap and handy Holga flash. It was difficult getting all the hearts into the frame! (You can see I didn't succeed entirely.)

From Etsy

40: HIGHWAY OVERPASS

23: PAGES

  

Light coming through the pages of my project 365 photobook.

359: LIGHT UP POINSETTIAS

Fake colourful Christmas flower centerpiece.

326: A NIGHT IN BANGKOK

We finally arrived in Bangkok!

Inside a psychedelic tuktuk

315: BACKLIGHTING

Ever since I read Bryan Peterson's book, 'Understanding Exposure', I have been on a quest to find the perfect backlit flowers and spiderwebs with sun flare.

I have been trying to capture the transparency of flowers like he does in his pictures, but I haven't been entirely successful. I got a backlit leaf today instead.

252: NIGHT STUFF

A night of driving around in circles and of almost being locked out of the parking garage at close to midnight.

241: PACIFIC CENTRAL

Train station at night, blocked by trees, and an almost full moon.

238: GOAL

f/8, shutter speed 6 seconds

A night time walk in the park. I was a bit jumpy since I was on my own and it was dark, and all the leaves kept rustling in the wind! I packed up and left as soon as I took my pictures.

f/8, shutter speed 221 seconds

234: ROADTRIP!

Looking out the window during the 5 hour drive to Penticton. I am spending 3 nights here in the Okanagan with my friends for a mini-vacation.

View from our bed and breakfast, which is located at the top of a hill:

Night time photography: shutter speed @ 3 minutes

226: GRANVILLE ISLAND

Ferry dock, Burrard Bridge, Aquabus, 9pm, dusk.

We had to wait half an hour for the bus - I amused myself by panning everything and everyone who came past me.

206: AFTER WORK

Parking lot after my closing shift at 10pm. The hood of my car has so many droplets of water on it because the sprinklers were on and I parked too close to the bushes!

200: A MIRACLE

A beam of light magically emanating from my friend's bosom...it was a miracle.

Day 200 is dedicated to my friend Rae, whose birthday we celebrated at Vij's today. I hope you enjoy that ice cream machine (see day 195: My first cargo). Make me some ice cream, or better yet, go to gelato university in Italy and get a masters in chocolate. I believe in you, and I will definitely not abandon your gelato stand for the rotisserie man!

196: MUSIC TRIVIA NIGHT

Team Jacob taking second place at music trivia night at the Harewood Arms pub. We won ten dollars - too bad this is my last week in Nanaimo, because I really enjoy music trivia nights and now I won't even get to use my portion of the gift certificate ($1.43)!

Here are some pictures from last night:

In the last one, my cheap tripod dropped my camera during the 2 minute exposure...but I like how the only part of the picture that is not blurry is "HELP ME!"

187: CATCHING THE LIGHT

I was originally going to put up a picture of my banged up knees, but the photo of all my bruises were so disgusting (and would probably make people think I am being abused) that I had to change tactics.  

119: MOONRISE

We were walking from Notre Dame (in front of which I ate one of the best gyros pitas I have ever had) towards the metro when we noticed the giant yellow moon rising above the Seine River. It doesn't look that big in my picture, but I have never seen it so yellow and gigantic in person!

75: THE DRIVE HOME

Today, literally two minutes after walking into work, I got a phone call from head office telling me to head over to a different store because someone called in sick. The same thing happened yesterday, except that it was two hours and not two minutes into my shift. The joys of being a floater - I am so much better acquainted with my car now as compared to seven months ago. I found out today that I still fail at parallel parking though.

68: FACING THE SUN

Today, for lunch, I had three rolls of sushi. Then I went for a little walk and took this picture. And then I went back to work and had a slice of cake.

I've been doing this "three roll sushi combo" more and more often, and I am starting to worry about a.) overeating, b.) mercury poisoning, and c.) getting indigestion due to tight pants which are caused by (a)