Moments of Beauty
Recently my love and I went camping with her parents and I made sure to bring my camera for some snapping. I'm not really one to take too many pictures of nature. I'm much more of a portraiture...
View ArticleThrough Tear Stained Eyes
I recently purchased a 50mm f1.8 AI-S Nikkor lens and let me tell you. I am in loooooove. I really want the AF-S version though as it'd be a lot more appropriate for someone who really enjoys doing...
View ArticleForest Treasures
Mushrooms. Something that would make me go "ewwww!" while growing up as I grew up with a mom who hated eating mushrooms so my sister and I naturally adopted that attitude. I was a picky eater in...
View ArticleMy Little Secret Garden in a not so Secret Community Garden
One of the best things that happened to me since I moved to Vancouver was definitely the community garden plot that we got! It's at this amazing community garden about 15 minutes away from where we...
View ArticleZoée 101 - My 365 Project
As a part of getting to know each other, I thought I'd write a little bit about my 365 Days project that I did back in 2009/2010. It's quite hard to believe that it has already been almost 3 years...
View ArticleKeeper of Dolls Portrait: Step by Step
I have never really written a post that gave insight about my photoshop process. I'm a big photoshop lover, all the way. I love photography but one of the things that truly made me fall in love with...
View ArticleVintage Family Friday - My Grandmother: Part One
I've decided to start a weekly series that focuses on vintage photographs I have collected over the years. I don't have most of the original photographs, they all belong to my mother. She inherited...
View ArticleZoee 101: How I got into Fibre Arts
Fibre arts has a special spot in my heart. My grandmother was a weaver (I have some of her woven towels, hand cloths, and rugs) and produced beautiful woven pieces of her own designs. She also was a...
View ArticleMaking Farmer's Cheese with Kefir Grains!
A good while ago when I was at my partner's parents house, we had some bread and soft cheese as a snack. The cheese was really good and the consistency reminded me of goat cheese but tasted slightly...
View ArticleI Found my Root!
This week was shaping up to be a pretty nice week but then I got sick! I've been getting sick too much. I work at a preschool and literally on my first day of my job, I got sick. it has been a month...
View ArticleVintage Family Friday - My Grandmother: Part Two
[Just to let you know, I updated part one with a few more pictures of grandma when she was younger. Now, for part two of the interview!]What did you do after you graduated?After I graduated, my Father...
View ArticleI Spy Some Mushrooms!
My weekend was wonderful. It was a super rainy one, which is actually pretty typical for Vancouver weather around this time of the year. We stayed at my partner's parents house for a bit as they're...
View ArticleVintage Family Friday
A while ago I was looking through a suitcase full of pictures that belonged to my grandpa and came across this one and just fell in love. I think it's a beautifully shot picture. It also has so much...
View ArticleMushroom Advent Calendar!
Last weekend my partner suggested that we make an advent calendar. Immediately, I said we should make a mushroom themed advent calendar, which Maya thought was a good idea and we got right to work. It...
View ArticleVintage Family Friday - My Grandpa in the Navy
[My grandpa, Paul, on the far left - 1954. Doesn't the guy, next to the guy on the far right, look just like Justin Warner from the Food Network Star?!]There's a ton of pictures of my grandpa during...
View Article365 Photo Project - Year 2
Starting a new 365 Days project! This one will have no rules. It doesn't have to be self portraits everyday, like my previous one. It can be of anything I want. The only rule is to take a picture every...
View ArticleMy 2013 Goals
Last year I didn't really think about too many goals, I wanted to be more healthy as 2011 was a tough year for my health, but unfortunately it continued over to 2012. I'm glad to say that the last 6...
View ArticleDay 2 of 365 Days
This one was much harder than I expected! Shadowplay is difficult behind a sheet! Excited to continue exploring this. The shadows behind a sheet idea was inspired by Lissy's amazing Shadow portraits. I...
View ArticleDay 3 of 365
There's nothing like taking a self portrait outside where you feel like it could get really awkward if someone stumbles upon you. I always feel like I got away with something every time I manage to do...
View ArticleDay 4 of 365 Days - How I did it.
This portrait ended up being pretty complicated as I had no idea how it would even really look as I was taking the pictures. I thought it'd be cool to share a bit about the process of making this...
View ArticleCatching up on my 365 Project
It's the second week already! Hard to believe. I remember my first 365 Days going by really fast, then really slooooowly, and then fast again. I'm thinking it'll be the same this time around. One...
View ArticlePrint Giveaway!
I have some prints left over from a show I did a couple years ago and have decided to give them away as they're just sitting around. I prefer to sell prints that were printed specifically for the...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....