Fighting against death

Hey dudes!

Long time no talk, things have been a littttttttttle hard on me lately!

I was terribly sick.... And when I mean terribly sick I mean like I was puking 5 hours straight home alone.

And you know when you puke everything out and there's nothing left to puke but the air inside your body...

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
Hahaha, and probably the worst part was being alone, with my mom gone to work I was alone and it SUCKED. Thought I did have a nice friend come over and take care of me which was really nice of him!

Other than that, I guess nothing much is going on... I was in bed dying and well now I feel a little bit better. Yesterday I FINALLY managed to get out of the house and go up north to take pictures of Ghetto Thursday#2 at PRFO. It was nice to finally get out of the house and just breathe. Like legit, breathe nice fresh air......

But as soon as I got home last night OUFF. I started feeling a little weak again, and this morning I feel a little sick but I will survive! I have to survive due to the fact that I'm leaving for Whistler Sunday morning for Camp of Champions!

I'm so excited it's going to be soooo much fun! Plus I needed the break, things aren't going too well down here I'm discovering some new aspects about life and how people can really hate on you for no reason but oh well, once again life is hard and when you are alone and people start plotting against you trying to make you feel like crap all you have to do is kind of let the flow go and just not do anything until something comes  up!

Anyways, here are some pictures of Ghetto Thursday #2 I took yesterday,

I have to go take a little nap and continue my packing!! :D 

Enjoy,

International Skateboarding Day! (ISD)

Hey dudes!

I hope you guys had a chance to go skateboarding or atleast longboarding yesterday due to the fact it was INTERNATIONAL SKATEBOARDING DAY!

I sure did!! Almost landed my ollie hahah, I guess when I'm up at Whistler (btw in only 8 days) I will def learn it hahaha!

So Yesterday it was like 45 degrees -__- . I woke up sweating and it was pretty gross, yes poor me I don't have AC and I don't even have a pool. So I woke up, packed my bags/camera and went up to Tremblant to go swimming in a nice lake and relaxe. It felt so good! Just to be away from the world a day, in total nature taking some pretty cool shots and just enjoying life!

And then it was time for me to head over to Saint-Sauveur for the first Ghetto Thursdays at PRFO! What better day to start this awesome skate jam than today!! The skaters there were all super nice, enjoyed a free BBQ, drinks and the atmosphere was amazing! 

It's days like theses you just feel alive again, you're with friends, you just enjoy life and don't think about all the little worries. Plus it's summer so you feel even more alive! I mean like it's hot everyones in shorts etc. it just seems like summer is a way to get back on track! 

Anyways, here are some photos of yesterday

 Enjoy :)

You have to stay alive

« You have to stay alive to see how the story ends. » One of my favorite quotes from one of my favorite movies called My Sassy Girl.

Yes it's a romantic chick flic say whatever you want it has a great moral to the story and that's why it's probably in my top ten.

Geez guys you really are starting to know me, and discover new things about me! Hahahaha!

Why did I start off with this quote? Because I think of it everytime I feel a little blue, and things don't go too well in my life. Either it's a simple down day, or just things are messing with me I just stand there, take a breather and just whisper the quote.

Cause it's true! No matter how bad life gets, you can't just give up! Either it's a heartbreak and you miss someone terribly and you know you can't do anything about it and just wait until something changes, or if it's trying to get your life straight but hurdles keep pouncing at you... etc. etc. You just can't give up.

You know I'm not feeling completly stable lately. Like I miss my old house and I miss how my summers use to be and I miss my old friends. Saddly I can't go back in time and relive my summers, so I just move forward. Not everything has to be the usual, or as I can say it, a tradition... Sometimes new traditions replace old ones and they become better.

Some people may not want to talk about their feelings when they feel blue, but that's something those people should change. Because you get all choked up, and in the end you ruin a relationship with your friends, loved ones, etc. To stay alive, is to talk about your feelings so that people can help you. Don't have to go off telling random people, but as long as you tell your close ones atleast then you can get advice and fix yourself.

So from my downy days I've been having it was time for me to get out to the city for the day with a friend and just relax, take pictures and just not think about the problems! It was nice, really hot out, but nice! We walked all over Montreal, took some pictures, talked, had some Starbucks it was great!

It really felt good and right now I may still be a little down but atleast I feel a lot better than what I felt like the day before! Sometimes that's all what you need! 

Anyways here are some photographs I took, the rest are on my FB page

Enjoy,

Don't judge a book by its cover

Hey dudes!

So yesterday was a fun day! Drove to Saint-Sauveur and chilled there with friends and then:

Went to the Atlas Open championships! Mouahaha.

I love skateboarding contests because they are amazing to watch, and the atmosphere there is pretty rad.

I mean like, you have all the skaters, all the cute girls, beer, and a massive huge  set up with tons of sponsors and blasting music! It is amazing! And what's the best part is that skaters are probably the most sociable people on the planet! They seem so ''bad'' and all, but they are actually really nice and are really cool to hang with!

So I got there with friends and I took a few pictures considering it was dark out and I totally forgot to get batteries for my flash. (dummy me!)

But just sitting there watching the life around us, watching some of Quebecs best skaters and watching the audience was a blast!

I was watching them and oh my god I wish I could skate! Hahaha, I think it's a really cool sport because it's so technical in a way, and believe it or not it's HARD.

It was a good night! And I'm happy I went, because these days I've been taking a lot of fashion/portrait shots and totally forgot about the skateboarding that I love so much!

I really enjoy taking pictures and being a part of this field of photography because it is so thrilling in a way!!

Anyways, here are some shots I took yesterday, the rest will be on my photography page on FB.

Enjoy,

Follow your passion

Good morning fellows!

What a beautiful day! With the hard drinking I did last night with some friends I'm actually quite surprised to be up this early! (I originally woke up at 7am that's why) But looking outside makes me want to go all crazy and perhaps go do some outside activities like go run, and then go for a loooooooong bike ride to enjoy the day!
OR a short little bike ride and then tan in the sun, though I'm not the type of girl who can just lay there and be patient doing nothing!

Anyways, as you might of noticed yesterday was an amazing day also! (inless you live somewhere far and the weather was crappy(if so HAHAHA in your face!) ) I had a photoshoot with a young beautiful girl, who has a lot of style. It was fun because she was super charismatic so we could just sit there and talk while snapping frames and enjoying the day!

After I went to my friends barn to watch her ride, I love how my friend has an amazing bond with her horse. It's like perfect! You can tell there's a lot of love and how much she loves her passion.

It got me to think how random our passions can be and how we love them to death. I mean earlier in the day I went out to shoot. I was sooo excited considering I was the photographer! Usually your'e excited to be on front of the camera, but there's this wild feeling I have and this excitement I get once I grab my little Canon and start playing with the settings and start snapping pictures!

I could probably go on and on, but lets just say everytime I go out with my camera, I feel good inside me and I guess that's my passion, and hopefully my career in the near futur!

It's just like my friend at my barn. She loves riding, and especially her horse! When you watch her ride it's like she's in another world, happier than ever. It frees herself from whatever worries she has. And just listenning to her talk about all these equine stuff makes me shiver in a way because I know how she feels, same way for me and photography!

I guess passion is suppose to give you this thrilling feeling. Either it's scrapbooking, or even flying planes! It gives you that little moment of glory in which you feel good and powerful in your own way. It's important to always follow your passion where ever it leads you because that's what really keeps you living. If you didin't have one, I mean you just wouldn't be alive. You would be a walking unliving thing. 

For now, I content myself by taking pictures of people, sports ect. around my area. But later in life, I hope to go on a lot of trips, perhaps live in the south, taking pictures of surfers and surf fashion(Billabong, Roxy etc.) and then go live up north and take pictures of snowboarders and their fashion! Just travel everywhere, discover the world in a whole new perception with my camera. ( Hopefully by then I will have my Canon EOS Mark III hahahahhaahahhaaha! :P ) 

Anyways, here are some pictures I took yesterday at the photoshoot!

The rest as usual, will be on my FB page!

Enjoy,

Spontaneous rainy day!

Hey guys!

So in case you didin't know I made a Tumblr!

So at the end of this blogg I will post up my Tumblr name(well actually... it's quite simple it's alex cd photography. DUH.) 

But anyways!! 

Yesterday was a summery day! YES REALLY HOT OUT! Managed to go to the beach with my two close girlfriends, chilled swam, tanned and we gossiped! (is that a word? hmmm you know what to do! Alex dictionnary! ) Hahahaha, 

I feel quite spontaneous considering it was rainning all day! And that I've been having a bad day! Ok so it's not THAT bad of a day, but waking up to people yelling at you kind of makes you get up on the wrong foot. Not to mention when you wake up super early and it's rainning and humid out. -_______-

But I'm surviving, I actually managed to take out the Canon and shot a couple of ''Rain'' shots I guess you can call it. Cute little photos just to get buy the day, and what I like about photography is that when I feel kind of blue, all I have to do is set up a little scene and snap pictures and I feel so much better!

And then after taking pictures of everything I could during this long boring day I started to feel SUPER bored. I wanted to go run, but it was pourring rain out(still is actually, like right now I could but I'm writting a blogg... Hmm.. maybe after cause then I will have nothing to do... But chances are it's going to start rainning again!)

But I guess not doing much today, staying home and all made me think a lot. Made me think on the fact that yes life can be tuff sometimes, that you can't always get what you want, but that shouldn't stop you from enjoying the rest of what life brings you. Cause no matter how much people can bring you down(trust me I've got back stabbed a lot!) you can't just tell yourself to give up.

I mean I've been going through a ruff week, I realized who were my true friends, I realized that as much as I want to see my father, he is always busy and we probably won't see each other until who knows! And I also realized to NOT feel sorry for a guy, because in the end when you actually go to far with him you realize he only wants action and he doesn't really care about you. 

SO WITH ALL THAT I REALIZED THAT LIFE IS CRAPPY AT TIMES BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT, SO GUESS WHAT LIFE, I'M STILL HERE BRING ON EVERYTHING, STRIP ME FROM MY CORE BUT I'M NOT GOING DOWN AND I'M NOT GOING TO GIVE UP! 

And that's what everyone should consider too. Because as much as life can suck, life can be amazing. And right now I'm in the fase of starting my career so there's going to be a lot of hurdles, but if I keep concentrated on what I want things will fall in place and things will be better!

So here are some pictures I took today,

Enjoy,

Girls mini encyclopedia

Hey guys!!

Ahhhh, being A girl I tell ya!

It's NOT that simple! We are perfectionnists in our own beauty, we are overly sensitive(no matter what, some girls just hide it better but really we are SUPER sensitive), we always wonder about what guys think of us, and not to mention we constantly try to find true love!

That's are desease! Legit, we crave love, we watch romantic films, create love scenarios in our heads, some girls after one kiss fall in love!

And then when you think you found the right man, and in the end it just doesn't work out you drown yourself in tears and Ben & Jerrys Ice Cream(Okay I totally just labeled it, but really any kind of ice cream brand) watching the corniest TV shoes/movies dreaming about love, and how you can't wait to find the right one.

Blablablablabla. I guess it's pathetic in a cute way, I mean I can't deny it, I am a girl so I guess I can be pathetic in my own ways also!

So guys, if you are reading and you want to impress your girl: do the cutest things EVER. Like in movies... Buy her flowers, bring them at her work, bring her out to dinner to her favorite restaurant, tell her shes beautiful, and make her feel special.

If you do that I swear to god she will stick to you like glue!

So anyways as a girl I so am, I read an article in this fashion magazine about my favorite photographer Lara Jade. (PS. I am a girl, therefore I read girly magazines) Now Lara started her career at 17, and did you know how she got there? Well for the most it anyway, she used herself as a model in her own pictures. She would set up a tripod and set the settings in Manual use and go out and take pictures of herself in different concepts. 

So I decided to try the same today!

I placed my tripod up on this wall and set up manually the exposure, shutter speed etc. and got some really interesting shots. BUT IT WAS TUFF! Cause not seeing yourself in the camera can be very annoying. Not to mention trying to focus on you. AHHH It took me a good hour to get atleast 3 good shots!
But I managed and here are the results! 

Enjoy!,

Fashion and portraits.

Hey guys!!
I'M BACK!

Hahahaha, yes I've been quite busy lately and haven't really gotten the chance to go out and take pictures, also the weather here is crappy(as usual) So it kind of sucks. 

But the days are starting to get a little warmer, and yesterday I got together with an old friend to take pictures.

I've been really getting into the Fashion portraits these days. Looking at magazines and being amazed by the fashion magazines. I love the commercial ones about perfume and such, so artistic and crazy!

I wish I could do some amazing work like they do!

I've also been following my favorite photographer on twitter(Yes I have twitter, and yes I tend to stalk people on it... I guess that's why twitter exists right?! ) and seeing her pictures, and knowing she is traveling the world for meetings and getting her pictures up on cover magazines is amazing. I keep telling myself that's where I'm going to end up one day! 

Well, hopefully! Hahahaha!

Anyhow lets just say I've been experiencing new things these past two weeks, like meeting new people, going to some raves/nightclubs dancing, being with friends, and stuff like that. I guess I needed some time off from photos and such to just go out but I realized how lost I get if I don't take pictures atleast every other day! So I guess this is really what I'm suppose to do, become a professional photographer! Yay!

I guess this blogg isin't too exciting, really I'm writting and I feel kind of exhausted the fact I've been going to bed at 4/5am every night... Or should I say MORNING! 

Anyways, here is my first attempt in trying to make some ''fashion portraits''. I was inspired by the kind of Valentino , or Gucci magazine pictures and thought to myself this concept could be kind of cool. Once again this is my first time so I need a little more practice which I'm hoping to do for the next following weeks! 

Enjoy,