Good Monday morning dudes!
Oh ... yeah Monday mornings.. BEURK! Time to get up, go to work and survive another intense week!
NOT ME! Okay so I really do wish I were working today and tomorrow but sadly I'm not... In a matter of fact I'm not working at all this week! FML on the fact that I have no clue how I'm going to survive without working and getting some money in the bank but I guess this happens to everyone in their lives to get into financial troubles! RIGHT?!
Well As you might know on the other hand I don't mind because I can focus on photography and produce some shoots for my college assignments and personal projects.
I have so many concepts flowing in my head, I'm just so very excited to see all of them come to life and I better start now if I want to see all of them come to live hahaha!
IT'S ALIVE!! (what the scientist of Frankenstein would say!) Yeah sorry I'm a hollywood kind of girl so everything that goes on in my head is like a movie coming alive so... yeah.
Anyways I also hope you had a great weekend! I sure did, my father and his girlfriend came down to visit and it felt good to finally have some kind of family down! I was starting to feel all rejected family wise it felt good to find each other back and just have fun like good old times!
We went boarding, then out for dinner, brunch, Vieux Port, movies.
Just a bunch of fun activities and it felt really good to not feel as alone as I really was!
Other than that I accomplished a great shoot with my model Shamila who is GORGEOUS! I have been dying to do a photo shoot of her because she's such a stunning young lady and exactly the kind of style I have been looking for!
With the help of the best makeup artist in the world, Sabrina (Makeup By Sabrina if you tend to check her out make sure to go like her FB page!) who made Shamila look like a flawless world class model!
I'm so happy to have great friends to help me out in creating amazing shoots and such to help my portfolio and get me into the world of fashion!
With my college, I'm just excited to see my work evolve into something more amazing and to be able to work in the studio and really see the world of photography and be amazed even more!
I got to say I'm very thankful in finding a passion who I adore so much and make it into my profession. Anyways, I better get going because I need to get all cleaned up before going for coffee and discussing my next shoot tomorrow!!
Enjoy,
Hey dudes!!
So I'm again super sorry about being late and such on these blogs but seriously! I've been dying to write one after my last shoot which was last tuesday but I was so busy with college starting up and Valentines day and having my dad come down for the weekend it made it a little hard for me to write a blog!
Yes, I finally did my boudoir shoot and the pictures below will be from that shoot(Boudoir can be very revealing and because it wasn't a true model I didn't want to post all the pictures up so I showed only the portraits and the less revealing ones.)
I worked from 4 to 10pm and went to my place and waited for my makeup artist and model to arrive. HELLO COFFEE!
Coffee seriously felt like heaven, we started the makeup while I was doing test shoots with my camera and after 3 sets of changes we finished the shoot at 1:30am!
Not bad not bad,
now I must indulge myself in another huge pot of coffee and edit till 5am and send them in in the morning.
Yes I indeed said pot of coffee, if I had a barrel it would of been a barrel of coffee, and that there would of been over heaven.
AND THEN I PRETTY MUCH SLEPT ALL DAY! As much as I would of loved to ride, I just couldn't, my muscles, brain and attention span did not quite make the cut of staying energized in snowboarding. So I stayed home, watched a weird movie with the boyfriend and fell asleep all excited for college!
NOW. LET ME JUST TELL YOU COLLEGE IS AMAZING!
Finally I lay my feet in my dream college: Private photography college, and let me tell you it is amazing!
No basic courses people! All straight courses about photography and I fell in love with the place! Not to mention access to the studios etc! I'm so excited to go out on my first assignment (in which I'm preparing right at this moment)
One thing I'm most excited is to be able to see myself get better at photography! I mean I've been reading books and listening to other photographers but now that I will be in the studio, learning every aspect of this amazing career and passion and to be able to work with all these cool tools is just going to be amazing and make me the best photographer out there!
Well... I hope :P
The only way to make a dream come true is if you make it priority and you never stop trying. Oh and taking chances.
For example biggest chance: Dropping out of college.
What it gave me: The chance to get into an amazing new college just about photography.
I believe you need to take chances to survive to this unreal hard world we live in. So many people(too much) just follow the basic path to be safe but in reality you need to live a little and take chances because if you don't take chances you will never really succeed in what you actually want to be. For example, my passion is photography, I have no plan B. I know I will go far in photography and I have to go full on, take chances and go far because if I don't I will never go as far as I want to.
I like to set my goals super high so I will use my maximum strength in reaching what I want.
If people take chances and start to live a little more outside their comfort zone, they will see how amazing life can be and how many happy moments they will live through!
Any how, I must leave now spending the night with the family who are down to visit and I need to get ready for a shoot tomorrow!
Enjoy,
Good Monday morning dudes!
As you all are probably heading out for work(or are already there) I'm in bed drinking tea writing a blog all cozy!
To be honest I would much rather be working right now and finishing around 4 or 5 instead of STARTING work at 4 and finishing at 10...
But oh well, only for this week and I must stand it considering it's better than having 0 hours right?!
BUT ANYWAYS side to the fact, I hope you guys had a great weekend! It was actually super nice here on saturday as I strolled around Montreal with my camera and boyfriend.
I never knew how nice Montreal really is,
NO OFFENSE.
It's a beautiful city, walking around Vieux Port and then making our way towards Sainte-Catherine street, looking at all the nice stores and city life! The problem is, I find most people there have attitude adjustment problems -__- .
Just because I'm from Toronto doesn't mean I suck. But I am aware that not everyone is like that! Actually we met this homeless person that was super nice which my boyfriend generously gave a dollar(come on we would of given more but I only had debit and well he only had a dollar change) But hey! It's better than nothing!
Other than that we visited this beautiful dead mall by the HYAT. Seriously, you walk in and there's barely life, stores but the architecture and the way it was beautifully decorated made it look so sophisticated and ''rich'' ! We took the escalator down and watched the fountain shoot up super high and it was actually pretty entertaining.
Legit, fountains are awesome, next time you see one just stare at it, it's awesome.
(weird)
Then we slowly made our way back to Laval because I had an amazing dinner with work friends to celebrate my lovely friends birthday!
I guess that day made me realize a few things. Perhaps the fact of falling in love again, considering I've been with this guy for only a month(about). I was a little iffy on the fact of falling back into a relationship but decided to just do it, to take a chance and it led me to complete happiness and it just seems my life got a bit brighter!
Even my friends who are so proud of me and like him, and tell me they are so happy for me, it's a new chapter in my life, 2013 is a positive year I think.
The other thing I realized is how much the little things count in life to make you happy. Just the fact that I spent the day out in the city instead of either snowboarding or doing the usual boring rooting(over and over) I decided to go out and do something else, and it felt so good! Sure we just walked around did nothing but walk and talk but it was awesome, it made me shine inside out and I would do it over and over again!
Maybe it's cause of the fact that it's Valentines day and I'm feeling highly romantic this week, or just simply the fact that doing a little change up in the usual life is making me spring out!
Oh.. OR maybe it's the fact of me watching the Grammys yesterday falling in love with Katy Perry's dress! Or Rihanna's incredible performance with Damian Marley for the Bob Marley tribute! :P
Speaking of which I hope you guys watched it, it was amazing.
If not I highly recommend you youtube it asap!
Either way, I will let you back to work, or school... Or whatever you guys were about to do! Enjoy these photos I took in Montreal!
Enjoy,
Hey dudes!
So yeah... As you know this week is Montreal Fashion week, and like I said in a previous blogg I was invited to the second day for a nice cocktail and 5 fashion shows and it was all exclusive.
It was yesterday and let me tell you it felt like a movie.
How so you may ask?!!
Well lets just say I get there, I'm surrounded by celebrities and very high end fashion designers and people who work in the fashion industry, free champagne and red wine, surrounded by photographers snapping pictures of everything,,, attending high end fashion shows FRONT ROW oh and, yeah bumping into Will Smith while heading towards the ladies room.
YES WILL SMITH. I still can't believe it!
Now rewind to the beginning of my day:
I woke up totally dead from the day before getting ready for this unprepared photo shoot that was only in a couple of hours. Let's just say trying to create a concept for a shoot that was in about two hours is really HARD to do! But hey, I'm the kind of girl that likes difficult tasks and being challenged so this was actually pretty typical for me.
Seeing my internet bill on the table knowing I was late to pay tho... Yeah that made me jump, drive to the bank, pay and loose an extra hour of thinking for a concept.
BUT NO FEAR NO FEAR PEOPLE! I came through! I wanted to create a vintage concept! So I did, I had this beautiful dress(actually my dads girlfriends dress) that she lent to me for a new years Casablanca party I didn't attend(Come on I found a way better party) that fit the shoot and I had my GORGEOUS model wear it and go on my nice couch and did a photo session there!
Thank you to Sabrina Baldassare, who was my makeup artist who did a magnificent job on her eyes that made it more vintage!
So we took a few frames and I decided to let the light in from my window and it made cool halos in the picture which I LOVED. LITERALLY SO DREAMY WOOT!
After the shoot was done I was now on a straight schedule to get ready for my insane night in Montreal!
Arriving at Arsenal in Montreal for the Cocktail and fashion shows:
UH HELLO WORLD! This is where I belong, seeing all these people dressed up in these odd but very fashionable outfits!! It was like a Alex world! I was in heaven, true heaven. Champagne in hand I strolled around staring at the photographers, meeting very famous and respected people in the fashion world, attending fashion shows. WOW.
I came to realize how much I want to become a fashion photographer.. I mean I knew this is what I wanted to do but, being in the middle of an amazing Fashion night, just made me realize how much I belong there and how much I want it.
It kind of gave me a taste of the real world of fashion and now I'm craving more and more!
Oh .. And then...
I race to the bathroom running into someone and I look up and see WILL SMITH.
Uh HELLO?! THE WILL SMITH!!
It was like in those movies when you randomly run into your idol and your like woah.
That was me, oh little me sporting a LBD in platforms shaking eyes wide open on the fact that Will Smith was indeed 2inches away and ACTUALLY TALKING TO ME!
Enough said, must keep cool, and I ran into the bathroom, called my boyfriend to tell him everything!
Yeah last night was the best night of my life so far. I think so many bad things happened to me in 2012 that destiny has led me to good things in 2013! Seriously, 2013 is my year to shine in the fashion industry, I'm super excited to be able to work with amazing people, go to an amazing photography college and go further and further in my career!
This was a glimpse of what I'm going to be in 10years.
Hopefully, :)
Here are some photos from my shoot yesterday:)
Enjoy,
Hey dudes!
HOPE YOU ARE HAVING A GREAT WEEKEND SO FAR!
I am, started last night when my boyfriend and I got LOST trying to find my friends house to get him and go to Starbucks. We both have major orientation problems so put the two of us in a Mazda 3 trying to find my friends house, missing the autoroute exit and ending up in some weird place I had no clue existed! Well at least I was with a strong man so I didn't have to worry about maybe getting raped or something....
We finally found his house tho! and had a great time talking about the weirdest things on the planet at Starbucks, and then after droping my friend back home we ordered delivery pizza(from Pizza Pizza which is the best place BTW.) having some red wine and watching old comedy movies.
BEST FRIDAY NIGHT EVER HELLO!
Sometimes you don't always have to go out, sometimes just spending time at home treating yourself right is just the way to spend a good weekend night!
And then Saturday was awaken and I had to hurry up to Saint-Sauveur to take some pictures of the BMW challenge! Oh and let me tell you: WHAT A PRODUCTIVE DAY!
Starts off with me being awesome taking awesome pictures cause yeah I'm just awesome, then riding with my SUPER awesome friend, then deciding it's too cold and go to my local awesome boardshop PRFO, then deciding to go hike some AWESOME mountain. And then ending up in a coffee shop ordering a coffee named Whistler which had a huge mountain of whip cream that I took off cause I hate whip cream. (Basically it was a normal coffee, why it was named Whistler? Because of the whip. Even tho I don't like whip I had to order it cause it was named Whistler) why? cause I'm awesome.
So now to compensate on the fact that I'm a die hard Starbucks fan and for once I went to some random coffee shop up north, I felt bad and now I'm in Starbucks drinking my usual Venti mocha light!
Mucho love me amigo!
So yeah now I'm editing my pictures and spending another quiet saturday night away from the clubs and the bar, but next week my friends I promise I will go out. Well I kind of have to because we are celebrating my friends birthday.
Tired as I am right now from my huge day I think tonight is going to be an early night, well also from the fact that I have to wake up early again to go take pictures of the last day of the BMW challenge and then, monday I can sleep in ;)
Yet... I probably won't because I have so much to do. Blaaaaaaaahhhhh if only I could get one day where I'm doing absolutely nothing where I can just go to the spa, and book a nice therapeutic massage to help my cripple back who is incredibly hurting.
I feel like an old lady that can barely move her back. Oh god.
So anyways, honestly folks, there's no moral to this blog, I just write to write because I'm so dead bored right now and I thought explaining my day would be very interesting for you guys.
Ha. Not.
anyways here are some pictures I took earlier today hope you enjoy them and the rest will be on my FB page!
Hey dudes!
So, sometimes you wake up and you realize some days are meant to be bad. For instance I woke up to heavy rain and wind.
It felt like an insane hurricane(like hurricane Katrina) gusting in 1000000000000miles an hour ripping off house tops and taking cows away from fields creating an insane end of war like storm.
Ok.. I might be over reacting but you know me by this time it's what I do! I guess girls just tend to over react over random things. But hey guys, you know you love it ;)
I woke up and just felt like hiding under the covers and staying there forever and ever incognito style and let the world stop for just one moment so I can take my breath. Sadly I worked at 10 so as a good saleswomen I got up, took a shower, applied my amazing makeup to hide my many flaws and grabbed my Starbucks coffee and went out the door to conquer the storm and go to work!
Went well, as I was doing my goals in the sports section considering I never really did work in that section I was pretty amazed! (I'm more of a fashionista bra sexy stylist as I call myself) I love to help women find the perfect combo and know they are leaving with something they can't wait to wear and feel confident!
Although, as I am struggling with the many ''student'' ''art'' people. (Yes I am a photographer AKA. artist, and a student) problems this one occur to me the most: MONEY.
HONESTLY. Why didn't my 6th grade dream come true? Get a money tree?!!
I would just SO NEED ONE AT THE MOMENT. Considering I'm starting another busy semester at my dream photography college!
Sigh* After knowing I will barely be working next week (thanks to dead season and the economy) I felt like that idea of hiding under my covers forever and ever felt like a good idea!
So as I did, I got home after work and went straight to my bed. And I am still there now, in my covers writing away my awesome day!
Jealous right? PFFFFFFFT.
After watching a couple of shows of Underemployed (SUPER GOOD SHOW BTW. On MTV, and literally it's almost better than Gossip Girl!) I came to realize that money really isn't that big of an issue.. I mean yeah it kind of defines your destiny and now a days we kind of need it to survive, but I find we take it in too much thought.
For example business people. They wake up every morning, go to work, come home, sleep. Repeat.
And what do business people think about the most? MONEY. And it's true. Scientifically proven. (Okay, maybe not scientifically but in my mind yes)
I feel like they live for money, they work work work. and work. and work over that.
Maybe not all of them but I remember when I went to NY, I could see all these business people walk fast on their phones rushing to their offices with Starbucks, looking serious and stressed and all that combo in one. Why? Because of money...
When really money should be the least. Money should just be there, but a support. Yes we need money, but we're not necessarily going to die without right? I think of those homeless people out there with nothing at all, and I tell myself, wow. How do they do it? How do they just tell themselves ''C'est la vie'' and just live on without money and the worry of not having any?!
It's amazing, I admire them deeply honestly. I keep telling myself when I become a famous photographer I will be going to Starbucks getting a bunch of coffees and handing them to the homeless who have nothing at all, to brighten their day!
I think the right support we do need to depend on is love. Friendship, is like a gift that god gave us, whoever god is really. And we should be so grateful for it. Today, I had a crappy day. A REALLY CRAPPY ONE. And I had a couple of friends who came up to me and hugged me and supported me. I had friends see my Facebook having a sensation I was having a bad day and called me and texted me to cheer up.
It felt good.
I remember my best friend telling me one day many years ago that friends are like the very first stuffed animal you've ever had.
QUOTE, she said( and I remember perfectly): Friends are like the very first stuffy you ever had. They are there since you've met, They give great hugs, even tho sometime in your life you need to get away from them a while they will always be there.
Mine is in my side drawer and whenever I feel sad I pick it up and just look at it and think about what my best friend said.
Sometime life gets to us, hey I'm still pretty young and I have a lot more in life go through, so I might as well be ready and try and keep positive, as long as I have my amazing friends.
enjoy,
Hey dudes!!
So I would of wrote a blog last night but I was just so overly tired that I fell right to sleep at a rocking 11pm! And to be quite honest I don't even know why I would be that tired cause I didn't do that much..
Hair cut.. and then eat, and then work.
Wow what a productive day! Okay well for my hair die and cut yes it was! Honestly I haven't been in so long so it felt super good to bring back my hair to life and feel pretty again!
I also met a really cool hair stylist who was super interesting and sounded a lot like me. She has a couple of tattoos and seemed super genuine and I loved her right from the start!
So it was a good experience so far from living in the Laval world of things.
Now for photography business: I should officially have my Canon 7D either today or tomorrow.
You never know when Post Canada will arrive and luckily for me I'm not working so I have decided to stay home for half the day to see if it comes.
Seriously I don't want to come home and have a stupid notice on my door saying I have to go pick it up somewhere on the outskirts of Timbuktu!
So now I'm just relaxing in bed with my Starbucks blend in hand(okay it's not actually in my hand(it was 2 seconds ago) because now I am typing) but you get the point. As I write this awesome randomness of blog I usually write to open your hearts, either laugh or whatever I am doing who is so amazing!
*Coffee sip in delight.
Now as you know Valentines day is around the corner. And it's not that I hate Valentines day(lets be honest every Valentines day I had so far was pretty much retarded) I actually really like it. I find it kind of stupid in a way that it is the day of love, considering we should have a day of love everyday but it is a nice day to make everyone feel special and loved single or not!
I remember when I was in grade school and we use to make Valentines to every one in the class! I loved doing that! I'm actually thinking of doing it again this year hehehehehehehe.
I think February just vibrates in love and all the cute colours, the loved ones going out at night, feeling a little more special then usual it's cute really.
You don't necessarily have to spend(some people will just say oh Valentines is stupid because you have to spend money and crap.. Do you really? no not really.. ) I find Valentines day a way to be super creative and find ways without spending or spending however you find it but to make it thoughtful.
I just find some people lack of creativity and it sucks cause love isn't about lacking it's about always being on top of things and always being creative.
That is why Artists are so good at it! They love to create new ideas and venture in to every corner of love, etc.
OMG I FEEL LIKE CUPID.
*Coffee sip
So because of the lack of models who want to get shoots done, I have been practicing on myself because I'm dying in inspiration and dying to take pictures! Well no fear, I'm actually doing a boudoir shoot on monday as a Valentines special and on tuesday I might have another one :D !!
So I decided to take a picture of myself enjoying monday morning coffee.
Honestly, mondays suck, it's the beginning of a new week, we go back to work, we're dead tired of the weekend etc. So having that awesome coffee in the morning is probably our best and most enjoyable moment of them all.
Well for me it is. The coffee lingers in my body and yells out ''WE CAN CONQUER THIS WEEK!'' So Oh how I felt inspired I just had to go out and set up my tripod in my kitchen and take a few frames.
Enjoy,
