Hey dudes!!
Well I'm back from Vacation! Ok technically I still have another week off and I don't start school until the 14th but I feel like I'm back and vacation time is over!
Well I did go to my dads cottage with my boyfriend for 2 weeks so I guess that was my ''vacation moment'' if you want.
ANYWAYS that was a pointless little paragraph to just say that I'M BACK HOME AND STARTING UP WORK AGAIN!
Yes started yesterday actually as I went to the FMD(Fête de la Mode et Design) ((Montreal fashion festival)) to take pictures, and to give my business cards out to try and get my name out there!
FACT. My business cards were really lame and looked really stupid that I was highly embarrassed I decided to redo my cards. (in which I did this morning and they should arrive thursday I'm super excited! ( AND they're super cute! Seriously CUTE!)
Okay back to the FMD! It was so much fun and I loved the shows (even if it rained a little). Also I got to talk to some pretty interesting people and got to know a little more about the fashion industry! I love going to events like this because every time I go I feel so fashion passionate and I remember how being a fashion photographer and working in fashion is my long time dream! Being a part of this weird, complicated, stressful-But feels so amazing industry makes me want more and more! And I'm well aware it's hard to start off in it, but I'm excited for the climb up towards the top!
So as you can probably suspect I had a pretty awesome day yesterday! ;)
And well for today.....well is my boyfriends birthday! So I guess today is a pretty awesome day also!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE! I LOVE YOU!!
I will be taking him to the Keg for a nice steak dinner and I'm literally counting down the hours for dinner because on how excited I am!!!!
Cute eh, I know I know!
And also because I'm hungry. Really hungry and I don't want to eat and spoil my dinner...
So not so romantic anymore hahaha!
Anyways, this week I am re planning my career a bit and getting things more organized for school! As to today I got my cards done, tomorrow I have a hair appointment and then heading to Starbucks to re write all my class notes in a notebook, getting my agenda clear and organize and then wednesday I have an interview with Aritzia(So excited by the way!) and then thursday and friday(I don't exactly know what I'm doing so far but I will find something good to do about photography!).
It was fun being on vacation, but it honestly feels so good to be back and starting all new and energized again! And I'm excited to get back to school!
Anyways here are some shots I took from the FMD yesterday,
Enjoy,
Hey dudes,
So as you might know I am on vacation(well obviously because if you have been following my facebook page you would see no posts and if you follow my instagram you would receive a bunch of beach photos having a blast!)
So if it hadn't clicked yet for you well here it is: I am on Vacation. Yes maam, yes sir! And I am loving it!
Well who wouldn't?! I'm currently spending two weeks at my fathers with my boyfriend spending days at the beach, enjoying the sun being carefree and relaxing!
A part from eating loads of junkfood because it seems in this town all they know about cuisine is deep fried and when we decided to go for brunch at the harbour (omg it took me a while before I wrote down harbour, I totally forgot how to spell and say it!) well it included bacon, eggs and a deep fried potato. No fruit. HMMMMM. So clearly I will be gaining a few pounds but thanks to running in the mornings, swimming and wakeboarding, I might keep a decent figure for when I go back home! Which is next thursday! Sniff sniff, I would love to stay there all summer and just not care about the real world but truth is I need to go back home, get things organized and GET HOME FOR MONTREAL FASHION WEEK!
Yeah I'm super stoked on the fact of being invited again! VIP tickets for the whole August 3rd day! Which is also the closing day for Montreal fashion festival!
So yeah other than that I hope you guys are all having a fabulous summer so far! And if so a great vacation! My favourite day was last week, we spent the day at the beach relaxing and cuddling and after for dinner went to get some takeout sushi from this local sushi restaurant and went on the main beach with a towel, a bottle of fermented Tea(apparently super healthy and helps get this.. WEIGHTLOSS) and our cuddly selves, watching the lake(Or as my boyfriend recalls, the Ocean) and then going for ice cream and heading back to another beach to watch the sunset!
CAN I SAY ROMANTIC?! Oh my it was!
Like those movies(well at least that's how I felt, not sure for him considering girls have their heads full of movie scenes and try and make the best of it) It was awesome omg yeah wooohoo.
Get a load of yourself Alex. JKS.
So yeah anyways, here are some pictures from that night, and I should be able to post more photos next week!
Enjoy, xo
Hey dudes,
So I can NOT WAIT to be on vacation starting tomorrow afternoon when I finish my Photoshop exam! Yes three weeks off and half of it I will be on a beach back in Ontario having some drink relaxing and having a break from the world!
Dreamy I know. This is the first summer in which I have school and that I have to stay in the city and let me tell you it's HARD!
Very hard, especially knowing half of your friends are gone to Whistler and you see photos from them via Instagram and FB... -___- But oh well, I'm happy because I'm studying my passion and plus I get to graduate early.
But I don't know if I'm excited to graduate or not. I mean sure I am, I'm sick of school and everything but I'm kind of scared of finishing school and be out in the real world, trying to get contracts, and living the life of an adult. I guess I am already an adult I'm only 18 but I live in an apartment, I have my own life and I'm mature for my age but still you know what I mean!
I'm scared that once I finish I won't know where to go even tho I will kind of have a path. But I guess that's just my nervousness that is sort of acting out and I know I'm not the only one who is feeling the same way.
Anyways a part from a little worry(which is totally normal for me because I worry and stress all the time) life is pretty good and OMG I went to a pedicure and manicure at the cutest nail salon in Laval! Yessssss! Thanks to Efashionista, I went for a little pampering before my vacation and it felt so good! Pretty pink nails!
So girly I know but I believe every lady needs a little girl time(even the most boyish women) it makes us feel special in a weird kind of way. Just like watching Gossip Girl or Sex and the city. We become all girly and that's what we need!
So I went and enjoyed it(even tho the pedicure tickled and I wanted to basically die when she passed the big file thingy on my feet). In case you didn't know I use to be the boyish girl ever, literally I use to wear boy shorts, caps and ugly over size T-shirts.
It's funny how people change style so drastic and fast!
I like my new style, I'm slowly become the sophisticated lady look, and I'm soon going to get a pearl necklace and earrings(The ones I want are at Winners and every time I go I never buy them cause I can't afford it but I promise and assure you one day I will) it's just a matter of time!
Anyways this is a bla bla blog but hey it's cool it's cool!
;)
Anyways FINALLY! I have posted the photos from the semi finalist model from the FACE by Coco Rocha! Yes the photos I have been dying to post because I'm so proud of them and happy that I have had an amazing chance to meet an amazing young lady! She has an amazing friendly personality and I know she will go far in the modelling business. She is beautiful, tall, stunning, and friendly and she was by far my favourite model I have ever photographed and I hope maybe one day I will have the chance to photograph her again!
Anyways, I hope you like the pictures, I'm really proud of this one, and it feels good when you feel good about your work. Enjoy,
Hey dudes,
So I guess the intense summer heat and nice weather finally started! I can now actually tan and try and get some colour through my pale skin.
Well last weekend helped considering I went to my boyfriends uncles cottage in which I tried wake surfing for the first time EVER.
It's fun, a part from the wearing a helmet that made me look like a bug and a life vest twice the normal size it was a lot of fun.
(Bug looking is the new sexy, try it girls guys will dig it)
But hey, it was a work out and I felt quite energized because I missed being out on the water, and being away from the city for a couple of days felt so good. Really did, and now in two weeks (the 19th to be precise) I will be on vacation for 3 weeks and let me just tell you I need it!
Sure I love school but just the fact that this course is so intense and I have no break and I'm use to having my whole summers off just makes it a little harder for me to get through.
But hey I graduate in less than a year so again I shouldn't be complaining!
ANYWAYS a part from the subject, I hope you are all having a great week so far, I'm just chilling trying to get some homework done and start trying to organize a few things for school.
PS. It's so not working, proof I decided to give up and write a blog instead. Scratch that, I didn't even give up what I started cause I didn't even start it yet. But I guess that was quite irrelevant and I can just make myself believe I actually started doing some work....
FACT.
But yeah so far I've had a good week, yesterday I stayed in bed t'il like 11 and then cleaned some of my apartment and read and went to my boyfriends to go couch shopping... But hey it wasn't that much of a lazy I did nothing kind of day, I needed it and besides last night I went out to dinner with a good friend so I GUESS IT WASN'T THAT MUCH OF A LAZY DAY!
Speaking of dinner, I have found my new favourite restaurant. The Keg, but not any Keg, THE KEG from LAVAL. Yes people, you should all go I swear you walk in and you feel like your'e a celebrity, in a matter of fact I sat at the table on front of GSP (George Saint-Pierre) which was pretty cool even if I don't even watch UFC or any of that I felt cool ;)
And the food. Yeah so I'm not much of a steak person but lately meat has been overflowing my body and I've started being obsessed with it. So let's just say a yummy teriyaki steak with veggies and mashed potatoes and a good mango cocktail just totally hit the spot.
And being with by far one of the closest friends I have just talking about whatever just really felt good.
We all need nice dinners like that once in a while, go out have a nice dinner, talk, relax, feel special and now I totally understand why celebrities like to go out to fancy restaurants with friends for a good meal. (Okay well they do it all the time, and probably half the time they don't even realize it, and they just go to eat but I like to believe that they go to have a good time, to relax and have fun with friends.)
This blog so far has nothing really interesting I'm sorry I'm totally just mumbleling (I have no clue if that word exists) away talking as I write.
OH one thing I'm excited for is my manicure and pedicure at this really cool nail salon in Laval next monday! Ok so it's a girls thing to go get pampered once in a while and this place looks really cool! And really not expensive, besides, my feet are dying and they're getting gross and I haven't been for a pedicure in 2 years(oh my I know) so I guess I deserve it especially as I'm going on vacation next friday so my feet will look super sexy!
Hahahaha, okok I'm done talking about literally nothing, but here are the photos from my last studio shoot which was last friday. I wanted to create a party themed fashion shoot in which I did all the styling, makeup etc. I was in need to create a big concept for a shoot because I can't stop watching videos of fashion photographers and sadly I don't have the money to afford a big crew and I'm not well known yet to get fashion contracts yet so I kind of have to do all by myself, but hey it's fun and when it's a passion to do something, you do it all the way and have fun doing it!
Enjoy,
PS. I'm sorry for the image quality, I had to upload them from my FB page(Alex C.D photography) because I don't have my hard drive and the original files with me!
Hey dudes,
Thank god I have a blog to help clear out my emotions.
WHAT WOULD I DO WITHOUT YOU?!!! sigh*
No seriously,
FACT. I'm having a really bad day. Seriously, okay I know in Africa poor kids go weeks without food I get it but yes I can also have a bad day and I sometimes just feel like spilling out my emotions onto the web into a blog to help me cope with whatever feeling has been keeping me up inside.
PAM.
It all started with school today. Yes School. Oh dear.
I still have those mixed photography feelings in knowing if I'm going to go far or not in life. I think every artist has those moments and honestly it sucks so bad cause like you get all worried and crap and it just makes you depressed and you just want to eat chocolate but the chocolate makes you fat so then you get depressed cause you're getting fat so then yeah.. It's a vicious circle. The other thing is I've been just so alone these days I feel a part from the group... Walking around with my July Vogue issue just reading it and just yeah. Being a loner basically. BUT IT WILL CHANGE NO WORRIES I AM AFTER ALL ALEXANDRA THE GREAT LADY WHO SPEAKS ALL THE TIME AND LOVES TO SOCIALIZE.
I so just said that.
So yeah that happened, then I go to my boyfriend in which he was waiting for his cousin and I didn't feel like staying t'il 9 at night at his place (Well face it I was completely starving and I just wanted to eat and get into pjs) I left all my stuff at his place and took the metro home. Well I believe that was a bad idea considering I fainted, fell on my head and instead of someone helping me up(seriously I can't believe no one helped me) a dude came in and stole the only 5$ I had in my hand for the bus. ( YES. because that morning I left my car at home cause my boyfriend drove me to the metro so I got 5$ to bus it home) SO YEAH. I had to walk from the metro to my place in pouring rain and not to mention I puked on the sidewalk(SHHH no one saw I hid behind a bush) blehhh gross I know eh?!
GOT HOME. Good. Well... Not so good because then well.. I had plans and the washed away and now my head is killing me I feel lonely, I'm sick and it's a friday night and to be quite honest I just wished someone would just come over or call me just to talk..
But hey it's okay because I know that it's life and some days are going to pour more than others and some you just wish would never happen but then if no bad days ever come how would you truly be grateful about the good days you have?!
(I'm sorry if you have trouble with my writing tonight my head is in excruciating pain so it's kind of hard hahaha)
But you know, you're smart so you will understand right?(I hope)
Enjoy,
Hey dudes!!
TGIF!!! (Thank God It's Friday) For the ones who can't understand the letter things. Oh it's so girl talk oh em gee!!
HAHAHA, okay so you probably guessed yes, yes yes there is a bottle of wine opened next to me on my little coffee table in the living room.
The funny thing is I'm still at my first glass so it's not like I'm even close to being a little tipsy yet so!
Wait t'il the end of the blog and we will see about that! (JKS!!!)
No but seriously, when you pick just the right wine (one of my favourites) in case you want to give me a gift one day it's called ''C'est la vie'' it's a Syrah Rosé from France!! Oui oui la france!!
Si si ,
Okay the ''Si si'' is so spanish but it totally fits with the whole France thing!
''Alcohol slowly kicking in''
So I hope you guys had a good week! Oh I had a tuff one I swear like 3 exams, a photo presentation etc etc. I had a feeling it would never end but Hourrah! It did!
Beside the fact that I'm nervous about getting the results back(seriously I studied well and I think I did well but you never know, usually when you feel like you did really well it ends up that you failed but I really doubt I failed and I can't fail anyways cause I need to pass cause this is my life, my passion! DUH )
And then it's Friday! And you probably think ''Oh my god how sad that a lady just sits at home with wine writing a blog... Doesn't she have a life?!''
Okay well first of all, yes I do have a life, I breathe eat sleep. That means I'm living, and secondly sometimes it just feels good to stay home.
Even if I've been staying home too long it's life again and what can I say I've been so caught up with photography that I haven't really had the chance to actually go out....
BUT, it is Saint-Jean this weekend, which is Quebec's birthday celebration which means the whole province is going to be in an insane party which means I will go out and have fun! ( I hope) (If not then I seriously do have issues)
FACT. I will :)
But yeah ANYWAYS, a part from that fact I just wanted to talk about my shoot I did wednesday with a beautiful model! She's one of the closest friends I have! (If she is reading this she is probably thinking oh my god ... ) HAHA, okay maybe not but anyways :P
No but seriously, she is someone who is truly remarkable! She knows how much I love fashion photography and the best thing about her is she believes in me.
And most of all, she will be the one person in which never ''ditched'' or showed up with nothing at the shoots. Like she will always make herself look a 100% perfect for the shoot even if she has a million things to do or if it was last minute. And I worship her for that because I never had any of my friends arrive with everything perfectly without complaint or anything and be happy about shooting. And that's hard to find!
Plus she's so nice and she has a very pretty personality!
This is why we aimed for an editorial shoot in which I wanted to do a ''dark'' shoot and play with it. She is blonde, and very delicate and I wanted to show a darker side and mix the both together in which we get ''Dark Angel''.
I'm very proud of this shoot because in the little time we had I was able to to shoot extraordinary images and get exactly what I want and for that I'm thrilled!
I hope you like them too and you can view all rest of them on my FB page: Alex C.D photography,
Anyways Enjoy,
Hey dudes!!
Well hope you are enjoying a good tuesday, on my part it's a pretty boring one! Okay so I needed a nice lazy day because last week was a very busy and tiring week not to mention this past weekend!
And well for this week starting tomorrow it will be pretty busy with a studio fashion editorial shoot tomorrow, a fashion project presentation and friday a still life exam shoot!
YAY!
Ok so honestly I'm the kind of lady who loves to be always busy and this is why today I feel lazy and bored because I litterally had nothing to do.
Starting at 8 this morning when I woke up and told myself ''OMG I NEED TO GET UP AND READY!'' Honestly this happens all the time. If I stay in bed til 11 or 12 I will get randomly depressed in thinking I wasted my day and that I should be productive.
Well waking up at 12 today would of been really good for me cause I need some sleep but I guess it didn't happen. Instead I got up, did my workout with some yoga, cleaned my apartment and then went to Winners to buy a fruit bowl and Davids Tea for some tea and a tea tumblr.
So far it was productive until I only realized it was 1pm and I got home and didn't know what to do....
So I sat on my deck, which was okay but again boring for my soul as I finished my entire Harper's Bazaar magazine!
But hey we all need lazy days and right now I'm just sitting on my bed writing a blog with a peel mask on my face and some of my new tea on my bedside table just enjoying the beautiful jazz music playing from my speakers.
Oh yeah I'm totally relaxed a part from the fact I desperately need a good therapeutic massage to take away all those nasty knots in my back!
One good thing is summer seems to be finally starting! Seriously, I can't wait for the nice 30 degrees weather, wearing tank tops and swimming.
Obviously to try on my new bikini duh! Hahaha,
But anyways, Now the photos I have below are from one of my shoots I did last week. I wanted to do some kind of a editorial shoot, very basic but fun and different. I also tried out the grey backdrop because I never tried it before and to be honest I love it. I find it so much better than the white and black because I find it gives a better pop with the clothes the models wear!!
I just gave a normal lighting also so nothing special with the lighting.
I just love photography and I honestly can't wait to be able to get real fashion campaign contracts and to be able to do editorials for magazines I love such as Vogue, Bazaar, Elle etc. !
And to be able to meet amazing people in the industry and to work with some of the best models! One day one day, I just got to keep practicing and I will get it! Thanks to everyone for supporting me so far, this is a long journey but it's worth it, and with everyone who is there cheering me on just boosts me up and helps me reach my dream!
Dream on!
Enjoy,
