Hey guys!
Well christmas was a success!
Like I predicted I ate way too much ( I had a huge mountain of mashed potatoes by the name of Whistler stacked up on my plate with some chicken, vegetables, and a bunch of other yummy christmas food) And not to mention the cookies after that just topped my fullness off and wanting me to get almost sick.
But oh god it was good. I can't remember the last time I ate this much.... Ever in a matter of fact I'm used to not eating and if I do it will be a little salad or some pita bites and hummus.
It was also very nice being with the family, I haven't seen them in a long time so just the fact of coming home for a few days just made it all worth it!
As my family knows, I'm a photographer so how could I NOT bring my camera down for the holidays and NOT take pictures?!
The 25th everything is closed so why not go out for a drive in the country side and stop in a few random places to take pictures of random things?!
At first I was wishing I had one of my model friends with me because it would of been perfect but then again I had family right in the car with me so why not use them?!
Sure they're not used to modelling, but having a photographer in the family they kind of have to get used to it!
So we parked by an old gravel road and I took a few frames of my dads girlfriend, then we stopped by this farm to take some pictures of horses and then last but not least I took some pictures of my father and his girlfriend and AWWW HOW CUTE.
And then we went home and my dad played with his new remote control helicopter I got him and quite frankly I kind of regret it because he wouldn't stop banging it in walls, having it run into me, my grandma and he won't stop.
But then again it shows how old people can act like kids again, (oh oh , okay not old people but older people (my dad is probably going to read this and send me a message saying WHAT!?) )
So now like the old saying must come into place: All good things must come to an end.
Which means it's time for me to go back home tonight and go on to our normal lives!
Sigh***
It's really not bad, but I'm going to feel quite lonely without my family there in my little apartment.
Oh well!! C'est la vie!
Enjoy,
MERRY CHRISTMAS DUDES!!
Well I know it has been a while I haven't wrote a blogg but what a day to write one!
IT'S A SPECIAL DAY!
Yes!! So for the holidays I hope everyone is spending a great one, with family, friends, loved ones and so on so on!
For my party I've been quite lucky!
I was sure to be working on the 24th or the 26th but luckily I'm not working either days which meant I could go down to Toronto to visit my family for christmas!
I would of left the friday but I had to photograph at the hill for the new setup and Santa on the sunday.
It was quite worth it tho, since I got amazing shots!
(See photos below)
Saturday was a cold cold day I couldn't believe those riders actually made it to the hill to ride the setup! Seriously it was soooo cold I could barely stand there! But like I said two seconds ago, it was all worth it!
So anyways, other than that the following day I went to the mountain again to shoot Santa and it was quite entertaining watching those little kids all over Santa, super stoked! The elf kind of freaked me out tho... I mean since when do elves have green faces and creepy eyes?
But oh well that's me and luckily I don't think the kids really cared since Santa was there.
After that nice shoot I went riding with friends a bit and then went home to get ready to leave for the airport.
Then the airport.
Yes. While waiting for my flight I was sitting beside a weird man sleeping on the bench and he smelled oddly like baked corn.
He snored, and talked in his sleep which creeped me out tho I was a little too lazy to change spot so I just sat there gazing at him annoyed,
thank god I had an iphone tho.. Worth listening to music and texting friends, oh since I'm a photographer I went on instagram and started randomly taking pictures of weird things and posting them... (Sorry to all my followers who got all those pictures, I was REALLY bored.)
BUT THEN I MADE IT. YES FINALLY.
I swear to god when I see the CN tower all lit up from the sky, and all those pretty lights downtown I feel home and let me just tell you it feels GOOD.
So now I'm here sitting on my grandmothers sofa writing a blogg just relaxing and getting ready to go out for a long drive to go take some pictures... oh and getting ready to eat like a king.
Legit, I'm going to eat so much someones gonna have to ship me via Fedex back to Montreal because I will be too fat to fit on the plane. CARGO ALL THE WAY!
Hahahaha, anyways, this blogg really doesn't have a meaning but I just thought I might as well write something considering it's christmas.
It's that special holiday you spend time with family and feel good.
I went to church, which I would never normally go but as a sign of respect for my family I went and it wasn't so bad. (Even the fact I was suffering from a huge headache it was good)
I guess christmas holidays is when you get together and do things for your loved ones. Even if you hate the things some family members do you might as well do them to make them happy, and honestly it feels so good inside! You feel so accomplished and sometimes you realized how much you do like doing those things and you discover things.
Either way I better get going time to go spend some time with the fam!
Hope you all have a good christmas! xoxoxoxoxo
Enjoy,
Hey guys!
I'm finally moved into my new apartment! Yes finally!
Alright well now you must ask, how is the apartment life?!
It's good, it feels good to be in your own space, have you're own place and do really whatever you want to do without having anyone bother.
The only thing is that it gets quite lonely. Like for instance today, I drove my friend back to his place and then got home and did some homework.
After homework I had lunch and kind of walked around in my apartment not really knowing what to do.
Hmmm . Maybe it would be a little more entertaining if I had a TV. HAHAHA YES I DON'T HAVE A TV. But it's weird because I normally never watch TV, only on rare occasions or to just watch a movie, yet ever since I've moved in I have a sudden urge to watch TV.
Oh well I told myself during boxing week I will go out and buy a TV to compliment my newly furnished living room so I won't have to write a blogg on how I wish I owned a TV.
So instead of that I read, I took a nap, cleaned and just had a me day. Felt good because I've been so busy lately I haven't had the time to just lay there and relax. So I guess today was a day well deserved!
Another thing I realized when moving into my new place is that now I can focus more on photography. Now I have the time to read, to inform myself on different technics and get back into serious business.
It just proves to what extent I need to pursue my dream and focus on what I really want to do.
These past weeks I've been staling but now that I'm also closer to the city I can really take fashion photography and street photography to the limit.
I've also came to realize that Montreal isn't such a bad place to live in! ( NO OFFENCE TO ANYONE) Yes the drivers are quite stressful and well I don't feel too integrated with the french side of Quebec but it is a nice place and let's just say I love walking in Vieux Port taking pictures, stopping for coffee and analysing people. It seems unreal sometimes, like a dream.
Soon I'm hoping to go downtown sometime to just walk around and take some pictures and just enjoy one of Quebec's many cities.
Now speaking of photography, yesterday I shot my friend in Laval for a ''Rocky kind of style shoot''. It was sooooo much fun because she is wild and daring! I was slowly getting my camera ready, I look up and see her climbing stuff acting crazy! Which is good! Not to mention she has a beautiful figure which is every photographers dream to photograph.
We need models who move, who aren't scared and who look gorgeous in every shot.
She was perfect, I loved her willingness in this whole project and it made me excited to develop the photographs and put them online.
Here are some photos from the shoot,
Enjoy,
Hey dudes!
Okay so yesterday I wanted to blogg but we had some intense storm and my power went out.
Yes I do have a laptop so basically it's wireless BUT my internet is connected via electricity which means no internet for me!
Which means no going on blogster writing a blogg about the photos I took last night.
WELL NO FEAR INTERNET IS NOW WORKING AND I CAN WRITE A BLOGG!
Basically were half way into December and I'm still not in the christmas mood. Maybe because things have been bothering me lately but I'm moving into my apartment tomorrow and I'm hoping once this huge step becomes reality things will go a lot better and then I could try and get into the holiday spirit.
Oh, BTW I will be getting an Iphone this week so watch out guys!
Yes I have come to conclusion that Blackberrys really do suck, I have brought mine 7x in repairs and it's still breaking and it gets FRUSTRATING.
Well... Also they don't have instagram XD yes I had to add that into my comments because it's probably the best app Iphone has.
Anyways were going way far from my point is, I hope everyone is spending a great great December and is getting into the holiday spirit......At least I hope.
So yesterday was not my day.. Like at all. REALLY NOT. But it kind of brought thought to my head and made me realize things I wouldn't of suspected.
I still need time to think because I got badly hurt and I agree with the stupid saying ''Time will repair you'' and ''you will grow stronger'' ETC. I'm quotly (is that even a word) what my dad told me last night.
I hate that when you feel like crap and you have people trying to pet talk you into feeling better but it makes you mad and you know all this stuff already it's just in the moment you don't want to hear kind of thing!
But it does make sense so I guess I should put it out there because we do need time to digest every little thing that bothers us in life and then make the right decision on what's best for you.
So anyways, to top off my bad day there was a huge storm in which it took my half an hour to take the snow and the freezing rain that covered that snow on my car. Then I got late for class, then on my break I got a bad call with a certain someone yelling and being a jerk, then I got my exam which I failed, then go to my next class, watch a intense creepy crappy scary intense x10000 movie that made me feel all weird, then receiving another failed exam, then going to dinner with a certain someone who basically you don't want to have dinner with and then feeling like shit not knowing what to do because of some event that occurred the night before.
Oh and then home in my bed taking 2 extra strong advils and falling asleep.
WINNER.
hahah . What I'm trying to say is that no matter what we go through, things happen for a reason. Either you find who your true friends are, either you find out you're not in love with your significant other, either you realize who you are. ETC ETC. The list goes on and on but in my head I can't really think right now.
It's just we all have bad days, but in the end it's that one person who takes that bad day and turns it into good, and for this time it's my sweet sweet father. Yes he wasn't there physically but he was there on the phone while I cried and told him all the crappy things that happened today and yet he soothed me and told me things will get better.
Really who would of thought your own father would give the best solutions!
He told me to just relax and think.... He gave me his opinion and things I should do and in the end he just told me to go back home and just take it easy, so I did!
I got home and yes there was a huge ugly storm but oh my goodness the trees were all iced up and the darkness outside gave me this emotional love.
I ran outside with my camera and tried to capture my emotion.
It worked perfectly and this is the picture that represents me the most: Dark dark, sad, nervous, betrayed, tired. Yet with a light of beauty saying things will get better and that with time things will heal and that there's always a light after the storm.
Enjoy,
Hey dudes!
Hope you had a great weekend, I sure did!
We all need those weekends when you do nothing at all, and quite frankly I deserved it because I've been going non stop with either photography and work.
And lets just say getting away from some of my problems I'm facing home just felt good.
And the best part is that it was snoooowing! The whole weekend, it was amazing! Sadly the weekend ended and I must go back to the weekly routine.
There's nothing wrong about going back to that tho I would of taken a couple of extra days doing nothing at all far from the world to just chill like a little villain.
But then again I would probably feel super lazy and become fat, which isn't really in my plans for this month.
Okay so I'm babbling on and on about really stupid things so I just wanted to say thanks to all those people who are behind me in all my situations and more precisely the people who are supporting me in photography.
I find people don't get enough credit for what they do, and in the end you loose friendship because you can't take a moment to realize what certain people are doing for you and to thank them.
So to all those people out there that are supporting me in my dream career, well thanks for being there because without you I probably wouldn't go too far.
I would like to thank MSSI, Ride Shakedown, DC, O'neil, Camp of Champions, PRFO, AXIS for letting me be a part of your team as a photographer, supporting me and cheering me on to perfection!
I would LOVE to thank my friends for being a part of my life, helping me through all theses bad moments and making me a stronger person.
And finally I would also LOVE to thank my father, dude you're the best seriously you better be reading this hahaha. I'm dead serious, any kid would be honoured to have you as a father you're a sick grey on a tray. ( snowboarding term for old man on a board)
So yeah , It's not a super long blogg, it's just I thought I would thank all of you guys for being AWESOME, cause you all are pretty sick people!
Enjoy,
Hey guys,
wow it's been a while since I've wrote a blogg! Sorry about that, it's just my life is so crazy right now holy molly rocky!
So lets start!
Now I believe there is some kind of god out there... Not necessarly God. or like Jesus (catholique or whatever kind of god) but in a god that kind of helps us live and watches out for us.
To me God isin't a person in particular but some kind of aura just going around chilling in different spots, chilling like a villain being cool and stuff. (okay for the adolescence slang!)
And because I believe in some sort of aura God, I believe he makes everything happen for a reason. For example my dog.
I got him so unexpectably yet we got attached so fast.
I also realized a couple of weeks of having him how much we ressembled. Were stubborn, unwanted, scared but strong.
He is part wolf, as to I like to believe I am also. (my native animal, a sociable pack leader.) As it is also my favorite animal.
I would like to believe that God brought us together because we are two broken souls, and we reunite to fix each other be one good one.
Cause truly only owner and dog can really see the relationship, no one around can see how much we bond. It's special, I don't know if you already had a dog and bonded really well but if you do you know what I'm talking about.
If not I suggest you try getting a dog one day to live that experience because I swear it's the best experience ever.
That moment when you just pour your tears and he just sits next to you cuddling you and knowing you are in pain.
Or that moment when you go running together and play together and you catch his stare right in your eyes and you know he's there forever.
It's magic. Pure magic, So I would like to thank god for bringing this to my life.
Because I'm hurting so deeply inside that just having him near me gives me just enough strengh to get me by the day.
Hey guys,
So I don't know if you've ever been through a bunch of ruff times and that you just get tired and you just want to quit...
I mean I've been going through sooooo many things during a past few years that I've been getting terribly tired of supporting this.
You feel so low at times that you can't even bare living. It hurts. You get so hurt inside that you can't possibly think anything can hurt you more and then paff. Something happens that makes the bad things worse.
Trust me I know what it feels like because I've been going through that dilemma many times and I'm officially in one now. I guess in a way it proves how strong I am because I've been getting past bad incidents before but it just gets tiring. I start to feel weak and unwilling to continue.
So earlier tonight I was on my bed taking pictures of my dog when I just survived a bad incident a few minutes before. That's when I told myself I need to write a blogg about it.
I need to reach out to everyone out there who might be living in the same situation as me. I just want to make sure everyone is good and strong as I am.
I decided to write this blogg to the people who have been going through ruff times just to explain to them to never give up.
Life can suck so badly at times, but I herd that life gives you many more positive times than negative moments so you have to bare with me and believe that you will have a break and that life will give you those magical moments soon.
We might be very unlucky now, but wait and see in a couple of years we will be stronger than anyone else and we will conquer this world with our head held high and have happiness overwhelm us.
I like to believe that right now I'm stuck in a dark tunnel and that one day I will be able to find a way out where the bright light shines. We just give up.
And when you think everything is coming down to an end just think about all the people who love and care about you.
Either it's family, friends a significant other.. You have people who love you.
And don't say you don't cause that's absurd!
My favourite quote from a movie me and my best friend use to watch over and over again really helps relate this situation:
''You have to stay alive to see how the story ends.''
I like to tell myself this quote every time I feel a little low because it's true. Our story never ends. You have to keep living until the real story ends. The unexpected fairy tale end. Not the incredibly horrible sad ending.
Life's not worth getting all down trust me, cause the more you feel sorry for yourself the more you just want to give up and feel hollow.
HOLLOW IS NOT GOOD. In less you feel like a hollow chocolate... Cause chocolates are happy, sweet and awesome ;)
What I'm trying to say is that you must never give up. I know people tell this all the time and it gets old but it's so true. It's just not worth it, you have so much to live for and like I said, there's always a light at the end of a tunnel so no matter how bad a situation gets you will be able to get out of it 10x stronger and feel happy and awesome about it.
So just to let you know that you're not alone in this, so many people go through bad moments in life trust me I've been through a lot but I'm never going to give up. God gave me all these issues because he knows I can handle them and that I'm strong enough to get over them. So all I can say is life can kiss my butt cause I ain't going NO WHERE.
enjoy,
