wonderland photoshoot

best part of my week: being a part of a really fun & magical photoshoot.

eileen and i drove to buntzen lake in port coquitlam, and discovered a park that was partially flooded.

eileen is an illustrator, designer, and photographer, and she writes a fashion blog on the side. so not only does she have crazy awesome ideas for photoshoots, but she has crazy awesome vintage dresses too. i wore a gorgeous white dress that almost didn't fit me (and actually unzipped on me unknowingly half way through.. good thing we didn't have a huge audience, i would have flashed them all... awkward). as soon as we started the shoot, it started raining. but eileen and i didn't care, and so i got to wade in the water, jump in the rain, and all in a pretty dress that made me feel like a little girl at a tea party. loved it.

you can see a few more of the photos at eileen's flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eileensoo

oh yeah we also found a beautiful blue building... we may have trespassed, but the signage wasn't super clear. :)

sherri

sherri and i hung out today. she is my photography & coffee friend.
i wrote about my day over here and here. but i just wanted to post this photo here again because i love it and because sherri has beautiful eyes.

"rain rain go away. come again some other day"

i remember chanting that when i was a kid: "rain rain, go away. come again some other day." i don't remember if there was more to that or not...

my rainy day story:


it was a nice, sunny day. i wore my shades walking to the bus, thinking 'this is a perfect day for the beach!' an hour and a bit later, and i meet up with my friend. we take the train over to the touristy island of beaches and over-commercialization. upon arrival, it is windy, the sky is looking a wee bit dark. ah well, it will pass.


we run into the water (well, she runs, i am slightly more hesitant) and soon realise the water is warmer than the air. the clouds get darker and come closer.
the beach guard announces 'there will be a storm warning.' and advises everyone to leave the water.
i assume that this is an english-speaking country, and so when they say 'there WILL BE' a storm warning, i assume they mean in the future, and not right now, and so i promptly stay in the water. minutes later and we are the only ones left in the water. the guard now personally comes over to us and kindly asks us to leave. we protest a little and he finally tells us that when it starts raining hard we need to leave. so we agree to that and keep swimming. then another guard comes over on his fancy-pants Segway and tells us to leave. he's a little firmer in his tone, so we reluctantly leave the warm water, and trudge back to our stuff.


we think to ourselves that the rain will pass quickly.
we are wrong.
it starts to POUR.
and we decide to walk over to a food court at another beach nearby so we can drink some hot kopi. it keeps raining harder and harder, and i am super paranoid about my camera.
when we are almost at shelter, i realise that i had an umbrella with me the whole time.
and didn't use it.
because i am smart that way.
so we laugh at me, and then we go drink some kopi and eat fruit.


we are sad that we still have white, white skin. but we are happy to be spending time with each other. all-in-all, it is a good day and we take pretty pictures after the rain is gone and we have dried off somewhat.



the end.

everybody is a photographer

why am i starting a new blog when i am already really bad at keeping up with my food blog?
what a brilliant question! if only i had a brilliant answer. so sad. really i just want a place to blog/post photos about non-food things. photos that i feel too ashamed to post on my flickr site, or photos that need to be seen together, with some sort of description. because really... i'm not a 'photographer' so to speak. i'm amateur at best, and though i do love beautiful photos, i feel that anyone these days can claim to be a photographer. and honestly it kind of annoys me when i see terrible photos being marketed as professional. this is why i claim no such thing. that way, i can post terrible photos and get away with it. :) i love the way i think.

so here is an old photo to start my blog:


this is eileen. eileen is a beautiful lady with a beautiful spirit and she likes to take photos. especially with the oktomat camera. she dresses super cute and she is also conveniently an artist (illustrator/graphic designer). check out her confessions of a designer. oh yeah, and she loves alice in wonderland.