2 more images from our recent trip down south. Some skim borders on Daytona Beach and the parking lot at "South of the Border" in South Carolina.

As well as getting quite a few interesting assignments, this summer has once again been filled with f/start. F/start is a photography workshop for teenagers founded by myself and 2 friends of mine 2 1/2 years ago. This time around I'm once again working with the wonderful Nancy Kendle and Peter Berra. Above are some images from our field trip to the Old Port this past Wednesday. From top to bottom it's: our students, Nancy and Peter.

Sorry that I haven't been posting recently. I've been kept busy by a recent assignment which had me photographing Montreal from above and from street level. These images are 2 self portraits that I took while on the quest for the right light and the right vantage point. The first one is on the top floor of the Marriott in the women's washroom. There's a great view of the city from up there!

Two more scenes from Florida. Weird empty parking lot at "The Best Beach in Florida!", and storm looming on another Floridian beach.

I'm going global! Brasilian magazine Revista Gloss featured my "Why am I marrying him?" series in their latest issue. I've been getting emails from Brasilian fans but have been having a hard time communicating since I don't know Portuguese. I think I will go outside with the magazine and ask one of my Portuguese neighbours to translate it for me.

Update: So my neighbour doesn't have great eye sight but he was able to make out the title which says something to the effect of: "Would you marry a person with this face?" Hilarious!

Back to Florida and a cheesy Motel of ours.

More from Frank Lloyd Wright's Florida Southern College. I do hope that you all took the time to look at Chris Mottalini's work. I was just looking at his images again and there is so much going on in them. I mean there's the window light, the graphics and form of the architect's lines, the textures of the materials, and the way in which these beautiful buildings fit in with their surroundings. He is definitely doing Paul Rudolph justice. I am preparing an architecture slideshow for my class tomorrow. Now all I have to do is infect my students with the enthusiasm I have. Hopefully early tomorrow morning that will still be possible!

While in Florida we made a quick stop in Lakeland to see the Florida Southern College whose whole campus and 12 of its buildings were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I was definitely inspired to tackle this subject by Chris Mottalini's work which I become aware of just before our trip. Check out his images of Paul Rudolph homes that were slatted to be demolished here. They are quite something.

More images from our recent road trip. This was my first time ever to Florida and it was really nice to see the pastel-cement-block-bungalow in its natural habitat. Occasionally you see one here and I always thought that they looked so weird. In fact I thought that they were quite ugly, but seeing them as they are meant to be allowed me to really appreciate them. In fact I became quite enamoured with this style and spent some time trying to capture it. As an aside the birds in the second photo are White Ibis. Perhaps not exciting to locals but I just loved watching them forage on this person's front lawn.

First photos from my recent trip down south. These cars were all photographed in Florida. The palm trees and the colours that exist down there really made an impression on me and I was often trying to adjust my eye to this new situation. The fact that there were so many of these old classics was also completely different and something that I really enjoyed. Our northern winter with its cold and salt doesn't allow for cars to have such a long lifespan.

Some recent photos I took of author Rawi Hage for the Canadian literary magazine Quill & Quire. Just two weeks ago Rawi found out that he was this year's winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. This is the world's richest literary award and it went to a Montrealer! Congrats Rawi! His book "DeNiro's Game" is a really interesting inside look at Lebanon's civil war. Before his very successful literary career Rawi was a successful fine art photographer. Such a wealth of creativity found in one person!

In reorganizing my photos I found some more hockey fan portraits and I couldn't pass up on the chance to show you these 2. What great characters. I got back the tons of images from my recent honeymoon road trip and will post them very soon!

This is a kid who lives across the street from me. He's always out riding around on his "Big Wheel". Well a few weeks ago I noticed that he was dressed in a suit and thought what an interesting photo that would make. I figured he must have just have come home from some formal event and went straight to playing. So I crossed the street with my camera, chatted with the grandfather, and found out that in fact he had come home from school and decided to dress up like Mr. Bean for the rest of the day! What a character. This week I saw him in full Spidey get-up, again on the Big Wheel, but by the time I had gone inside and gotten my camera he was gone.

Some recent kitchen counter photos.


While in NYC I tried to see as many galleries as I could in the Chelsea district. Really I didn't do it justice but I did come away with 2 absolute favourites:
"Minidoka on my Mind" paintings by Roger Shimomura at Flomenhaft Gallery, 547 West 27th street, suite 308
"RFK Funeral Train - Rediscovered" photos by Paul Fusco at Danziger Projects, 521 West 26th street


In other news good friends Peter Loewen and Sam Millar are soon leaving on their bike (dirt bike) trip from Cairo to Cape Town. This Saturday they are going to have a good bye party that will also be a fund-raiser for Spread the Net. The event will be at Bar GP (750 Gilford) from 9pm on. To read about their trips preparation and plans check out their blog: www.cairotothecape.blogspot.com

Here are the last of the Habs fans series from this past playoff season.

So I'm back from a great honeymoon road trip! Went all the way down to Florida and back with lots of stops along the way in 16 days. Some highlights were: Savannah ( I really want to go back there); a small southern diner where we had real mac 'n cheese, fried chicken, and pole beans; the fresh water springs in interior Florida; watching huge sturgeon jumping clear out of the water in a Florida river one morning; hiking in Shenandoah National Park and coming face to face with a deer; bringing our bikes! (we biked in Jekyll Island, NYC, Virginia beach, Charleston, etc.); Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Florida which has 12 buildings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; walking through the gallery district in Chelsea (it's hard to believe that there are so many galleries in one place); and so much more. Photos will be forthcoming.

Well that's the end of another hockey season. I was cheering for the Penguins so I was definitely disappointed by last night's results. Above are some more Habs fans just outside The Bell Centre during this year's playoffs.

Well I am off again. Chris and I are going on a honeymoon roadtrip and will be gone till the 22nd. So have a good 2 weeks everyone!

Chris and I this past Saturday.

I am a married woman now!!! For all the stress leading up to it, the weekend completely paid off. I know it sounds corny but it really was the best day I ever had. The ceremony was so beautiful and to be sharing it all with every person we care about was really something. We couldn't have been happier. Thank you so much to everyone for sharing that with us!

Many may be wondering what will happen to the "Why am I Marrying him?" series now. Well perhaps it will come to an end, or at least change in perspective, we shall see. I have been photographing Chris a lot in the past few weeks in order to get as many non married photos in there. Some of them turned out really well but I'm going to have to hold them back for now. I want to have some surprises for the fall when I will be exhibiting the series. I'm not much good at keeping things to myself like that, especially for so long but I'll do my best. Maybe from now on it's "Why I married him" ?!