Aug 16 09

Fireworks and Soundwave

Believe it or not, I'm posting photos from our Canada Day Fireworks here in Victoria.  I know I'm well over a month late, but I wasn't actually going to post any at all.  I'd uploaded my photos and forgotten all about them, writing them off before I'd even had a chance to go through them.  Who wants to see more "fireworks photos"?  Well, I weeded through them today and found a few I actually really liked.  So here they are, whether you want to see them or not!

I find I've been really back-logged with my own photos lately.  Ever since I started shooting regularly at work (food and product), my own stuff seems to be on the back-burner.  I get home from a day in the studio and the last thing I want to do is pick up my own camera.  As photography becomes more and more of a profession, its increasingly difficult to keep it up as a hobby.  An aunt of mine is a highly sought-after food photographer in Toronto, and one of the best I know.  She once told me that she had come to dislike shooting as a hobby, because she did it at work everyday.  I'm starting to understand how she feels.  I find myself toting my camera around less and less.

You'll also find some of my Soundwave photos here.  Yes, that's right, I went to Soundwave, devalued my car by driving it over 28kms of extremely rough gravel, and witnessed 2000 people litter a wilderness campground with beer bottles, plastic and sound pollution.  The only wildlife remaining was trapped in inescapable tide-pools.  I saw a guy piss into one of these, ruining an entire ecosystem.  Ok, I don't hate Soundwave.  It was pretty cool, but I can't help myself.  I'm all for music festivals that don't intrude on our delicate wilderness.

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