Machu Picchu

Peru

Peru stole my heart.
A humble country with warm, gracious people and gorgeous landscapes.
Though Machu Picchu drew me there, there was so much more I fell in love with.

Some shots of Cusco - a charming city!

Narrow roads - Incan designs that did not plan for the future of cars!

Our delicious lunch at the weaving community - Quinoa soup...followed by a tasting of Quinea Pig!

Before heading on our way, the group was challenged to a game of Soccer at 3500M+!

Lares hot springs - the beginning of our trek!

A local Peruvian passing by Quinoa plants...

The mist at our campsite - with Llamas passing by just outside our tents!

The most gorgeous site I've ever seen - the sun rising between the mountains...

Sweet success at 4600M!

MINGA's Wedding!

It has been a long time (or has felt like it!), but I have finally purchased a new laptop - so I am no longer hostage to my husband and can process and post pictures again!

So after taking my Photoshop Basics course at GBC, I learned that all of my pictures should be taken in "raw" format (why didn't any of the first two instructors I had say anything about this!?), so I took my first set at Matt and Inga's wedding which was on September 18, 2010 in downtown Toronto. Their church was just goregous. Dimly lit, so I really do need to learn how to use my flash - so many great pics turn out fuzzy!

For the lens, I mainly used my fish-eye, since they had such an amazing photographer that was capturing all of the details, figured the fish-eye would give a different set of pics!

The groom at the end of the aisle, making his entrance with his proud parents

 

The altar - can't get over how cute the ring bearer is!
 

The wedding party...though, I think I cut out one of the groomsman...must give props to wedding photographers - how do you know which lens to have?!?

Pop! And the Champagne is flowing!

and flowing...

Beaming bride

Relieved groom

Lovely wedding for a lovely couple!



Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts

Now that my "Art of Night Photography" class is over, it's more difficult to actually take my tripod out and go take pictures...but the other night I was driving home from a friend's and drove past the opera house...and it was so pretty with the glass windows and lights from the inside, so I went and took photos of it last night! It is so pretty - especially the North side, which has pretty lights hanging from the ceiling.

Just make sure you have someone with you when you go out at night...my husband dropped me off, since he had to do some work, but I would have felt much better if someone was watching my back...I still like the way they turned out though

CNE

Last year I took day pictures of the CNE for my final assignment in Digital Photography I at GBC, and this year our instructor took us back there for our last field trip...that was before my laptop and all my pictures were stolen (always back up!), so I had to go back and retake the set...and these may have actually turned out a bit nicer. Cloudy skies do give for some interesting background, I was able to get some really great silhouette shots...