A gift was given to me today. I did not expect it. I stammered for words. I tried to reject it. But I am grateful for it. I asked for something today. Many times I’ve asked. Light is one thing that makes me happy. And oh, how the light was beautiful tonight. I had to stop and take some pictures, and try to capture a bit of it. More to come later. writing the words on the image was inspired […]
Categories: Light • Tags: beautiful light, golden hour
I didn’t take many photo’s this week. Actually, I didn’t take any at all, unless you count yesterday’s cell phone pic or this crazy picture of me jumping in my basement. But let’s pretend you didn’t see that. This evening I have the pleasure of doing a maternity shoot for my sister’s {who just happened to fly off to Costa Rica yesterday for 3 weeks!} friend. She said she’s up for anything…. mwhuah!!! We’ll be shooting out at Kariya park […]
Categories: Everyday • Tags: End of the week wrap up, Toronto Photographer
http://www.worldphotoday.org Ya, apparently that’s today. I had no clue. The photo below, taken with my phone, while driving home. Just loved how many clouds were in the sky.
Categories: Everyday • Tags: Toronto Photographer, World Photography Day
I didn’t start out to shoot a headshot. But since I had an {almost} willing model that I was already stalking with my camera and I had started to think about the awesome headshots of Peter Hurley, {watch a great video here from him on getting a great headshot}, and I wondered if I could pull off a totally off the cuff, quick headshot. I decided to use the wall in my office, which happens to be gray as I […]
Categories: How to shoot • Tags: 1 light headshot, headshot, Photography By Ardean, Shooting with 1 hand
won’t you be altrooist with me??
Categories: Everyday • Tags: Altrooist, Altruism, Doing good deeds
I posted the lyrics to this song by Ian Kamau, more than a year ago on my facebook and came across the vid for it on his now launched website, here. It’s off his ‘Love & Other Struggles’ mixtape, released in 2010. I think this is my favorite song off the mixtape, as it speaks of love and 1 to 1 relationship, and also touches on our relationship with our peer groups – how we refuse to see the sameness. […]
Categories: Everyday • Tags: Choose You, Ian Kamau, Love, Love & Other Struggles, regret, Toronto Artist
I’m SOOOO tired. What with being sick the beginning of the week and then late nights the latter part, I need to go to bed, like now. Right after I write this little blog post… This weekend will be filled with some catch up photo editing and some gardening, which will entail a whole lot of weed pulling – oh fun! What’s really fun is that I just came across this site: Word11, Toronto’s Blogging Festival. WORD11 is the world’s […]
Categories: Everyday • Tags: End of the week wrap up, Toronto Photographer
I found this link to the Artist Statement Generator from a tweet by Lindsay Adler, a photographer out of the New York area, who I just started following. I thought it was a fun read. The bolded words/links, are the one’s I plugged in. Ardean Peters’s Artist Statement Through my work I attempt to examine the phenomenon of Toopy as a methaphorical interpretation of both Richard Avedon and smiling. What began as a personal journey of Darnism has translated into […]
Categories: Everyday
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