Revision

Revision


Soon I will have much more free time to start photographing for my own personal interest, and I'm very excited to finally be able to do so. Last year I didn't know what I was getting myself into with my job, school, and club responsibilities, but now that I see just how much I could achieve in one year, I hunger for more, and for something different.


While my past year's decisions was based on "I don't do enough, I need to push myself, I need a strong resume for business", I finally understand why I didn't succeed as well as I would've wanted to. Business was just not the passion that'd get me through life happy, and with a huge chunk of my life so dry and uninteresting to me, it probably affected my motivation for everything else.


I wouldn't have wanted to come to this conclusion 3 years into my program, but it took strenuous internship applications before I realized that I would NEVER want to work 40hr weeks in a suit. And while it's might've been a waste of money and time, university was never suppose to just give anyone a piece of paper (although it helps with life), it was suppose to give people 3-5 years of an experience. 3 year of getting to make my own decisions and everything finally hit me.


So this is the revision of myself. I've stopped applying for internship applications 3-4 weeks ago, my club responsibilities are almost completely over, school is over in 2 months and I've established hopeful (and attainable) goals for the next 5 years. 


And with my recent shift back to photography, I've decided to make initial steps in making it official.

1) I've returned to Flickr and de-cluttered my photostream. (removed over 80-90 photos), probably going to remove more
2) I've begun saving up for new camera equipment, tried/began selling my old equipment
3) I've returned to multiple photography news/technology websites

and lastly,

4) Planned for something else to open up soon.

Can't wait, so excited.

A Week of Toronto: Day 6 + 7: Edward Gardens + Mirvish Village

Just in case you don't know what I'm doing, click [THIS] to be updated on my 2011 summer photoshoot!


Day 1 at The Distillery District is here - [Here]
Day 2 at Chinatown and Kensington Market is here - [Here]
Day 3 at the Toronto Islands is here - [Here]
Day 4 at Allan Garden's Conservatory - [Here]
Day 5 at the St. Lawrence Marketplace is here - [Here]

Day 6 - Edward Gardens               

Anyone remember this shot I did a year ago? I still love it, it's probably still my favourite shot that I ever took.

Edward Garden's was BORING. Maybe it was cause it was hot, and I was hungry, but there was no good landscape shots I could've taken anyways. This guy basically shows just how boring it was.

Day 7 - Mirvish College (Bloor + Bathurst)       

Mirvish Village was actually a neat little neighbourhood. Even if their website seems like it hasn't been updated in ages, the 'village' itself seems pretty updated. so many pubs and restaurants to be seen. and even the GIANT Honest Eds, I wonder if it's still in business, all i saw around it was other stores.

I also ended up in Korean town...so many Karaoke places and smokers everywhere, never felt so out of place in my life.

-Canon Ma

A Week of Toronto: Day 5 - St. Lawrence Marketplace

Just in case you don't know what I'm doing, click [THIS] to be updated on my 2011 summer photoshoot!


Day 1 at The Distillery District is here - [Here]
Day 2 at Chinatown and Kensington Market is here - [Here]
Day 3 at the Toronto Islands is here - [Here]
Day 4 at Allan Garden's Conservatory - [Here]

I hate how all the photos I liked aren't even the ones that I took at the destination. Maybe whoever said "It's not about the destination, but the journey there that's important" was right. My fave? the top 3 B&W photos, I think i'm getting just a tad better at shooting/editing street pics. Comments?

"HI!" child to baby

3 more with a stripped road and BAM, epic album cover.

This woman ain't playin.

I'm sure everyone has alrdy been to St.Lawrence Marketplace, so what's new about it? They're renovating it so instead of metal gates you now have an electronic door, there are now more Asians as the sellers, and the other marketplace I visited just north of it was all cleared out. 

There was also a cool gallery of photos on the 2nd floor, so of course I checked it out. 


-Canon Ma


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A Week of Toronto: Day 4 - Allan Garden's Conservatory (+ Chinatown + AGO + Ryerson University)

Just in case you don't know what I'm doing, click [THIS] to be updated on my 2011 summer photoshoot!


Day 1 at The Distillery District is here - [Here]
Day 2 at Chinatown and Kensington Market is here - [Here]
Day 3 at the Toronto Islands is here - [Here]
Day 5 at the St. Lawrence Marketplace is here - [Here]

Allan Gardens was surprising. I thought it'd just be a normal greenhouse filled with flowers and trees, but no. It was surprising because it was much larger than I thought, and had much more things than I thought. The gardens had an entrance to a huge circular dome which housed a lot of tropical and exotic plants, which is completely normal, nothing out of the ordinary. 

But look through door number 1 and you'll see a whole desert area (which was incredibly hot), and through door number 2 had an area filled with plants that were more accessible for us to plant, and had I think 3 or 4 ponds (one filled with goldfish, another with a watermill, this conservatory was high bawling).

After the gardens (which was beside a huge dog park btw, puppies galore), we decided to walk around Ryerson University, and asked for the most interesting building to visit. We eventually decided that the archetectural building had the most to offer, and even if I wasn't that impressed, there WERE a lot of projects hanging everywhere.i.which is cool...I guess...

After Ryerson we decided to hop on the streetcar and go to University of Toronto  Chinatown (by accident). But for some reason I didn't see a lot of asian people. Wierd.

And lastly, the last place we decided to visit was University of Toronto  Art Gallery of Ontario. In where I found out that I can't care about art statues, paintings, or ship models. They had a very little section for photography and it wasn't even modern photography. I had to admit...I was sad. But on the flip side, the AGO and ROM are free on wednesday. Go visit if if you have time.

Btw, does anyone know the photography laws in Canada/Ontario? I would love to know them in detail because everytime I take a picture for this blog/flickr, I feel like I'm breaking some privacy law or something.

And yes, there is no love for UoT, Sorry.

-Canon Ma

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