Nature

I love love love this photo. I love that the plain of focus is so thin that it has an almost painted feel to it and the subject matter in the background is completely indiscernable. No photoshop filters or effects were applied to give it this oil painting look – this was just how the photo was taken!

With third year finally over and Toronto with gorgeous weather, I can finally get back to the things I love and more importantly the things I’ve always wanted to do. Last summer of my life… best summer of my life.

1. No, I am not referring to the proverbial Gods of rock.

2. Yes, this is beetle procreation captured in art.

From a photographer’s point of view, this is the truest art of macro photography, and it was a formidable challenge capturing these creatures in their, well, rawest form. Literally.

If you’re ever driving to Lake Louise from Banff, I thoroughly suggest – at least once in your life – detouring off of Highway 1 and instead taking the Bow Valley Parkway scenic drive which roughly follows the railway through the mountains.

I just watched Gone With The Wind and wow, this is one movie that timelessly never fails to disappoint, no matter how many times I’ve previously seen it. Perhaps my favorite scene comes right at the end: Scarlett is in ruins after both her daughter and her closest friend have died and the love of her life, Red,  has finally decided that he wants absolutely nothing to do with her, famously expressing “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.” Life has never been so bleak or so painful, and she has no one to blame except herself.

But she is Scarlett O’Hara and even in the face of such calamity when most would crumble, when she is crumbling, she finds the fortitude to courageously and optimistically respond “Afterall. Tomorrow is another day.”

Poignant and epic. I love cinema.