Photography and Victoria Day.

     It was a long expected  weekend. Two days off in retail is hard to get, even for a manager. (It is over, though, and I am kind of  trying to sum it up). A lot of Canadians, I guess, spent it at their cottages or at least left the city for a day.We didn't go anywhere, but spent it close to the ground - I planted flowers and made our balcony look nice and cosy.  Finally the chairs are out and the umbrella is open, candles are ready and now we can say, that the summer is close. But the weather is still not stable - rain, rain, and again rain... Anyways, yesterday we "opened the balcony" officially - we had burgers and beer in the  evening, talked and laughed a lot. It was a nice day and a very warm evening.

        For today there were some plans. First of all, we wanted to go for a walk - like an exercise. I didn't take my camera - it is usually more standing than walking if I do. Though I enjoy it a lot, I feel sorry for my husband, who, being supportive, has to wait instead of walking. So today I decided to separate flies from jam. But rain interfered and we couldn't really go far enough to feel it.

I ended up on the computer, arranging my pictures. Oh, gosh, it is soooo time consuming all this digital stuff. I think, I have to spend twice more time, because my knowledge of the computer and photoshop is very little. Sad. But what can I do? So, looking through my pictures and erasing tons of them, I realised that I am already  tired of taking pictures of flowers. It' so easy to  show their beauty - they are pretty anyways...  I have to move somewhere... Where? I am lost. I have to develop my vision of things, composing them, etc. I look through the pictures of photo.net, read, listen to my friend's advise, but it doesn't help much - there's something one cannot just learn. Photography is an art. Picture taken on a street should be an art too. Each artist has his/her vision. It looks, like I don't have any..

. So I took my camera for a walk trying to look at things in a different way. I don't think I managed, but I ended up in a place I have never been before - on rail way, that passes by not far away. We live on rail side, but I never was on the bridge.... It was kind of fun to see something new. That's about it. I am sorry that I need another 10000 hours to come close to what other photographers see... I hope I will have fun. Here are some results of my attempt...

About this picture at the bottom I have to explain. I read , that there's one of the ways to take candid shots and shots without  rules to make them look different - to take them  from a hip. It means , without framing, focusing, etc. So I tried.... I hoped I'll get this couple into the shot. He is a blind white man, she is a black woman, he has a dog (the dog jumped out of the frame:)), behind them there's Canadian Bible Society...

And of course, I had to finish with the flower. Just because I think it is the last tulip left in the near by area - I know all of them personally, I think.... This is special too, because back home, in Belarus, we called them black... My mom had them in her garden and just a day ago we were talking about black tulips with my friend.... I hope she'll see it...

I forgot to mention, that my adventure was interrupted by a thunderstorm and I had to run, because it was raining cat and dogs... You can tell looking at the pictures - the sky was heavy...Here's a report of my Victoria Day. I wish I could here the response....