Travel - Toronto Weekend - TIFF

This weekend I traveled to Toronto with fellow photographer George Clarence and Dennis Radford. This trip was for the 500px Global Photowalk. That was a bust as we were not only late, they were also left without us and we were unable to catch up to them. We later regretted the trip as it was in Hamilton, ON and should have stayed in the city. Enough with the chatting lets get to some of the pictures. Video will soon follow.

Hamilton, ON

George and Dino 

This time we stayed in the heart of the Downtown Toronto on John and King St. Being downtown felt better than home. Everywhere we went was something positive.The love that we received from some of the locals was unreal. From shop owners to employees and even random people on the street. From great people to even greater food, oh gosh the food was life. Poutine!!!! Nothing is was ate twice different types every day and every few hours (Thanks Dino!!!). I can't forget our wonderful host Kate who allowed us to use her place that was in the heart of the city.

Lamborghini Hurcan

Wonderful artist name Ashleigh

Shot from Sandy (I can't remember her name..oh she gonna kill me)

Churros!!

Lawerence St. Market

Sandy taking a hit before the shotgun

George getting these Chinese kids to jump for a picture

Peaceful Read

Testing the 105 F1.4 George

Testing the 105 f1.4 Dennis

Travel - City of Angels

Before the Camera Artist Summit mentioned in the last blog, I took a quick trip to Los Angeles to visit my brother and his wife and son. They were out there for a few months and I needed a reason to get away for a while. 

While there, I spent most of the time just chilling with them. We did drive around Hollywood and walked Venice Beach. During that walk, I decided to do an impromptu photoshoot. Even though I left most of my equipment back at the hotel. To visit my brother, I was also trying to plan a shoot with some of the local models in the LA area. That was a failure, but I'm not going to give up on my goal. Back to the business at hand, With the equipment I had was one body (D7100) and one lens (18-70) and the sun as my only source of light. 

Travel - Vegas Part 2

This year I went to Las Vegas for my birthday, even though my original plans was to try to fly to Japan for a few days. The real reason for this trip was for my brother to finally see his girlfriend after six months. During the time there I rarely seen my brother as the aunt asked if it was okay if he stayed with her. I said it was okay as he was the one that paid for the room. As for my time there, I wondered about strip and enjoyed my time.

Effiel Tower at the Paris hotel and casino

View from the Eiffel Tower

HellCat Challenger being given away at The D

Waterfall inside the Venetian 

The day that we were we leaving, We all (Meech, Taylor, Trish and myself) made a trip to the desert of Las Vegas. The area we went to was Red Rock Canyon. There we walked two paths around the area. The scenic route in itself is a full 13 miles around. While it was extremely hot, we manage to reach an area that has a small river bank that is dry during the small, but it had a small watering hole. 

When I make another trip to Vegas I will be hitting up another desert path and this time I will be better equip to walk the desert heat.

Taylor and her Aunt Trish 

The moon was out.

Meech helping Taylor down 

Red Rocks

In the search for water

Looking for the path for water

Vegetation in the desert