Last week I participated in a great workshop put on by Fer Juaristi and Davina + Daniel. I love workshops because they are an opportunity to watch how other photographers see the world. They are also a great opportunity to see old friends and meet new ones! Thank you Fer, Davina, and Daniel for sharing your knowledge and passion with us. I had a fantastic time and learned so much! You guys are truly inspiring!
lol!! I LOVE this photo!!! You were so much fun my dear and am happy to call you a new friend! xox
thanks so much jenn! it was such a pleasure meeting you and having you part of the workshop. hope to see you again when we’re back in TO!
I SO wanna do a workshop. I missed one just last month, by a few days. Hopefully I’ll catch another one soon! Where was this one located?
As you may know I was in Costa Rica just a short time ago. I went with iRetreat, a fantastic Toronto based travel company, to photograph a yoga & surf adventure. Words cannot describe how incredible this experience was for me. There will be more pictures to come but in the meantime, here is where I would rather be on this cold and windy Toronto day.
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I can only imagine how awesome this trip must have been!
Looking forward to the rest of the images!
Awesome depth! Looks lovely!
I love this time of year. The additional hours of sunshine really help float my boat. I feel a renewed pep in my step. I’m also pretty excited about my upcoming travel schedule. I thought I would share it with you in case we happen to be in the same spot at the same time and you want to make some purdy pictures. Next week I head off to Costa Rica. I have the absolute honour of photographing an incredible yoga and surf trip with iRetreat. Stay tuned for pictures. We will be pretty isolated in the remote area of Carate Beach but if you happen to find yourself there let me know (in advance, not sure about technology access). I will however be in Costa Rica’s capital, San José, April 17 & 18. I’m home for a bit and then off to Ottawa May 6-8 for Christina and Michael’s wedding. I’m so excited to work with them again! And finally (for now) May 17-24 I will be in Vancouver. Give me a shout if you want to hang out. Here is a picture of Neko. She doesn’t like it when I travel!
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This post is long overdue! It is so easy to let my personal photos get shoved aside during wedding season. Back in May I went to India for a wedding and for two and a half weeks my friend Debra and I traveled around the South. Even though this was my second trip to this great country it was still quite the experience! We spent the first couple of days exploring Kochi and Fort Kochi. The Chinese fishing nets of Fort Kochi made a beautiful place to watch the sunset on our first night.
The next day we hired a tuk tuk (auto rickshaw) driver to take us on a tour of Fort Kochi. He took us everywhere including the town laundry station.
After we spent some time going through the spice market. This is mace. I had never seen it in its unground state before.
We arrived in Varkala to spend a few days on the beach. I highly recommend this gorgeous beach and its quaint little restaurants perched up on the cliff.
From Varkala to Madurai we took an overnight train. May is a busy time for Indian trains because it is summer vacation for most Indians. When we first arrived in India we started looking into trains, only to discover that they were fully booked. Miraculously, a travel agent that had been helping us was able to find a spot in a sleeper car, but without air conditioning. We were very excited because the thought of a 10 to 12 hour bus ride was even less appealing. During the wee hours of the night when we were wandering from car to car trying to find our spot it was pointed out to us that we were supposed to be in 3rd class sitting. We protested for a while insisting that we had been assured that our ticket was for sleeper, non-A/C, but to no avail. We had been given the wrong ticket/misunderstood/a mix-up happened…. That night sitting 3 to a bench in full florescent lighting sweating through my clothes I grew as a person, or at least that is what I’m telling myself!
The beautiful interior of the Sri Meenakshi temple in Madurai.
These fried peppers were so yummy. This lady also made the best masala chai we tasted!
To escape the extreme heat we took a bus to the mountain city of Kodaikanal where we hired a guide to take us into the bush. Our only instructions were to take us somewhere where we would not see anyone. This is quite a feat in a country of 1 billion people! We didn’t want to hike for several hours only to reach our destination and have a tour bus pull up. Our guide was wonderful. He showed us some incredible sights and these little cuties were as close as we got to humans.
After another overnight train, not quite as memorable as the last, we made it to Mahabalipuram on the East coast of Tamil Nadu. I took this next picture at sunrise while the fishing boats were heading out for the day.
Debra diligently writing in her travel diary.
Later that day on the same beach the fishermen sorted out their nets.
A sari store in Chennai.
The trip culminated with the wedding festivities so my personal photo show ends here. Thank you for looking!
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Jen, these are gorgeous. I really want to go but if i can’t i’m glad I can vicariously live through you!
wooh! I swear I’d be booking a ticket to India now if I didn’t have to do home reno’s right now. Beautiful captures!
Been meaning to post but you do amazing things capturing the colour range and density (people, plants, wildlife, architecture) of the place…can almost feel the heat pressing me down and the sound of overhead fans. Any surfers at Varkala? 
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