Miss Minty Fresh

Scenes from my ever-so-brief visit “home” to West Philly.  “Brief” as in about sixteen hours.  What IS home, anyway?  ….wish I knew.

April 2013

Two days in Leeds, West Yorkshire.

April 2013

All of #toronto smelled like lilacs today. (at Trinity Bellwoods Park)

All of #toronto smelled like lilacs today. (at Trinity Bellwoods Park)

What a lovely lady. Just a couple more teasers before I share a few big albums full of my beautiful friends.

My sweet little guy.  Although he’s doing great and is happy and affectionate and healthy I can’t help but worry that my absence is doing something terrible to him.  

I’m heading out to join the circus tour for a couple weeks in June/July and again in August.  And hopefully in early fall Kai will join me in Toronto for a few months.  For now, it’s the best we can do.  

Photos taken in April 2013 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania

It’s been an incredible week. I love GB.

I recently procured an FD to EOS adapter for a shoot that I did this past weekend.  I knew I’d need a much wider angle than a 50mm but the kit lens just does not open up wide enough for the effect I wanted.  Since the one I really want will be out of my purchasing power for quite some time I looked (ok, Dmytro looked) in the online ads.   A used FD wide angle lens was quickly procured for just over $100, and for less than $150 including shipping and the crappy Tim Horton’s coffee we drank while waiting to meet the lens seller, I had wide angle shooting capability on the T3.  To my delight, I found that this lens (55mm 2.0) has a kind of dreamy halo effect in bright lighting situations…perfect for attempting to recreate those vintage shots in my shoot this weekend.

I posted some teaser shots without any editing on Instagram, but I’ll put them here, too.  It’s more fun that way.  The fully edited set won’t be available for at least a week as I’m currently in [really chilly] northern England until late Thursday evening.  Have a great week everyone.

Photos of Ben and Kai from April 2013

Pear blossoms!

50mm 1.4 on a Canon T3

Sedum

It’s definitely shedding season, isn’t it? I have grey fluffy balls all over the apartment.

Photo of Puppy aka Bup-Bup from this morning

More from my Saturday morning.

My Saturday morning.

Another semi-decent result from my self portrait not-quite-a-project project. Pretty amazing what nice lighting will do, right?

Snaps from Canadian Music Fest at Brooklynn in Toronto on Queen West.  The band is The Black Fever.