Marinelli Family Portraits '09

It's that time of year ...



Here's one of the familys I've shot this year for Christmas portraits




Happy Holidays!!

- T

Life's a climb

"the struggles im facing the chances im taking sometimes might knock me down but no im not breaking i may not know it but these are the moments that im gonna remember most yeah just gotta keep going and i i got be strong gotta keep on pushing on cuz

theres always gonna be another mountain im always gonna wanna make it move always gonna be an uphill battle sometimes im gonna have to lose aint about how fast i get there aint about whats waitin on the other side its the climb" - miley cyrus

from winnipeg to toronto and back again

Toronto... what an interesting place. if only i could begin to describe my five days in what they call the "screw face" capital. From Hookers at 3 in the afternoon to taking us 2 hours to get to the Toronto zoo because someone (not going to say any names *cough.cue.cough*) couldn't read their balckberry maps! But all in all it was a wonderful time filled with rain, and music video shoots, and shopping, and hiphop shows, and rappers, and KOTD battles and walking.. and walking.. and more walking!!














-T xo

look at how far we've come..

so pretty much i totally forgot about this blog and can't believe it's already been over a year since my first day of Prairie View. feeling really weird about not going back to school this year is starting to get to me a little i think. buuut i have decided that come february i will be going back to school for hairstyling at at the arts and technology center to continue my education and to keep myself busy while i continue to make my photography business grow.

wish me luck!


since i havent posted in a while here's some photos from some grads i shot in June!

25 years and 9 months ago event

First time flash user and not hating it so much...






over the break it was on of my friends birthdays/concert type thing. we got a small club on co Crydon ROOM720 and it turned out great!! going to lead to alot more.. oh oh oh and i got to use my new wide angle LOOVES IT =)











things are kinda starting to get a little better... just gotta keep my head up.

-T

Neglect, Regret and Uncertainties...

AHHH... yeah that's a bit better.. just a little..

this is a venntt:

neglect and regret = not enough me time, not enough shooting time, not enough them time, not enough him time... really not enough time all together.

uncertainties = basicallyyy like in complete honesty, why am i doing this??
i love it yes,
its what i want to do yes,
its been my dream for years yes,
my passion yes,
m trrrying to put everything i have into it...
but it's gotten to the point that i'm not feeling like i am improving at all anymore and i am wasting everybody elses time who've been super kind to me all because i just don't have the time to get myself out there... im loosing steam very fast..
either i'm sick, working, too tired, sick or too cold, working to keep myself in school, not feeling well, did i mention sick??
nothing seems to be going my way at all lately, it seems everything and everyone is working against me.. i just don't feel cut out for it..
my body hates me this year and it's draining me past the point of return.. i've lost basically all
my confidence..

creativity needs a MAJOR boost..

errr help?

-T

Movie Extravaganza

Review Window:

Photographer L.B Jefferies (james Sterwart) is recuperating from a broken leg and confined to a wheelchair in his small Greenwich Village apartment. He passes the time by spying on his neighbors through his apartment's rear window, including a danceer, a lonley woman who lives by herself, a songwriter working at his piano and serveral married couples, including a salesman, with a bed ridden wife, until the unthinkable happens, he witnesses a murder. It was a little slow but a good story.

City of God:

Taking place over the course of over two decades, City of God tells the story of Cidade de Deus (Portuguese for City of God), a lower class quarter west of Rio de Janerio. The film is told from the viewpoint of a boy named Rocket (Busca pé in Portuguese) who grows up there as a fishmonger's son, and demonstrates the desperation and violence inherent in the slums. Based on a real story, the movie depicts drug abuse, violent crime, and a boy's struggle to free himself from the slums' grasp. I think Ienjoyed this movie the most.

War Photographer:

A Documentary I found really impressive is “War Photographer” about James Nachtwey. The Director of this film managed to mount a small video-cam onto Nachtwey´s camera so the viewer kind of looks “through the eyes” of the photographer. Photography, presented to the public in 1839, was believed to create images that were accurate representations of the world. In 1859, it was predicted that photography would be able to visually document future wars correctly. Photography’s accuracy was assumed and taken as a mechanical impression of reality. As explained by louis Daguerre, the creator of the first commerical photographic process, images produced by the camera were of “absolute truth” and “infinitely more accurate than any painting by the human hand.

-T

New Toy

So for CI this week we started on the History of Photography, which I do have to admit, I am finding really interesting. So our mini assignment was to go to an antique shop and take a picture of an antique camera and write down its information. I went to the Johnson Terminal and I have to say I've always wanted a box medium format camera and so I was looking around and I found the cutest little Lindar camera and fell in love with it, so I bought it haha.. I still have yet to shoot a roll in it, but I am super excited to!!



Everything so far works on it, so hopefully I'll have that luck when I'm shooting my first roll =)

-T

Christmas Break..

Started off with being possibly two of the worst weeks I have had in a VERY long time. Everyone in my class knows I was sick and we all thought it was the comon cold but I decided I should probably go to the doctor to see what was wrong with me for sure (although I had already seen two) and I then found out I had walking pneumonia... wonderful. Bedridden with the most painful chest coughs and headachs EVER! So I missed out on the first two weeks of being able to complete any kind of assignments. Luckly, the Christmas eve I was feeling a bit better and got myself out of bed for Christmas. So with almost two weeks down and nothing started I was rushing to finsh anything I could, not to say I'm completely dissapointed but I mean, I know I could have done much better. Still not feeling the greatest, but slowly getting better. And I did the best I could..

Here's my Linear Narrativee :

New Years Eve.

and a few from my Self Assigned Assignment:

Santa Portraits.

-T