Contact Sheets: May 13th, 2013.

Samsung Galaxy S4 Contact Sheet. May 18th, 2013.

Contact Sheet #1. May 18th, 2013.

I’ve decided to start a new project as I shoot for my blog called Contact Sheets. I’ll post my contact sheets from each day of shooting with which camera I shot them with. Throughout the rest of the week I’ll post my favorite images from the contact sheet on the post itself and talk about why I liked that particular image. I’m going to try and do this 52 times over the next year. We will call this #1.

Check back to this post once in a while to see the photos I post and hear about why I choose them.

Photos from the Samsung Galaxy S4. Processed on phone. If you’d like to view large, click the contact sheet and it will allow you to zoom in.

All photos taken on May 19th, 2013.

Left. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Samsung Galaxy S4.

This was my initial favorite from the day. With the road my personal life has taken over the past several months I especially like the sentiment behind this one. Those of you who actually know me would know I’m not that analytical when it comes to photos. Yet, here, the man holding the roses being passed by the woman whom didn’t seem to care just came together too well. I wanted to keep them anonymous as I felt their anonymity allowed for my own introspection.

This is a selfish photograph.

C.A.L.M.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

Yesterday, during a strangely positioned day off I decided to chill in a coffee shop at Yonge and Bloor (a popular Toronto hub). I left the coffee shop to go to a photowalk I wasn’t entirely feeling motivated for. Then:

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

Not the most common of occurrences down one of Toronto’s busiest of streets. I haven’t taken a whole lot of pictures lately and been having some troubles getting the gumption to.

I had to at least check it out.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

All I had with me was this old Sigma and a couple of batteries. I didn’t really think to shoot, as opposed to just figure out what was going on but the camera was in my hand so I took a couple as I walked out.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

I wasn’t inspired enough to go close. Weirdly, in Korea I would have loved this sorta thing. Been right in the middle of it.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

I figured out it was a parade for CALM.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

Cannabis as living medicine.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

I watched as they turned off Yonge.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

I think I’ll look back at this photo as something of a turning point for me. It’s not the photo, per say, more the feeling. After I took it, I had this overwhelming feeling to rededicate.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

Not sure what it was. Maybe just serendipitous epiphany.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

Fear is a choice. Being afraid to succeed is probably one of the worst fears a man can have. I think I came back to Canada afraid. Afraid that the life I had in Korea was a dream. Afraid it wasn’t a possible reality, but a break from such.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

It’s a crazy thought process. Crazy to think that way.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

Perspective changes everything.

Things change fast.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

I thought it was the city. I thought the city had me down. All the stresses of trying to start the “real life.” The intertwined messages of being corporate or artistic.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

It’s akin to living or not. Since coming back to Canada I haven’t been living.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

Surviving isn’t living.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

Maybe I’m not meant to live in “reality.”

Always felt like coming back, getting a real job and starting a real life was what I was supposed to do.

I’m not so sure anymore.

Certainly, I’m “supposed” to live.

The serendipitous epiphany.

Toronto, May 11, 2013. Sigma DP2

PORTFOLIO.

In Squares: Day 1 with the Blackberry Q10

Toronto, Canada. Blackberry Q10

After a month and a half using the Blackberry Z10 as my primary phone and doing quite a bit of mobile photography with it I managed to get my hands on the keyboard ready Q10. I actually had never used a “real” blackberry before other than just in passing. I was sorta skeptical about the quality of a camera on a phone that looked like it would be more at home on a board room table than in a street photographer’s hands.

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From the Chair – Blackberry Z10

Soul Train Tattoo, Toronto, Canada. Blackberry Z10.

Spend most Sundays at this tattoo shop. My boy, Brad does all my work. He works out of a small studio in Toronto. I dig his work.

He is an artist that does tattoos; not a tattoo artist.

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Blind

Somewhere on the 401, Toronto, Canada. HTC 8X.

Driving often leads to tenius strains of deep thought. Pondering, I suppose. After a particularly long day at work in which I spent much of it browsing the Magnum archives I had some time to ponder.

The point in which your photography “looks” meaningless is probably the very same point at which you become a real photographer.

Meaning in photography is tantamount to feeling. Photography for it’s own sake is meaningless in that it doesn’t evoke.

It’s meant to evoke.

It’s meant to be emotive.

I heard once there comes a point in every photographer’s journey where they decide they hate everything they’ve done.

Growth.

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To the Square

“Grey” North York, Ontario, Canada. HTC 8X.

First day of Spring seems far away. At least here, in North York.

North York, Ontario, Canada. HTC 8X.

Perhaps not Spring, but a new beginning. While the weather remains quite shit, moods are changing.

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Headlights – Blackberry Z10

“Grain” Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Blackberry Z10.

Spent far too much time caught in the headlights. Things happen and change. Whether it be for better or worse, the key is keeping on.

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Fine Points

“Winter” Toronto, Canada. Fujifilm X100.

Considering the fleeting quality of life, it comes as an obvious assumption it should be cherished. Each moment, carpe deim, and all that fucking ridiculousness.

Words and phrases. Easy to say.

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