The one and only...Charly Folk

Meet Chris, aka Charly Folk. A talented and charming folk musician who I happened to encounter on my latest trip to Victoria, Vancouver Island. Charly Folk was introduced to me through a friend when he mentioned that I was in town and had my camera on me. I had a fantastic time shooting this incredibly talented and insanely creative musician. Some of his work can be found on Myspace < click here.

The "dirty folk" signer has an amazing sound with some fantastic lyrics. He's also a North Shore native which makes him just that much cooler in my eyes!

More can be seen on flickr < click here! Or click on the link at the top of my blog!

Yours,

iGlobal Citizen

Photography marathon training!

You read right. Photography marathon training...I'm stoked! Check out the details here.

In August of 2009, I left on a jet plane.

Destination: Seoul, South Korea.
Purpose: I never quite figured that out...
Why: Help eliminate other languages by pushing English to become a growing global first language  (please note: this was a source of massive internal conflict for me the entire year).

Having never had just "one job", I found myself in constant need of something to do in Korea. I felt myself constantly becoming homesick due to the lack of activities I had available. Then, along came flickr...or better yet, Flickr in Seoul. This wonderful group of people helped not only in making Korea one of the most interesting years of my life, but also brought me back into the world of film photography and reinvigorated my passion for the camera.

While I had always had a huge passion for my camera(s) and photography, it was in Korea with the inspiration of these amazing people that photography became such a huge part of my life (and sanity).

After a year of having to put my photography on hold due to massive pangs of guilt if I left my studying, I jumped at the opportunity to be apart of a photography community again. Particularly something as fun as a photography film marathon. I've always loved a challenge!

It's been a while since I picked up a film camera to be honest. The last time I did would have been my experimentation with lomography.

I started to go a little stir crazy yesterday and decided to pull out my camera(s) after their two month long rest! Headed up to Britannia Beach, a small "historic" mining town on the outskirts of Squamish. People always underestimate this little gem of a town (probably because it is famous for selling "gems" aka hippy crystals and crap). I never cease to be amazed at all the interesting people and fantastic photographic areas I find up there. Here are a few of the digitals that came about my photo adventure yesterday...

These two ships have been at Britannia as long as I can remember. I'm a huge fan of taking pictures of rusted buildings and ships ever since my trip to Alaska. 

Hopefully the film will turn out fairly high quality once I develop it! Let the training continue!

Yours Truly,

iGlobal Citizen

Welcome home?

I've been talking about this for years. I read blog after blog after blog and tell myself "you can do this, seriously, it's not that difficult". Four years later, after the blog craze has started to fade (I've always been a few years behind on fads), I'm finally making my attempt at a blog. After 3 years of constant travel, adventures and stories, I only now decide to give this thing a try.

What now you ask? Why start a blog after returning home? There are plenty of reasons for this...actually there is only one. Can you guess it? That's right....boredom. Like so many of the other twenty-somethings out there, I too am currently over-educated and unemployed. While I thoroughly enjoy waking up in the morning to the smell of coffee and eggs thanks to my dear mother in the morning...this twenty-something needs something to do.

So the jist of it...this blog will consist of:

• Photography updates
• Travel tips and stories (maybe even backdated ones depending on whether I'm caught up on the latest episode of Mad Men)
• Social advocacy (that's right folks, the ravings of a Canadian mad woman)
• Generally interesting things that I find
• and the occasional book review.   

So with that being said, I will now pour myself yet another cup of coffee and sit down to enjoy the wonderful world of blogging.

Yours truly, 

iGlobal Citizen.