City Life Alphabet

    

    I am learning to love photography once more. I haven't seriously looked at the world through a photographer's eyes in a long time but last week I got to stretch my photography muscles with a cool homework assignment. I walked all over my neighborhood and the downtown area of Winnipeg to capture shapes in the city landscape that make the shapes of letters. I captured the entire alphabet and then I also had to take photos of extra letters to make my name. I moved my neck up and down and side to side a lot. I felt like a bird trying to collect all the angles I needed to build my art pieces. 

Here is the results:

    Later in the week I decided to take photos of events that happened in the city. I transformed into a documentary event photographer and took photos of Winter Fest at the Central Park and also at a block party in the Spence Neighborhood area and at True North Square plaza. I tried to take pictures of people without them knowing I was there but most of the time I asked permission. You can see those pictures on my Instagram: @Maplearticulations

The coolest picture I caught was at the True North Square fire show where I set up my Canon Powershot camera to painting with light settings by changing the shutter speed, aperture, and ISO:

Making Digital Color Palettes

    Yesterday's assignment was fun and simple. I went to a popular mall and walked around taking photos with my iPhone of colorful objects. The furniture store had a lot of cool displays but they preferred neutral, earthy colors over bright, additive colors. Maybe in the spring or summer their colors will be more vibrant and bold. I still got some great captures though! It was fun sampling the colors with the color picker tool and then filling in the squares and organizing them in my palette. Very designer-ish 😉💛

Click on the pictures to enlarge them and then you can read at the bottom, the brief descriptions of my assessment of the color combinations used in the images.