The Body [Tattoo]

My sister recently had this tattoo done. When looking at it, unlike in the Russian jails, people do not initially understand what the tattoo means. This is an image that is of her own design, and it meaning really only known to her until disclosed.

Tattoos are becoming more a part of self-expression than a telling of the wearer's life story, even in the Russian criminal system. My sister's tattoo is of her astrological sign: Libra (the Scales).

The tattoo is like a self-portrait using the skin as the canvas or film, whether in the past or in modern times.

Fairy Wings [PhotoWalk]

This weekend I did another walk around Lethbridge, on my first walk I found so many things that I did not notice about Lethbridge. I have lived here my entire life and I have never walked the streets of downtown. Mainly because I live on a farm 30 min outside of the city, but still, twenty-one years is a long time to have never walked these very familiar streets. On this second walk I completely changed my upcoming project. I found many different things. My image here with the fairy wings was inside a bus shelter. I could not resist placing myself in front of them for a picture. I saturated the color to make them brighter in the light. My over-all experience has been that walks should become a habit, things change so quickly week to week, that they are hardly noticed and photography kind of makes them permanent and timeless.

Lighting and Reflections [I Wear My Sunglasses @ Night]

This pair of sunglasses that I have are really reflective. The flash from my camera makes them look really Hollywood because the majority of the light is reflected back onto the camera lens. Since my flash is really bright I think that it is a good thing I was wearing those sunglasses, otherwise I may have become blind.
Reflected light can be utliized as a light source. With my image here this is not the case. My light source is my flash, which is just reflected back into the camera. Reflected light as a light source would be the light from "Source A" hits "Object B", then the light is reflected off of "Object B" to light up "Object C", and then "Object C" is photographed. That would be a case of where reflected light would be used as a light source.