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The chill of the morning found its way through my skin and into my bones. The frost on the ground made it slippery to walk.The sound of the outdoors was deafening, the sound of my feet almost silent. Dirt on the ground, covered in a thin layer of frost, coloured my pants as I slid down a small ravine. The water looked like glass as I set up my unwieldy tripod and clicked the shutter.
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My heart raced as I begged my legs to push the bike pedals faster. I needed to reach this place before the sun rose too far into the sky and I had lost my opportunity to photograph the changes that the morning light brought. I dropped my bike to the ground and pulled my tripod from its sheath, my legs almost buckling from the exhaustion of biking 10km. I attached the camera to my tripod, focused the image, exhaling as the shutter clicked.
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We arrived around an hour before the beginning of golden hour. The first thing I wanted to do after constructing our campsite was to explore all of the new sights I had just been immersed in. I headed north and discovered a rocky outcrop that looked out over the lake and found a trail leading down to a small sandy beach below. My tripod sunk into the soft sand but the sunset was approaching and I had very little time. With my camera level, another shot was captured.
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The sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening, bringing light in and out of the world. It is a constant cycle of light and dark that paints the landscape with different colours, creating forms and atmospheres. Each day is a new and vivid display of how incredible the sun is and how little control we have over its direction and intensity. We can only control those light sources, which we create, and leave ourselves at the mercy of the sun.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Words from the artist I have always had a fascination with light and the outdoors. I stop on sidewalks and watch as shadows move and trees blow in the wind. It’s amazing how little control we have over natural light considering how much we revolve our schedules around it. This book is my investigation into how light changes the landscape and how it makes things look so different. I hope that you can find the subtleties in your life that take your breath away and that light inspires you to create and find simple joys in life. The creation of this book would not have been possible without the support of my family, friends, teachers and classmates. I am so honored to have so many people in my life who inspire, love and support what I do. You all mean the world to me, do not ever change. Locations Pages 4: Snyder’s Flats, Main lake | Bloomingdale, Ontario Page 5, 6: Snyder’s Flats, The swimming area | Bloomingdale, Ontario Page 7, 8: Tommy Thompson Park, Cell 1 | Toronto, Ontario Page 10: Tommy Thompson Park, Major lookout | Toronto, Ontario Page 11, 12, 14: Killarney Provincial Park, George Lake | Killarney, Ontario Page 15, 16, 18: Snyder’s Flats, Grand River | Bloomingdale, Ontario Page 19, 20: Tommy Thompson Park, Lake Ontario | Toronto, Ontario Copyright ©2016