May 31, 2006

Shoe, Dandelions

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My apologies about the spottiness but the madness continues... I would love to say something more coherant but the brain, the heat (global warming is bashing Southern Ontario over the head), the tiredness. This picture reminds me of the breezy afternoon in which it was taken.

Posted by Gayla at 09:54 PM

May 24, 2006

ODGE'S

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I may have spoke to soon about this new scanner. I have been getting newton rings galore! A stack of new scans are all crap. Arg.

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I want to apologize ahead of time if you have emailed me recently with no response. My inbox is out-of-control and my schedule is very demanding. There are not enough hours in a day. I am alive and life is very good... just frenetic.

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Photogrammetry - at Harbourfront Centre's Service Canada building (May 13 - July 9)

Posted by Gayla at 09:26 PM

May 23, 2006

Touch & Go Chess Party

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Chicago

Posted by Gayla at 10:34 PM

May 22, 2006

Pearl

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Posted by Gayla at 10:49 PM

May 15, 2006

Recliner

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Posted by Gayla at 10:12 PM

May 14, 2006

Smoking

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Thanks to everyone who came out to the show opening on Friday night!

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Green Minds

I need your help finding subjects for a project I'm starting this spring/summer. I'm looking to photograph gardeners in their gardens.

What is a garden? My concept of a garden is very open-ended. It can be anything from a sprawling lush paradise to a single plant growing in a coffee can. Gardens include but are not limited to: community gardens, allotments, backyards, balconies, rooftops, front yards, containers on a patio or street corner, store windows, fire escapes, windowsills, guerilla gardens....

Define gardener? A person who grows and/or cultivates a plant or plants. I want to document as many types of gardens and gardeners as possible... gardener's of all ages, nationalities, genders, and experience levels...

Please email me: Your contact info, a few words about the garden and the gardener, city, and when you think the garden is at its prime.

Note that I don't drive so I may not be able to make it to your location at this time. However I will be in the following cities in 2006: Chicago (next week!), Toronto (always), San Francisco (July), New York (Sept), Miami (Dec).

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PHOTOGRAMMETRY

An active public space exhibition of urban photography.

When: May 13-July 9

Where: Service Canada building at Harbourfront Centre.

Featuring:
Davin Risk : lowresolution.com
Gayla Trail : makinghappy.com
Matt O'Sullivan : thenarrative.net
Sam Javanrouh : dailydoseofimagery.com

Presented by Harbourfront Centre and Spacing Magazine as part of Digifest 2006.

Posted by Gayla at 10:41 PM

May 11, 2006

Allotment Garden I (Yellow)

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PHOTOGRAMMETRY

An active public space exhibition of urban photography.

When: May 13-July 9 (Opening May 12, 7-9pm)

Where: Service Canada building at Harbourfront Centre.

Featuring:
Davin Risk : lowresolution.com
Gayla Trail : makinghappy.com
Matt O'Sullivan : thenarrative.net
Sam Javanrouh : dailydoseofimagery.com

Presented by Harbourfront Centre and Spacing Magazine as part of Digifest 2006.

Posted by Gayla at 11:16 AM

May 09, 2006

Davin (Cherry Blossoms)

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Spring has become a mad dash to capture the constant change before it is too late. I would have missed the cherry blossoms had I not purchased the new scanner. This thing is paying for itself like one of those damn credit card commercials.

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PHOTOGRAMMETRY

An active public space exhibition of urban photography.

When: May 13-July 9 (Opening May 12, 7-9pm)

Where: Service Canada building at Harbourfront Centre.

Featuring:
Davin Risk : lowresolution.com
Gayla Trail : makinghappy.com
Matt O'Sullivan : thenarrative.net
Sam Javanrouh : dailydoseofimagery.com

Presented by Harbourfront Centre and Spacing Magazine as part of Digifest 2006.

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Gardening Stuff: We'll be travelling to Chicago in just over a week where I will be doing another Leafscapes event.

Posted by Gayla at 11:15 PM

May 08, 2006

Yellow

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PHOTOGRAMMETRY

An active public space exhibition of urban photography.

When: May 13-July 9 (Opening May 12, 7-9pm)

Where: Service Canada building at Harbourfront Centre.

Featuring:
Davin Risk : lowresolution.com
Gayla Trail : makinghappy.com
Matt O'Sullivan : thenarrative.net
Sam Javanrouh : dailydoseofimagery.com

Presented by Harbourfront Centre and Spacing Magazine as part of Digifest 2006.

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Gardening Stuff: We'll be travelling to Chicago in just over a week where I will be doing another Leafscapes event.

Posted by Gayla at 11:25 PM

May 06, 2006

Winter Pinhole

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I took the plunge yesterday and got a new scanner. Given that each image was taking between 1.5 and 3 hours to clean, and I had 20 large-sized images to produce, it was becoming obvious that I would not have my images ready in time. It took a few hours to figure this sucker out and to get the Digital ICE TECHNOLOGY working with Silverfast but holy shit! It takes about 30-50 minutes for each image to scan but when it is done I barely have to lift a finger to clean it. I love you scanner. BFF (until you break and we have to open you up and fix you with a piece of cardboard getting tons of dust inside and under the glass rendering you able to scan but a total utter pain in the ass for hi-res images).

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PHOTOGRAMMETRY

An active public space exhibition of urban photography.

When: May 13-July 9 (Opening May 12, 7-9pm)

Where: Service Canada building at Harbourfront Centre.

Featuring:
Davin Risk : lowresolution.com
Gayla Trail : makinghappy.com
Matt O'Sullivan : thenarrative.net
Sam Javanrouh : dailydoseofimagery.com

Presented by Harbourfront Centre and Spacing Magazine as part of Digifest 2006.

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Gardening Stuff: We'll be travelling to Chicago in just over a week where I will be doing another Leafscapes event.

Posted by Gayla at 12:04 PM

May 03, 2006

Taking Off

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Several years ago I sat on our rooftop deck with a group of friends when the conversation shifted to my growing collection of plants and what was up with that anyways? A long-time pal facetiously suggested that I should host a television show and call it You Grow Girl. My response at the time was that I didn't know about a TV show but I was going to register the domain name.

Fast forward to today, several years later, and what do you know I am in the throws of making a pilot of a new-style gardening show... called You Grow Girl. How surreal is that?

Getting to this point has been the culmination of more blood, sweat, and tears than I can possibly get into here. However, in the short term it is the culmination of nearly a year's worth of work on the part of myself and a group of wonderful people who were not only crazy enough to take a chance on me and this thing I have created but they also get where I am coming from, and understand that while having a team is a dream come true it is an emotional rollercoaster for me. It is like letting the kid I nurtured and toiled with through great times and overwhelmingly bad times for years go out into the world in hopes that it will blossom and become everything I had hoped for it. I know I've done everything I can but I still worry that it will get hurt or become involved with the wrong crowd. What's more I am both the parent and the child because I too am about to put myself out into the world in a way that is both insanely exciting and terrifying beyond belief.

That said, this is only a pilot and doesn't guarantee a show will make it on the air. I thought long and hard about when I would say something about this and while I had intended to be more self-protective and wait until we had actual funding to shoot a series, I have finally come to realize that getting this far is a huge success in its own right and I need to start celebrating that rather than putting it on hold in wait for the "right moment." While there is always the possibility that this may not go farther than this next giant step, I am really happy and proud even just to say that I took the risk and gave it a go.

Posted by Gayla at 10:45 PM

Sparkle

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Posted by Gayla at 07:11 PM

May 02, 2006

Post Lunch Table II

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This life of mine is very exciting right now. I am simultaneously exhausted as I am doing the work of at least 3 people, but high on the thrill of it all. You know the optimistic cynic pendulum is swinging way the hell over to the optimistic side when a reformed born-again athiest like myself is almost-sort-of (minus the whole jesus/god parts) agreeing with a surprisingly articulate and large haired woman on 100 Huntley Street. And that one hyper-cutesy-voiced blonde woman didn't make me want to puke on myself either. I'm not saying I could stand it, just that vomit did not rise up from my stomach. What next, I ask?

Posted by Gayla at 09:53 PM

May 01, 2006

Post Lunch Table

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Posted by Gayla at 06:38 PM