Alex Weatherston’s Photography Blog

Photo of the Vancouver waterfront taken from the stanley park side of coal harbor.

Since my deviantart account has been getting more attention than my website I decided to do a little update here. I graduated from VFS just 2 weeks ago and it’s weird not having to go to class every day. You get into such a routine doing the same thing every day that when change comes it’s hard to switch. It’s also time for the real test to begin - getting a job in the industry. While there are many companies in Vancouver, there aren’t an overabundance of positions open for juniors, and the ones that are open are usually for artists or programmers. Luckily I have the support of my family so I’m not too worried yet, but this statement might be ironic if I wind up begging on the street in a month or so. We’ll see…

Photography wise things are returning to “normal”. I’m able to attend the weekly photoshoots that I missed so much, and it’s nice to hang out with the fighting dreamers team again even if i’m behind a camera the whole time. The group has become very popular on the internet, and are now #30 for most youtube director subscribers (it’s nearly 4000 now) and over 110,000 channel views. Nuts! It might be time to start helping with the videos they make since I do have the time… we’ll see. Anyway, as usual, check my deviantart page for my latest photo uploads.

Till next time~

So it’s been a while since I updated. As you probably have noticed, most of my Sakuracon 2008 photos have been uploaded to the gallery segment of my website. I am continuing to take photos locally when I have a spare minute or two, but time is very scarce at the moment as our final project industry presentation night is just over 3 weeks away. We also learned that Will Wright (of Sim City and The Sims fame) will be giving a lecture in Vancouver on the same night as our presentations. Hopefully they will be rescheduled or we’ll be presenting to an empty room.

Our game - Ajax and Argo - is coming alone quite well. We came in on our break to continue the work and made tons of progress. Right now a ton of work is going on on many different areas from art and textures to designing our intro cutscenes and level building to, of course, coding. Check out our game’s blog here.

I’ll finish with a brief description of the picture above. Yuna came back from trips to Disney land and Disney world, so she was gone for a good month. Luckily she had time over the weekend to have a quick photoshoot by the beach, though sand is more suitable for Gaara then Sasuke, so we stuck to the forest. More pictures will be up on my deviantart account so check there for more frequent updates.

Till next time~

Just a quick post… Sakuracon 2008 ended just 2 days ago, and the process of working on all my photos and getting them uploaded has begun. Look for more and more to be posted in the gallery in the coming days. I’ll also be writing a convention review this year, so stay tuned for that too.

Whew… long time no update. I have been keeping my deviantart up to date (somewhat), but a combination of school and… well yea pretty much fulltime classes spent shut away in the dungeon of the Vancouver film school have ate my time up.

I was able to escape for a day to take pictures of my group’s new cosplays - some of the characters from D.Grey Man. I’ve included one of the photos with this post.

Aside from that, It’s already time for Sakuracon, and so I shall be venturing down to seattle in 3 days to enjoy that - and by enjoy I mean dash around madly (sometimes in costume) taking pictures of people and events. Look for a massive update and influx of new photos on monday of next week.

I also won a new phone recently (Nokia N95) which has a blog feature, and now that I have a new memory card and everything has been figured out function wise, I’m going to try to make a post or two every week… something small with a photo or video. Man, I’m amazed at the people who do the “Photo a day for a year” challenges… what determination!

Merry Christmas! (Will post more later!)

Wow, it’s almost christmas… time flies when your week is populated with class. I look at my website and think I should update more, but I don’t have time for video games let alone writing a blog, but wait, I’m writing now… so that must mean i’m procrastonating and not doing work. Oh well, it’s 3am and I can’t stare at game interface designs anymore, and I don’t want to resume writing my 50 page design document - so i’ve taken a break, worked on an image and am posting here.

It was just the other friday that twin_fools was back in town and we were all standing infront of a huge waterfall near squamish freezing our butts off and slipping over icy rocks, but it seems like it was just yesterday. Everyone in our little group misses her, and as of this posting it’s only 17 more days till she’s back in town for good. We thought about planning secret airport pages, perhaps we could get roxas paged as she arrives, but apparently they don’t do that anymore. Drat.

It’s also nice to finally have a great group of cosplayers that continually have new costumes, but more importantly have kickass ones. But even more important than the costumes is their attitude and friendship. It’s only been half a year, but we’ve all grown close to eachother, and it’s kinda become a second family. Ramen, costume planning and mario party are weekly events (though nobody wants to play mario party with me anymore) and are a welcome break from the sometimes mundane school drudgery. It’s also the only time I seem to take photos, as doing walk around photography is not on the menu anymore.

I find myself envying my friend and his 2 brand new lenses, but then I think that I would not put them to good use and they would do what my 70-200 F4L is doing - sitting in my camera bag gathering a fine layer of dust. So much for the “must have” lens. Im hoping someone will trade me their 17-40 F4L for it, but so far craigslist hasn’t yeilded good results.

So yes, christmas is coming, twin is back, and there will be many photos taken before the year is over. Hit my deviantart account for updates, well at least more than this website for the time being.

Discussion in class about blogs prompted me to provide a brief update. It also provides me with a quick distraction from homework. Not much aside from school happening lately. There might be an opportunity for photos coming up on saturday though, and if pictures do end up happening, I’ll post them to my gallery or to my new flickr account, and the really good pictures will end up on deviantart. Not much going to be updated website-wise. Perhaps I’ll have more time over the holidays as that will be when I will re-construct Anime Evolution’s website.

I’ve also noticed my pictures popping up around the internet, on places like 4chan and gaia online. I don’t mind people using my pics, but giving me no credit makes me sad. And it makes me ANGRY when people hot-link from my website. Don’t do that or I’ll replace the image with something not-so-nice when you least expect it. You’ve been warned!

Yaay, time for mini update. Term 3 has started, term 2 is over. Essays make me sad, as do last minute design documents. Classes seem more crammed than ever, with three 9am-9:30pm days a week. Sleep is at a premium, and it doesn’t help that my alarm clock doesn’t work. I haven’t been taking too many pictures since most people are away on vacation. Hopefully new photos will appear soon, for now I’m working on old ones I never got around to doing. I leave you with this remastered version of twin.fools asclassic naruto re-creating the “wind” ending.

This is a dual update, both for my website and for my DA account. I find it’s easier to write one entry for both places, as I’m finding my time is REALLY limited these days. I recently uploaded a new picture to my DA account - of my friend cosplaying as Sora on the beach at sunset. I’m really happy with the amazing flood of views the picture got, and so is she. I have been without my camera for almost a month now, and it’s getting a to be a bit of a hassle borrowing my fellow photog’s cameras. I know they’re kind and they don’t mind, but not working with my own gear is… weird to say the least. So much for Canon’s estimate of 15 days. Tomorrow I get to run around richmond to get to the depot to pick up my package from purolator.

School life progresses - slowly. 9 classes a week, most of which give an assignment every class, is quite taxing on me. I’ve had very little time to get out and take photos, but school takes priority over all. Things have been a bit slow lately, as my most energetic friend has moved to the states to persue education. I can only hope that the powers of Soviet Canuckistan draw her back to the motherland - cause what’s the fun in a town whos only form of entertainment is making cheeze?

This week was a bit of a break, as there was no extra work, however the coming weeks will be quite busy, so I will slip into another phase of non updates. I will however try to get a few more photos up before then.