A friend of mine recently launched Ball Coffee Co., a Toronto-based coffee bean company that offers free 48-hour delivery to almost anywhere in the Greater Toronto Area. Their beans are sustainably sourced from Peru, Brazil, and Ethiopia, and artfully roasted here in Toronto. I was asked to photograph some promo images for their website and social media, and it was just what I needed to feel excited to be behind my camera again. These images were created using four sheets of white foam core and my Godox V1 Flash.
Los Angeles in 35mm
As I sit here in quarantine, I can’t help but reminisce about my bachelorette weekend in Los Angeles this past February. Eight of my closest friends and I rented an Airbnb in the heart of Venice, steps away from Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Not one for your “typical” bachelorette drinking activities - mainly because I am just too old to weather a hangover with dignity - we spent the weekend window shopping on Abbot Kinney, eating very well at Gjelina, Scopa, and Butcher’s Daughter (to name a few), hiking Los Leones in the Pacific Palisades, and exploring DTLA and Little Tokyo, my favourite neighbourhoods in the city. On our final day in LA, we journeyed over to Malibu for a Malibu Wines Safari, where we sipped local Californian wine amongst animals named after celebrities - you can’t get more LA than that! The weather in LA was perfect, and the weekend was a much-needed respite from Toronto’s never-ending winter.
These photos were taken on Kodak Portra 400 in Los Angeles, Malibu, and Manhattan Beach.
