Quierta's blog

This blog I'm actually writing on the correct date so the date I'm posting it is when I wrote it, unlike the first three.

I took my camera with me to Canada and took a few hundred pictures. Nowhere near as many as I took on my first trip, which averaged about 700 pictures, but the quality came out much better this time due to me having a better camera.

That being said, the 4th of 4 blogs will be a summary of the vacation, illustrated by the pictures I took.

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The Land

The backyard was just as I remembered it from last time - huge and beautiful. I took this from the end of the backyard, the house in the center ((white)) being theirs. That's not the end of their property, but I didn't want to go further so I stopped.

To the right of where I was standing in this picture there's a huge peninsula of a fishing company. What I didn't notice last time, so I'm not sure if it's new or if I wasn't looking, was a small lighthouse on a thin piece of land jutting out into the water. I decided to take a few pictures of it, and this is my favorite:

I was about to go back in the house when I turned around and realized how pretty the rest of the area was, so I turned off my zoom and took a picture using the Beach setting, used for bright sunlight. I like this picture sooooo much:

The last picture I have of the beach property is of the sunset I saw. They were all beautiful, of course, but I have tons of pictures of the sunsets without clouds in the sky, and they're all boring and uninteresting. One night I noticed some really cool clouds in the sky and took pictures of it. Unfortunately, all the pictures got lens flare, something which I didn't notice until I saw them on the computer. So they're all pretty much ruined, but this one was the best of the bunch:

The Beach

On the second day, I think it was, my Uncle Roland took me and my sister to the beach. This was the same beach that I had visited last time, but only looked at from far away. This time, with the low tide, I got to go down and take close-up pictures. I took loads of the water, such as the one above, from a close distance. They all came out good, but this one was the most interesting, with the splashing of the water.

My sister was wearing sandals and capri-pants, so she was in the water. After a while I got the idea to use her as somewhat of a model, and I had her make footprints in the sand:

I usually don't take pictures of people, but the view and the loneliness of the place was too good not to take advantage of. Honestly, this picture was an accident, but I still like it:

As I said, I usually don't take pictures of people, mostly because of the paperwork that's involved. So I started taking pictures that just used certain parts that didn't include her face so it wouldn't seem as familiar as it was art:

The Cove

Smugglers Cove used to be a bootlegging business. I don't have a picture of the entrance of the cave, but the cave itself isn't the only thing beautiful about the place, such as the surrounding area in the above picture.

The last time I went to the cove, it was high tide, so we didn't get to go down and do anything really interesting. This time it was low tide, so we got to go all the way across, and I got to see things that I couldn't see last time. For one, there were a dozen little pools of water lying around, which left plenty of room for pictures like these:

I also saw that there was a miniature water fall which was nothing more than water pouring in a stream down some rocks. I wasn't able to catch the steep part that was more of a water fall, but I did catch the stream:

I played around with the settings and decided to take a few different angles, and I really like this one:

At the end, we went back up the stairs leading to the top and went down another set, to the top of the cove looking down on where we just were. There was a small island of a rock sticking out of the water, which I took a picture of, trying to capture the water hitting it:

Halifax

We took a two day trip to Halifax, which was a 3 hour drive from where we were in Saulnierville. On the first day, we went to Sears, because my aunt wanted to look for shoes.

And sweet Jesus we were there for an hour, trying on every pair, working at it like it was the end of the world if she didn't get the right pair. But I'll talk about that in my next blog about women and show stores.

I was so bored that I had to draw a shoe, above in the picture. Tiny 5 minute drawing that I made while sitting down. Did it in a tiny drawing pad I got, maybe 3x3.5 inches.

On the way into Sears we actually saw this dress that was gorrrgeous. It had a white and black top around the chest area, and the bottom was white but was covered with a black sheer fabric. I tried to draw it two days later when I was bored, but since I didn't have the model to look at i sorta forgot what it looked like, and since I don't know the correct perspective rules completely it was somewhat hard. I drew it quickly in about 5 minutes:

Now, I complained about girls taking so long in shoe stores, but just for the heck of it, at the third shoe store we stopped at I decided to go in. I walked in, looked at the wall, and immediately picked out a pair and bought them.

...Well, mom bought them. But since I NEVER want anything, she was like "PLEASE LET ME BUY THEM" and I was like "OKAY"

They took all of ten seconds to point out, but I loooove them:

They're usually not the style I wear, but I wanted to try them out. But what I looooved was the design on the side:

Sunglases

I was sitting at the kitchen table one day, utterly bored, no idea what to do. So I decided to draw my sunglasses.

The right side is a little messed up because I got lazy and started to lose track of my perspective rules. I mis-drew a few lines and angles, but the picture as a whole came out alright. I didn't go into too much detail with the color and shine because I was just working with a mechanical pencil, and it was only meant to be a quick drawing. I did go into a little more detail as I started picking it up over the next few days, but I don't have too much intention of completely filling it in with detail, shine, etc.

Going Home

Before we got onto the boat, my grandmother had my mom take a turn off of the road and go down the waterfront. The view was too beautiful for me not to get out of the car and take more pictures, like the one above, and this one: