This could not have been a more fun and more successful event! After shooting product with Flaxsleep last month, I was super stoked to be called back to capture their Launch Party. So many people, friends and families of the Flaxsleep Trio, came out to show their support and many more passersby also joined to see what all the fuss was about. We all crammed into Little Mountain's tiny shop to mingle, enjoy drinks and snacks, and of course to jump into Flaxsleep's Photobooth Bed! It was such a joy to be witness to this exciting milestone for these hardworking women and an honour to have played a small part in commemorating the wonderful hot summer evening of their launch.

Enjoy.

Well done, girls.
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Another fun event out in Downtown Vancouver was the Opening Reception for photographer Antonia Jane Allan. Her show, Abandoned X: American, took place at MakeShift Spaces, a pop-up space dedicated to helping small businesses, artists, and speakers to achieve exposure.

It's been quite a while since I've attended an art show (my last gallery visit was at the VAG whom was hosting the dinner conference I was shooting...) and I am pretty sure that checking out more art is on my TO DO list for 2018. Antonia's scenes were rich in colour and textures. Abandoned places never lose their creepy interest. Seeing past lives decay and their spaces be left vulnerable to mother nature reminds us of our own temporary stay here. When we are gone, what is left behind of us? I've started reading becasue 2018 is also the year that I am trying to exchange scrolling for digesting actual physical books. One line I read the other night from The Essex Serpent is quite a fitting description for this Abandoned collection:

"All that is solid melts into air ... whole empires are brought down by nothing but ivy and time."

So very true.

More gallery shows and more books. 2018.

Flaxsleep Launch Party

Abandoned X: Amercian