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mmyphotography > July 21, 2009 I'm just getting around to catching up with some more of my photos from the trip to Canada. This one, 'Reflections on Internment' was taken at the Nikkei Memorial Internment Centre in New Denver, British Columbia - a centre dedicated to the history of the Canadian citizens of Japanese ethnic origin who were removed from their homes, stripped of all their possessions but those they could carry, and relocated to internment camps during the Second World War. Even though I'm a Canadian of half Japanese descent, until visiting the centre, with it's artifacts and photographs (some even of the familiar smiling faces of my own family members), I never truly understood the conditions they lived in and the strength of character they must have had re-build their lives with so little, after so much was taken. I was struck by the starkness, the way the small wooden cabins were so cold and damp though I visited the centre in late spring (how cold must it have been when snow covered the ground and the temperature dropped to -29 F the first winter of their internment?) and though I felt almost guilty for it, after largely ignoring my Japanese-Canadian heritage for a great deal of my life, I was proud - proud that these people, my relatives, my Grandma, her siblings, their friends, people I knew so well, but didn't know at all, lived through such hardship and still left behind photos of each other smiling.
mmyphotography > The wedding of Matt and Helen Benn. For the rest, check out 'Events'. June 26th, 2009 Although I've been quite busy behind the camera the last couple weeks - a bike race, a prom, and 'Taste of London' to name a few events - I haven't had the chance to catch up with all my processing and uploading. I'm working towards it ,though, and am happy to say there are quite a few images from Nick's cousin's wedding up in the Events section now. As mentioned before, we were there as guests but were asked to bring cameras, so don't be surprised that there aren't any formal shots. In an attempt to blend in, I actually only took my camera body and two lenses! (Didn't think my massive crumpler rucksack would go that well with my outfit ;) This shot was taken at dinner, couldn't help but get this little detail with the lovely flowers out of focus in the background.
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
mmyphotography > Abstract and Detail photo
Camera: Canon (Canon Eos 40d) |
more details: exif |
original size: 783px x 800px |
Current: 440px x 450px |
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