MP Photo of the Day: The sparks light up the snow so you know which way’s home

Posted on March 1, 2011

Photo by steveyb, member of the Midnight Poutine Flickr pool.

Lyrics that inspired the title for this entry from Portico – All Your Daughters

Quote of the Day: “All things must change to something new, to something strange” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

MP Photo of the Day: Mighty lord of the winter snow

Posted on February 28, 2011

Photo by sashadm, member of the Midnight Poutine Flickr pool.

Here’s a quotation of the day for you guys:

“Perfection is finally attained, not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away” – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

MP Photo of the day: Tell me you love me

Posted on February 24, 2011

Photo by colchuck, member of the Midnight Poutine Flickr pool.

Lyrics that inspired today’s title: “Tell Me You Love Me” by Frank Zappa

MP Photo of the Day: I say where do my bluebird fly

Posted on February 23, 2011

Photo by joseph racekar passenger, member of the Midnight Poutine Flickr pool.

We (Margot and I – she’s one of the editors of Poutine) decided to name the photo of the day posts after some song lyrics. Today’s lyrics, “I say where do my bluebird fly” is from Swedish signer-songwriter The Tallest Man on Earth. I recently discovered this jewel and have a hard time listening to anything else or even getting his melodies out of my head. Follow the links to find out more about this artist.

And here’s a little quote to inspire your day: “We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made us” – Jean-Paul Sartre

MP Photo of the Day – Hearts of the City

Posted on February 22, 2011

Photo by story astoria, member of the Midnight Poutine Flickr pool.

I’m now one of the main administrators for the Midnight Poutine photo of the day. I’ll do my best to re-post all of my entries on this blog, so feel free to comment or to send me your photos (if you wish to participate). Since this is my own blog, I might decide to muse a bit below the entry with a quote or thought. Stay tuned for more.

“You need to find out if this is a relationship in which you can experience both unity with another person and the development of yourself as a separate being. Can you be close and be yourself at the same time?” – anonymous

There was love…

Posted on February 21, 2011

First Mamiya 645 set: success!

Posted on February 14, 2011

Here’s some of the results of my first set with my Mamiya 645. I’m quite happy with it to be honest. You can see the rest of the set on my Flickr page at www.flickr.com/sarahbrideau

For those of you who are impatiently waiting for a new music blog entry, your patience will soon be rewarded. I’m currently working on some articles for Camuz and I will be posting them on here just as soon as the official release is out. This will include interviews with Buck 65, Atomic 5 and Jim Bryson & The Weakerthans.

Midnight Poutine Photo of the Day is Back!

Posted on December 20, 2010

N.B. This blog post was removed from Midnight Poutine . ca because it did not fit the site’s criteria (and it wasn’t back because it never left – oops!). I chose to leave it up on my site. This entry therefore should not be considered as Midnight Poutine content, and MP shoud not be held accountable for the following entry.

You’ve read that right: the Midnight Poutine, Photo of the Day is back in action. While flipping through some of the thousands of images uploaded on our Midnight Poutine Flickr Pool, I realized that there’s an insane amount of great photos of our beloved city, each one offering a personalized and artful way to portray a part of Montreal. Today’s Photo of the Day is a great example of that: Winter Charm was taken by Andriy Mishchenko. If you have a unique way to see our city, I wish to personally invite you to take part in our Flickr Pool and add some some fabulous photos of your own.

Here’s how it works:

1. To be an eligible match for our Photo of the Day, photos must be in the Midnight Poutine Flickr Pool (obviously);
2. In an effort to be sensible to the rights of photographers’ intellectual property, the chosen photos must be “share-able“, this is to say that they are released with a creative-commons mention in the photo settings – All Rights Reserved licensed photos are generally not eligible for our Photo of the Day;
3. The photos must be downloadable – photos where “the owner has disabled downloading of their photos” are not eligible;
4. The photos must be horizontally-oriented;
5. The photos must be Montreal-related.

Babies…

Posted on December 14, 2009

L’automne sur le chemin des ressources – N.B.

Posted on October 12, 2009

First Roll

Posted on July 26, 2009

I finally developed and scanned my very first roll on the new TLR. I’d never shot with a medium format camera before. This may be a bit too much fun…

Here are the most thrilling results.

Weekends du Monde au Parc Jean-Drapeau

Posted on July 26, 2009

Ricohflex Model VI

Posted on July 17, 2009

So even though I am pretty broke these days, I still managed to get my hands on this old school baby earlier this week for a completely ridiculous price (say, the price of a couple drinks at your friendly neighborhood pub). What’s outrageous is not what I paid for it, but the amount of money it will cost to actually use it. Oh well. There are worst things to blow a 20$ bill on these days I guess…

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View through the viewfinder… so crisp and clear, it actually makes my knees weak.

Apparently, it’s not a bad camera at all, though it’s still not worth a fortune even 60 years later. Most of the reviews I’ve read are talking about a stiff focus, which is also the case with mine, though not a major problem. This model was made in 1953 and was originally geared towards the general public. So it’s never been a “professional” camera, even though back in those days, mostly privileged families could afford such a sweet little jewel since I believe cameras were a luxury item even for a while after the release of this one.

When I showed up at the store, I asked the guy for prices for other models, of which the cheapest 6×6 was 120$. When I asked about this one, the guy said it was broken and he didn’t have time to fiddle around with it to figure out how to heal it. After I asked him to take it out of the glass case, he realized that the shutter wasn’t broken, but that it needed to be cranked a bit in order to “unlock”… but at that point, it was too late, he had already quoted me the price “as is”. After I paid for it, I almost ran out of the store feeling like a thief, in total and utter disbelief for the unrealistic price I had paid for it. I’m a lucky gal…

For the photo nerds: photos shot with Vivitar Series 1 Macro lens, 70/210mm, 1:3,5 mounted on my Nikon D50.

It’s getting cold outside

Posted on December 8, 2008

And this morning I woke up with this beauty on my window…

Other People’s Kids

Posted on August 20, 2008

Beautiful Children

Posted on March 24, 2008

Winter is Neverending

Posted on March 10, 2008

The Arts at the White Night (Nuit Blanche)

Posted on March 2, 2008

It’s too bad cameras aren’t allowed at the Contemporary Museum because the fine fine arts exhibited at the Nuit Blanche in Montreal simply blew my mind. Here is some of the pictures I took at the Belgo exhibit.

Lunar Eclipse

Posted on February 21, 2008

Awesome Rock n’ Roll Faces of The Sleepless Nights

Posted on January 24, 2008

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