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Julia Gotz
Joined December 17th, 2006
I am using the canon rebel xti. I use two prime lenses, a 50mm f1.4 and a 28 mm f1.8, both canon. I love them both. Prime lenses give me more low-light capability. I would recommend the 50 mm 1.4 to anyone who likes to take pictures of people in available light.
Most of my pictures are taken within a few blocks of where I live and work in Toronto. This year, I am focusing on dance and performing arts. I am interested in both the vulnerability and the beauty of our physical selves.
Cats do find their way into my blog, so I've set myself the limit of cats on only one day per month.
I want to be implicated in my pictures - You are what you shoot.
I welcome critical feedback.
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| maharba · 2008-07-25: 12:05 |
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One of the things that you have earned is the respect of your subjects. They know that they are taking part of an image that will be of good quality and they are willing to give themselves to the opportunity. My examples are the parent and child photos and especially the black and whites where the viewer can feel the touch that they see. I always look you up when I need a reference in dealing with human subjects.
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| mojaroo · 2008-07-23: 20:45 |
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absolutely beautiful.
thanks my freind
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| LastFrontier · 2008-07-23: 11:59 |
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Looking forward to seeing your kitties in the wild. Lost cable connectivity, and saw title and just a bit of ears while awaiting photos to download. Vacuumed room before I gave up on dial-up. How my patience and expectations have changed. Hope cable guy deigns to visit tomorrow or Friday. Sorry to miss caturday/laburday/dog-grr-day. So many doggie pics in computer, of course. -Jan
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| prairieflower · 2008-07-21: 19:24 |
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OH!
Sweet sweet Jane. Sweet sweet you two too. Oh! My!
(and I always loved the Cowboy Junkies version best. now it's her theme song)
Me too -- Cowboy Junkies version all the way (from the Trinity Sessions, which was recorded in Church of the Holy Trinity, where I sang with Echo Choir...).
Jane was lovely... Turns out she's the smallest in the litter, which wasn't clearly the case when she chose us last visit, but she's healthy and lively. She's not the first to dive into anything, but isn't timid and seems to be able to hold her own with her bigger siblings. And she's also very calm. I handled her ears and her toes and she was alert but not concerned. When the breeder called the pups to wake them up (a high-pitched "puppy! puppy! puppy!") all of them sat up and looked around and scrambled over to her -- except Jane, who slept through the whole thing. We take that as a good thing -- she doesn't get all excited over nothing, and pays attention to her needs... That's our story, and we're stickin' to it.
We can bring her home 24 hours after she gets her shots -- which likely means August 1. I've submitted a request to change my holidays so that I get the full two weeks with her & Pam (I was originally going to start my holidays on July 26th).
There are tons more pics, of course, but didn't want to upload the whole series. Don't worry, there will be plenty more postings, of course.
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| prairieflower · 2008-07-17: 09:41 |
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Is Jane going to be home soon?
Pam and I are going to see her on Saturday (July 19) and we hope she'll be able to come home with us around July 30, which is near the beginning of my 2-week holiday. She'll be a little under 8 weeks, and we'll take the advice of the breeder, but it would be great to have most of that time with her as we all get adjusted.
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| Dragana · 2008-07-16: 10:46 |
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I am loving looking at your blog, and thank you for making me laugh!
Raturday - even better then Caturday. great.
thanks, I thought so too. And they are not ordinary rats, they are from Paris.
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| Dragana · 2008-07-16: 10:34 |
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you have a log of GREAT shots that use this moody grey light. excellent.
Thanks Julia :)
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| LotoFoto · 2008-07-16: 00:01 |
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so much personality comes through. and the light has a magical quality. maybe your processing in sepia is what brings this out so much. I don't know. but somehow she really comes through. I guess it is the way she is really looking at you that makes this picture so lively.
Thank you Julia!
Such a wonderful compliment... I'm so thankful you visited some of my shots today :)
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| LastFrontier · 2008-07-12: 14:31 |
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>>"Psychotherapy Meets Google"
Excellent website. I admire your web developer's use of strict XHTML doctype, as well as your writing and design. Well done. I will keep watching and reading. -Jan
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| longimanus · 2008-07-09: 15:08 |
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fantastic fantastic! you look more put together, coiffed and elegant at the bottom of the deep blue sea then I do when I leave the house to go out for dinner! how do you manage that? and your description - very funny AND informative.
Thank you Julia... I am still smiling. This shot is out of at least 10... all the others are rubbish, some of them even with some stuff hanging out of my nose! This was just a lucky moment...
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