Kristel Wyman Photography :: Vancouver Wedding Photographer

so, what a stressful day yesterday was. basically both my dentist and the oral surgeon had screwed up a lot of things, and ultimately, i had to be awake for the surgery, which i was furious about, but what could be done. it wasn’t too bad, although i was crying for part of it because i could feel the pressure and was expecting pain (which, of course, never came during that time, since i was on so many drugs). graeme came up from seattle to take care of me and bring me home from the surgery… he was in the waiting room and said the whole thing took about an hour and fifteen minutes (for four teeth — which also happened to be considered “high risk” since they were sort of dividing a nerve). it felt like fifteen minutes to me. i listened to my ipod but don’t remember a single song that played. and on the drive home, i don’t remember anything except waking, and, with my mouth full of gauze asking graeme “why did we have to take the ferry?” (from burnaby to downtown). he asked me to repeat myself and i did, and he confirmed, and was basically just like “go back to sleep.” then, i slept all day and night, and graeme woke me to take my medicine. he’s the best.

for a girl that’s never been to a doctor for anything more serious than an ear infection (excepting when i was born, which really doesn’t count), this is pretty hard-core…

so, i had great plans for today.  i was going to clean my apartment, organize my computer(s), plow through my ever-mounting stacks of emails, go to the post office, pick up some groceries, have lunch with a friend, get a massage, design a boudoir album, and make some phone calls.

instead, i got sick, and am just drinking neo citran by the litre, taking shots of buckleys every hour on the hour (k, not really), lying under blankets in front of the fan when a cold sweat comes on, coughing like i’ve been smoking for 37 years, and generally just giving up on life.

i am also listening to cat power on repeat and reading “outliers,” which, for a december baby like me, is just encouraging going gently into that good night.

just wanted to post today, since i haven’t posted in ages.  well, you’ve seen posts, but i actually wrote them back in november, so i feel like i haven’t been posting at all. 

today was a good day, overall, but full of frustration.  i realized i designed not one, but two albums at a ridiculously low resolution, so i had to go and re-do all of the spreads.  and i’m not one of those smart photographers that uses any sort of album design software or template… i do each spread manually in photoshop.  so, that sucked.  i was only able to re-do one of the albums, the other will have to wait til tomorrow.  i then had lunch with a photographer friend and ran some errands.  while out, i brought my camera with my tiltshift lens because… well, that lens is tricky to use, and it’s always good to practice with it.

i took this picture to remember the link on the bus, but ended up liking the shot.  which is good, because the link was boring.

i often come over here to sit and watch the mountains and the trains.  i was pretty pumped that i managed to focus perfectly on the moving helicopter.  of course, you can’t see… but if anyone wants to verify this in a full-res file, let me know!  ;o)

i guess this guy likes coming here too…