Jeovana + Dominic :: Destination Wedding, Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico
Stars
Truth: I love the stars. I moved about 30 miles outside the city nine months ago, and the stars away from the urban glow are simply TDF.
This long-exposure was taken of the night sky floating above Lake Ontario and the city of Toronto from the shores of the little town of Niagra-on-the-Lake.
The stars are a beauty! We didn't see this handy tutorial on how to photograph the stars until afterwards, but we tried out our street smarts on this one!
Taken with Canon EOS 60D, 18-135mm lens with a 30 second exposure.
Photo cred: Rebekah
p.s. Do you see that spotty, blinky light? It's a plane!! Cool, huh?
Toronto Fruit + Detainment
My sister Rebekah and I traveled to Toronto this summer to...well...to go on an "exotic foreign vacation" without having to actually go to an airport. Intercontinental-type foreign. (Mexico is too far and too hot, and I've never particularly liked the accent of Mexican Spanish. I'm partial to the Spain-Spanish lisp.)
The trip was horribly planned. So horribly planned, in fact, that we were detained at the Canadian border for an hour. I've since noted that I should take people seriously when they say, "don't act like you're a drug dealer at the border," or "at least act like you have a hotel reservation," or "make sure to appoint one person to talk".
We did all of those things wrong. After we had offered a measly "yersh" to the question about having hotel reservations (we lied), when the very strong-cage-fighter-ish border woman asked us if we'd been to Canada before, I said "no" and Reebs said "yes" simultaneously.
That put her over the edge. She was like, "these girls are crazy, drug dealing, evil Americans who love McDonalds. There's no way they're being granted entrance into the spotless kingdom of Canada."
So, we had to wait in a sterile detainment facility while I contemplated how all the kayaks and moose and vineyards and mountains and lakes that Canada could muster can not possibly justify the meanness of their border patrol.
These photos are of the gloriously colorful Kensington Market in China Town, Toronto.
