karstosis.photography

I moved.

Strange feeling it is, waking up 10 days later and suddenly realizing that yes indeed, you do now live in a completely strange and different place. Even stranger for me, is coming to the realization that I now live in an urban environment. The jump from a village of 2,000 to a city of over 300,000 is all together terrifying and terrifically exciting. If you ever want to study social contrasts, this is the place to do it. In a day, I walked from the tourist trap of downtown, through the lesser regions surrounded by panhandlers and homeless, through suburbia in all its manicured glory (sic), up to the University of Victoria. It is uVic which intrigues me most. It reassures me of my real reason for being here: education. One heck of an institution is is to.

I do have a long summer ahead of me before I begin that educational journey, however. I hope to pursure photography to its full potential. In the first week here I went through 2 rools of 35mm, 3 rolls of 120, and countless digital shots. In my scrambling to adjust to new surroundings I have found it difficult to locate the inspiration to process and upload or develope all these photographs, but this is beginning to change. Here are my first two. Enjoy, and talk to you soon.