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Recent photographs from Toronto.

By the way, just a reminder that my current email address is pkh@benhuangphotos.com not pkh@lesfocaleimages.com. The old one has been defunct for almost a year now......sorry for the confusion.

Countdown to TO........

From September last year I was working on this ridiculous seasonal grad photo job which doesn't pay much but often worked overtime. Then there's tons of paper works I need to take care of for my wife as she's immigrating to Canada. Though in the end these works does yield results as I was able to save some money from work and documents I prepared for my wife did produced a good feedback from CIC which granted her permanent residence status very quickly. But not able to pick up a camera and focus on a project just made me feel very uncomfortable. So when the job was finally die down and immigration issue finally resolved last month I was planning on going to shoot more....then came a shocking news - lenses are broken down on me. Not a big deal I said to myself because lenses are repairable...which I did had them repaired. But while I was waiting for my lenses in-law parents came visit from Korea which I have to "serve" them for about ten days or so....which interrupted all my plan (not to mention my only chance to see Lewis Black's show's gone).


Since I could not shoot Chinatown for the last few months and the only time I can go back was taken by my parents in-law I decided to shoot whatever the trip my were taken while in Canada. Honestly, it was a brutal 10 days as we were rushed from Victoria, BC to Calgary, AB at their request due to the fact that they are a bit more demanding than normal parents. This is more or less because they're working for the government in South Korea(Thank god its South....) and because they spent so much time on their jobs the attitude sort of carried over onto their private lives. In some occasions you can clear feel that they were acting like state officials visiting foreign country rather than seeing their daughter. They're constantly harassing their daughter for being fat(not true.....) and they were very ignorant toward local custom. But what irritates me the most is that fact that they were kept on telling their fellow Koreans while we were on the tour that they're government officials in order to gain some respect....which no one cares.


As chaotic as it was, I did learned a thing or two out of this trip. First, I really do feel that The Rockys separates BC from rest of Canada psychologically if not physically. Which explain why Vancouver feel so different than all the other Canadian cities I visited. Then there's whole reminder of why I prefer driving by myself rather than join the tour. But the most important thing is after watching my parents in-law it serve as reminder for me and my wife not to become them.


By the way, as the title states, I'm currently packing my stuffs and will be in TO around late June....so next time we chat will probably be early July....maybe in person.

Chinese New Year Parade

Been busy with a lot of non-photographic, non-projected related works since the last time I posted here. Though I did manage to find some time going back to Chinatown here in Vancouver but that was way back in February and I wasn't able to edit them until the last few weeks. Here are samples of my last shoot.

Etzikom, Alberta