2011 in Review (Part I): Back to School

A view of the beautiful Halifax Harbour as seen from across the water in Dartmouth. Leanne and I lived in the Halifax area from October 2009 to May 2011.

Given that this is my first post of this new blog and that it is a new year, I figured I might start out with a look back at my 2011 in pictures.

When 2011 started, Leanne and I were living on Canada’s east coast in the charming city of Halifax, Nova Scotia. I had decided in the fall of 2010 that I should go back to school to study graphic design in order to round off my skills as a multimedia communicator. I enrolled in Applied Communication Arts, a one-year program at Nova Scotia Community College in Dartmouth. It was a wonderful experience in which I was able to learn from experienced and friendly instructors and a nice complement to the photography skills I’d already learned from studying Photojournalism at college previously and having worked as a journalist for nearly five years previous.

Footprints in the mud at low tide in the Bay of Fundy near Burntcoat, Nova Scotia. Fundy has the world's highest recorded tides.

While in school, I did a photo essay on abandoned homes in Nova Scotia, like this one in Upper Clarence.