Henri Cartier-Bresson once said that "your first 10,000 pictures are your worst." I have yet for my shutter count to reach 10,000 and this blog is about my journey to reach that 10,000 mark. I am Laurie Brand, a Creative Communications student at Red River College in Winnipeg, MB. Most of the time you will find me with a camera lassoed around my neck, sneaking around, clicking away. Photography has become a sort of mindfulness practice for me in the sense that as a photographer, there is a need for constant awareness. Looking for a good picture makes you scan at your surroundings in a much deeper way. The way that the shadows fall on the pavement to make different shapes, how a reflection in a window fuses inside and out and out or the stream of light that falls so perfectly on a face are things that are more evident when looking through a lens.My life is reflected through the pictures that I take. Those are the moments that mean the most to me and I hope you enjoy them.