There we were having a bite to eat at some restarant somewhere on granville street getting ready to order some delicious dessert and head back over to see our next flik. (I don’t know what flick we were going I see. I love going to films knowing absolutly nothing about them, not even their name.) when I look over to see that Miranda is talking away on her cell phone, I didn’t even hear it ring or anything, I just looked over and she was talking away to someone.
“hello?”… “speaking”… “Yes”… “Yes”….”YES!!!” “OH MY GOD REALLY? DO YOU REALLY MEAN IT?”…. “YUPPERS I CAN BE THERE IN TWENTY MINUTES!!!”
As it turns out that there was an opening in the on-call wait list to have an MRI done. So here we are! I am waiting around the hospital while she hangs out in a machine for 40 min, but it is all good. One can not complain about random MRI openings, ecspecialy when your actual appointment is sometime in May. I foolishly updated my facebook status to say “is hanging at VGH” and nothing else which at this hour garnered a parental phone call with in minutes (I heart the Internet.) to make sure all was good. Hopefully now we can find out what is going on inside her knee and figure out the next thing from there.

So because I am blogging from an iPhone and not a laptop the photos to go with this are helga (ie camerabag) iPhone shots.

Yuppers here we are back from the pub and I have a house full of drunkin hippies thjat arre smelly and such!! Bunch of free loaders !!! Ya mANy pubs were attended and many beer drank and there was a distinct lack of wall peeing ons so sorry jay next time i r tired now       and i think ta t i have stuff in the am so maybe i will let people sleep nowand…..       ya that stuff

errrrr hhippies u all stink     dirty hhippies

Last night I dusted off the wondrous darkroom of eternal goodness! It is funny cause it seems like I was on a darkroom hiatus for about 3 maybe 4 months but as I was cleaning it out, I found a whole whack of chemistry that I clearly printed on “opened oct 3rd” errr… being that it is only the 2nd today I have to assume that I was referring to 2007. The funny thing is I tend to get inspiration to do things around the same time every year. I am sure that it is due to the drop everything else and do this and little but for 5 months nature of our jorb’s, but I am not sure that I mind. it is interesting to see that I am into the same things and how much I have grown in the year.

As we get more and more into the deep dark depths of fall/winter, every morning I wake up with more excitement then the last, I run to the window and look up towards the mountain while praying that it will covered in 3-4 meters of the glorious glorious white stuff.

I SO CAN NOT WAIT FOR THIS YEARS SNOWBOARDING SEASON TO START!!!

On that note, there a spot of snowboarding news that I am going pass along.  This weekend is the Vancouver Snow Show at  BC Place, they will be having a gear swap and junk so if you are looking to buy stuff (nods to the weasel) you may find good deals.

Tix are 10 bux at the door and 8 online.  Another spot of good news is that if you were in a drunken stupor for the last month and totally gapped on getting your early bird price on that Cypress seasons pass, and are now slowly awaking into some sort of towering Jesus based rage, WAIT! because Cypress has extended the early bird pricing till after the snow show! So you have till Oct 5th to get a pass so you can join me on the hill this year!

I have bought the seasons pass but now I need to give them some sort of photo, presumably of me. I can’t quite decide which one or what I should take specifically for it. I do sort of like this one.

Let’s see here. Camera? Check. Batterys? Check. Headphones and iPhone? Check. Flashcard? Check. Coffee? Che…. Wait that is only half a coffee um hi ya I don’t acually need room for cream so you know could you maybe not give me a medium coffee in a large cup. Coffee? check. An guilt free hour and a subject? Check. Let’s go for a photowalk.

I had a photo session at Granville Island today, and because it was such a wonderful day I decided to wander about a little.  Here is a shot from that wander.  But I am going to go north and Photo wander with J now, maybe try out some of that new film that the man brought today

Yuppers what I say is true, a man in brown (incidentally the same man that sold me my Felt MP, he even remembers it and asked if I was going to ride it today cause it is supposed to be super nice out!) brought me a box of film goodness. Which is a really nice way to start out a week, especially when the previous week ended with a 20hr out of town wedding adventure followed by another 10hr wedding a short 10 hours apart! (what i am trying to say here is i am tired)

As mentioned earlier last week Beau Photo is raping us all for Polaroid film because they can I guess, so I ordered a bucket of film from the good old USA (just doing my part to help them in this time of need). More specifically, I ordered from B&H photo.

This will all make a wonderful addition to the newly cleaned and re-purposed Jerk Film & Beer Fridge Yup I feel like a real adult when I have a fridge that is not filled with food, but it instead is filled with glorious film goodness and beer!! That means you are a responsible adult right?

(for those of you that are all like, What do you eat man if your fridge is nothing but beer and film?, I have two fridges)

Here we have a random variety box of film. Some of these films are new, some are from back when we used to use film as our back up solution at weddings so nearly 4 to 5 years old, and other stuff like the Ilford roll in the back that says 620 Expired in 1956. (I am going to respool it one of these days and see what we can get from it!) so a box of fun is what it is!

I do have a tonne of new photos that are not from VGH and I have interesting software discovery’s to talk about, but I am not long home from a 20 hour wedding, and I have another wedding tomorrow so you get more VGH instead! :)

I am kinda like a single working mother that got McDonalds in stead of cooking because it is easier. She knows that Mikky D is not good for them, but it is only once in a while so it can’t be that bad :)

I am also really tired :)

and fired up on Redbull:)

good night

Fall has such great light that  comes with it

I have a crazy long wedding in the AM so… ya.

The other day Coaxial and I went to Beau Photo to grab some pack film and the like.  I love that Beau is making a commitment to stock all sorts of films and the best variety of plastic cameras that I am aware of in the lower mainland, but we were in for quite the shock when we went to pay for our film.  Coaxial tossed down their last 10 pack of Fuji FP100C and a twin pack of Polaroid 667 onto the counter and started fishing around for pocket change to pay for it. That will be $78 please.

Errrrr.. What? that doesn’t sound right…. are you sure that we have the right things listed?  After some verification over the phone with some mystery character in the back he assured us that this was in fact the new and correct price for their Polaroid film.  Now I know that you are the only people in town that somewhat reliably stocks this stuff, and I know that Polaroid has disco’d all of the ‘instant’ product line, and I know that you are a business and you are here to make money, but doubling and in some cases nearly tripling the price of all your Polaroid films is a little silly!  I even dug out older receipts to see and last time I bought Fuji FP100C (which they are not even discontinuing) I payed $12.26 for it.  They wanted $25!

I came home fired up B&H photo, went to the film section, and bought a whole whack of stuff!

• 2 packs of the Fuji FP-3000B for $9.95 each (I have never tried it, but I hope it is super contrasty)
• 2 packs of the Fuji FP-100C at $8.99 each (that is $16.00 cheaper)
• 1 twin pack of the Polaroid 690 for $25.00 (as opposed to the $42.00)

all for the total price of $43.94. That is 60 exposures with a variety of films for nearly the same price that they wanted for 1 twin pack!!

The way I look at it is that I have somehow saved money so I also grabbed 25 rolls of Kodak Portra 400VC 120 & 35mm and some new colour paper developer for when I get the dark room rockin again!

That aside they are still awesome in other ways. everyone should check out and enter Plastic Photographer

Looks like Fall has arrived at least at VGH anyway

Taken with an iPhone and run though the Camera Bag Ap

….and we all got loaded!! I even drunk blogged although there wasn’t a lot said in that post so you may have thought we were at a poetry reading or something.. Us, the North Shore Crew, D, and G all went down to the black frog’s birthday bash!

BTW thanks to Marion for all the invites we ate free food and drank really cheap drinks till well after they were closed! Good times were had all around!!

We met one of the frog’s new waitresses who prefers to be called Chain Saw Girl, and doesn’t ‘do’ the Internet :) All in all good times were had and i am sure that there are many people really hungover this morning due to Darren and his uncanny ability to know the exact wrong time to start ordering shots! :)

Darren Stole a great many wallets :)

I managed to stay reasonably coherant (mostly due to my uncanny ability to say no to darren’s shots) throughout the evening and I even took some photos and I am doing fine all bright eyed and bushy tailed today.  M on the other hand looks as though she will not make it through the day.

Here we are hanging at the frog’s birthday party and shan is looking very literary.

Here we have a shot from the last roll that I cross processed. I pushed the two stops in developing as apposed to in the shooting so this whole roll is super grainy and contrast!

I love it!

just some paths from the Baden-Powell trail.
Anywho I am again of to VGH.

…and to the bank, I found this photo on the way.

… particulalty at this time of year. 
This was taken at the Capilano Dam, where we were hiking last weekend.

So again I had about an hour to kill at VGH while M became a little bit less of a cripple, so I thought that I would spend some time wandering about taking photo glory. I was about forty five minuets in to wandering about, capturing photo gold at every turn, when a security guard who was walking by, said that I wasn’t allowed to take photos.   What was funny is he was the fourth or possibly the fifth security guard that I had walked by and openly taken photos in front of and he was the first to say anything and he really didn’t seem to care at that.  I said ok and then I asked him why? as I often do when told that I am not allowed to take photos (mostly cause by putting them on the spot you can learn whether or not there is actually a real policy in place or if they are just trying to look like they are doing their job) and I got what I think is the best made up on the spot answer ever.  Umm… errrr.. patient confidentiality? I laughed a little inside and continued what I was doing and he continued on his way.

…especially when it is something new in a place that you have walked by camera in hand a 100+ times.

Anywho i am off to hang out at VGH. Perhaps i will manage to capture some more awesome