Creepy scout masters!

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/800
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: Feb.18.2007

I do have other photos I swear!! I even had a productive walk about the other day complete with pretty blue sky’s and everything, but alas I have the plague and a lot of work to do, so i am afraid that blogging is the first to suffer. 

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/2000
Lens: EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 140mm
ISO: 250
Date Taken: Feb.18.2007

Ok Due to illness (my own) I think i will postpone photowalk for now perhaps next week :(

So you get more new years photos cause I am to damn lazy to do much else. I am however going to organize a late night photo walk for all those that may be interested! “Have tripod Will Travel?” I am thinking that we could go and take some fab photo’s of Granville Island and such. The weather is looking like it may co-operate over the next week so all interested drop me an email or comment here.

EDIT: Feb.26.2007 4:40pm

Ok the email should be working for sure now! My bad!

Yup more New Years!

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/1250
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM @ 16mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: Feb.18.2007

DUDE!! I can totally surf at the Chat & Chew :) b00ya!!

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/500
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM @ 35mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: Feb.18.2007

Much wine with good poeple was drank tonight!! Thanks t for good times and lots on cheese!!

RABBITTT!!!

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 3.5
Shutter: 1/200
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM @ 16mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: Feb18.2007

Yup!! More parade photo’s.  This dude was awesome
:)

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/2500
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM @ 16mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: Feb.18.2007

So today we walked down to China Town for the New Years Celebration. By We I mean our new awesome super friend Angela, M, & I. I got a few great shots but, M has far out shone my meagre two photos with a beautiful post.

:)

_

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 3.2
Shutter: 1/640
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM @ 16mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: Feb.18.2007

Yup a photo fro a wander with D the other day!! It is just wood but I like it!

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 1.4
Shutter: 1/50
Lens: Canon EF 50mm 1.4
ISO: 800
Date Taken: Feb.11.2007

Yup a photo of d. with one of my mark II’s

I would like to thank all that came out for a great 30th b-day! I had a blast and thanks to all that brought me stuff you all rock!!   For those that didn’t come out why the hell not?? You missed a good time to be sure, thanks again all :) Photo walks galore in the future!!

I really should!!! Those of you that have heard me go off about the wonders of the new Photoshop CS3, LightRoom, or Adobe Bridge CS3 know why. If you haven’t heard me go off and would like to be in the know about this post, ask me the next time you see me.
:)

Oh Ya My Comments are fucked up right now But dont worry you can still leave comments and they will be readable after they get left as soon as i have time!

So I thought to my self the other day, “Hey I wonder what this Vista thing is all about? I should give it a whirl and see if the ten billion years that we have been waiting for it was really worth it”. So I dug up a ‘trial’ copy and loaded it up. Now I am not so silly to think that It was going to work perfectly so I installed it to a spare hard drive leaving my existing XP alone to be returned to in the event of catastrophic failure. It Installs fine after a little finagling to get the install drive converted from a windows Dynamic drive to a standard one, (the drive was part of an old disk stripe) and it installs quick as well. I was expecting two hours of killing time while it rolled along but it was up and running in about ½ a hour or so. It ran super sweet at first. Then I installed CS2 and that didn’t even really work, then I tried to access my drive arrays and that didn’t work, then I turned off all the flashy shit and realized that it wasn’t really different from XP, which brought the whole experiment to an abrupt end. I pulled the spare drive out and booted up my XP to get along with my day…. Or should I say tried to boot up XP. Errors on boot looking for the Vista drive that I pulled out???? Ummm… Ok it would appear that Vista ate my XP and to make the day even better it actually fucked my drive arrays so they couldn’t be initialized anymore. It some how took the properties of the drive array the spare drive was originally attached to a long time ago and applied them to the two separate arrays that I have. (I have three drives in one stripe and two drive in a separate stripe but they thought they were part of a fictitious 5 drive super disk. The only option i had was to convert them to standard drives and back affectively destroying all data. (Which is why we have backup servers) They were completely toast and my XP was toast (I couldn’t even boot into safe mode) and I had nothing to loose now, I already had a whack of reinstalling to do, so I reinstalled OSX86 instead. I haven’t ran OSX on my computer since I upgraded in the fall. And well, after a little bit of trial and error I have a complete working OSX Machine on my Intel PC. All my software works, all my drives work, and with the exception of my sound that may need an after market driver all my hardware works on install. I think it is totally hilarious that OSX works better on my PC then Vista! Screen shots to come. Funny thing is all the shit that Vista is supposed to bring to us new and fresh has been on the Mac for ever. Fancy windowing and dashboard widgets have been on a Mac for ever. And Man O man is this fast. I have twice the hardware of a normal Mac and it runs smooth and sweet. It uses every ounce of my 4g’s of ram and smokes though everything I toss at it. Sweet deal I tell ya.

If you read D’s blog and you read my blog and you have read them both today I am sure it will be readily apparent that we went out and got sort of liquored last night! Good time for sure! You see we went for a wander with cameras and thought what better way to end the evening then a beer and then maybe some food, but for sure on the beer. Well one beer lead to five beers and us closing out the Frog on a Sunday night. I am getting old because today I am not so good with the not being hung over bit, but its my birthday so what better way to ring in the big 30 then with a murderous hangover. Oh ya and we formed a band!

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 1.4
Shutter: 1/100
Lens: Canon EF 50mm 1.4
ISO: 800
Date Taken: Feb.11.2007

So d. and I have formaed a band!!!! and we have decided that the first album will be titleed WWRD (what would Ralph Do!!) Ralph as in Ralph Klein the elustrious premire of Alberta for so many years. There is a new waiteress at the Frog that will write stuff for us in our band!! That we formed today. or i mean tonight! cAUSe we formed a band over beer at the frog which is a bar for those not in the know we are folllowinf the bidding of art brut a band that was formed in england and toured like a band should……. they told us that ev ery onw in the crowd should forma band and we have in a bar with the waitress at the frog writting stuff for the band thaqtr we hgave formed

:)

k

i formed a band with D. and we are cool nuff said really

r.

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/60
Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM @ 34mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: Jan27.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/50
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: Jan.27.2007