Today we did a few more scarfs for Nisha. Man they are so pretty!! Good times.

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
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Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: April.19.2007

In the morning o ‘loose use of the term, it was like 10 am while still technically morning, you are well on the way to the afternoon at 10’ we went for breakfast with Kimli, Ed, Josh & Shan, at Hells Kitchen on 4^th. Awesome place for the late b-fast and the waiter sang Bon Jovi and talked about Transformers, good times indeed, after we had an engagement shoot at Granville Island but not until two, so we drove. We went up Cypress Mountain cause that is a good way to waste time. Driving up there was a speed trap at about the half way point. (they didn’t nail me even though I was seriously hauling ass up that mountain) so on our way down I thought I would do the good deed of warning people that there was a speed trap by flashing my lights at oncoming traffic. (just like my mommy taught me) so on our descent, after the cops were out of sight in my rear view I started flashing at the first vehicle I saw. You know how it’s hard to judge some times how fast oncoming traffic is coming till they get really close well this guy was going so fast that even at a distance you could see he was seriously speeding hard core, So I flashed my lights…. It’s obvious that he hasn’t slowed down, I flash again and this time he flashes back at me… only his flashing lights are red and blue!! I was alerting a cop to a speed trap!! He didn’t pull me over but I still felt foolish.

So lately I have been the early riser in our house. I love getting up at silly stupid hours and then lording it over other people. “What you just got out of bed?? Man I have been up for hours!!!” You know that sort of thing. But this morning I slept in till 8:30 or so and when I woke I found that M was already up and at… Mmm… Wonder what time she woke up? So after reading some email I get up to her early rising being lorded over me.

“Its about time, you got up! I have been up forever!!” M gloated gleefully over me, the usual early morning gloater.

“What the hell time did you get up this morning?” asked the late riser.

M sheepishly and quietly squeaked out “well I woke up about 5am or so worrying and I couldn’t get back to sleep?”

“What were you worrying about so much that you couldn’t get back to sleep?” R asked with typical husband concern.

So it’s been a while since I was in a nine to five, and even longer since I was in one that I was invested in enough to care about after I left the stifling confines of the work, but I am told that sometimes people can stay up at night worrying about stuff. Or wake up worrying about stuff and not be able to get back to sleep. Will I get that new promotion, I hope my boss likes me, what’s the best way to proposition sex from the office clerk with out ending up in a sexual harassment suit? So when M tells me that she was up worrying I sorta get concerned. Is she worried about the self employed thing, is she concerned about earthquakes, is she worried that when we go for breakfast that we are going to be inundated with bad 80’s hair metal?
(oh wait, that was yesterday :P)

So I shuffle close to hear what is vexing her so much that she got up before me…. In my best soap opera style concerned voice I ask

“What’s wrong, what has kept your precious sleep eluding you….?”

“Well I woke up worrying about getting my foot caught and drowning in my kayak”

“Umm……….……………..”

So what you’re saying is that of all things that one could worry about in the world you are worried about this?

That is livin the life!

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
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Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 42mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: April.19.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 8
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Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm
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Date Taken: April.19.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
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Date Taken: April.19.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 8
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Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 70mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: April.08.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
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Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM @ 35mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: April.08.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 8
Shutter: 1/1200
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 55mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: April.07.2007

Question: Can two kayaks occupy the same space and time?
Answer: Apparently So

Oh and this is a cell phone shot so IE: not pretty.

More at news at 11!

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The View from the hill at the Cleveland Dam

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
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Date Taken: April.07.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
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Date Taken: April.19.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
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Date Taken: April.19.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
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Date Taken: April.07.2007

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Date Taken: April.19.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
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Date Taken: April.19.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 8
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Date Taken: April.19.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 8
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Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm
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Date Taken: April.07.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
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Date Taken: April.19.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 8
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Lens: Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM @ 16mm
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Date Taken: April.08.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 8
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Date Taken: April.08.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 5.6
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Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 68mm
ISO: 400
Date Taken: April.08.2007