The other night Josh & I went out for a evening scoot! we found a bridge and sat under taking photos.

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 30 Sec
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm
ISO: 400
Date Taken: August.28.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 20 Sec
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 25mm
ISO: 400
Date Taken: August.28.2007

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 4
Shutter: 32 Sec
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 25mm
ISO: 400
Date Taken: August.28.2007

So yesterday we had my first real Sally scare. NOT to worry there wasn’t and accident or anything (although the car’s track record isn’t so sparkly! We have been dangerously close to mowing down a few pedestrians in the last two weeks and we haven’t really even been driving it.) by scare I really mean Sally had what at the time seemed like a catastrophic failure on the lion’s gate bridge last night. So the story goes like this. Last night was sushi night at Zen Sushi on Marine in West Vancouver. The North shore crew including a couple of Calgaryians that qualify as honorary north shore crew members were meeting Miranda and I at the sushi place and we opted to scoot there mostly cause scooting kicks ass. It was also the first time that I had Sally over the Bridge since the CDI was done by Jiang Wayne, in fact I haven’t really had the opportunity to have sally on the open road since it was done.
I was overjoyed to learn that sally did over 60kph up the south side of the Lions Gate Bridge and the speedo was buried on the way down, which is until it felt it needed to stall. I coasted to the end of the bridge and pulled into a pull out. I tried to start it again but there was a loud clunking noise that comes from the engine area although truth be told with all the road noise going on around me, there could have been a caterwauling cat trapped in my seat and wouldn’t have known. Luckily the north shore crew were driving cars (ick) so I coasted to the tourist booth on marine and they meet miranda & I there. I then tried to start it again and it works! It fired right up!! OK….. I go to spin it around it the parking lot to see if it has power and it stops and won’t start again. OK …..there is a nasty burning smell that wafts in from what we presume is the scooter. Ok….. sounds (smells) broken….We best just go for dinner.
All throughout dinner I am wondering what could be wrong and based on what I know at this point I am sure that the engine has blown or something that was as equally devastating. Diner was good but all I could think about was Sally is dead I am going to be scooter less could I afford to fix her right away or would it be smarter to go for a new sally? Could I afford that?
After dinner Josh and I come back to where it was parked and prepare to tow using Josh’s ruckus and a hunk of rope! (which we were actually quite excited about) While we were hooking up I decide to try to start it once more, and what does it do? it starts up no problem and sits there happily idling! No burning smell no loud clunking! just happy idling, We played around some more till we discovered that it runs till you sit on it. We listened closely now that traffic noise is less and you can hear a snap when you sit on it just before it stalls. WTF……..
When we pulled the seat bucket out and looked with the lights off you could see a spark when weight was added to the bike!! Looking deeper we realized there was a broken wire the goes to the distributor and when the bike flexes with weight the wire would come loose and stall the bike. We repaired said wire and sally rocks on!!
The loud clunking noise and the burning smell really made us think that the engine was in serous trouble. Turned out the burning smell was a campfire and we are working on the hypothesis that the loud clunking noise was because the engine basically stopped at 75/80 km’s and coasted down the hill all in all Sally is a happy camper once again.. Big shot outs to Josh for helping me figure out wtf and Shan & Kimli/Ed for helping cart us around and junk!

Just playing on the last post! :)

Shooting a jewish wedding today can not wait for them to dance the Hora!

That and its M and I’s 7 wedding aniversery!! Hurray!!

Grabbed this on the way to get Sally the other day! Super busy week with a super busy weekend to come!!
Shooting our awesome rockabilly wedding today! I am so excited!

Yup dropping her off at Jiang Wayne this morning to get the CDI upgrade done . She will be smokin fast i expect!!!

Its been a busy week and an even busier weekend so here you are! A random photo.

So over the last two days we have been slowly driving back from Alberta the long way around. Instead of going the most direct way that would get us from Edmonton to Vancouver very quickly we thought we would make the drive fun and go the longest possible way that we could. We went south to Red Deer and turned west at Sylvan Lake where we found the neatest little scooter company that is actually based in Langley BC – Volano Scooters – although we are sure these are the “cheap P.O.S’s” that Jiang Wayne was talking about one time. We thought that it was hilarious that we went to the middle of a field in Alberta and discovered uber urban things that come from our home.

Stopped on the highway to take photos of this old house in the middle of a canola field.

We actually were going to go through the field and check it out, but the canola was so thick we couldn’t even walk. The best we could get is a long lens shot of it from the highway. We stopped in Rocky mountain house on our way to the parks. We took the ice fields parkway south to the Trans-Canada and we stuck on that till we got to Revelstoke where we decided that we would spend the night. We ended up staying at the campiest place ever just for the heck of it! We didn’t set out to stay at the campiest place ever but it just sorta happened that way. Check out the floor in the bathroom! A word to the wise, Round Beds suck!

In the morning we hit the road early but we didn’t make it far before we found a place that we had to check out. This is an old abandoned motel right on the side of the road. We only had to hop one fence to get to it!

So we wandered around with cameras for 20 minutes. After that we weren’t on the road for more then 10 minutes before we found the next abandoned place. This is an old sawmill that looks just like it shut down one day and never started back up.

There is everything still there and not even badly vandalized (probably because it’s in the middle of nowhere.) So we wandered around that for about an hour. We stopped next in Sicamous for breakfast. We found a country breakfast buffet that wasn’t half bad. Because we like to drive places that we haven’t seen before we took the long way home. We went though Vernon and Kelowna as apposed to the quick route via Kamloops. We didn’t really stop anywhere except this.

I have never been to Osoyoos or Princeton so we took the 97 and the 3 home. Fantastic scenery and we found a few more scooters on the way! There is a town called Keremeos that is about halfway between Princton and Osoyoos that was filled with old beat up tractors and well worn Vespa’s as well as wicker scooters!

So anyone that goes though the archives of the institute (on a side note I am currently downloading 52 episodes of astroboy w00t) knows that I love wandering around old farms and homesteads with my camera. I find the photographic treasures that are hiding just below the surface very hard to resist. So imagine my glee when we went to my grandfathers for coffee and pie!! (you always have coffee and pie)

So to start the skies were fantastic. I also took a few medium shots of this with black and white. So we will see how that works out!

This is the side of the conflict house. It’s called the conflict house because any time my grandparents had a dispute this was their version of the couch, or the doghouse.

This is one of my Grandpa’s tractors. I remember as a kid when he bought this one it seemed so big then. Looks small and cute now!

Tiger Lily’s in the garden.

I wanted to stay and wander around the yard some more but I had to get going. There is a gold mine of photography glory out in the back yards like my parent’s old beetle and older tractors, combines and other good stuff. Next visit I guess.

So here i am in AB! I made here (here being Westlock not Edmonton so 45min further) in the record time of 11.5 hours. Mostly I am sure due to the fact that for the first time ever I have a car that will maintain the speed limit on the Coquihalla and been able to pass people on the single lane highways. It’s not a scooter but the new car thing is ok i guess :)

Allright I am off to visit my Mom and Grandpappy!

Yup it is as i say it is Holga Action. This is actually from my very first roll that I stuck in a holga! I was winding for 645 when the mask was set for 6X6 that coupled with double and triple exposures I end up with this.

Miranda brought this collection of goodies back form Alberta.

Because i am Polaroid crazy you get a Polaroid of a Vespa! Again!

Because i am polaroid crazy you get a polaroid of a Vespa!

yup some how i ended up in a bar that had classic rock bingo!