So we have gotten the car back from the car doctor’s. It now has four tires that are all round! It is still missing a door handle though but hopefully we can get that fixed next week. However on the car topic! After a year and a half on the waiting list we have finally gotten a parking stall in our building, (when I say stall I really mean its a spot that is exactly the same size as our car so there is not much room to open doors or anything but I am not complaining) It is one of the most fantastic things ever! We get to come home and go from the car up an elevator to our house. Novel! We have been up till this point parking in the Gastown parkade down the street, and walking home. It is only a block with a stop for coffee on the way, so I don’t mind that, what is a pain, is hauling 37 tonnes of photo gear a block three times a week! Seriously I dare anyone to haul a light kit and my camera bag that far I dare ya! It is like the gift that keeps on giving! Hurray!

Ya we are shooting a wedding today so All you get is an old Polaroid!

Camera: Polaroid SX70
Film: Polaroid 779
ISO: 690
Date Taken: October.2007

Waiting for our plane that as it stands right now will only be about an hour late due to weather, I can’t complain because when I look out the window of the airport I can’t see much of anything because the snow is in the way. Last night we went over to see Sherry, Peter & Terra. Somehow (I am not really sure what I was thinking, or as the day goes on I am deciding that I was not really thinking at all) I managed to drink two bottles of wine to myself on basically an empty stomach. Now it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to acknowledge that this is a really bad idea, but yet I did it anyway. I seriously can honestly say that I have never ever never been this hung over in my entire life. See when I used to this sort of thing when I was 18 I somehow was able to bound out of bed in the morning and go to work, go to school, or as it was most often do it all over again. In my old age however I am afraid that I am not able to bounce right back from an evening of debauchery especially this particular evening that somehow managed to keep me very very close to the washroom for most of it. I couldn’t even drive into Edmonton this morning because I was still super queasy and it required a great deal of concentration to not be sick all over again. Why??? I am not a stupid teenager or anything. We will be home today and hopefully our car will have the appropriate number of tires and they will all hold air! But I am going to try and sleep now so bah

So being that we live in a land that for the most part is completely devoid of snow, you some times forget that it can be fun! Today we are going to go on a guided snow adventure! it will be fun. M’s father is going to take us to some back woods places that he know for photo fun!

Again more from the archives. from a wander about in February of 2006.

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 2.8
Shutter: 1/400
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 28mm
ISO: 400
Date Taken: Feb.14.2006

Miranda and her Peanut Brittle!

Yup after a week that reminded me of the craziness that was our move to the rainy City, we are hopefully on the tail end of this rollercoaster ride that has been our lives. I am super tired and not really interested in anything Christmas but in an effort to be like everybody else, I will fake it!!

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!

Now for those that know me, me wishing people a Merry Christmas may sound a little funny. You see I HATE Christmas and all its consumerist traditions. I won’t get into it but I have a hard time getting behind the holiday season for it usually means that none of the stores are open and that there is nothing good on TV, and well it is a pain! However any time people are nice to other people even if they were told to do so by some foolish holiday ideal, and even though they are mean bastards to everyone the rest of the year, I can’t complain. So Happy Holidays and be sure to drink heavily.

We had an awesome wedding yesterday, there is something about weddings on holidays that make them so different then a regular wedding, Update on the car it looks like the only damage we did was ruin the tires! I fully expected that there were bent rims, damaged undercarrage, and some sort of you drove over a curb dumass so we are revoking your right to drive ticket! But it looks like this is not the case! So that makes me happy. After driving the delica for a day, coupled with ruining my car via a simple parking curb, it really makes me want an xterra. This summer maybe! Well I am going to make the most of my paid internet and browse facebook and stuff for 45 min. Happy Holidays.

So it would seem that I drive poorly and my car is not a 4X4!

Yup in a mad race to hit the Future shop before it closed I managed to do this! Wasn’t going really that fast or anything but I really launched it over the curb! Not a big deal except 3 tires actually exploded in the process. THREE!!! I can stick my fingers though the side wall. WTF!!! So ya Not a 4X4 it would seem!

Thanks Josh for the lift and coming out! and the forthcoming Delica loan tomorrow! You ROCK!!

Again from the archives of the institute. From third beach in Stanley park! there was a spot of sunshine with in February is kinda neat all on its own! that gave these divots and mountains a lot of contrast.

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 5.6
Shutter: 1/200
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 62mm
ISO: 50
Date Taken: Feb.19.2006

So if I was ever to think Christmas was really a magical time of year it would be now. One of our vender’s actually delivered and the second vender disaster was solved by a very nice family operation out in Burnaby. Hanna Art Studios swooped in and saved the day like George Bush running for a taco! Props! Now I am going to tinker on my blog, work on our latest wedding, and wait for the Great Dave of Nakedness to arrive on our fair shores and demand beer!

I am home from a fantastic theatresports presentation and many many many many many good beers at Tanya’s. The beers were more then needed after a ridiculously busy day that involved, me busting my ass to do things in order to prepare for people that in the end last min bail, and in doing so manage to Frak my shit up for the rest of the day, vender’s not delivering things to us before Christmas even though we managed to be on top of our game and had things in weeks before their Christmas Deadlines!, these said vender’s not telling us that there was a problem till this afterbloooddynooon allowing us exactly NO time to remedy the problem all of which leads to the last but not least of today’s BS!!!! An afternoon of calling random places in a mad frantic only to have them exclaim that it is the Friday before Christmas, so go away! we aren’t doing shit for you , Merry Fracken Christmas!!!! So Really what this rant really is? Yup Fodder for the book I would love to write!!! I would title it 136 reasons why Christmas can lick my left one, and 37 reasons why I would love to kick Christmas extremely hard in its proverbial ass. But what ever it is nothing that a ridiculous amount of liquor and a night out with friends couldn’t cure. (that is until i get ragged on for not inviting the right friends) What ever I am loaded and I need to be up at some ridiculous hour in order to deal with more stupid Christmas BS so i suppose I should sleep it off and go from there! SO no more mellow dramatic BS from me, Merry frakin xmas!

So I have updated my look and my wordpress and thus far it seems to be working! If it isn’t working let me know!!! I am now going to go watch people make fun of themselves on a stage while i drink heavily it will be grand!

You Say Party = awesome! I heart them a whole bunch. Tickets are at scratch!

This is supposed to be a Youtube video if it isn’t click here.

Just a shot in the dark but that is the impression that i get. Again this photo comes from the Archives of the Institute and was taken close to two years ago! Well then! Today I am going for a walk to hopefully get some photos that are new, I know that you are all waiting with baited breath till i return. :)

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 4.5
Shutter: 1/100
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 24mm
ISO: 200
Date Taken: Feb.14.2006

So we recently joined the PPA and they decided that they would send us a nice Christmas gift. They sent us Photographic Frames Vol.2. < sarcasm > Here are a few wonderful examples of the 24 exciting boarders that are included with in this wondrous collection.< / sarcasm >

< sarcasm > Yup these babies are sure to class up the presentation of my work. < / sarcasm > What kills me is they want about $125 for this trash! I think sometimes there should be some sort of licence requirement in order to use Photoshop. This is why people think of photographers as that stuffy old weirdo’s with the kaki photo vest with more pockets then Michael Jackson’s red leather jacket.

Tonight we decided that Alberta needed to have its presence known in here in Vancouver so a bunch of us Alberta Transplants went to the Black Frog for beer! and I have a couple of photos.

Josh and Josh after someone mentions doppelganger sex movie

So last night we decided that work is for chumps and rolled on out to Richards On Richards to see Shonen Knife & Friends. What an Awesome show! Verona Grove was the first band to hit the stage.

Next was The Juliet Dagger who was actually my favorite band of the evening! (don’t get me wrong I loved Shonen Knife but these guys kicked ass!!) The really reminded me in a odd way of a E-town band that I used to see called Nothing At All (who has reformed as a Vancouver band called Careworn)

Last was Shonen Knife and they did impress! Props to a band that has been rockin out for this long!

All said it was a good time and it was a night out that I have been kinda needing!

I went to the bank the other day and I found this photo. It is one that I have taken a thousand time before! but I liked this one best!

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II
Aperture: 8
Shutter: 1/160
Lens: Canon EF 24-70mm f/2.8L USM @ 67mm
ISO: 125
Date Taken: Nov.30.2007

Yuppers that is the current count of every Digital photo that we have taken since December 2002! 592,812 photos is a lot! In fact it is about 325 photos a day! Holy cow!

Again I am digging photos out form the archives of the instiute. This one dates back to Sept of 04, and our trip to the east coast! Wiki for Peggy Cove

Camera: Canon 1D Mark II
Aperture: 4
Shutter: 5sec
Lens: Canon EF 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5 II USM @ 55mm
Filter: Wratten 87 IR filter
ISO: 50
Date Taken: Sept 04 2004