Yup cypress. I know I am a jerk for flaunting my self employedness but
take comfort in the fact that tomorrow while you are all sleeping it
off from the night before I will be hard at work. So today I am here.

Here we are at The Grizzly House in Banff having the worlds (well Alberta’s anyway) best fondue. I ordered a pint of trad and they seem to have some sort of measurement issue because this is not a pint it is a bucket. Mmmmmmm…. Fondue.

So because I didn’t gain enough weight this Xmas holiday season, I am
currently standing and waiting for my jumbo donair from Charles Smart
Donair in Etown. Mmmmmmm. Queen donair was closed so we are resorting
to the second best donair place I know.

iPhone blooging about things that people want to have/be doing but
can’t because of location/jorbs is awesome. I am not sure if there Is
any way to be more effective of a jerk really. We are off to banff now
and Lake Louise awesomeness tomorrow. :)

Yuppers it is Xmas morning.  A time where people are happily opening presents and having breakfast etc.  Basically Christmas is a perfect time to be out and about taking photos of stuff hassle free. :) I am thinking that I am going to make this Christmas photo wander a Jerk tradition for there is no one out and about other then me and no one to yell at me for taking photos Tonnes of fun!  This morning I braved the -31C temperatures to collect some awesome photos

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II Aperture: 1.4 Shutter: 1/1000 Lens Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM ISO: 50 Date Taken: Dec.25.2008

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II Aperture: 1.4 Shutter: 1/1600 Lens Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L USM ISO: 50 Date Taken: Dec.25.2008

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II Aperture: 1.2 Shutter: 1/2500 Lens Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L USM ISO: 50 Date Taken: Dec.25.2008

But at least they are supposed to have snow & ice. Yuppers we are off to Alberta and it is silly early! and I am tired. so ummm…. errrr….

Blogging seemed like a god idea until I opened WP and started typing…. huh…perhaps I will blog from the road when I am in right brain mode and have had a coffee or 12…. huh….

…….so I will just go anyway! :)

But I have to say that I am not really prepared for such weather :) I don’t know where my longjohns are!

After a day of dealing with broken things i am tired and want nothing more then to hit the hill in the AM so that is exactly what I will do! See ya there D

Today saw me driving all over the lower main land it would seem. I was out in Langley, Burnaby, and all points in between! All points except on Cypress Mountain to play in the snow. I didn’t get to all the things that i needed to get done today so I didn’t make it to the hill :( i am sure that I will be OK but i am starting to jones for snowtime! I mean i has been over three days!! :) Perhaps tomorrow afternoon or maybe even Saturday i will get out for a bit. Otherwise I work on Sunday leave on Tuesday. While i may be going to the land of ice and snow it is a flat land with no hills or anything. I will be taking my gear however with the hopes of hitting Lake Louise on the way home. :)

…from this last weekend but I haven’t had the time to sit down and do so.

Can for comments was a complete success with around 63 comments in that short time, so depending on time this week I should be able to get that all organized and delivered so some peeps can eat for xmas.

All day all I do is dream about snowboarding. It has consumed me entirely and I am not sure what to do about it! Last Saturday I had plans to possibly go to whistler for some snowy good times, but alas I totally slept in until 8:30am and decided that a half day at a half open mountain wasn’t worth the tank of gas and a 70 buck lift ticket, so I went to cypress’s opening day instead :) Saturday was the opening of the Easy Rider chair and the runway run. (IE: the bunny hill) Kinda lame I know but I went anyway :)

Sunday I convinced Coaxial that snowboarding was fun and went again to the other ½ of the mountain that opened that day. We boarded until it was time to come down off the mountain and prepare for one of the best parties I will go to this year (and believe me I am going to a lot of parties this year)
The Aislewalk party at The Palisades Hotel is where the latest issue was unveiled to all us folk. Why do I bring this work type stuff up? Well I am proud to say that I shot one of the editorials in this issue.

Yup fun stuff really.  It’s funny cause we do this stuff all the time in my work world but I never really talk about it because this blog is what I do out side of work (I recognize the irony. I am a photographer by day and after a long day of work what do I do to unwind and relax?  I take photos of stuff) so work is rarely talked about.  Also if you get a chance check out the  Art + Soul Gallery at the Palisades Hotel (on Robson Street) to see Erin Gilmore photography show Taste. Go see some of her brilliant works because Erin is awesome!

Because I had such a great time on Sunday I thought that on Monday I should go snowboarding again. I went from opening till about noon and came home and worked away the day.  It’s much easier to work away the day when you went snowboarding in the morning.

Tomorrow I am going to see if the opposite is true.  I have to drive out to Langley in the AM but after work stuff I am going to his cypress for the afternoon/evening.  The night riding has started for the year so I will check that out.

There is tonnes more that I wanna talk about but I am exhausted.