It is the sign of a true artist if you wait till the last minute to submit your artist proposal on the day of the deadline from a crowded bar right? That is what I just did here at On the Edge Pub in Gastown. We are crammed in to watch Canada Kick some US ass & while drinking beer with a laptop I officially tossed in my name to be considered! If you haven’t already you need to RSVP for this show! I could tell you all about it but this video will be far more coherent then this jerk in a bar will :)

The Cheaper Show

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Now back to the beer :)

Yup just saying

These are apart of an installation down near the Olympic torch. Fun!

Man, I only just discovered this today. I so wish that I knew about it in December, although we were moving as was everyone else in the world, so maybe it is a good thing… Anyway, I can often be found wondering about how I could go about using my camera for good, and this is such a great concept.

I am definitely going to be keeping an eye on this and hopefully there will be something happening before next Christmas, but if not Christmas is only 303 days away. :)

On another note just got home from Paul’s for breakfast. I stopped in at Beau Photo and grabbed some more Black & White film/developer and a proper 4X5 sheet film rack for developing my Large format negs. I am thinking that I might do some sort of fun video or something all about the dieing art of the darkroom, I am not sure we will see.

Ya you should all head on down to false creek near the Expo ball to see the inukshuks that people are building in mass on the beach. My Fuji Instax Polaroid camera says so.

Yuppers more of my go Olympic things and take non-Olympic photos :)

This shot was taken from what can only be described as the heart of downtown Vancouver. I was standing on the centre of Robson Granville street. Something i could only do with out dodging traffic because of the Olympic street Closures. Thank you Olympics.

My goal this Olympics was to photo wander and take photos of non Olympic things at Olympic things.

This for example is the ceiling in the BC Hydro PowerSmart Village

and this is a vent outside the ridiculously big igloo on Georgia street

These are on the beach in false creek

This is the Main street Skytrain station.

Yup Fun stuff. Now I am hungry so we must go and eat!!

More photos from the adventures that @tryllbee & I had yesterday at Granville Island. I had forgotten just how much I enjoy shooting Black & White, and I almost never shoot digital with the intention of making it Black & White. If i am shooting black & white it is almost always when I am shooting with film, but I am learning to really enjoy shooting digital B&W in camera with the colour option if i desire.

Today was an awesome day. I got up early for breakfast with @coaxial & @tryllbee at the second best cheap b-fast eats in Vancity, Paul’s Place. MMMMmmmm… Then @trylbee & I photo wandered about Granville island for many hours, Super Chill, Super Fun. Then I thought that I lost a card wallet with eight 8gig cards in it which sorta was a downer, but then I found it and all was happy again, & then I discovered that it wasn’t Sunday like I thought but actually Saturday, meaning there was a complete other weekend day left, then we all went for Vietnamese food, then we watched the spotlight thingy in English bay, then we had Hot Chocolate and I was happy and it was fun! :)

I half expected to get tackled by Olympic security forces here being that this is an Olympic venue and all but there was no problems what so ever taking these sunset photos of the PNE

Now I am off for some breakfast at Paul’s with other early weekend rising peeps :)

I know that I posted the other day with polaroid’s of this boat but here is some digital photos of the Kruzenshtern

I am not going to be one of those people that tells you that is rains all the time here but it does rain a lot in the winter. So when you get t-shirt/blue sky weather in February, you go out and take photos of it.

I do heart North Vancouver.

I woke up this morning totally feeling refreshed like i had epically overslept. I started cursing my self for over sleeping then my alarm went off. That is an awesome start to a day

So I have been wandering about with the new Canon 1D Mark IV for a bit now, & it is swell. My only complaint is that using the 5D and the 1D together for video gets a little awkward. The record button on one camera is that live view button on the other and I am constantly hitting wrong buttons when I use one or the other :) Not a bad thing to complain about really.

So this photo is an accident. One that I liked so much I tried in vain to replicate. Like all Canon 1D’s the portrait shutter button is super touchy. Touchy shutter button + long exposure = awesome :)

This is the Lonsdale Quay in case you weren’t able to see that  :)

So I picked up a new camera today. I finally found a new Fuji Instax 210 for non-lomography Prices!:)

I tried this camera out today while we walked about the North Vancouver pier today.  Pretty awesome on sunny days :)

Update: I was at Beau Photo yesterday and i happen to notice that they have all the film and these cameras for sale! Didn’t see prices but they have in stock!

We are always looking for mismatched chairs, decent record players, and random old cameras like My Nikon FG. As such we tend to wander about thrift & second hand stores, as well as so called “antique stores” threw out the lower mainland.

I heart the green and orange cups mostly because when I was a kid we would go to my granddad’s for coffee and he would give me hot chocolate and cookies via one of these very same cups.
Camera: Canon 1D Mark IV Aperture: 5.6 Shutter: 1/60 Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L ISO: 1600 Date Taken: February.05.2010

Camera: Canon 1D Mark IV Aperture: 5.6 Shutter: 1/60 Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L ISO: 2000 Date Taken: February.05.2010
I recently just bought one of these egg beaters which (involving a long story) also takes me back to my youth.

Camera: Canon 1D Mark IV Aperture: 1.4 Shutter: 1/50 Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L ISO: 320 Date Taken: February.05.2010

Camera: Canon 1D Mark IV Aperture: 2.2 Shutter: 1/60 Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.2L ISO: 320 Date Taken: February.05.2010

I heart junk it makes such great photo fodder. However, we came home empty handed.

This was also the first real world test of auto uploading via the EYE-Fi Card and it seemed to work rather well. I am not uploading every single photo I take because that would be silly. I often shoot at silly low apertures of 1.2 and such so focus can be a bit of a tough one, so I take a few to be sure that what I want is in focus. But other then choosing what photos make it to the internet I am not editing. Which is funny because it makes me really realize that I always take photos slightly slanted to the right. I know this & I will often fix them in post. God times anyway when I get a chance i will play with the flickr API and see what fun ways I can display them to the world :)

Yesterday we went 4×4ing

We all got stuck at least once, however the award to most stuck as always goes to Josh

I had to cut my cheap rubber boots off because they were so full of mud and water that they suctioned on to my feet :)

Oh ya I got really muddy

Yuppers it has been crazy to get to and from my home the last little while. Might be because they are filming like mad men before the Olympics.

Just Saying

When you are in Olympic land?