This Bike was for sale on Pender street near the China town gates :) I was tempted to buzz 406 and ask the story.

Camera: Leica M9 Lens: Zeiss Planar 2/50 ZM Shutter: 1/500 Aperture: 6.7 ISO: 200 Date Taken: 02.23.2012

This truck was parked on water street and has what looks like a potted plant in the spare tire. AWESOME!

Camera: Leica M9 Lens: Zeiss Planar 2/50 ZM Shutter: 1/3000 Aperture: 2.8 ISO: 400 Date Taken: 02.23.2012

I love how wet things look so much more colourful and have way more contrast. It may even explain my love of the rain :)

There are two things that are really particularly awesome about these photos… One is the Harley Davidson & naked lady stickers on the rear window, the second is the owner of this Harley Davidson/naked lady sticker laden Suzuki mini truck came up and enthusiastically talked to me after I took these photos. He was very excited that some was potentially interested in buying it from him.  He told me all the ways that you can make money with the vehicle including hiring it out as a mini dump truck for hard to reach places. Now what was awesome was the man was decked out head to toe in leather/denim Harley Davidson swag. He was “asking 7 for it” and that I should tell all my friends who might be looking for a career change that this was a really fantastic way to make “tonnes of cash!” I heart random people stopping and talking to me because I have a camera.

We went for coffee with a bunch of photographers this morning and somehow managed to drink four really strong Americanos in a row on an empty stomach so I am basically all over the board right now being totally unable to concentrate on much for more then a few seconds at a time.  Which is weird because after high school I assumed that I drank too much coffee and broke all the effects that caffeine had on me. So for many years I would drink coffee and not have it really do anything other then taste good. So this is a bit of a surprise and it is also a bit of a trip down memory lane to be buzzing on caffeine again. I am serious that it has been since I was in high-school that I was buzzing on coffee! FUN!!! I WANT TO DO SO MANY THINGS RIGHT NOW BUT I CAN’T BECAUSE I CAN’T CONCENTRATE ON ANYTHING FOR MORE THEN 3 SECONDS!!!! :)

yup no words just photos

So today was about packing and jamming!I managed to pack a whole crap load of stuff and clean out most of my desk and such.

We had a quick bite at the newly replaced Incendios in g-town where Darren & I ended up with ridiculously large & free beers.

Then there was Jam time where Darren & I had more foolishly large beer.

We rocked out so hard that the Zoom H4n Actually froze 30min into the session. That is how much we rocked out! tomorrow more packing and treks to Richmond :) Fun!

So in typical jerk fashion I am going to make a feeble attempt to make up for months of sporadic posting with one long post filled with many photos and few words!

This morning I couldn’t sleep so I decided that I should go for a long walk. I took my RB67, 5D, a bunch of film, and a light meter and off I went. here are some of the Digital shots. The film will come someday

It wasn’t cold out but these birds sorta look cold.

I heart this train yard. I am glad we are still close where we are moving to.

It often seems like there is more effort put into the scaffolding on these “lets pretty up our city” projects then the pretty project them selves.

Interesting note on this. That curb is askew like that because I accidentally pushed it out of the way with the Xterra. We were shooting a portrit session with a couple which is why I parked there.   When we left I drove forward pushing it askew like it is. Just a note about how sign of the things we do are always about us!

I have taken 75 billion photos of this silly fountain and this is by far the first one I liked.  Something about it always brings me back to shoot it again but until now this is the first one I have enjoyed.

I had turned around to take photo of the empty cross walk when I saw the shadow and the feet I grabbed it instead :)

Having been in Alberta all week, where precipitation falls as snow, it is really quite awesome to get back to the land of humidity! It may take me a week to adjust. Now I am going to say this because its true, but I love the rain. Photo-walking in Vancouver is simply brilliant in the cloudy drizzle. Overcast is awesome for the light & the rain makes colours pop! That & I am not sweating my ass off while I wander about! All win win I figure! :) I guess I am meant to live here.

Anyway…  these are shots from out my window. I wont have this view for much longer so I figure I should document it well. I Promise I will talk about the new home at some point just not now :)

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II Aperture: 4.0 Shutter: 1/60 Lens Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 170mm ISO: 800 Date Taken: oct.17.2009

Camera: Canon 1Ds Mark II Aperture: 4.0 Shutter: 1/80 Lens Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 130mm ISO: 800 Date Taken: oct.17.2009