Just a plain old digital photo from our weekend trip to Ucluelet

Also from my motorcycle trek a couple of weekends ago, was these photos of may graveyards that I discovered on the way.

So I have posted photos from The Alexandra Bridge near hells gate before, but this bridge is ssssooooo coooooolll that I deserves many more photos then a few measly posts from a single trek.

These red scale photos are from my day trek on the motorbike a couple weekends ago. This time it was a weekend and a nice day at that so the bridge was filled with people. It was fun to sit and feel this huge bridge shake and sway from another single person walking on the other side.

I really want to go camping here and come down and do some night photos of this bridge.

would be stupid awesome!!!

I was cleaning up a little on friday when I cam across one of my polaroid tins. You see we ship prints, cd’s and such in these snazzy tin containers,

but when one of them is dented or otherwise not fit to send to a client it gets delegated to ride around in my camera bag protecting polaroids on photowanders. So I found one of these the other day & to my surprise there was a whack of polaroids in it that I have never scanned in to share.

So here I am now sharing them with you! :)

Bridal falls

Where I got turned around on the Coquihalla because of crappy tires and lots of snow.

I think were the last of some Polaroid Type 80 Pack film that I had. Shot on the Mamiya RB67 With I am guessing a 90mm lens for the first one and a 50mm lens for the second.  I am quite amazed at how much these faded since I took them in November. I had to bring a lot of contrast  back when I scanned them in because they were nearly faded right out to grey in spots.

I say this now because i like snow, it is swell

So I my have failed at the whole NaBloPoMo thing, first time for everything I suppose. This however will not make me simply give up and go back to to dark days. So here we are! I ended up on an impromptu road trip for reasons that are far to complicated to go into right now. So as always you get photos with little explanation.

A cafe in hope that is only open with presence of tourists.

This past weekend we had a wedding at a place called Alpine Meadows Resort near Clearwater BC. Where is Clearwater you ask. Exactly! We were seriously off in the toolies which was really awesome even if it meant there was no cell service or internet.

We took a little river ferry to get there.

They had a lake that was quite literally jumping with fish and rowboats :)

Marsh Grass taller then me…

and street lights… in the wilderness… I am not making this up…

It was a weekend of completely epic clouds and dramatic skies.

I again like always have forgotten my capo resulting in an improvisation.

Super awesome place was a super awesome wedding, and despite it being a work weekend, it was super swell! There are more photos to come I am sure.

We went to Victoria for the day.

Here is a laptop lady on the boat that took us there.

These are the seats that were empty

This is the gate that prevents us from leaving the boat prematurely

This is a chair on the beach in Victoria

This is the sidewalk at the ferry terminal

This is the boat we were waiting for all this time unloading.

This is the boat that took us home.

It was empty for the most part

This is the place where the man that is driving the boat hangs out.

This is the boat on it’s way towards my home.

That was my day drip to Victoria.

In other exciting news I have a new all encompassing photo project that I am planning on releasing to the world. Perhaps tomorrow being that it is of some sort of calendar significance. no promises however!! I am calling it the 4440project

Over the last weekend me & 50 people climbed aboard a bus & meandered on over mountains and though valleys to Big White Ski Resort near Kelowna. Shouts out to Vancityallie for setting this all up :) It was a good trek and with the exception of Vancityallie and her Boy (Whom I only met briefly at their party) I really knew no one else that was going. Its kinda fun to just say yes & hop on a bus with 50 other strangers and drive into the mountains.

Being that this was only the third time I have hit the snow this year I was a little apprehensive about firing off onto a bigger unknown mountain alone, however the awesome snow (especially in comparison to local mountains) made it all ok :)

I took the new 5D Mark II with me as well. While a nice lightweight camera I am often apprehensive about taking prosumer cameras though the rigors that I tend to take my pro bodies though. Experience has taught me that they are simply not to be trusted like my canon 1D mark II for example. If there is a nasty dirty wet place to take a photo you can bet its the camera taking it. The 5D was fine all nuzzled up in my backpack and the cold didn’t instantly kill the batteries like the original 5D’s do.

Being that I brought this camera/video camera I shot a tonne of video. Anything hand held was nearly unusable due to camera shake but my new small manfroto tripod was stellar to stick into my backpack.

I am awake and ready to go. My camera is packed and ready to go, I loaded up on cards and batteries. Just getting ready to head out and discover breakfast somewhere. 

On another note I have a bit of a surprise in the works. It is is in the works because I am still working out the tech details. But I will give you a hint. It involves the Olympics, the Internet, iPhones & of course photography. 

On another another note. I got word that my new Canon 1D Mark IV shipped yesterday. So hopefully it is waiting for me when i get back from this weekend.       

Who doesn’t like chocolate!? Communists that’s Who! There are some chocolate polaroid film goodness from our trip to Tofino!!

Here we have pumpkins from Cathedral Grove.

The Fire alarm from our boat home.