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.

When we went to Alberta last month we came across this old abandoned gas station just off the highway

Yesterday we went 4x4ing

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

The one that I Love about the Vancouver is that there bridges are quite assessable. In other cities and places it can often be some what of a challenge to get under bridges with out parking 20 blocks away and going for a walk. Over the years I have developed a small obsession with the undersides of bridges. :) Perhaps I was some sort of troll in a past life.

In other news the tracking number states that my new 5D mark II is on route to me as we speak. Come on Mr. Purolator man. Bring me some awesome :)

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 :)

Yup. It was just so pretty out that I had to share.

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….of photos called My Xterra In Random Places!

Yup because I have a lot of them:)
This is the Xterra On a community lawn in Fort Saskatchewan. It was OK because we followed other tracks in right :)

We drove all over the north end of Vancouver island and until I get around to blogging some photos and an overly long winded explanation of it all you get this video.

Yup We had fun!

I know that it has been for ever since I have really blogged anything but I have been busy and junk. I could go off and discuss all the awesome things that I been up to these past few weeks but I wont because the list gets longer and more daunting with each passing day.  Suffice it to say that It has been a bunch of good times that none of you will get to hear about :)

So I am wiping that slate clean and simply moving forward as though I have been diligently blogging away about the fun and exciting life of this Jerk, and trust me it has been swell.

I decided this year that I wasn’t going to kill myself with inhumane amounts of work. A plan that is failing miserably thus far but I am going to continue pushing forward with it anyway. Part of this pushing forward is to do other things, you know things that are not work related at all. Like camping, hiking, biking, jamming and insert some other activity that is me not sitting on my fat ass in front of computers for multiple hours a day like some fat, undeservingly narcissistic, mouth breathing world of warcraft addict that I am sadly starting to resemble. We had a weekend free, but being that I am insanely busy, I asked Coaxial if he could find us something fun to do. The only guidelines I provided were it had to involve some sort of camping and I demanded some sort of strenuous activity. I am slowly learning to delegate things and not feel that all tasks need to be done by me and only me so I happily deferred to the far superior camping/adventure planing skills of coaxial. He sent us some simple directions and some GPS co-ordinates and after a crazy busy day we packed up and followed these directions up past Squamish to camp. Strike guideline one of the list!

As for guideline two the strenuous activity, this was “hey lets climb cypress mountain and look at some snow and possibly a glacier!” I like both snow and glaciers so after a hearty breakfast off we went!

The hike goes something like this, drive as far as you can on a logging road and then park, cross a creek (river) and then go up, straight up the mountain. After an hour or so trying to find a safe creek (river) crossing we did just that.

The climb is 900 vertical meters or something up from the logging road and almost all of it was covered in stupidly deep snow. We had no problem standing on the top though with a few exceptions :)

Just so we could explain how steep it really was :)

I may have ruined my legs for ever! :)

That night we played with fireworks

We made a lot of eggs :)

Drove a great many places

We even managed to mire the xterra in many feet of wet snow :)

All in all an awesome weekend was had by all!! June 20th is our next camping adventure I think.

We have moved on up in the land of our parking! Yup we went from this

to this

Ya I know it is a little bit over kill with the razor wire and locked gates and such but what can I say it is a far bigger parking space that will allow us to park two autos for the price of around 1.5! I will also bring my kayaks home from there storage rack on Granville island, which means we then save on those monthly mooring costs there! Who knows they may even get used once in a while if they are close to home :)

here is  few more shots from random Powell River places

An old BcHydro building I think?

Did they happen to need Ambulance’s enough to warrant a proper pick up point?

So almost on the spur of the moment we decided to road trip  up the sunshine coast and stay at the genius campsite that we found last year.

I tossed a bunch of stuff together, we loaded up the xterra and off we went.

After a leisurely drive we found our campsite! (the exact same one that we had before) and I was a burly man and made fire.

This tug took at least 30 min to make it from one side of our view to the other.

there was a great many signs telling us to do things and not do other things.

an awesome view that we discovered on random deactivated forestry roads.

Awesome mail boxes that M wanted to steal.

random disused parking lots with many overgrown signs painted on the walls.

It was a super relaxing weekend.  we were only gone for around 24 hours but it honestly felt like almost a week! You must be in relaxtown when that happens :)

Miranda grabbed this with her iphone after we got it more muddy and stuck

…and I am sure that he owes me a whole flat of cheap American beer!! :) Yesterday we fired up to Squamish with getting muddy being the goal.  We succeeded! :) Josh kept getting stuck in large mud holes and we kept having to pull him out. This one ended up being way worse then it looks here and took over an hour of shoveling and pulling with the xterra to make it unstuck. After he was fully free from all this mud nonsense, and much to the dismay of my darling wife, he promptly drove though it all again at high speeds.  Only to have later turn around and drive though it again when the road turned into a small lake filled with frogs.

all in all fun and mud where both found! :)