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I certainly don’t see enough of *this* every day!
R.I.P. Bunny: 1992 – February 2007
Another fabulous weekend with people from Ottawa… I really don’t know why I didn’t go there sooner.
Roof jumping is a popular Canadian winter sport. Unlike shotgunning (skiing while firing a shotgun backwards behind you for a boost), jumping off a roof *is* dangerous. Lives can be lost kids; play safe.
Let yourself go… I overheard a woman remark that whoever sculpted this piece was intimately familiar with the female form. I’d have to agree, I believe the artist got something very accurate;*ladies can be as cold as ice*.
I take no shame in admitting that I’ve got a pretty sweet deal at home. Kari, my room-mate, pretty much makes all of the meals (in fact if I start she gets pretty angry), she keeps things very clean, she drives me to work… and back.Kari also gives me fashion advice, if I’m asking or […]
Not have I shown up for five minutes out of the woods, when Attila Starts launching roof-snow at me. I’m thankful his pitching arm isn’t as strong as his girlfriends, otherwise I’d be buying a new camera. In vetting this image with people, they commented that the snow looks photo-shopped in, which it is, sorta; […]
On Saturday, my first foray out on Lesley’s farm was straight down the path we cut with the snowmobiles and then I cut directly sideways into the wooded areas.This is when I discovered that I was in about 3 – 4 feet of snow, this made my trek through the forest painful and slow. I […]
Oh to balance on the head of a pin, I’ve purchased my tickets to Iceland, but I also just got a great offer to head down to Cuba over March Break. Sadly for Jen, Steph, and Attila I’m going to stick to the more exotic (and more desirable) of the locales. Maybe I should link […]
We’ve spent the weekend at Lesley’s snowey-ass Farm. Posting this before I go, I presume it has been cold, and awkward (as three of us are currently “unattached” while there are at least four couples I can think of that we have to deal with).
Enough ice sculptures? Don’t count on it.I’m not fortunate enough to run into natural formations of the stuff, so you’d better believe I’m going to milk these shots for everything they’re worth. An example of this would be seeing this image in the background of this shot.
I think my favourite Vonnegut writings happen when he finishes off his paragraph (or starts a new one) with *peace*. It brings the reader back in check after something that might have riled you, or a character within the story up; a pause or reprieve from the narrative.
I need to start going on longer and heavier walks to *train* for my trip in June. I can’t expect to huff my gear half way across Iceland by bus and foot without putting a little pre-effort into myself.I could see myself getting to Iceland, ready to go with my big Arcteryx pack and my […]
Xtina has far too much pride; of all the photos I took in Ottawa, she won’t let me post any of her, though I have given her carte-blanche use of my image & likeness if she chooses. Winterlude was on in Ottawa and a part of it were some impressive ice sculptures; I can’t even […]
Don’t let me be the guy to ask you which angle you think is best; magnanimously I choose such things for you. Aaron and I, the adventurers that we are, decided to take the Family Circus route home from Ottawa Sunday night.
The Gardiner Museum; I guess it’s designed to look like a teapot… …or a bong or something.
Ba deee doop de dow… *(insert Night Court theme here)*. I gleefully purchased my new tripod on Thursday and immediately started setting up shots around town. Though it was cold and windy so it wasn’t exactly the ideal weather for it, but I figure I need to start training for my Iceland trip by carrying […]
Not to be mistake for Rear-door, this shot was taken the same day Attila’s from a few months ago. I didn’t want to post it at the same time because, not only am I intimidated by him and his talent, but I didn’t want to saturate our friends with pictures of the same wall ‘n […]
By far, the best film I saw last year was Penelope with Christina Ricci and James McEvoy. This film was truly a delight, charming and funny; McEvoy proved himself to be one of the strongest calibre actors in our generation. This experience was surely accentuated by the good company I was with; people with an […]
A colour we won’t be seeing for a while. After yesterday’s embarrassment I took a little more time in selecting my image today, I likened the posting of the same image twice (re-cropped or no) to the photoblog equivalent of incest. Thankfully I received little flogging in response to this, though it is, respectfully, some […]
Ah beer, the cause of, and solution to all of life’s problems. My personal chronology of beer goes thusly:Age 4: Finished empties from pool side parties – verdict: Delciious!Age 14: Start drinking some Schlitz, cuz it was cheap, and malty – verdict: necessary to get drunkzAge 16: Tired of getting wasted, I stop drinking beer […]
It’s been way too cold to go out and take photos lately. I thought the purchase of a new tripod might help inspire me to do some more night shooting, but then the -17 and less weather has been prohibitive to an extreme that I can describe as “absolute.”Definitive in the way that I *absolutely* […]
It was Ethan’s birthday yesterday, I think he turned 5.It’s seldom that my family gets together now that all the grandchildren have grown and went their own ways, we celebrate the new generation on their special occasions, but lost are the family barbecues, the Christmas gatherings. A few of us try and see each other […]
Definitely where I like to take most of my dates, Ladies…?
