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Lovely weekend to be sure, now if you all thought I’d post on Labour Day and showed up by clicking your bookmarks, remember to actually subscribe to blogs from now on. Note to those on medication; don’t forget it over long weekends – your brain will have baby-seizures.
I’ll be in Ottawa this long weekend, looking forward to spending time with the little lady. Enjoy the EX and the cottage and I’ll still have a better weekend than you.
“Round here they call me Bee Pun, if you with the big gunsThick tongue, known to make a chick…“
I either:• A. don’t know how to focus my camera, AND don’t know how to properly spell shades of purple or• B. don’t care. Photo processed entirely in Photoshop CS3 Camera Raw, with some sharpening
Here’s a Hydrangea my mom gave me a few years ago, she all but told me that it would never bloom. Then it had one flower-head last year, and she said it was a fluke and that it wasn’t going to happen all the time so I should get used to it.Then came this year, […]
Wow, another waterfall from Iceland.
This is the most useless pipe ever. It’s obviously carries a high capacity but over what, 5 feet? Lame.
I don’t understand why cars and machines don’t just start jumping up and Transforming, maybe smashing a few things in the process. Sure, that could be more dangerous to the world. Or is it more dangerous to see my wicked pecks?
Even out of a violent explosive crater, life comes back, in the tiniest of forms. I had two wonderful paying gigs this week for my photography, maybe it’s not my pictures that sell things so much as it is how awesome I am as a human being – it’s like grandeur through association.
Yeah so I see these boats and I think about those little Russian stacking dolls, one popping out of the other until they get much smaller. Though I suppose this image would be a bit more comical if it was followed, by a jetski, a kayak, a paddleboat, a rubber dingy, a remote controlled speedboat […]
Hung out briefly with the man from Philly outside of Philly this past weekend, Brad from Wasted Photos, along with Attila, Jonathan Greenwald, Aaron, and Xtina. It was basically a big photo blogger gang-bang where we went around pillaging downtown Toronto with our shutters, apertures, and Canon L-lenses.
Attila got me doing yet ANOTHER thingie on the internet. I checked out last.fm and it’s as good as he said.Seeing as how I don’t listen to the radio, my exposure to new music is virtually nil, this is the first program/service that I’ve run into that truly allows interactivity and networking to merge into […]
During my entire trip in Iceland I was obsessed with the Unkle track “Lonely Soul”. It could have been because I took this trip solo, or because I can be quite morose. But it’s probably the last thing I listened to before I left for two weeks, abandoning my iPod at home. UNKLE – Lonely […]
Today is like the lull before a storm. A storm of pure AWESOME! Well maybe not a lull, Saturday is Ernesto’s bachelor party, as well, Brad from Wasted Photos will be in town and I hope to finally meet the man. Legend has is that just by standing near him, a man’s sexual potency will […]
Whoops, missed a post there. I took a last-minute offer to come out to Ottawa for Canada Day so I hit the road early Saturday without having anything ready to post. This is an image I edited in Picnik while I was in Iceland.Considering it’s entirely a web app, I thnink it has some pretty […]
Iceland is basically a giant pasture for grazing animals (sheep mostly). The unique landscape affords some mountainous hikes, and it’s not uncommon to see a farm built right up into a cliff, with half-barn have caves. Sadly, many of the more photogenic locales I passed by on the bus (Like the abandoned barn & Silo […]
“I sit and watch it grow standin’ where I’m at…” I got my latest lens last week: grabbed the Canon 50mm f/1.4 – now I’m fully equipped to stop taking photos of random flora and START taking photos of professional models.
This was a waterfall at the Blue Lagoon in Iceland. This is some mineral salt water that seems to pound down on you with the force of a strong masseuses fists. Though I barely felt it at all because I have the shoulder muscles of Goldberg
Skógafoss was the second major waterfall I visited on my trip, and the first place I set up camp (you can camp at the base of the waterfall, though I opted to move a bit back). I took many photos of it at the time, and the next day I decided to walk up river […]
Apparently the old Viking parliament of Iceland used to meet here, this was their spot, and the lawspeaker would speak on the law stone… or the speaking stone… or the conch or whatever. This is also the place where the North American and Eurasian continents meet… or split – geography’s all very confusing, but anyway […]
Reykjavik, for me, was a surprisingly dull city. Granted, I can’t party like I used to, so going out for the all night benders was out of the question (that and $10 pints are unappealing) I found the daytime city to be quite grey.Literally, since there was very little colour in the buildings and apparently […]
