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I’ve always been terrible at picking out pants to buy and wear. I can never seem to get it right.Whether it’s fashion, or size, or whatever, I have a tendency to pick pants that are too short or, in the case of dress/casual, pants that aren’t fashionable. I seriously need a wardrobe consultant.
I’ve been fortunate enough to never have to undergo any significant surgery. I did have part of my big toenail removed, and of course your standard dental procedures (skin grafting to heal a recession in my gum line was by-far the worst), but nothing life-threatening.Sadly, I can’t say that a lobotomy at times feels like […]
I can’t wait to see the referrals I get with that title. The kid in question is my girlfriend’s son Owen; he likes Batman, Video Games, and his mommy – JUST LIKE ME! Attila said I looked like a pirate in the first of the photo-booth shots, but I think I’m just creepy lookin’.(They’re prescription […]
Dana Banana seems to be displeased with every photo I’ve ever taken of her. I think this one’s good, it’s honest and candid (as are many of my shots), her smile is genuine and I think she’s quite lovely – though she’ll have you believe otherwise.What does everyone else think? 3 days
Andrew Knapp’s inspired me to play around with tones a helluva lot more this past little while. Edit: see B&W version here 4 Days
Do you know who I am?How Important I am? Not actual quotes, but you get the idea – We’re all trying to get home lady, the driver’s distressed enough as it is. It took me almost two and a half hours to get home yesterday; that’s like halfway to Ottawa.
Kid, don’t change. Do you know how hard it is to rock a mowhawk? And he’s seriously doing it too – why can’t I be asian? Asian guys can do everything, break-dance, kick-box, program computer-ey-things, math (abacus)…
These self-portraits can be really tough, luckily I was able to close the shutter with my gigantic unit.
At first I thought this, but now I’m just not so sure. Not that I find girls kissing on other girls *hot* or anything, but they’ve got to take a break from kissing on me sometime.
This is from the shoot I was at last Sunday, Faith asked me to come by as a sort of learning “backup” photographer to their principle.I stood and took shots of whatever came my way, which tended to be Faith for the most part.This is fortunate because by the time all the other girls from […]
I checked out Faith’s band Fidget at the Silver Dollar a few nights ago.I had ordered a new lens, the Canon 85mm f/1.8 with this show in mind, I needed a faster shutter if I was going to shoot in the dark, but it didn’t come in time. I think I still managed okay (my […]
A few peeps from work; right to left: Lindsay, Leanne, and Alexandra. They’re the stewardship team and they’re sure to STEWARD your ass. On another note, did you know that the Polish call Easter Monday *Dyngus Day*, and that they exchanged gifts under threat of getting splashed with water. So check THIS out (I’ll quote […]
Claire seems to be pretty understanding (mostly) of the people around her, or so she claims. Let’s see if she’s understanding of my need to diptych these images.
Is McKay Irish? She definitely brought more Irish spirit than the rest of us on Saturday, she drank the best of us under the table and decided to tell-off one of my best friends. Lucky for her she made out with another one on New Years a while back so she’s now even-steven.
Dan wanted me to take down an older photo of him on this blog and replace it with this one; I informed him that this isn’t facebook and I wasn’t going to take down an old post unless he was really put off by it. I also asked if I could pop this one of […]
I’m moving offices next week, right up into the “Executive Suite.” It’ll be an interesting change since I’ve gotten fairly used to my colleagues visits (and interruptions); my office had been the hub of information and administrative work. Now I’ll be whisked away to my own private office, with a window, as the meat in […]
Finally after another week of cold it’s dying down to warmer temperatures. I’m in Ottawa again this weekend so hopefully I’ll get to see a little of this action too! Well, maybe not so much of my buddy mike in the background; he’s gotta shave before he gets more kisses.
Faith is an intern we’ve got at the office, well not my office, the events office. If Johnny Cash was a young brown girl, Faith would be it. I especially dig Faith because we can have a dialogue about the amount of E-mails she’s been sending out: JVL – Man, you’re really spamming it up […]
Yoda was cool not because of his hopping ju-jitsu skills he had in the new trilogy of Star Wars; it’s because he could fuck you up by lifting his finger. He was a puppet restricted to the ground but he could still teach Luke not to be a pussy and to levitate shit with his […]
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.
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; […]
