March 2009

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"Resistance" is evil

"Resistance" is evil

now that’s what I’m talking about! vancouver Resistance, according to Steven Pressfield is very clever and dastedly evil and will take on other forms to stop us from achieving the life we should be living. Pressfield is the author of The War of Art, a book introduced to me by Pixelated Image’s David duChemin. Thursday [...]

photo of the day

photo of the day

  abstract thinking somewhere between vancouver and victoria

out on the highway

out on the highway

In July 2008, Google reported that there were over 1 trillion unique URL’s on the information highway based on results returned by Google Search. That’s one URL for every dollar estimated in the current US budget but you didn’t tune in for politics so let me get to the crux of my posting today. There [...]

march in the gardens

march in the gardens

greeting spring van dusen gardens, vancouver What a difference three weeks makes! Spring has arrived and the signs were everywhere at the Van Dusen Gardens. The first heralders–snow drops, crocuses, and daffodills–were all there singing out loud. Across the water, they were doing the 33rd Annual Flower Count in Victoria where by Tuesday, they were [...]

missed takes

missed takes

I just finished viewing a short interview with Joe McNally on the newly revamped Vancouver Photoworkshops website. One thing Joe said resonated with me and that was the notion of mistakes. Look up the word “mistake” and you’ll typically see it defined as “a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention“. I [...]

taking stock

taking stock

office yoga vancouver Yesterday marked the end of the first week of my Microstock (MS) course so I thought I would share some of the key things I learned. PPSOP is an online photography school founded by Bryan Peterson who has been able to attract talent like Pete Saloutos, our instructor. Pete’s images are accepted [...]

photo of the day

photo of the day

granville island public market vancouver

photo of the day

photo of the day

enthusiasm butchart gardens, victoria

a few hours with scott kelby

a few hours with scott kelby

BEFORE AFTER Okay, the title is an attempt at humour à la Scott Kelby. If you’ve read any of his books you’ll know what I mean. In reality I did spend a few hours today learning more about his 7-point system for Photoshop and the way Scott writes he might as well have been sitting [...]

getting to know you

getting to know you

Getting to know you, Getting to know all about you. Getting to like you, Getting to hope you like me. Getting to know you, Putting it my way, But nicely, You are precisely, My cup of tea. ~ anna, from the king and i ~ Some random events came together today and I think they [...]

around the block

around the block

hemlock chalet hemlock, bc The planets were aligned, and not so nicely I might add. I’ve had a case of writer’s block for more than a week which is why you’ve only seen photos posted with very little narrative. Coincidently I am also having a case of photographer’s block. As I shared with my friend [...]

photo of the day

photo of the day

hemlock slopes hemlock valley, bc