The BC Media Centre that I’m currently using as basecamp during the Olympic Games hosts a LOT of press conferences and Premier Gordon Campbell attends many of them:
and when he’s not at the Media Centre, he’s out and about:
I’m pretty sure by the end of this, I’ll be on a first name basis with him.
Recently I had a chance to check another item off the bucket list…fly a plane! My friend John has a 3D printer which I helped him get dialed in and he paid me back by taking me for a spin in his plane on a perfect day.
Last week, I got a couple of lens adapters meant for mobile phones in the mail. Today, while playing with my Zi6, I realized that the lens adapters fit perfectly on the Zi6. There is a little metal ring with sticky tape that the lenses attach to via magnets which fits perfectly on the Zi6…
I’ve got a few upcoming talks and workshops that some of you might be interested in. This post gives a little more details about the topics at each event.
This past weekend I came across a very sweet deal on Craigslist that allowed me to trade my Nikon Lensbaby Composer for a micro 4/3s Lensbaby Composer with Tilt Transformer. It’s basically the same type of Lensbaby, except that it also has the added benefit of having an integrated adaptor so you can use Nikon…
But I realized that over the past year, I’ve photographed the three Canadian political party leaders, in Vancouver. Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Conservative) during the Paralympics Michael Ignatieff (Liberal) outside Canada’s Northern House during the Winter Olympics and Jack Layton (NDP) during the 2009 Pride Parade in the West End of Vancouver. Gilles Duceppe has…
This is REALLY cool. Take your iPhone and hold it up to a speaker/radio/etc playing nearly any song and run Erica Sudun’s insane new app, Listen. It will ‘sample’ whatever is near the iPhone’s microphone and after a couple of seconds will display the song, artist and album of whatever it heard. I’ve had about…