Later this week, the Pan Pacific Vancouver will be hosting the 23rd Annual Christmas Wish Breakfast on Tuesday, November 30th from 6 to 9 am. I’ve been invited to photograph of all the festivities so will be there for the whole morning. If you’d like to help support the Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau, simply come…
It’s been like Christmas lately with a whole bunch of new camera gear coming across my desk. Here’s a quick overview of some of the new stuff I’ve been playing with. D7000 Earlier this week I received the much awaited Nikon D7000 camera body that I had preordered awhile ago: It’s a significant update to…
Recently, I booked a last minute trip to Northern California for a week. Whenever I travel, I always struggle with what I will want to have on hand while away. I try to travel as light as possible, whenever possible. For this trip, I decided that I was going to start by leaving my laptop…
Once again it’s that time when all the SXSW folks start pitching to anyone with a pulse their panel ideas for voting. I’m no different although I try to keep it to a minimum. Lately SXSW has been awash is social media and marketing sessions (even my session with Chris Heuer earlier this year fell…
The other day, while spending a couple hours in line to get the new iPhone 4, my friend Mike showed me something pretty impressive on his iPhone: his entire house via remote web cameras. Using a $5 iPhone app called iCam and some cheap webcams scattered around his house, he was able to setup a…
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…
Last week, I travelled across Western Canada with a few folks from WOMWorld/Nokia, Michael, April, and Daniel in a RV as part of a cross-Canada promotional tour for Nokia’s latest N-Series smartphone (on Rogers in Canada), the N97 Mini. We started our trip in Vancouver, ending up in Calgary just in time for the Stampede…
This past weekend, thanks to my friends at Nokia Canada, I attended the opening day of the Calgary Stampede. It was my first time at such an event and had lots of recommendations of things to see and do. Fortunately, I was able to do most of them. Things started off at the Rodeo: Followed…
As I mentioned previously, I’ve been playing with the extremely hard to find iPad Camera Connection Kit and photos taken with my various cameras. It’s a simple set of two dock connecting devices, one for SD cards and the other for USB, not unlike a USB SD card reader I have (in the middle): When…
Last night, I was invited to attend the opening night performance of Vancouver Opera’s production of Madama Butterfly. This was my second Opera and the last production for the VO this season. As I mentioned previously, I’m not an opera goer and was not familiar with the material. I was told that I would have…