Today I paid a visit to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre to find out more about their current exhibition, “More than Just Games”, which focuses on Canada’s involvement with the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. It’s a fascinating, yet haunting look at the games that occurred over 74 years ago just before World War…
Thanks to an invitation from LG Canada back in December, I was able to meet and photograph some of the team members of the then proposed team for Canada’s Snowboard Cross (SBX) Olympians. From left: Maëlle Ricker, Rob Fagan, and Drew Neilson They still had a number of qualifying events to compete in before the…
I’m definitely starting to feel excited about this event despite the seriousness of my face in the media badge. It’s really starting to feel real now.
I went downtown today for an impromptu photowalk with some friends and we toured some of the Olympic venues. It’s amazing to see the transformation the city is going through right now…including the incredible amount of sponsorship advertising on display like the Samsung ‘billboard’ above.
As recently as last week, I still hadn’t made a decision on what I was going to do during the Winter Games. Originally I was thinking of going out of town to simply avoid the traffic snarls the games will surely bring (I work in North Vancouver) but those plans were dashed because my wife…