This morning I had a chance to be one of the first to ride the new Zipline that goes over Robson Street: Needless to say, it was amazing! Thanks to ZipTrek EcoTours for putting this on. It opens to the general public FOR FREE on Friday, February 12th. You can watch people ride it on…
I was invited to check out two prototype models of Chevy’s upcoming Volt plug-in electric vehicle today. I can safely say nobody has ever offered to let me drive a pre-production vehicle before so I jumped at the chance. These cars were handmade in at GM’s design factory and are in town during the Olympics…
Over the holidays, I got to check out a friend’s Go Pro HD which really blew me away since you can put it just about anywhere thanks to its numerous mount options, waterproof housing and wicked wide angle lens. Unfortunately it’s about $300 and I just can’t justify that right now but I still wanted…
On the weekend after shooting the 12×12 timelapse video, I was talking with Angela who also owns the Nikon P6000. She wanted to know how I shot the timelapse. I figured it would make a good blog post so here you go…keep in mind this is how I do it and there are many other…
Apparently, they can…and there are lots of them! Over 235 zombies invaded the Roundhouse this past Saturday for Thrill the World Vancouver, part of a global event to simultaneously perform the Michael Jackson classic to break a world record, as well as raise money for the the Vancouver Food Bank. I managed to get a…
This past weekend, I was invited to a corn maze tweetup as well, we were looking for a location for a photowalk as part of our No Compacts Allowed Facebook group. Seemed like a good idea to merge the two events and take a bunch of camera gear down to the Bose Corn Maze, deep…
My first trip on the newly opened Canada Line skytrain only took two minutes to go from downtown to the Airport: UPDATE: Here’s Part Two of the video – the return trip sped up a little bit faster:
Nearly every time I’m downtown, I like to stroll through Urban Outfitters as they tend to have an interesting, if overpriced, selection of weird camera gadgets and toys. My recent trip did not disappoint when I found something I’ve head about for probably years, just never saw in person: little plastic lens addons for your…
You probably knew this was coming. I bought an $8 camera mount and trusted a $400 camera on it while riding on a bumpy gravel trail. Turns out that the P6000 doesn’t have any stabilization while shooting video so I should have switched back to the much lighter Zi6 camera before pressing on with my…
My sister came to town with her kids this week and wanted to do something fun so we all headed to Playland. It happened to be the hottest day on record in Vancouver…so needless to say, it was freakin’ hot. Special thanks to Phil @ Virgin 95.3 for hooking us all up with some passes…