Better Than Crabs

Happy Birthday Hun.  Better late then never

As a mini update I joined Flickr.

For those of you who do not know what Flickr is it can be best described as a social networking site for photos.  Even simpler it’s a photo management and sharing site.  You post your photos and others can view and comment on them.  You also have the option of adding your shots into public groups which help your photos get noticed by more people. The social part comes into play with contacts — you add people, people add you if they like your stuff etc etc.

I’ve only been on the site since the last day of August and already I’m semi-addicted.  I like watch the view count on my photos rise and anticipate comments from people I don’t know.  It’s a learning process as well as a networking tool that I hope will aid me in my photography.

I’ll still be posting my shots here as well as at white matte.  I’m using Flickr as another weapon in my war chest.

For anybody following the site I haven’t been around since about mid-July. I’ve done quite a bit since then but nothing really worthy of updating — or maybe there was and I just didn’t as time did not permit.

From mid-July until the past Saturday photography was on a stand still and other things took over. Here’s my quick version of what has happened since then.

We’ve remodeled the front of the house — new stairs, siding and a coat of paint. It looks a lot better. Fozzie and Domino became even more famous locally with mentioning in a Sootoday article as well as winning the Soonews Pet of the Week a few weeks back.

I printed off three of my past photos and framed them but we’re still trying to find a suitable location to hang them. Two of the photos printed may be found at white matte.

And to wrap it all up I just returned this morning from 5 days in the big metropolis of Toronto. I was there for work but also got in a lot of play in which some of it will be featured in some upcoming posts on the site. The lead photograph of this story is a picture I took on Yonge St on Saturday night when Rob and Sasha came into town and we went on a photo journey in the big city. You’ll notice Rob’s leading picture is the same street car, same corner and same guy crossing the street — it’s great taking photos at the same time as someone else to see each other’s results.

I also tweaked the photo a bit playing with it in Lightroom; switched it to greyscale and modded some tones etc. I’m going to be experimenting a bit more in this area of photography as it’s something I haven’t touched in my initial two years of becoming a photographer. I think tweaking can go so far before you’re not working with a photograph anymore and it becomes digital art (I also hate airbrushing anything).

And to conclude my lengthy short update on Monday I took a bus, subway and train to reach different locations that I wanted to get to. For those of you living in a large city this isn’t a big deal but for me who won’t even take the bus locally here (we don’t have a subway or train system) it felt good to be able to know I can get around through these other means of transportation.

Maybe Smith closed the show on Saturday night following the performance of Carbon Dating Service and I wasn’t sure how he would be able to go on after what we just watched.  But go on he did and impressed he did.  Together Maybe Smith and Carbon Dating Service are touring sponsored by Sask Music and CBC Radio3.

To add to the numerous intruments provided by Carbon Dating Service’s set you can now include xylophone — that’s right, they rocked the xylophone.

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On Saturday July 14 Carbon Dating Service from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan played Loplops to a very appreciative audience. Featuring 8 members in total the small Loplops playing space was extended to fit all of the gear required by a three piece horn section, harp, drums, bass, synths, electric guitar and those plastic whirly things that you had when you were a kid.

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Lion Ride promised to bring the rock and the rock they did bring. Smoke machines, floor lights, bandanas, pants tighter than tight and dials turned to 11 put the F**k in the F**k Yeah. Before Lion Ride became visible the crowd crammed into the front 10 feet of the stage not quite sure what they were in for however by the time the smoke cleared and the last riffs played the audience was screaming for more and early reports say three women left pregnant. They were just that good.

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On Friday Renderware opened for Lion Ride at Foggy Notions. I’ve never seen them play before and judging by their MySpace page it seems like they’ve been on a lengthy hiatus and came out of the woodwork for this show. They played a solid set which got the crowd ready for Lion Ride’s debut show. The rock started with Renderware and didn’t end until Lion Ride left the stage.

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The young hound is growing up. Domino turned two today. Unlike Fozzie we were not around on the day of Dom’s birth. We picked Domino out four weeks later when Jes noticed a posting for basset hound puppies on SooToday.com.

She called the breeder to ask if we could just see the puppies and after first laying eyes on them I knew I wanted one. After some convincing of my parents Domino became ours. He has definitely grown up quite a bit since then and his behaviour is getting better as well.

To the left is Domino his first day at my parents house - I believe 7 weeks old.  He went on to eat the bush pictured behind him as well as numerous other things throughout the house.

As a disclaimer I am in no way a cat guy.  I love dogs and dogs it is but this site has occupied my time quite a bit the past few days.

I Can Has Cheezburger?

I could probably try to explain it but I won’t.  You must visit.  After going through the first couple of pages just hit the random button.  It becomes addictive.

And to get you started here are three quick selections: for the Star Wars fan, for the gymnastics fan and for the potty humour fan.

Sunday afternoon we drove North to Batchewana Bay and more specifically Chippewa Falls. I’ve wanted to shoot the falls since last summer and this is the first time we had the chance to go up. The falls were not free flowing like they would be after the spring melting but it was still an experience anyway. Above you see a butterfly. I stumbled across a number of butterflies while walking out on some rocks finding a good location to shoot what waterfalls still exhisted.

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