Into the light

Just take a moment to look up into the light. Might do you good once in a while!!

Just set it down and shoot away!

Cheers!

Another View From Down Here

The view from down here

Walking home and sat down to contemplate the world.

A moment on the river

I went to a wedding for a friend of mine in Deep River, Ontario this weekend. Great times and greater weather were had! It was supposed to rain all day long, and for a beach wedding, that is some pretty bad news. So the fateful day arrived with warnings of thundershowers throughout the afternoon. Not only was there no rain, (not even a drop) there was a breeze and that meant no bugs! I really loved the serenity of the surroundings, so right after the ceremony, I had a chance to pull out the camera and get a good shot.

On a side note: Rest of the evening went well, got drunk at a local legion hall, and camped on a beach! Love summer!! Love it!

Cheers,

Lights and Blue

I really liked this shot. It took my quite some time to get the right one, but I think it turned out ok. I know I said I was going to start posting more, and now with a new camera I really should be, but it really seems like time is just flying by these days. I spend every free minute I have with taking or setting up or thinking about the next picture I want to try out!

Thanks for reading anyway!

Some of the best photography ever!

so you have to go and check out BLDG BLOG. I like to check it out from time to time as I am a big fan of architecture, and the blog is written very well. So today it was linked from Boing Boing and I am hoping that a lot of new readers will visit it! The blog is http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/ and the particular post which I fell in love with is http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/pandemonium.html

From the BLDG BLOG "Some of the coolest photographs I've seen recently are these long exposure shots of crowds in St. Petersburg, Russia. They were taken by Alexey Titarenko for a project called "City of Shadows." "

AMAZING!!

Check it out!

I just bought a new camera

....and I love it! LOVE IT!! Keep posted for some pics from the new toy!

Dreams by TV on the Radio "Best song ever!!"

I just got my golf membership for the year!

I know, it is a glorious day! To all of you who don't golf, you will not even fathom the amount of time a golf fanatic can spend during the winter months just dreaming about the first round of the new season. Well yesterday I took a step in the right direction. I received my membership card and now all I have to do is wait for the golf courses to open for the year. As winter is dwindling away, it seems to me that there is more snow on the courses and driving ranges than anywhere else in this town! I am going to try to break the ellusive 40 game mark this year and play all of the courses which I see on a regular basis and have not played yet. Now I am off to put the clubs back in the trunk, with the shoes, and umbrella, where they will stay on and off until november! Enjoy the spring!!

It has been a while

....no it really has. Too long even. Maybe just a touch of the winter blues were setting in. Now there are glimpses of grass, and I am feeling much better! Winter is one of my favourite seasons, as it does have amazing beauty, and I can skate, but c'mon people, fourteen feet of snow in one winter might be a tad much! Hopefully spring is kick-ass!

-Cheers-

Terminus

I Love Morgan Spurlock

i have to start this post by saying just that......i love morgan spurlock! the reason for this, is not, however, his documentary, "supersize-me". don't get me wrong, i did love that film, but his work on a show called "30 days" is what has really caught my attention. the basic idea of the show/running documentary, is to take someone out of their situation, and placing them in an entirely opposite place. the first episode i ever saw, was morgan spending 30 days in prison, which, while good, did not affect me the way that the last one i saw did! the latest one that i watched envolved taking a christian (from west virginia) and having him live with a family of devout muslims. he had to learn the language, ideals, practices, and to live with the discrimination he faced whilst wearing the traditional wardrobe of someone practicing islam. even as a caucasian, anglo-american wearing the traditional long flowing robe, wearing the kufi, or headress, and sporting a (quite conservative) beard, he had to put up with the stereotypes that plague muslims all over the world. one of the best parts of this particular show was when the displaced christian and a muslim lawyer were discussing 9/11. they both thought the same things, but when the christian asked why the muslim public never openly apologized for the actions of those people on that one day, the muslim simply asked back, well, when you heard about the oklahoma city bombing did you go around and start apologizing for him? this went into a discussion about discrimination and about how there is one and a half billion muslims in the world, but when a typical american gets on a plane and sees a muslim he or she immediately thinks of 9/11 and how much danger they are in. if you ask me, it is disgusting. i was recently on a number of international flights on my way to south korea, and i can tell you from personal experience that i was much less concerned about four muslim men sitting behind me, as i was about the guy with the thick quebec accent and the guy with the strong southern accent seeing which of them could drink more whiskey! anyway, i love morgan spurlock, if for nothing else than making me think. thanks for listening to my rant.

-peace to all whom deserve it-

so.......

again, i said i would keep up the posting, but alas......here we are, with no posts this month. Oh well, what do you do? so while i have been trying to update my lifestyle a bit with more healthy choices, i have neglected the blog. so i have been reading alot, and drawing more than usual. not that any of my sketches turns out the way i want, but i have to keep up with it so i dont completely loose my touch with a pencil. to that end, i have started a deviant art page. ( http://wagepeace.deviantart.com/ ) please check it out but dont be too hard on me, as i am just trying to get back into the swing of things. other than that, not much is up. i am depressed about summer ending, but excited to get to do some skating again! i re-read the whole harry potter series, (awesome) and have taken to full metal alchemist like wildfire! not the best idea when i want to be more active and spend less time in front of the damn computer! i was never much of a fan of anime, as i much preferred the written form of the art. however, of late i am re-visiting some of the things i might have skimmed over in the past. well, thats it, hope you enjoyed the october post, and have a happy halloween!

August Music Selection

So here we are, the end of summer looming. For some reason I always find out about really good music in the summers, and so I thought I would come up with a quick list of the tunes I have been listening to. But as I am not too sure what is old, or new, the list will be in no order specifically.

Interpol
White Stripes
Wolf Parade
Michael Franti
Xavier Rudd
Decemberists
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The Kooks
Sufjan Stevens
Ray LaMontagne
Primus
Dispatch
Jurrasic 5
JJ Grey & Mofro
Iron & Wine
Okkervil River
Modest Mouse
The Hold Steady
The Subways
Arcade Fire
John Butler Trio
John Mayer
Him
Buena Vista Social Club
Neutral Milk Hotel
Battles
Of Montreal
Bloc Party
BB King

And that ladies and gentlemen, is a short roundup of some of the music I have listened to this summer!!!

Life

Life speeds by us all at some point, and we can just reach out and grab it. Sometimes I just want to watch it go.

The Reactine Van

So I went to the Annual Beaches Jazzfest in Toronto not too long ago, where we spotted the Reactine van!!! The whole aspect of seeing this in real life, and not on a t.v. commercial was pretty funny, but pale in comparison to the fact that the guy driving was about two times too big to drive the thing!!! as you can see from the picture, his legs are bunched up, but what you can't see, is the fact that he is hunched over just to fit inside! If I was a bit more on the ball, I would have gotten a better pic, but as it happened I was just able to snap one! Too bad because it was pretty funny to see!! Weirdly enough, I had no allergies after he passed by us. (not that I had any before he passed either!!!!!) It was just like the commercial!

Central Park

View looking up at the buildings surrounding Central Park.

Summer is almost over!

And it is really depressing! I am going to try to spend a bit more time on the water before autumn comes though, I find it very relaxing.

Zen