Travel
took the G10 for a spin.. rusty rotten...
22/11/08 14:46
Just back from California for a few days. Found a batch of bikes sitting at the marina locked up, rusted and rotting. So weird, I am sure the owners docked their boats, then left and forgot them.
Another shot somewhere near Malibu.. driving at sunset.
Chelsey, myself, Jamie and Phil on their amazing sailboat - Phil should get the creds for this one!!
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Surf, Sun, and Sand
16/09/08 10:19
Tofino is so beautiful. I just came home from a great weekend of camping, surfing, and sunshine on the island for my buddy Pete Navins’ birthday. It was refreshing - not just the cold water, or cold wetsuits, but the trip. Woke up late to a grunting bear beside my tent.. that was interesting...
I am thinking its time to invest in a water housing. I love the water.
Is anyone actually reading this blog? Please comment if you are so I know I am not alone hahah!
Enjoy
Jeff
Sunset on the beach
Full moon with a 600mm
Delica Camping is the best... wish I still had mine. - long exp. with campfire glow!
Navin getting sun protection..
I am thinking its time to invest in a water housing. I love the water.
Is anyone actually reading this blog? Please comment if you are so I know I am not alone hahah!
Enjoy
Jeff
Sunset on the beach
Full moon with a 600mm
Delica Camping is the best... wish I still had mine. - long exp. with campfire glow!
Navin getting sun protection..
Headed to Tofino
12/09/08 12:42
I am sitting on a BC Ferries vessel as I write todays bloggerific post. I must say, after almost 2 years of highway construction madness today got under my skin. There was a ferry leaving horseshoe bay at 10”40 am.
I give myself plenty of time to get to the ferry on any normal/average travel day down the sea 2 sky highway.. and suprise, suprise.. I miss the boat by 1 minute. Why you may ask?? wlee, lets see. Here is how my drive went:
- Leave my house, tank is full, breakfast eaten.
- First delay 2 blocks from my house. 5 or 6 minutes waiting for something to be done at the bridge.
- Second delay 15+ minutes waiting for the lights/mess/madness single land nightmare leaving the second bridge downtown ( I was about 20 cars back from the main intersection lights, and they changed more than 8 times before I was through.
- Third delay somewhere near Porteau Cove.. who knows what for this time, turned off my truck and sat.
- Fourth delay near Lions Bay.
- Fifth delay, they decided to change the traffic pattern for ferry traffic, but nobody really knows what is going on, I miss the small white painted sign on the highway, and circle the 3.5km around to only find myself back heading towards Squamish.. and judging from the many cars doing the same in front of me, I was not the only one.
- Finally circle back, now 3.5 km back to the overpass, and another 3.5 back to the ferry terminal, and errrrch... I am stopped at the toll booth. “Sorry, you just missed it!”
- Wait from 10:40 to 1pm for the next boat. wonderfull.
So aside from the complete chaos on the highway, I have more rants about the horrible state of the road, narrow lanes lined with cones that are always fallen over, giant rocks in the driving path, with no escape, steep drops off those narrow lanes, giant “steps” where old pavement meets new, the list goes on and on.
My wife drives a 1998 Jetta to the city and back for work a few times a week on that same highway. In the last 16 months we have replaced 6 tires, and 2 rims. we have had to have 2 alignments, and our complete exhaust system is falling off the car. Last week, there was a giant boulder on the road.... guess what... even at the posted “safe” speed, the impact blew out the sidewall of another tire ( less than 2 months old ). So here we go, for tires 7 and 8. DO YOU THINK THE HIGHWAY PEOPLE OR THE GOVERNMENT CARE?? - NOPE, sorry not our fault.. even though we couldnt even swerve around the damn thing or we would have fallen off a 2 foot ledge on each side.
So, I wonder.. how many others have spent thousands of dollars like us, hard earned, tax paid money to drive that road- in complete turmoil- just so we can have a “safe” wide road to Whistler for the Olympics?? BRUTAL. I think someone should have to pay for all the damage, not the people who drive the road but maybe Vanoc or Ministry of highways. They are wasting enough money on other projects, why not just start buying every commuter new tires, rims, and front ends??
As you can tell, I am frustrated... I cannot wait to NOT be anywhere near the 2010 games.
I wish I was out doing this right now ( this is my friend and fellow shooter, Russell Dalby roopin)
The watermark comes from a Font package I just downloaded.- including “battlestar gallactica”, and “Bladerunner” fonts to name a couple. Its full of sweet 80’s font goodness.
... I’ll try to post a happier “I just went surfing” rant when I get home!
Peace
Jeff
I give myself plenty of time to get to the ferry on any normal/average travel day down the sea 2 sky highway.. and suprise, suprise.. I miss the boat by 1 minute. Why you may ask?? wlee, lets see. Here is how my drive went:
- Leave my house, tank is full, breakfast eaten.
- First delay 2 blocks from my house. 5 or 6 minutes waiting for something to be done at the bridge.
- Second delay 15+ minutes waiting for the lights/mess/madness single land nightmare leaving the second bridge downtown ( I was about 20 cars back from the main intersection lights, and they changed more than 8 times before I was through.
- Third delay somewhere near Porteau Cove.. who knows what for this time, turned off my truck and sat.
- Fourth delay near Lions Bay.
- Fifth delay, they decided to change the traffic pattern for ferry traffic, but nobody really knows what is going on, I miss the small white painted sign on the highway, and circle the 3.5km around to only find myself back heading towards Squamish.. and judging from the many cars doing the same in front of me, I was not the only one.
- Finally circle back, now 3.5 km back to the overpass, and another 3.5 back to the ferry terminal, and errrrch... I am stopped at the toll booth. “Sorry, you just missed it!”
- Wait from 10:40 to 1pm for the next boat. wonderfull.
So aside from the complete chaos on the highway, I have more rants about the horrible state of the road, narrow lanes lined with cones that are always fallen over, giant rocks in the driving path, with no escape, steep drops off those narrow lanes, giant “steps” where old pavement meets new, the list goes on and on.
My wife drives a 1998 Jetta to the city and back for work a few times a week on that same highway. In the last 16 months we have replaced 6 tires, and 2 rims. we have had to have 2 alignments, and our complete exhaust system is falling off the car. Last week, there was a giant boulder on the road.... guess what... even at the posted “safe” speed, the impact blew out the sidewall of another tire ( less than 2 months old ). So here we go, for tires 7 and 8. DO YOU THINK THE HIGHWAY PEOPLE OR THE GOVERNMENT CARE?? - NOPE, sorry not our fault.. even though we couldnt even swerve around the damn thing or we would have fallen off a 2 foot ledge on each side.
So, I wonder.. how many others have spent thousands of dollars like us, hard earned, tax paid money to drive that road- in complete turmoil- just so we can have a “safe” wide road to Whistler for the Olympics?? BRUTAL. I think someone should have to pay for all the damage, not the people who drive the road but maybe Vanoc or Ministry of highways. They are wasting enough money on other projects, why not just start buying every commuter new tires, rims, and front ends??
As you can tell, I am frustrated... I cannot wait to NOT be anywhere near the 2010 games.
I wish I was out doing this right now ( this is my friend and fellow shooter, Russell Dalby roopin)
The watermark comes from a Font package I just downloaded.- including “battlestar gallactica”, and “Bladerunner” fonts to name a couple. Its full of sweet 80’s font goodness.
... I’ll try to post a happier “I just went surfing” rant when I get home!
Peace
Jeff
Scanning some oldies
26/08/08 11:48
I have been going through alot of my older slides the past few weeks trying to get rid of some of the clutter in my condo. I forgot how much I enjoyed seeing slides with my focus being digital so much now. Here are a few I love...
A mirror in Myoko Pine Valley, Japan....
The first “Burton Jump” I built for the un-inc team shoot in New Zealand at Snowpark.
Romain hitting it.....
Dylan Gilmore was a freakin good snowboarder.. he handplanted the wall...
Dwayne Weibe in the U-Ditch at Snowpark..
Neverending midnight sunset at Folgefonna Norway
Scala slide B@W film is/was amazing....
A mirror in Myoko Pine Valley, Japan....
The first “Burton Jump” I built for the un-inc team shoot in New Zealand at Snowpark.
Romain hitting it.....
Dylan Gilmore was a freakin good snowboarder.. he handplanted the wall...
Dwayne Weibe in the U-Ditch at Snowpark..
Neverending midnight sunset at Folgefonna Norway
Scala slide B@W film is/was amazing....
Waiting at Airports
29/07/08 14:27
Airport Zombies
One thing that always seems to get me frustrated is how strange people get at Airports and on planes. Wait for customs, wait for security, wait to get called on to board the plane, wait in the walkway, wait to sit down, wait to see who is beside you..
Then your on.... step two. The scared flyers getting paranoid, the people fighting about seats, and where they have been assigned. The ladies who think that somehow someone is going to steal their handbags, and have to be told a million times to unwrap the straps from around their ankles. the kids who keep screaming, with parents who just sit and look stunned and do nothing about it. The business men who feel it necessary to speak louder than anyone about their days. I do not envy the flight attendants when tv’s dont work, diapers need to be “taken” or the blankets are all gone....
You arrive at the desitination.... and again madness, peoples cell phones come out, loud talkers, and everyone races to stand up and again wait... for the door to open. People now get stressed, sweaty and angry because they are all pushing to get out a door that still is not open. Door opens and... rush, everyone is in a hurry to run to the bag claim.. why?? To wait yet again... but still all the morons stand, shins on the track, waiting for their bags...because if you get there forst, naturally your bag will come off first right? These are the same people that seem to feel by standing against the baggage belt, they should not have to move to allow anyone else in to get theirs... mad as they “claimed” this space somehow and why is your bag coming off first....?
People forget their minds at airports. Next time you fly... wait in your seat at the airport till they call last call.. no line ups, no waits...
Sit patiently untill everyone has unloaded the plane.. no sweaty panters, no pushing, simply amazing. Get to the baggage cart, and see what people do when you ask... could you please take a giant step back so I can get my bag sir?
Anyway, I waited till last call to get on my Calgary-Vancouver flight... The sun was setting.. It was nice.
Jeff
Greece part 2...
24/07/08 08:33
So it begins
23/07/08 16:53
