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Edith Cavell Meadows - July 2009

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Lac Beauvert - June 2008

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Whistler's Mountain - September '08

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Glacier Highway outside of Banff - January 2009

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Maligne Canyon - April

By not taking my camera everwhere....

... I have missed:

- One bear

- One Alaska registration plate

- One Northwest Territories plate

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Tekarra Lodge - July 3

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Barbeque at Trefoil Lake - June 3rd

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Ooh a rare Yukon number plate! - Valley du Cinq Lac - June 6th

I made Sarah take this photograph while I hid in the car, not that number plate collecting is anything to be ashamed of!

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Jasper Lake - June 25

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Maligne Road - June 21

Photo of the Day

Mountain Biking - Old Fort Point - July 4th 2009

The things we can do with Cameras

1000 FPS HD Photography


I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel from David Coiffier on Vimeo.

Tilt-Shift Lens Photography

Manipulating the depth of field of a shot (or making judicious use of the photoshop blur tool) to create the illusion of a playmobil/trainset landscape.




HDR Photography

High Dynamic Range photography, merging a number of different exposures of the same scene to create one photograph that encompasses the entire tonal range of the different exposures. Creates an otherworldy, washed out, fantastical image of otherwise mundane subjects

Down to Banff

A fortunate confluence in our schedules meant that Sarah and I could spend a slightly extended weekend down in Banff.

The Ice-Fields Parkway between Jasper and Banff is said to be the most scenic drive in the world and I`m certainly not going to argue. The dawn of spring has meant that we can actually see the scenery and are not terrifyingly gripping the steering wheel and sliding all over the road (although there was a brief blizzard on the way back, leading to some hairy moments).





Its always lovely to run off to these fairy-tale destinations and sleep on a Fairmont bed for a few days, Sarah and I thought we`d go all out with the softest steak I`ve ever eaten and some fancy Pinot Noir

Totem go down now

Jasper's one and only landmark (discounting the mountains and whatnot) came a'cropper the other week. After a good 80 odd -30 winters and a rather unfortunate paint job in the 1980s.

What a bloody shame.

Two months eh?

I guess thats the problem with employment. Not that I have any excuse whatsoever, my laptop comes to work with me every bloody night.

Franz Ferdinand: Tonight

Flaming Lips + LCD Soundsystem + a wee bit of Muse = A pretty good album

Britain in the World

Bryan opines about Britain's lost prominence in the world, joining Canada and Australia in the sorry business of defining national greatness around the scraps of NASA's costcutters.

And yes its sad that Britain is no longer important, but thats OK, because in this new, globalised world of cities, London is the most important city in the world.

Jade Goody

Finally, in conjunction with the unctuous, self-satisfied schmucks at the Guardian, this incredible woman has solved a defining quandary of my life: Who do I hate more, the working class or the middle class?

Definately the middle-class.

2008/2009

Having worked the first six and a half hours of New Years Eve, the proceeding 17 and a half were spent in rather a zombified daze, still...the 300 odd kilometer drive from Jasper to Banff, via Lake Louise remains possibly the most beautiful drive one can take (even when its swallowed by a terrifying blizzard). On the way we passed the frozen remnants of the Sunwapta falls and the Weeping Wall



















Spent the night in the elegant, luxurious and bewilderingly huge Banff Springs hotel/castle. Had a New Years dinner in the Bavarian restaurant there (and had the Wiener Schnitzel, very nice) before retiring to bed and an instant, total and exhausted oblivion at 10:30 (what a shame!)