Dad and I searched the Florida Everglades for alligators and boy, did we ever find them.

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I’d almost say my favourite part was when we were riding back to base with the other canoers at the end of the day, listening to them talking about how they saw nothing the whole time they were out there and we kept our moths shut knowing that we had all this.

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This has been my first vacation since Belize in 2006. We’re on the brink of my next trip coming up in 2 week so I thought it was a good time to show off the Florida photos.

It didn’t matter that the temperature was cold, Florida was still fantastic. Clearwater Florida is beautiful, Epcot was fun and the canoe trip through the everglades will stay with me for a life time. But I’ll save that story for the next post.

It turns out it is a small world after all. This is so something that could only happen to my mom. After meeting a complete stranger online and driving 3000 kilometres to meet her and rent the apartment in Florida. We find out she’s my mothers long lost cousin.

Since a picture tells a thousand words I’ll keep this short and let the camera do the talking for me.

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If this doesn’t say New York I don’t know what would.

Summer vacation this year was less of a vacation and more of a really intriguing work trip. As a member of the Creatrix Design Group, my co-worker Bomi, and I drove down to New York City to meet with members of the United Nations. I’d say if the story ended there it would have already been exciting enough for it to have made it onto the blog. But everything we did that week had its own little side story in it of its self; from renting the huge ass car we drove down in, to some of the finest food I’ve had in my life, to making the best of a bad situation in the dirtiest run down hotel room I’ve ever stayed in.

Having been there a dozen times before, Bomi new how to get the most out of our trip given the short amount of time we had to explore the city when we weren’t working.I do have good feeling that she enjoyed her self a little more while hanging out in the big city with me than she would have with some of our less exciting and more work oriented colleagues.

The first thing I’ll say about New Yorkers is that every stereo type that you’ve ever head about them is completely true. And I instantly loved that about them. The first guy we met in Manhattan bribed us into paying him for his parking spot. But you know what? It works, it really does work for that city. If having a guy sucker 40bucks out of me for his parking spot meant I don’t have to move my car all week and I won’t have to look for a parking spot anymore for the rest of the night then it was worth it to me and we both walked away happy. That just wouldn’t fly in Ottawa. It’s a New Yorker think, people around here just wouldn’t get it.

On to the most important part of any trip, the food. I tried an authentic New York pizza made by a real Italian and the best filet mignon I’ve had in my life. The great part about the food is that everything is so affordable and since everyone has to walk everywhere in Manhattan nobody gets fat from eating it.

The last night we were there we spent the afternoon looking around for that something awesome to do that would really make the trip worth while. With no idea what there was and time running out we just so happened to turn a corner and walk right into the high point of the trip. A concert being presented by the New York Philharmonic, playing live under the evening sky in Central Park. I guess there’s always a party going on somewhere in the city that never sleeps, you just have to look for it.

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I’m back baby! It’s been more than just a while since my last post. Cool things are happening all the time and I keep thinking now’s the time to jump back in and start up the blog again. Finally, I couldn’t let this one go by without showing it off to everyone. I’ve also got a number of other fun photos and exciting trips stockpiled up to blog about, so there won’t be any problems filling in a couple more pages over the next few weeks.

Thanksgiving weekend 5 years ago was one of my all time best holidays in memory. Not because of the food or family but because that was the weekend I bought my first car.

This post was a great excuse to show one of my favorite pictures.

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And now, 5 years later to the week I’ve traded in my 2005 Hyundai Tiburon Tuscani for a sleek black 2010 Dodge Charger. The Tib’ has been an awesome car however I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to get my hands on a new Charger. I’ve been waiting for one of these for a long time now.

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I’ve certainly been privileged to have already own 2 of my all time favorite car.

That’s how you know it’s a Dodge!

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We celebrated Danielle’s 22nd birthday in style by partaking in the ancient Japanese art of Karaoke.

I got out the camera and put together this Polaroid slide show of the night. As always, being the camera man there were a hundred photos taken, none of them of me. And that’s just the way I like it.

There were also some embarrassingly funny videos that may find their way onto YouTube.

Happy Birthday!

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I’ve finally had one of my first photo published in print and by Adobe no less. The director of Club SAW in downtown Ottawa asked me if she could submit a couple of my photos for their portion of the Adobe Community Report 2008. That was the better part of a year ago. I called back and looked in to it once or twice but nothing had happened with yet.  By now I thought the chance had long come and gone. Surprise, surprise I was emailed a copy of the report this morning.

Adobe in the Community 2008

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My favorite part of Halloween is carving the pumpkins and this year’s was as fun as always. Mike’s mom has been growing another gi’normous pumpkin in the back yard all year long and at the last minute we decided it was time to carve it up.

I’ve been wanting to post these pictures for a while now but there’s really only one day a year that a blog post like this is suitable so without further adieu here it is.

These are the 2 biggies that grew in Mike’s garden.

These two guys, you’ll either know who they are or you wont.

There’s the legend him self, Bob Marley and um, his back up singers or something like that.

Smarter then the average pumpkin!

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The evolution of a generation of technologies has come together. Another achievement to be added to mankind’s list of worthy accomplishments.  We can now ordered Pizza online. This is truly what those men of science had in mind when they were first thinking up the World Wide Web.

 
 

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Fan Expo 2009 was fantastic! I certainly could have done it for 2 days, one to see the sites and one just for photography. I went dressed as a pretty convincing Peter Parker. I already look like him most of the time anyways. It was a great costume to ware if your priority is pointing a camera at all the rest of the superheroes.

Everybody how’s anybody in the comic geek world was there, from the lonely Jawas to the Amazing X-Men.  A lot of people from Ottawa were in Toronto for the show. My friend from the comic book shop down town came with a StarWars entourage. She was dressed as a Twi’lek Sith Lord. Everybody’s costumes were original and hand made. One couple told me that they started working on this years costume right after last years Fan Expo. I think Tashia got some attitude from somebody for her costume.

This photo album took a long while to get posted because my laptop died on me right while I was running through these pictures for the first time. I got it up and running again but here’s hoping that by the time I’ve done my next couple of post I’ll be blogging from a new laptop.

Check out the Pix of the motley crew from the

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Summer vacation is over and I’m on my way back to what they like to call the real world. At least I get to take a couple of memories with me. I managed to cram a little bit of everything into just over a week. It was also nice to get to play with my nephew Alex some more before he starts getting too big.

On a nice summer’s evening when the sun was still high in the sky, the rain clouds were no where to be seen and I wasn’t wiped out asleep from being out in the boat all day, I took the time to go down to the water and practice some sunset photography. I did have a hard time convincing my mom that if I didn’t go down during dinner time the sun was not going to wait for me to arrive before starting the show. It was just like being back at home again.

How ya, and there were turkeys there too.

Some photos you just can’t take in the city.

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