November 2, 2010
with the advent of HTML5, hosting video on your own web site has become much simpler. if you know how to make the best of HTML5 video then you can get away from YouTube and Vimeo’s hold on hosting web video and host them on your own server. this avoids any possible complications with web …
June 4, 2010
i love mega-trends. and i have been observing a trend in modern photography of late that i find particularly appealing and exciting. it’s analogue audiophiles are rediscovering vinyl records and tube amplifiers; photographers are rediscovering film and the idiosyncrancies of that medium and of lens and film types. Kodak film was known for it’s sometimes …
February 7, 2010
on the west coast of canada, nestled between coast mountain range and the american border is vancouver, british columbia – my home since 1953. vancouver is hosting the 2010 winter olympics. the winter of 2010 (if we can call it that) we’ve had a very strong el niño year, resulting in the warmest january on …
February 5, 2010
vectorial vancouver is up and running! this amazing light display over english bay was created by rafael lozano-hemmer, an internationally acclaimed light artist. check his work out at lozano-hemmer.com i’ve been asked recently what the “best” settings for a digital SLR camera might be. here’s some thoughts … use either M (manual) or Tv (shuTter …
July 4, 2009
I’ve had two things come into my journey of late that I decided to put together and make available on the internet. The first is a photo essay on graffiti in and around downtown Vancouver, and The second was my recent discovery of the Creative Commons. Graffiti is any drawing or marking in a public …
June 20, 2009
It arrived Friday in the post … my first published book that is! From submission on the blurb website to arriving at my door was six days. I was kept informed on the progress by updates on their website and USPS services until it left SFO for YVR. From end-to-end, the process has been seemless …
June 15, 2009
A friend of mine recently asked me if I would like to prepare something for a silent auction fund raiser for the transgendered community program AmBigYouUs. Given the success of my work around Lost Lagoon of late, I decided to give it a try. The website blurb.com has all you need to prepare, design, layout …
May 25, 2009
On the Victoria Day weekend during on of my usual walks around Lost Lagoon, I noticed that the new bird houses that the Nature House had just put in were starting to attract residents. Sparrows had already moved in and were rearing chicks; swallows were begining to take an interest in the bird-houses-on-poles that had …