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Rose Coloured

Dec 31

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Rose Coloured

I didn’t post any photos in November, because I actually didn’t take any. I opened my gallery to pick one and realized that I hadn’t even picked up my camera in over a month.

December was starting to go the same way until the holiday break when I got a chance to take a few shots, but still not very many. Wasn’t feeling particularly creative I guess.

This photo is actually just me playing with the macro function on my point and shoot. The roses were a birthday present from my family.

Perhaps in the new year I’ll be more inspired to photograph things and maybe even blog.

Under A Waxing Gibbous Moon…

Oct 31

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Waxing Gibbous Moon

The above photo was taken with a new telephoto lens I’m borrowing to test out. It is fairly obvious from the rather blurry photo that it was not on a tripod at the time I took this. I still need to play with it a little to figure out what I would actually take photos of with it, but it could be fun. Photography wise I really didn’t get out shooting much this month. It is the end of October already? I’m quickly losing the year. November starts tomorrow and I am wishing it was still a week away (at least). Work wise I am hoping November will be nice and busy and I will spend very little time being sent home due to lack of work, but personally I am dreading another November where I am participating in NaNoWriMo. Which quite possibly might mean more photography and blogging at my other site due to procrastination. Or you know hell could freeze over and I could find myself entirely motivated and unable to tear myself away from the novel writing process, only time will tell.

West Coast Waves

Sep 30

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B&W Tofino I went to the West Coast of the Island for only the second time in my life. Indigo Eve and I went camping. We had a great time and both tried to capture the spirit of our trip. I ended up taking a lot of photos, but still come back to this one. I love the different layers it has, I made it black and white because the small amount of colour it had just seemed to detract.
If you want to see some my other shots you can check out the Flickr set here. By the end of September between Tofino and taking photos at the finish line of MOMAR, I managed to take around 900 photos. It felt like the month flew by with all that shutter clicking. Hopefully this is the start of me actually using my camera more often.

Um, I was bored…

Sep 3

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Nautical Days Fireworks 2009No really, I got bored, realized I hadn’t posted a photo yet for August.

This is what happens, I make odd videos. I apologize.

 

I’m Not Dead – Just Missing – Perhaps Found Now?

Aug 30

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Tomorrow is the last day of August, I’m a little shocked by  that fact. I don’t know what happened to the last two months. One minute I had them the next they fell behind the couch never to be seen again.

I feel like despite the fact that they went by so quickly I made good use of them. I went from June having a quiet life and nothing to blog about to having lots of blog about but no desire to sit down and do so. Funny how that works.

Here is the low down on the last two months:

In July I went to the wedding of my very good friends S&S. They were nice enough to let me tag along with them for the drive up and back to the Okanagan. Once there we enjoyed food, friends, drinks and laughs. Then we had the wedding which involved more of the same but we threw in a forest fire evacuation just to keep things interesting. In spite of the evacuation the wedding and whole trip was really great and a tonne of fun.  I ended up taking almost two full weeks off work, which was well worth it.

August had me going up and down the island a few times. Once to go pick up a futon from S&S, as they finally bought a grown up couch with the gift cards they received from the wedding, and once to go camping.

Camping was a lot of fun. It was the same crew from a couple years ago Indigo Eve, DC and myself, with the addition of Evil Monkey. (We tried to drag Bazette and Maggie too, but they couldn’t make it.) We headed down to the Lake Cowichan area and even though we couldn’t have a campfire due to the ban we had a great time. You can checkout my flickr set here (or in the widget to the right there possibly –>).

This weekend was another full weekend. Shopping in Nanaimo with Indigo Eve and Evil Monkey. Then a girls night at DC’s. Today Indigo Even, Maggie, Bazette and I hit the Fall Fair where we partook of the festivities: mini donuts, mocha frappes, zucchini races, photo booths (photos to come), Irish dancing, animals and tractors. Plus Indigo and I even got out for a bike ride, on trails with rather large logs across them. Since I am not quite that adept at mountain biking yet it required me to lift my bike over them, but it was fun and I didn’t crash into anything. :)

Basically it has been a busy and fun couple of months. September is shaping up to be just as busy and fun with more camping, a long weekend in Victoria, games night and more biking planned.

I might even try and blog about things as they happen, though I wouldn’t count on it. ;)

Hope everyone has been having as much fun as me. For now I must go to bed, because all this fun is great but I’m definitely not getting enough sleep lately.

Ciao