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I was out from work most of this week, and come Friday I was pretty bored of just laying around the house so I decided to go up to Vancouver B.C. for the day. I ended up meeting up with Greg and Clodagh who were already up in the area and just spent the day relaxing. Greg and I went around and took our cameras out and about to try to get some “artistic” photos, I can’t say how successful we were but you can see the collection of photos I took here. I’m *quite* happy with how a few of them came out, definitely some of my favorites with the new camera thus far. Here’s the ones I like the best: Canada Place
Woman on Bench
Upside-down House Tipping Over
Keeping Warm on the Bench
Partial Vancouver Skyline 

  Later in the evening we went to this comedy club named “Yuk Yuk” which had some good talent. I found it quite funny being in a comedy club in Canada, especially when it came to the jokes berating America and it’s leadership. I have to admit, it is quite the joke…  

Although I knew I was getting old prior to this expierence, the age really started to show last night; I was practically dead come 10:00pm. As Clodagh said, I gotta get my practice on so that I can last the longs nights during my upcoming Europe trip. Not sure how I practice this without ruining myself though… thoughts?   Overall it was a fun little trip and was definitely much needed break… yay! 

Sounds crazy but its true! 

Two days ago the crane that was being used to build the new pedestrian overpass at the new Seattle Art Museum’s sculpture park overextended itself and came crashing down. To make matters worse it came right down on the railroad tracks disrupting a major railway which accommodates over a hundred trains a day. Luckily enough no trains were going by at the time and no one was injured. 

All the major news agencies were there to report, even the minor ones (i.e. myself). You can see my photos from the ordeal here. 

So I haven’t posted in over three months, I figure it’s about time to do so. A lot has been going on the last few months, traveled out of town to Oklahoma for the holidays which was a lot of fun but spent New Years with good friends locally. I also eneded up going skiing for the first time in nearly three years; it was a lot of fun! Unfortunately there has been a lot going on at work which has contributed to it be overly stressful lately and has had me a bit cranky (those of you whom I hang out with regularly know what I’m referring to) but hopefully things will get better in the coming weeks.

On a brighter side I bought a new camera a few weeks ago (Canon Digital Rebel XT) which I’ve been playing around with quite a bit. Last night I went out and took a couple of photos which you can see here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckgibson/108345837/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ckgibson/108345962/

I’ve got a lot to learn but I’m happy with the way these came out. I did some manual post-processing with the RAW data to help influence the output, damn you can do some cool stuff!