Royale Tissues Photo Competition

The other day a friend of mine from University sent me an email advising me to submit some pictures to a photo competition being put on by Royale Tissues. They were searching for pictures from across Canada to put on their tissue boxes next year so I submitted a few pictures from my Tombstones hike back in September (they are in a previous post on this blog) and they have made it to the final selections. Hopefully pretty soon my picture will be selected and you can buy it all over Canada....and think of me when you blow your nose!

Here is the link (Please vote for my picture "Beyond" in the Territories section): http://www.royalepromotions.ca/canada/

Bill 18

"Bill 18" is a province-wide law that allows police to detain and use force on individuals in order to compel them off public streets against their will. Despite unified community opposition to the Act, the Provincial Government continues to defend this well-timed effort to "clean" the streets before and during the Olympic Games. I suppose the Olympics now takes precedence over individual Rights. On Dec. 13th, I attended a rally in the Downtown Eastside against this Bill. Here are some pictures.

Animal Portraits

These pictures were taken at Jason & Maggie's Reception Dinner this past summer. I've just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell's book "Blink" in which he discusses that people's faces are a a sign of their emotions and in fact this can work the other way as well - their facial gestures can affect their emotions. Interesting. Anyways, I like these pictures because they give an insight into their personality and emotions of the night. 

The Mill

This is a reel for a visual effects company called The Mill (http://www.the-mill.com/). The creativity behind these spots is very inspirational! enjoy!

http://vimeo.com/7475898

Vaquero

Along my travels to Mexico I met this vaquero (cowboy) outside of Durango. Though his english was terrible, and my spanish even worse we managed to almost arrange a deal in which I would trade my "steel horse" for a couple of his "real horses". I wonder what my life would have been like had this deal gone through.....