March

Well the Olympics are over and done with- my visit to Vancouver last Sunday with my brother was quite a patriotic experience. There's been so much mention about how we Canadians aren't very overt about our national pride but the games really changed that.

The Cauldron

People really were singing Oh Canada in the streets, climbing atop the bus shelters, using hockey sticks for flagpoles and generally screaming, shouting and whistling from all directions. After the hockey game ended the cacophony of sound from car horns was almost deafening in the downtown- we escaped it for a bit in the German beer garden and watched some of the closing ceremonies right there on a big screen TV. Everyone got up to sing the national anthem I might add.
Coming back through the sky train station about 500 people coming up the escalator high-fived all of us going down it and to say that people were exuberant would be a massive understatement.

Took lots of photos of course, in particular of the cauldron and the street madness as well as a few movies on my little camera. I really have never seen so many people on the street- not even in Guangzhou where crowds are common everyday…but then this was the Olympics and we sure did well!

Pictures are up at my web and besides licensing my regular photos for stock I also sell prints of my work. Check out the galleries if you are looking for art or stock. On a more sentimental note the WCA galleries that are online are slowly getting updated. The reference pictures will be chronologically replaced by larger images as scanning of original negatives is completed. Funny seeing pictures that I haven’t seen in over a decade because I sold the first prints at the time (I’m looking at YOU Sherri!) and how we all had less wrinkles…lol.

Community art show coming up in a couple of months as well as a gallery showing of my photos along with Anne Roberts and Jack Pickins…more on that later. :)

Merritt Olympic Torch Stuff

Yesterday the Olympic torch came through Merritt. It went right past my house as a matter of fact. There was a procession of vehichles preceding the runner(s) and the first person who went by didn't have a lit torch which was confusing but eventually the real deal came by.

Olympic Psychedelia

We watched from the window and went to Voght Park later on where I was able to get some pictures. It was a great atmosphere despite the cold and even I could get into the spirt of it seeing all those little kids singing their hearts out on stage all wrapped up in red jackets and touqes and with medals hanging around their necks. I didn't want to drag my tripod with me so have quite a few typical shots for night photography but later on I ran into Merritt's cable man and was able to use his tripod while he was shoulder filming with his video camera.

Olympic Celebrations

Here is a link to the event schedule for those who follow winter sports: click here.

Eternal Flame

GO TEAM!

Merritt's community art show is kind of lost in all this but it will run from February 5th to the 27th; a bit more information to be found here: Merritt Herald story.

I've put a few drawings in- portraits rather than anything themed towards the Olympics- and am continuing putting together my new photography archives. The WCA galleries are updated on my website as well as descriptions for most of the other work.

I've also agreed to allow some of my Photoshop patterns to be published in a Japanese Photoshop Guide. Photoshop patterns are essentially seamless tiles that are created to be used as brushstrokes in Adobe's Photoshop program. As a former carny I find it funny that we used to send pesky kids away to find 'checkered paint' and now I actually make the stuff! lol
That's about it for now- can't wait till this cold weather is over with and can get out more. Oh one more picture I took recently (while heading to the coast for a funeral):

Bad Moon Rising