Netphotography Journal

I volunteered this weekend as a photographer in a fund raising Jazz event for the food bank. I’ve had the best time. It was the first time I was stepping inside an actual Church and I was amazed by the whole building. People where so nice and I also got to see an actual pipe organ. I went nuts photographing everything. So I must say my first encounter with a Church was a very positive one.

The Jazz event was wonderful. Music sounds as perfect as it can be inside a large church building because of the whole stone and brick acoustics.

I took lots and lots of pictures and I’ve got lots of exciting stuff to tell you in my up coming posts. So until I prepare the images in the next few days please stay tuned, and I will tell you what happened this saturday

Rastin

This afternoon I’ll be taking pictures of a Jazz performance at St. Andrew’s-Wesley Church in downtown Vancouver. It is a good break from work because I really miss my primary hobby which is photography.

I am using a Minolta Dimage 7i Digital Camera with a reasonably good lens and 5 Mega Pixels resolution. It is of course an SLR camera. So an hour ago I stopped by the local camera shop to by a 512MB memory card and some extra batteries, and I saw some those new latest digital cameras in the Market. They all take actual camera lenses like the good old SLRs and have faster memories, and end of story my Camera is now 2 years old which in computer years is a long time. Turns out that my ideal camera with all the additional gadgets will go above 3000.00 CAN$
I don’t mind buying one, I just think buying a digital camera right before Christmas is the biggest mistake because prices are really high at this time of the year. Specially that a year from now same product will be significantly cheaper.

Anyhow now I am worried that people at the Church might laugh at my small camera, the Director might even ask me to leave, so I am going in with the attitude of “Size doesn’t matter it’s how you use it”

Hey! wasn’t Helmut Newton once using a small Lecia camera to become the most famous Glamour and Fashion photogrpaher of 20th century?

Did I mentioned that this is the first time in my life that I am going inside an actual church? I’m not sure how people will react to see that I am agnostic AND have a small camera! This is just all wrong … who let this guy in?

So I’ll just go in, do what I am supposed to do and I’ll leave. I hope the whole photoshoot thing will go nice and smoothly.

ps: I want that 3000.00 + camera so bad

Rastin

I found this on Techvibes Forums today. He obviously has problem sitting; that also disqualifies him to become the company’s chairman.

Rastin

Napster viral says 30 seconds aren’t enough

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Wow!

I finished work at 5:30 PM. It is already dark and really foggy. Our department manager Bernie tells me that I’ll be expecting a long ride home tonight, boy he is right. Thanks to the fog lights on my car I have a pretty good view of the road, but right before the port moody bridge there is a car accident on the road so that takes half an hour to pass. Pretty smooth ride until I get to the north shore, turned out from CKNW news that there has been a car accident on highway 1 and heavy traffic since 3 O’Clock. Highway is completely shut down and all the routs around it are busy too.

I decide to park the car in Edgemont village North Vancouver and sit at the starbucks until the traffic clears up so I can get home. It is now 7:45 PM

I am starving, they have no food in starbucks, so I get myself a large creamy Latte with a Protein Bar. Place is packed with people and it is soooo Christmasy. Thanks to the newly installed wireless hotspot on Starbucks I am posting this. There is a dazzling beautiful brunette girl sitting on the sofa next to me, reading books. She is an SFU student!

Rastin

Oh man,

Yahoo, and Match.com are among them.

I am still a proponent of dating the old fashion way. Basically if people are too busy working, or don’t have a life they shouldn’t be dating to begin with.

Slashdot
Reuters

My favorite starbucks location ( 17th, Marine Drive, West Vancouver ) has internet access now. For about 35 $ / month I can go online. Makes me wonder if I have to ditch my office and use Starbucks instead, after all I don’t have one of those goth looking Java girls with miniskirts, boots, black tops, spiky hair and cool makeup in my office to supply my cravings for sugar and caffeine.
Anyhow that means I can spend my after wok hours here, do some freelance work, socialize, read online contents and see lots of people around me all the time.

Rastin