For a while I had been entertaining the notion of upgrading some of my camera gear. I thought of investing in a Tamron 17-50 f/2.8 or maybe a faster prime. This lead me to do some retrospective on Sean Gursky: Photographer. I understand that the gear doesn’t make the pictures but it helps in being… Read More »
When we weren’t in London we were exploring other parts of the English countryside. First off was a trip up to the north. York Three trains and three hours later we made it from Bishops Stortford to York (). York is known for the York Minster, one of the oldest churches in England complete with… Read More »
We enjoyed our trip to Marseille last year, but wondered if the negative points (smell, Gypsys and filth) would appear in Paris and affect our experience. In a word: No. Paris was amazing and we would gladly return. We knew of the stereotypes of Parisians but we found people in Paris to be friendlier than… Read More »
I’ve been sitting on the review of our trip to England and France for over a month now. It also took weeks to trim the photos down before uploading them too. It’s not that we didn’t like the trip or there wasn’t much to talk about, it’s just been hard to make time for this… Read More »
In May I started running. At first it was to try out the RunKeeper app for the iPhone. I continued to do it for the cardio improvements it gave me during the Ice Dragons summer hockey league. When a Statusfirm team was being put together for the CIBC Run for the Cure I continued to… Read More »
In just over two weeks we are returning to England. We were pretty content with our 2009 trip, and after upgrading to a house in May we thought we would stay within Canada for a while. However, those plans changed when we learned that the family we stayed with will be leaving England in 2011… Read More »
The end of the summer has come and I only had a single hot dog roast. It was long overdue, and hopefully we will get a functioning barbecue in the near future so I don’t stall out at unlucky thirteen for the winter months.
I don’t claim to understand how packages make their way from one location to another. I like to think that a shipment will go in the most direct manner, but my recent Monoprice order told me that a package can go a long ways in the opposite direction before it gets to its destination. Ontario,… Read More »
