I’m gathering up my photos from my ski trip last week but had to jump the gun and throw some up from the big hockey game yesterday afternoon.  Decided to get up and get my training in early so I could get downtown for the madness.  I didn’t stay for the after party but did get to see the game.  The whole thing was fun to watch, horns going through the night and the hangover begins.

zero'd in

Sun coming in through the window @ the Met.

Had Sun coming just as the game was finishing up. Pretty cool thing to see.

Photos from yesterday for today.  Shots around my house, went for a wonder.  Got some happy shots before it started pissing rain.  Will be adding some pix to our stock digital downloads section on TAPO.

This was the display window @ Champagne and Lace, with some reflection off the street.

Interesting house just down the street from me, the roof is just weird.

The old court house at the end of my street, shot first thing in the morning.

Took a few shots of the after all the ripping and shredding.  It was a cool but beautiful morning and had  some sun creeping into the living room.  So very interesting light and makes the morning that more enjoyable when its not raining!

Hope everyone had a good Christmas and are getting pumped for 2010.  Should be a great year with a lot of good things to look forward to.

The table full of chocolates, cameras, and Santas

The New cars are lining up

Doesn't want to stop playing for breakfest

Some shots from this week.  Nice to see the sun again.

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Main Landing Page

After almost a year of testing, trying, searching, and coding, we have our new Art Project Online store up and running.  Its a stronger platform with a lot more flexibility, as well as a better layout and strong usability.  We are using the latest and one of the strongest e-carts on the net helping us deliver the Art Project Online the best way possible.

The new Features:

-Downloads in the Digital Section. if buy the digital image and we will send a link and you can get it printed yourself as many times with as many as sizes you wish.

-Sharing feature for friends and family on all products

-Easy Newsletter sign ups, for sales, shows, and new additions.  This is right off our main page.

-Wish list for any art or images you like, like a favorites area.

-Product size selections on prints.

-Double clicking feature for larger image viewing.

Still might have bugs or spelling, gammar, so pass that on if you see any.

Headed out to Cuba last Monday, got back on pretty much a red eye flight Tuesday morning at 4 am.  Was a pretty long flight back, being tucked in a little space.  I believe the flight was a solid 6 hours, going there was about 5 hours 40 minutes.

Spent 7 days at a 5 star resort which would normally be about a 4 in Mexico, I think mostly because the US doesn’t have any influence on the country.  Beaches are a lot better then Mexico with flatter, warmer and clearer water.  You also don’t have Mexicans bugging ya every few minutes to buy shit.

We headed into the Capital of Cuba, Havana for a day trip.  Saw how a lot of Cubans lived and what they lived in.  Some very interesting structures as well as a lot of variety of vehicles.  Many 50’s Americana cars, Chinese buses and Russian sports cars with very old Spanish architecture.

Didn’t do too much of the culture stuff since we stayed at an all inclusive but it was still quiet an eye opener see how these people lived.

Grabbing some of my favorite shots, I’ll add more probably to flickr later on.

Havana city from the top of a hotel

City 15k from our resort. Ran there...running was tough in 26 degree heat

Havana market in the capital of Cuba

Beach by our resort

Here are some shots from last  weekend.  Headed over to the island last week and found some good spots.  Pretty happy with a few shots, enjoy.

Interesting vending machine

Chinatown in Victoria

This was a week before Halloween at Value Village...luck I guess no one was in the image.

Busy everywhere but the baby cloths

little alley in the between chinatown

Just after the skinny alley

Trying to get training back on track after a crazy wedding weekend.  One more work week then it will be Victoria time.  Getting pretty amped up, should be a good race and hopefully the weather will be as good as this last weekend.

I didn’t get a chance to put these photos up but here are some shots from Thursday morning.  I don’t think I have ever seen light like this.  I was loosing my mind when I saw it, and was so stoked when I saw my camera in the backseat.

Some shots from friday night.  Fun time, good turn out and all around great event.  Some great feed back and thanks for all who attended. Can’t wait for our next show.

I’ve been procrastinating about picking through my pretty massive photo collection for our new site as well as getting some good shots for my portfolio Friday night @ the Fall.  I found this one photo of a drive into Vancouver, nothing great, but made me really see how lucky I am to be in such a great province.  Sunrise on the North Shore mountains never seems to get old.

I’ve been going on long runs with my camera on my back on out of town runs, but I  think I should be carrying it on local ones too.

Heading in Vancouver on highway 99

Thought I would share some of what I saw on the way into Vancouver this morning.  It was about 6:30.  Some pretty good light just after some rainin.  I’m needing to use the camera more…

We got in Thursday night and hit Artlife Friday afternoon to hit the walls with our Art.  Things turned out really well, and the space was amazing for our little show.  I still have to get show images up but here are some shots of what we had to deal with as well as some of the set up to get the show ready.

Store Front Friday Afternoon

The Space before we started hanging.

My Shit on the Wall

Getting things in Place...

Artlife is located  at 1312 1st SW Calgary Alberta Canada.  Website is here.

I was back in West Vancouver this morning and took a few more shots from the same house I wrote about a few months back.  I had to take full advantage for the morning view with the oil tanker.  This photo also gives you a great prepective of the Shangri-la in downtown Vancouver, the tallest building in BC.

Shangri-la is the tallest in Vancouver

Quick Facts:

Shangri-la 65 floors

51,000 cubic meter of concrete

7, ooo tones of steel

Has the deepest excavation of 26m- 3m deeper then One Wall Center

cost 350 million to build. (Canadian)

Here is a site that I really wish they would keep this site up.  Its a blog called From the frames.  Very cool idea, basically the concept  is,  send in the view from your window.  Here are the guidlines.  Pictures from all over the world.  Some interesting photography.

Shot from someone in Vancouver

Wine vineyard out in the Valley

We had a very large amount of snow out here in the valley.  Here is a shot of the aftermath a dat after on the 2nd of January.  I was heading into Vancouver to help out a friend change his floors.  I will be adding a whole list of images hopefully end of this month with a lot of new shots that will be added to the art project.