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28Jun/111

Living the High Life

Possible captions for this photo could be "Walking on Top of the World", "Jumping for Joy", "Celebrating Nature", "Up Upon High". What was actually being said at the time was more along the lines of, "Oh shoot! Ok, try it again. Ready? On the count of 3. One, two, THREE!"

Tagged as: action, airborne, blue skies, celebrate, elevation, expression, fun, happy, helmet, high, jumping, landscape, mid-air, mountains, Nature, outdoors, People, recreation, rocks 1 Comment

7Nov/103

It’s All About the Goalie

This appears to be a regular play; the goalie is keeping an eye on the player from the opposing team rounding the back of the net with the puck, but take note of the placement of the butt end of the goalie's stick:

The goalie now turns around to face the play... but where's his stick? Got stuck - haha:

Lucky in this instance that the league didn't vote on increasing the size of the goal nets:

Sometimes the limbs just aren't long enough:

Tagged as: arena, game, goal, Hockey, Humour, junior A, langley chiefs, langley events centre, net, People, play, puck, recreation, skates, skating, Sports, stick 3 Comments

28Oct/104

Hockey Spectating Translated

Taking a good hockey action photo is difficult. Personally, I'd want to see some ice flying, an emotional face, a puck and some stick movement in the frame to communicate the stress of the moment. Of course I didn't capture anything like that at the hockey game last weekend, which was a disappointment. That was made up, however, by the background crowd that I found I could tell more of a story with by imagining different speech bubble scenarios. And it was a good prompt for me to learn how to draw them to boot.

Tagged as: arena, audience, cheering, crowd, emotion, fans, game, Hockey, Humour, ice, junior A, langley chiefs, People, recreation, rink, skating, spectators, Sports 4 Comments

24Oct/104

Hello Out There We’re On the Air

The best game you can name is the good ole hockey game.

Some Junior A hockey at the Langley Events Centre: Surrey Eagles at Langley Chiefs on October 23, 2010.

Tagged as: arena, families, fans, fighting, fights, game, Hockey, junior A, kids, langley chiefs, langley events centre, movie, People, play, puck, recreation, referees, skates, skating, Sports, surrey eagles, video 4 Comments

7Oct/102

A Couple Hours Around Kelowna Gets You…

... boating, feeding some ducks, taking the dog out, swimming, eating out, walking the boardwalk, watching the birds at the lagoon sanctuary, crossing paths with some deer, enjoying the lake vista... And that's just what part of an afternoon gives you. A whole day can be exhausting.

Tagged as: Animals, birds, blue heron, boardwalk, buildings, canoe, deer, dog, duck, fountain, Kelowna, lagoon, movie, paddling, park, People, recreation, relaxation, rowing, sailboat, scenery, Sculpture, socialize, the dolphins, video, walk, water, wildlife 2 Comments

15Sep/105

Rounding the Motocross Corners

More Mission Raceway Motocross practicing.... my shoes need a scrubbing but I didn't need to enrobe my camera in plastic this time because it was a drier track. Either that or I'm learning to stay out of harm's way.

Tagged as: air, competition, course, dirt, Honda, jumping, jumps, kawasaki, mission raceway, motocross, motorbikes, mx, panning, People, practice, racing, recreation, Sports, suzuki, track 5 Comments

14Sep/106

Blue Heron Rest Stop

A blue heron takes a one-footed rest at the Kelowna Bird Sanctuary.

Tagged as: Animals, beak, bird watching, birds, blue heron, feathers, kelowna bird sanctuary, Nature, recreation 6 Comments

7Sep/108

Dirty Motocross

Time to get out the Q-Tips. My camera was a casualty of mud sprays and splashes at motocross practice at Mission Raceway:

Some of the action that progressed until sundown:

Tagged as: air, competition, course, dirt, Honda, jumping, jumps, kawasaki, mission raceway, motocross, motorbikes, mx, panning, People, practice, racing, recreation, Sports, suzuki, track 8 Comments

30Aug/1011

Circa Skate Pentathlon

This is what happens when Monster energy drinks sponsors shutting down the 800 block of Granville Street in Vancouver: an ollie competition.

Tagged as: circa skate pentathlon, competition, granville street, jump, jumping, motion, movement, ollie, People, recreation, robson street, skateboard, skateboarder, skateboarding, skills, Sports 11 Comments

21Jul/101

Magic Marker

This is a sign marking a hiking trail in the middle of the forest. People can't just leave well enough alone, can they? I mean, really, if you're going to go through the effort of defacing a sign then why not at least draw something funny. Drawing a bottle in one hand, some sort of burning material that's cigarette-shaped in the other hand (we can guess what that is), and putting shoes on him just doesn't cut it. I haven't the slightest clue why he's speaking the makings of a tic-tac-toe board.

Tagged as: deface, forest, graffiti, hiking, recreation, sign, trail, trees, walking 1 Comment

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