Scout Photos: ByeBye June, You Were Pretty Dang Sweet, Too…

From Scout’s bad to marginally alright cameras comes a variety of shots taken during the month of June… Read more

Scout Photos: Take It Easy May, You Were Pretty Dang Awesome

Here’s a slideshow of snaps pulled from all those that Andrew and I have taken around town over the past 30 days or so… Read more

Inserting The Present Into The Past With “Imagine Finding Me”

Me at Spanish Banks, circa 1976

I’m a sucker for old family photographs. The walls in my home are overwhelmed with evidence of that. I just love the way each photograph documents a point in my life. I particularly have a soft spot for snapshots from the 70′s – those accidental and slightly softer moments captured – like me running naked through tidal pools on an uncrowded Spanish Banks against the backdrop of a younger (and shorter) Vancouver skyline. I guess I like them because they take me back to that time. They remind me of who I am and where I came from. Read more

Books: A Year of Mornings

A Year of Mornings | by Maria Alexandra Vettese and Stephanie Congdon Barnes
Princeton Architectural Press

Almost two years ago, two women at opposite ends of a country took a photograph. Both women then loaded their photo on to Flickr and immediately noticed a similarity between their images (everyday objects randomly arranged on a kitchen table). One thing led to another and the two women came up with the idea to document their mornings by uploading one photograph per day to a shared blog called 3,191: a Year of Mornings (the women live 3,191 miles apart).

I have happily become lost in the caverns of the 3,191 site for long spells of my own mornings. Apparently, I’m not the only one, as this spontaneous collaborative project has now attracted an international following, including the Princeton Architectural Press and Martha Stewart.

PAP has collected 236 of these photographs – a bowl of granola alone on the table, rainboots kicked off in a quiet hallway, random books on an unmade bed – and put together a beautiful little book.

You should be able to buy it at Chapters/Indigo for under 20 bucks. It’s very Christmas-giftable.

Crazy Surfer Takes On 41 Foot Wave

I’ve seen this sort of thing before surfer get towed into big waves by buddy on a jet ski, but this particular photo set looks wicked deadly. The snaps, from Reuters, are up on the UK’s Daily Mail site. They didn’t catch the guy’s wipe-out, which apparently nearly killed him, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know what’s coming next.

‘It felt like I ripped my arm out of its socket, my leggie snapped and then I felt like I was the deepest I’d ever been.’

The unbelievable pictures have been entered into the prestigious Oakley Surfing Life Big Wave Awards, which rewards the riders of the biggest waves in Australasian waters.

Click the image to the right for brief story and full sized pics.

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