Bloggers Meet in Vancouver

On Friday evening, the lovely Christina invited P and I over to join them in a bbq dinner out on their lovely patio. Since Christina is visiting her family in Vancouver, we could easily meet up since we are only 15 minutes away. Hurray, finally someone comes to Vancouver!

This was actually our second meet up of bloggers. We met TimTom last year in Switzerland while visiting Lausanne. The evening was one of the first evenings of cool summer weather. It was cool enough that all of us were wearing sweaters by the end of the evening.

The meet up was a very relaxing with lots of chatting and very few pictures taken, almost none. We chatted and chatted about traveling and got to know each other much more. I'm sure I'm still kicking myself for not jumping up and taking the photo for the highlight of the bbq "eats", which was the incredible fruit cheesecake which Christina made herself. Holy cow was it Incredible! P is still talking about it but of course that is his absolute favorite dessert. Christina is definitely the queen of desserts!

The boys being camera shy volunteered to take our mug shots for us.

And stay tuned for a special photo post soon!

Photo Practice

I've been busy practicing and learning Photoshop tips and videos.
This website is by far the best site I've ever encountered.


(Just click to enlarge)

I took this photo last night while waiting for the fireworks to begin from Cypress Park.

Owl Soaring

I'm posting the photo hunt early tonight.

Now For Saturday's Photo Hunt 19 - Theme Animals


Grab the Scavenger Hunt code.
Join the blogroll. Visit participants.

I took this beautiful photo on Tuesday while up at Grouse Mountain
watching "birds in motion" as they were in free flight.

By the way, Tnchick and I were nominated for photo of the week. Yeah!
RennyBA wanted to know how to nominate, you must visit Tnchicks Site to do so.
Read about the Photo Hunt to nominate each week the best photo (100 participants now).

And I'm working on figuring out the type of owl. I still don't know the answer.

Pick of the Day

I'm Taking it easy today. Here's a pic that I know a few people will love. I do!

Sculptures a top Grouse Mountain. Wolf pack.

Busyness

So I've finally found a solution for my Raw image problems. It's a long and slow process. Maybe I should be working on one photo at a time because it's taking forever! I've finally gotten my Graphic Converter program to stop thinking it can view all of my photos and corrupt them by making them 120x160. That's like thumbnail large but with 6mb of information lost! I'm using Nikon Capture to help curb the problem for now.

In other news, I just got off a 15 minute phone presentation from a company that claims I can get a free vacation to 3 places, all complimentary as long as you listen to their 90 minute sales pitch. 90 minutes is too long. But only if you prepay $200 for your reservation. Well give you back that money when you go to your vacation. Haha - what a joke! All these places require huge travel since they are on the East Coast. Anyone heard of this scam oh I mean great deal?

Oh and I didn't get out to see the fireworks last night although I'm meeting someone tomorrow who might have. Any guesses?