Chuki’s food is up on our dresser so Ollie can’t get at it… he eats, then jumps down onto our bed.. So here is my first attempt of trying to capture his great leap down to our bed..

I decided that since it was such a nice day outside yesterday that I would take a break from my start up running(I used to get bad leg pain running so I’ve tried to run off and on…. and now I’m starting to pick up the training again!) and take my bike out for a spin.

I didn’t really have a specific destination in mind, which always produces the best sort of trips. After eventually finding myself not sure where to go, I just happened to see a very large downward hill, which I couldn’t resist the speed and my bike ride ended up taking me east towards Streetsville. I’ve been there once and didn’t really see a whole lot.. neither the second trip I had. I did manage to stumble across a small path, but that’s all it was.. too small. So yet again I started off in to an unknown destination which landed me by the 403.

In a narrow strip to the north of the 403 is a string of hydro towers, but underneath there are a series of tracks/jumps what-you-call-it - for the skilled bikers and jumpers and such out there.. biking past this I kept going and to my surprise I found a wicked trail that follows The Credit River. I later found out it’s about 18km long! But at this point I’ve been biking for just about an hour and wanted to keep going but just didn’t have the energy. I turned around and took a mental picture of where I was so I’ll be returning very soon! So watch out as I plan on bringing my camera with me next time to take some photos of the trip.

I’m also thinking of buying a small point & shoot for such trips, instead of carrying my DSLR around on my back.. which makes for biking not as fun. Anyone have any favourites or suggestions?

One of my newest favourite things to photograph are baseball jerseys and baseball hats.. I don’t know why but they just look amazing when photographed! Here are 4 sets of photos that I took last weekend, first of my new retro powder blue Toronto Blue Jays jersey:

Next up is a set of photos of our friend Aiden, who just returned from a trip out to New York and Yankee Stadium. Needless to say myself and my good friend Colin were very jealous, and even more so when he shows up with this jesey! It has a patch on one arm commemorating the years of Yankee Stadium, and another that has the All-Star patch for this years game.

Following that is Colin’s Phillies jersey. I photographed his hat a while back, but finally got around to taking a few photos of his jersey.. the prize of his wardrobe.

And finally is Aiden’s Oakland A’s team hat!

I found this cool video about the route on this years Tour de France… All the action gets underway next saturday!

Meet Ollie, aka The Spoochie Man. Please don’t ask what exactly a ‘Spoochie’ is, because the only answer I could give you is simply Colin looked over at him one day and exclaimed “Hey Spoochie Man!”. From that day forward he has been known as everything from Spoochies, Ollie to Risky McTakerson.

While at the cottage this past weekend, Ollie had the luxury of being outside, or ‘the outsidies’. He loves being outside, but must be in his harness, or he will be quite liable to take off after ‘the Chippies’.

Here is a small sequence of photos of Ollie searching, finding, glaring and attacking a helpless caterpillar.

1. Discover something new out in the yard.

2. Realize something different is moving.

3. Slowly approach to see what will happen.

4. Attack!

5. Eat.

Last weekend we were up at our friend Emily’s cottage in Haliburton for her hubby, and our good friend Colin’s 30th birthday! We mistakenly left our house just in time for rush hour traffic on the 400, but as soon as we cleared that we were off! The trip seemed pretty fast, with a pit stop off at webbers burgers and of course the beer store. The weather was amazing, with the odd scattered thunder showers and some pretty spectacular sunsets. The only downside was that I lost my lens cap in the lake on Friday night when I was trying to take some night shots… I did try to go and find it, but for some reason it didn’t sink into the lake and only drifted away into the night. Below are some of my favourite shots from the weekend, with about a hundred more over at my flickr account!

Here is my first attempt at taking some night photography. For reference, it was 99% pitch black on the dock when I was trying to take these, with an average of about 90 seconds of holding the shutter open. I had a mini tripod, and simply was lying on the dock holding the shutter down, which probably accounts for the slight blurry nature of the foreground objects. I found it quite annoying that I couldn’t really get anything in focus, due to the darkness, but enjoyed this as a learning experience and can’t wait to try this out again.