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A few years back, Nikon decided that Canon had it all figured out - White was the new Black. And so they put out this beautiful limited edition white Nikkor 70-200mm f/2.8 lens. So naturally, I lost my mind and had to snap it up when I finally saw one for sale.

Seriously, you need to check out my Blog to see more photos of this beauty!!

Sorry, I've been shying away from Flickr lately due to a lack of free time. But I'm back now, and will finally start making my way through some of my Taiwan/ HK photos, as well as catching up on all of your photo streams!

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As the days fade into weeks, I find myself already losing track of what we saw and where we went during our trip to Taiwan. I seem to remember this being Beitou MRT station, but I may be wrong - it may be some other station we transferred at en route to Beitou for some private hot spring action.

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Switching things up a bit here - this is obviously not a photo… I was in Ottawa this past week, and took in the local life drawing scene. The model was of the 'plus size' shape, so was very interesting to sketch. This one was a 30 minute mixed media sketch using a Pentel Pocket Brush and conte crayons. See my blog, for a few more examples from that evening.

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A pot of tea brewed from a handful of rosebuds. I know this looks like a lomo toy cam shot… it's NOT. I handheld a glass fisheye lens in front of the Nikkor 50 f/1.2 lens, hence the wide angle and vignetting.

Nikon FG, Nikkor AI-S 50mm f/1.2, glass fisheye lens held in front. Shot on Fuji Superia 400 (expired in 1993).

Going skiing for the weekend, and then off to Ottawa for a week. Will disappear from flickr for a few days!

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A couple years ago, I took part in a United Way affiliated project in which we were tasked with learning about, and examining, poverty within our community. And as a final output of that, we were to present what we learned through photos. This was a gratifying experience in terms of personal learning of an issue close to my heart. But today, when I was informed that one of my photos from that project was 'published' in the Calgary Journal, a local online paper with several printed editions a month, I was so excited in that smug, vainglorious, "I can't believe something of mine got chosen for inclusion in a publication" sort of way, that I almost crapped my pants. But I think the excessive consumption of granola cereal this morning might have had something to do with the latter as well. Damn you, fibre-licious cereal!!

Anyways, back to the point. If you're interested, you can read the entire article here. And if you don't feel like reading about poverty initiatives in Calgary, you can just scroll down the page to see the photo with the credit underneath that was partially the cause of my pants crapping near-miss!

Lastly, the photo itself was taken at 'Cash Corner', a local hangout for folks seeking to do short term manual labour for cash. These three fellows were all seeking cash jobs for the day (doing whatever labour was in demand), and were either currently homeless, and/ or had spent time in homeless shelters. It was an eye opening experience chatting with them to learn about the myriad issues they faced in a life often spent at the edge of poverty...

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