who is my wife

Pointed out to me in a comment from my last post my wife is Amy not Jason just to make that clear I am not married to Jason and here is a great pic of here

A New Chapter in Life

I know it has been a while since I have posted anything here on my blog, but life has been pretty Awesome.  I am in the process after finishing my job with Presentation Services, my beautiful wife, Jason and I packed up the apartment and moved it all to storage in Courtenay BC.

Now being up in Courtenay I have been to the Northgate Foursquare staff retreat SHINE!  I was great going over everything for the next 12 months.  I never new how much planning was done before the new year started, it's great that we know this so we will always be on the same page throughout the year.  The second day of the staff retreat was unbelievable we went to Wild Play and did the high ropes course, and the zip line, and Pastor Scott and Pastor Matt did the bungy jumping.(see there videos below)

On Sunday we sent Fusion Youth off to Camp for the week.  Then for church we listened to Pastor Matt preach a great message keep your eyes open at ngate.ca for is message.

Today I excitedly went condo hunting with Karin and we look at 3 possible places to live I hope one will be the place to buy

My End with PSAV

I am officially finished work with PSAV it was good while it lasted.  I have learned a tone and made some good friends that I will never forget.  But with any job there are always thing that you are happy to give up as well.  below are some pictures of my office at the Delta and the last picture is of my office at the Habour Towers

yes that last pic has no window and no paint and the carpet is held down with tape great office eh

Going for the Gold

What's in a name?

What's in a name?  EVERYTHING!

Give me some suggestions on a great name for this blog

A Day at the Beach

The other day some of the young adults went to the break water in Victoria.  While we were out there we wondered out to the end of the break and I got the most lovely sun burn it was totally amazing my face was lobster red except for where my sun glasses were.  The best part of the who day was us being kinda mean, but it was still really funny, we were watching the tide come in a 2 pairs of shoes sat unattended on the beach, a pair of crocs and some puma look a likes.  as the owners were playing a little farther down on the beach, not paying attention to there shoes the water slowly crept up on there shoes.  It wasn't until a whole line of whale watching boats went by that we knew that the shoes would meet Davy Jones Locker.

The shoes did end up surviving but it was really fun to watch.

Photography

At different time over the past couple weeks have had people asking me about photography.  But first things first I am not a pro I just like to take pictures.  So see below for some great resources for learning how to use your camera how to compose a picture and some great inspiration to create some great pictures.  

Michael's Photography School - a great place to start, some great videos to describe different photography terms like aperture, exposer, ASA ISO.  Also he will some composition skills.  all form amateur to professional 

PhotoWalkPro - a great blog all about photography and as a side note of this site check out the Worldwide Photo Walk and if your city is not there add it and become and lead your own photo walk

Joe McNally's Blog - a great place to know what a real pro goes through with is traveling around the world shooting for people like National Geographic, New York Times, Nikon, Sports Illustrated, and thats just to name a few.  I also recommend watching some of his videos on youtube here

Strobist - for everything in flash and extra light gadgets for you camera

well thats my list i hope it helps you to get more involved with your camera and keep shooting

Great Links

Here is a list of links that you should visit if you are going any kind of design

Brusheezy!  if you need a fancy brush or just something totally off the wall check out this site

stock.xchng  great resource for all the free royalty free pics you will need

BittBox  a great blog that will offer you great textures type and any thing related to graphic design

Fuel Your Creativity a great blog just go look at it

Best Brands of the World search for logos of any company you can think of