Outdoor concerts

So here I am at the Canada Winter Games enjoying what I do best, photograph sports, but as part of the contract I have I am suppose to be covering all the cultural events as well, not always possible, in reality, not possible. The toughest part is that I am suppose to cover the outdoor concerts, however these concerts all happen at the same time as the sports I'm trying to cover, so guess what doesn't get covered?

There is another side to all this, it's the 3 song rule, if I want to shoot at the front of the stage, I have to show up early and join all the amateur camera owners that were handed passes like rice to a starving kid. I have no doubt that I would be the only professional photographer in this mass of digital retards that have decided they want to be "concert photographers" Here is the interesting thing, if I show up early and get a spot close to the front of the stage as a spectator, these are free concerts, I could shoot the whole concert. Professional 3 songs-spectator all the songs. So here in lies the problem, as a professional I am restricted as to what I can cover, but anyone with a digital camera is not. If someone could explain the reasoning behind this I would be open to listening.

So tonight I will wander to the concert, find a place a little further back and shoot some pretty pictures, it will be interesting to see if security drops by and says I can't, I will raise the point that it would mean going through the entire crowd and telling everyone, no pictures.

Pig Flu update..WHO are you, WHO, WHO.

Where did the pig flu go? Wasn't it suppose to be the end of mankind as we know it? Wasn't it suppose to kill millions worldwide? Wasn't it suppose to make the drug companies billions of dollars fabricating this whole farce when the economy was in the fabricated nose dive.......Oh sorry that part was all right.

How much money did the drug companies make over producing pig flu vaccine?

But where did the pig flu go? I suppose someone has to take credit for wiping it out, maybe the World Health Organization can take credit for that, afterall it was them that started the whole process. So on behalf of WHO I'd like to accept this award for stopping the pig flu. I don't have the time to thank everyone that supported this cause but would like to give a big thanks to my stock broker WHO pointed me to the right drug companies that were producing the vaccine I made a killing........

Wheelchair basketball

I shot a couple of Wheelchair basketball games yesterday and the one thing that really struck me wasn't so much the games but the athletes that compete in the games, sounds a little odd as without the athletes there is no game. Now the thing about wheelchair basketball is that you don't have to be disabled to compete, you can be an able body athlete to compete, but once you are strapped into the wheelchair you in affect become disabled. There is an amazing skill level involved in just moving a wheelchair in a straight line, I've tried it, it's not easy, but these athletes bang and crash, turn on dime and stop on the same dime, all the time dribbling a basketball and shooting. It is a great sport to watch, like every sport full of characters, laughing, crying and competitive. One of the team Ontario athletes plays with one hand, no legs and a heart as big all outdoors, he inspires those around him, is the soul of the team, and as tough a kid as I've ever seen. Shayne Smith won't ever be a household name, never be a Crosby or Gretzky, but in the world of just being a human being, his attitude on the floor is heads above so many.

Well I'm back

I was reminded yesterday by a friend that I hadn't been posting. It has been a while and it's not because I didn't have anything to say, I didn't know anyone was reading this stuff, well apart from family, and I tell them pretty much everything anyway. I was going by the followers list and as I only have a few figured it was rather pointless. Well now I know that there are other people out there following the ramblings of a sometimes slightly disturbed photographer that trys to find humour in something every day, it's really not difficult. So today I will get back to posting.

Thanks Clive Doucet

You have made a lot of people very happy, choosing to run for mayor is like a rat trying to cross a river with Piranha, there is a slight chance he may make it to the other side, but the odds of him getting eaten alive are far greater. By choosing the cross the river Clive the citizens of Ottawa will be rid of another useless rat.

Thanks Clive you're the best.

Do you want to take a survey?

So another group has decided to weigh in on the Lansdowne Park re-development, or as it has become.........."Crisis in the Glebe" the lastest and certainly not the last traffic study has determined that the Bank street intersections will reach maximum capacity and traffic will be thown into havoc............fire and meteors will rain from the sky.........the ground will open up and consume the City............yeah though I walk through the valley of Bank street I will fear no traffic...........as I can park and walk..........Has anyone ever done a study on why there are so many studies when it comes to getting anything done............City councillor and flower child Clive "I wanna walk though more tulips" Doucet has taken some of his budget to fly in another "expert" I assume the "expert will come up with some amazing facts about how Clive is correct and that the City must stop any re-development of Lansdowne park.......we have a surplus of tulip bulbs and need more green space to plant them in our "Central Park"...........we don't need no stinking buildings and has anyone even asked the World Heritage group if adding a walking bridge across the canal or building a pond will cancel the Rideau Canals staus as the 8th wonder of the world? Like everything else.............I doubt it.

People really are idiots

I listen to the talk shows most days and find that the people that call in are idiots............they are like terminators......you can't reason with them..........they only have one job to do and that is be idiots..............In Ottawa we deal with a transit plan that has been underestimated...............the costs will likely be triple what have guessed...........we have Lansdowne Park and a project that will bring some life to the slab of ground that sits there and yet these idiots are still fighting it.......what's not to understand...Idiots.

We have a provincial government that lies directly to our faces and the idiots believe it............what's not to understand......idiots.