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Greetings are done and now let's talk about general stuff...

So what's new, the big news is that my eye is 95% back to normal, there's no spot left only a slight deformation if I look at lines, it's not that bad I have to really focus to see it. I just have to be careful in the next few months and years so that thing never ever comes back. I just have to slow down, relax and reorganize my priorities in life.

What's going to happen in 2010? I don't know, I'm planning a few things... Australia, Cuba, more photo, more concerts, etc... ahhhhh a new year will start, but you know what 2009 wasn't that bad when I think about it.

That's if for now... not much but oh well I don't have much to say... talk to you in 2010

Once again, some pictures from my favourites in no particular order. Same as the previous journal.







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member of : http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/28026577/ Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:11:36 PDT
I had to stop photography for a while and slow down on everything else, doctor orders. A nice shadowy spot appeared in my right eye almost in the middle of my field of vision. I noticed it when I landed in Thunder Bay for a business trip. I thought it was only because I was tired of the flights. But the spot kept growing in size and my vision getting worse. I decided to go to the hospital in thunder Bay before I left just to make sure it wasn't anything serious. They gave me an ok to go, but then once back home in Montréal I had to go to the hospital and they told me what I had, I'm sorry but I have no idea how to translate the proper term. But it's stress related, so I have to slow down and try to pin point what stresses me the most and avoid it... not that easy :s

Anyway things are getting better now and the spot is getting smaller (sort of) at least I can work with both my eyes open which I couldn't do at the beginning.

Don't really know what I'll do about photography though... I have to slow down a bit. Ok I haven't posted anything here for a while but trust me it's only because I don't have time to do it. I need to take care of my DA account a bit more I think.

Other than that eye issue, everything seems to be going good. Some stressful things at work, but still in general my life is going well.

Just wish I can catch that H1N1 so I don't have to get the vaccine... People are just panicking about that virus in Canada, my god Influenza kills more people each month than the H1N1. People should breath in, breath out and try not to be nuts about it... JUST CALM DOWN!

I guess that's it for now...

Once again, some pictures from my favourites in no particular order. Same as the previous journal.







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http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/27259532/ Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:27:44 PDT
Since my last journal what's been happening with me... A LOT! I won't tell you everything but I've been very busy, photo, work and personal life. I need a vacation But I'm very happy

I'm still working on my online presence, I'd say my new website is about half way completed and should be online sometime in October/November. I just need to fix the flash and choose some pictures to put on. I will cleanup my DA soon, too much old things. I will reprocess most of them anyway.

Once again, some pictures from my favourites in no particular order. Same as the previous journal.







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member of : http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/25614736/ Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:27:59 PDT
Since my last journal I came back from Ireland and start to process my pictures of the trip, about 50 of them so far both in IR and regular colour. I posted a couple of them on DA but most of them are on my PBase account, you can find them here [link] and [link] I still don't know how many of them I'll post on DA though.

I decided to restructure my online presence as well this summer. I plan to work on my website, well to finish the flash version of it and have it online by September. I started two blogs, one for pictures only [link] and the other one with text [link] just for the fun of it (french only). I will probably do a major clean-up on my DA account since photography has taken a drastic change for me in the last couple of months, I've been shooting lots of events and concerts so I think I'll modify my account to reflect this new reality. Landscape, architecture, portraits, IR will still take some place, but not as much as they were before. My Facebook account also is getting bigger, well I'll use it differently [link] As you can see lots of change online for me this summer.

I'll have a busy summer though, lots of events and probably a few trips to client sites for work. It's going to be a fun summer I'm sure

Hummmmm looks like I don't have much to write about today... Oh well...

Once again, some pictures from my favourites in no particular order. Same as the previous journal.







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http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/24765421/ Fri, 15 May 2009 06:12:05 PDT
New York
Abitibi (northern Québec)
Colombia
Toronto
Ireland

New York was fun, but as usual I just couldn't take any pictures. It's a very photogenic city, but I don't know I just can't capture it. All my pictures are c**p and the weather was awful, rain and thunderstorms except for one day out of the four I spent there.

Abitibi, well... family... So it was fun and quite relaxing.

Colombia, my friend's wedding was great, a simple ceremony with only about 40 people there. I almost killed myself getting out of the shower as well. I did take a lot of pictures, but I haven't processed the pictures yet, I need some time. It's interesting to see you get controlled, searched, etc... four times before you actually board your plane on the way out. And on the way in, two questions and welcome back to the country. WTF...

Toronto was fun, but I went there for a big mining conference. With the economy, it was quiet and almost nobody went to the exhibition, which sucked big time. At our booth, only a dozen or so people stopped by to ask questions over a three day period. Oh well...

Now it's Ireland... VACATION and pictures

Other than that I shot a few concerts to keep myself busy, I even did my first Centre Bell which was very exciting

I'm looking forward to a quiet summer, I have a few projects for the period. I need to put my new website online. Post process a LOT of pictures and maybe go on a few escapades in or around town during the week-ends. As far as big trips are concerned, there's nothing before the fall 2010 with Australia/New Zealand.

That's it for now...

Once again, some pictures from my favourites in no particular order. Same as the previous journal.







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http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/23966055/ Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:27:53 PDT
Today Monday March 30th is the beginning of 11 weeks of craziness in my life, I know what I'm getting into and it's going to be lots of fun, at least that's what I'm hoping.

So here's part of my schedule and that's only for the next 11 weeks...

New York
Abitibi (northern Québec)
Colombia
Toronto
Ireland

This is ONLY the travelling part of it, you need to add work, a couple concerts, one photo shoot, a few with my buddies and probably an extra trip or two for work

So I'll be busy, busy, busy... and I like it

I need to find time to send my camera to Nikon, I need to send it for a good cleaning and pixel mapping, there's some nasty hot pixels showing up on some pictures and it bugs me.

Other than that everything is fine, almost no snow left

So that's the new stuff, actually I'll spend more time on DA since I decided to let go a few forums I was writing on. Oh and I'll finally rebuild my website after two years, yup I will and it's going to look nice

Once again, some pictures from my favourites in no particular order.







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http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/23794949/ Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:04:24 PDT

I won't have to cancel my trip to Ireland, I'll be hading there the first week of June for a full 10 days... That's going to be fun, my plan is to make it a real photo trip. I'll be all by myself and able to do what I want when I want In two weeks I'll head to New York City for a long week-end, that's going to be fun too, photo trip as well. I just hope the weather will be nice in NYC. And then Colombia at the end of April for a friend's wedding, I'll be the photographer and witness. This is going to be a really interesting spring 2009.

Also I just started shooting concerts for a digital media, love the way they're working and it gives me access to lots of events in and around Montréal.

Now what's going to be the next good news of 2009? I don't know yet but I hope 2009 will be a year the opposite as most of 2008.

Health,everything seems to be getting back to normal... even if I caught a cold.

Usually I try to be realistic when I look forward, but I don't know I feel something good coming my way in 2009 I'll keep my fingers crossed.

This is it for now

So once again, some pictures from my favourites in no particular order. Same as my last journal.







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http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/23395941/ Wed, 25 Feb 2009 09:38:16 PST
Okay, so I decided not to stop photography, I think it would be impossible to do I would always have the need to get a camera in my hands. So I decided to get rid of all the lenses and accessories I'm not using and only keep my D300 with the 14-24, 24-70 and 70-200 combo, it should cover pretty much all my needs. Also I might have some good news coming soon (photography) but I'll keep my fingers crossed and won't way anything until it's official. Other than that, I'm still processing a bunch of pictures but not posting anything on DA or barely, everything goes on my pbase account.

Since November my life has only been a succession of bad news, one after the other. I think, ans hope, things will be different from now on. I'm trying to adapt to a different lifestyle and it's not that easy. One major sacrifice, I'll probably have to cancel my trip to Ireland in June, I was planning it for the last six months but... oh well I just can't anymore. I'll still go to NYC the first week-end of April though. I'll go to a wedding in Colombia at the end of April (and the official photographer). Oh well.

Work isn't going too bad either, but I can't say I have a warm and fuzzy feeling about the next few months. The mining industry is slowing down and long term no one knows what's going to happen in the next year.

Health... erchhhhh could be wayyyyyy better... I won't comment on this one...

So that's my latest update.

So once again, some pictures from my favourites in no particular order. Same as my last journal.







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http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/23197127/ Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:44:19 PST
I won't go into too much details, but some things are catching up to me really fast and it's making me reconsider lots of stuff in my life. Photography, travelling, etc... I'm giving myself a month to evaluate the situation and I might just stop photography altogether and get rid of all my equipment. Travelling... ouch... I still have three big trips planned this year, I still plan to do all of them but I'm not a 100% sure anymore. Only time will tell...

Strangely, work is surprisingly great... We got back 3 of the clients we thought we had lost and we're making a few sales. Well, because of all this I've been on the road for the past two weeks doing client support and let's just say I'm exhausted. I hope things will slow down a bit for at least two weeks, I have too many things to deal with. Oh and I really don't want to be on the road mid-March, I hate being away on my birthday, it was especially hard on me last year when I was in Mongolia. Oh before I forget, anything you hear about Manitoba is true Some people will understand it.

That's pretty much all I have to say... I decided to put my brain on vacation for the week-end...

So once again, some pictures from my favourites in no particular order.







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I also decided to go to New York City the first week-end of April and this time I'm taking lots of pictures... but lots of it. The last time I was there I only took something like 20 pictures and it made me mad. It's such a good looking city and so easy to photograph, but nop... I just couldn't do it... I still hate myself for it And then Ireland in June... mmmmmmmm

The crappy economy gave a big slap to my employer, but I don't think I'll lose my job
we lost 4 of our clients (30 total), but we've gained one since then, in discussion with other as well... so I think I'll be ok

Photography... hummmm I'm working on a "Turcot" series, people from Montréal will know what I'm talking about. Mayyyyyyybe a studio shoot for the fun of it once again. Also I started a Photo-a-day series on my pbase website, it's more a snapshot a day gallery, but it's interesting and it keeps the motivation there. I like the idea

Time for some pics I like (some old, some newer ones. no specific order as well), I decided to add that to my new journals this year





http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/22046348/ Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:35:09 PST
Ahhhh this felt good

Well on the photography front, well I finally have time to postprocess my pictures whoopi I finished unpacking my apartment so I have lots of time to spend in front of my computer. Don't know when I'll put them on DA, but in the next few month for sure. I also have a few projects in mind, two upcoming studio shoots

I'm heading to New Orleans mid January for a long week-end, I'm curious to see this city. We heard so much about this place in the last few years... I need to see it for myself. I'm sure it's going to be fun

Well so maybe new pictures coming up for me on DA yeah!

Things are getting back to normal also in my life in general, there's one thing that bugs me but it's nothing major. Oh well... hopefully 2009 will be a good year even with the economic crisis.

Since I won't be updating my journal until January, I'd like to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year

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http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/21761452/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 06:49:41 PST
I moved in to my new apartment in mid-August and as of today I still haven't finished unpacking. Yup that's right I lived for almost 4 months surrounded by boxes. Ok the good excuse is I spent about half this time on the road for work, and the bad one I was too lazy when I was home to unpack. So my objective is to have finished the unpacking this week. Well basically I'm not doing anything else other than unpacking when I'm home.

I decided as well to put all photo post processing on ice until I felt comfortable in my apartment. Soooo before Christmas I'll start post-processing again... I even had the chance to do a studio shoot and I decided not to do it, I just want to take some time and finish that unpacking lol.

I did hesitate a few days between storing all my photo gear for a couple months and not touch it, but I decided otherwise. Instead I decided to continue shooting with my G10 in color and in film (B&W) for a while. I want to experiment with Kodak Tmax 3200

Migraines... that says it all.. always fun to wake up in the middle of the night with the impression your brain is on fire.

So that's it... after the dumping, illness, warehouse like apartment, computer crashing things are getting back to normal. I'll cross my fingers

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/21531631/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/21531631/ Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:34:14 PST
I'd like to have a quiet week... just one where I get home before 6PM and I can sit down and just do nothing...

I moved in my apartment three months ago... yup three months ago... and I still haven't finished unpacking just because I don't have any time to do it!!!

My god...

And there's a provincial election... I don't care who wins, as long as it's not the ADQ lol... anyway I couldn't care less...

I need time, anyone sells or can give me time?

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/21234417/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/21234417/ Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:23:03 PDT No one knows why I have migraines, we just know it's there and it sucks big time. It usually lasts 1 month then I have a month or two of break if I'm lucky... I'll keep my fingers crossed.

The economic crisis is still hitting hard my industry (mining) investors are in a panic mode and mines are shutting down one after another... very funny situation... I think I'll be able to get new clients for the company so hopefully this will help me preserve my job. I try to keep the morale up.

I'm trying also to change my mind with photography, I should start posting new pictures soon (I hope) and I will, yes I will update my website lol...

That's it for now, my head won't allow me to think more than this tonight at least.

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/21135852/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/21135852/ Fri, 24 Oct 2008 05:57:29 PDT
Oh well, better prepare for the worse I think, lose my job and then go bankrupt? Hummmm not fun at all...
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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/20647179/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/20647179/ Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:27:44 PDT
Well just a quick update on what's going on in my life right now... First of all I'm still very much in love and I miss her a lot, long distance relationships are not the best but we manage it pretty well I think.

In the upcoming weeks I'll finally go back to the studio and shoot with two models one of them a friend of mine. I'll try the pin-up style thing, well that's the plan anyway, things might change along the way. Some new concerts shots also, I've been lucky on one of them and you'll see the results and I hope they'll be great So some new photography coming up, my fingers are tingling at the idea of touching my camera.

What else... hummmm spending three weeks at home in Montréal until I head back to Newfoundland again for a week. I do need to find some time to unpack my things, I don't like to live among a huge pile of boxes, if next week is not too busy I might be able to do something lol. Let's just say my first week at home is busy, busy, busy... I'm hardly at home before 9PM and I have to be at work at 8:30AM soooo... not much time.

Ok it's done I'm going to Ireland next year, I already bought my ticket (on points) in business class baby! Going ther ein the last week of May 2009, which will leave me plenty of time to plan ahead what I want to see, even though if the plan is to rent a car and basically drive around the country. I'll avoid Northern Ireland, but I'm sure I'm going to enjoy my trip... I love europe Other than that... might go back to Death Valley in February, but I'm not a 100% sure yet... Pretty much the only non-work related travelling I'll do in the next year or so, except the week-end at my girlfriend's place but that doesn't count.

A bit more on photography... I want to try new things... I'm sick of the usual landscapes... I want to shoot film again... arrrgggghhhh.... So many things to try...

Well... I wish all of you to have a great time in the next few weeks

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/20230507/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/20230507/ Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:49:41 PDT
Let's start with the new job, well I started on August 18th to work for a new company. It's a mining software company based out of Montréal, we're selling mining design software based on AutoCAD to various sites across north-america. Since I used the software for a couple years and was managing the transition to this software at my previous job (before Mongolia) well one thing led to another and I'm now working for them. Training, debugging, site support, etc... So lots of travelling involved with that job, which I love and the people in the office are great Well I'm on the road for the next four weeks except for the long week-end of September... awwwwwww...

Now the new apartment, it's not a palace but it's nice enough that I'm happy. Not too expensive and there's an interior parking lot, that's going to be nice for the winter trust me on that one! The only thing, I still haven't unpacked and I'll be on the road for a while, so if I'm lucky it might be unpacked by November

Photography, I don't really have to time for anything right now. I need to process some of my pictures and I'll probably do it while I'll be on the road, you know on those long nights alone in an hotel room. I made a mistake into buying a Fuji S5 Pro also... I'm trying to get rid of it, I'll see... I might be able to strike a deal with one of my friends. But I have a few "projects" for the next few months, don't know if they'll end up here or not... we'll see...

I do have someone special in my life right now... we'll finally see each other after three weeks far away from each other... I really do miss her a lot.

My subscription to DA has expired... oh well... I'll wait a couple months until I renew, I need to work on a few things before... My website is one of them and my PBase gallery also.

Personal vacations... nothing planned until next summer... darn!!! Mayyyyybe a short week-end in NYC I'm not sure yet.

Well that's it for now... we'll see what's happening in the next few weeks.

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So for the next couple of weeks the plan is basically to settle down in my new apartment (which I still need to find) somewhere in the west island of Montréal. No other choice, it's close to work.

New job will allow me to travel a lot, which is interesting. Mining software company...

Anyhow... that's it for now...

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/19245877/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/19245877/ Mon, 07 Jul 2008 01:05:50 PDT

Now decision time, I'm giving myself two weeks to decide whether I'm coming back or not in August. Either Mongolia or Montréal... today I'd say things are pointing toward Montréal.

Anyway... I might get drunk tonight...

Leaving Mongolia tomorrow night...

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10 fu***ng days to go before I get back to Canada, oh I'm so going to get drunk with my friends when I'll be home, I just want to have the worse hangover I ever had just to forget for a few hours those idiots, by the way there are other than the three idiots I just mentioned.

Other than that, not much is going on. I definitely want to go back to Canada to eat real food and see my friends. I'll take it cool this time, I want to relax. I don't know if I'll do lots of photography. Apparently the weather sucks back home, it's always raining. It can still be quite interesting especially in B&W.

If I don't go to Australia as planned in October, I think I'll go to New York again. I have some unfinished business with that city lol.

I'm still waiting on a few things before showing new some different stuff I did last April. I'm trying new things in photography and I like it.

Anyway... I'll go try to relax and not thinking too much about killing people tonight!

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Maybe later this week...

Well I started to post some new stuff here, I think I'll do a summer cleanup of my deviations.

bleh...

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/18142750/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/18142750/ Sat, 03 May 2008 02:59:05 PDT
Well with the beginning of another stay in Mongolia, there will be some new stuff coming up on my DA page in the next two months. Of course new pictures of different styles, but I intend to revamp my journal by using CSS if I can find the time to understand how it works. Also I need to revamp my website, I'm thinking about doing something in Flash, I'll see if I can find the time.

Time... with 12h days at work, it's hard to find time to do anything, I'm not at work until a couple days from now but right now jetlag has just hit me really hard, it's not even 6PM local time and I'm exhausted. 12h time difference with Canada is very hard and judging from my first stay in Mongolia it's going to take me two weeks to get used to it.

Well there's one HUGE change in my world... after so many years shooting Pentax the brand got it's third strike with the K20D. This was the worst camera I ever used in studio. The shutter had big issues, the camera couldn't sync above the 1/100 mark and even then I couldn't get constant exposures with it. at 1/125 you could even see the shutter trailing in the frame which is awful. So I had issues with my *ist DS, my K10D and now the K20D... so I took the decision and switched to Nikon. I traded my K20D for a D300, I'm slowly learning how to use it. The camera itself is easy to use, but I'm not familiar with the Nikon functionalities yet, I'll get used to it fast, but still it's a whole new world. So now I'll be liquidating my Pentax inventory in July when I'll be back to Canada. Well anyway, for Infrared I was already using Nikon, I own a modified D70s dedicated to IR photography.

Well that's it for now... I think I'll go for a nap now!

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/17962747/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/17962747/ Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:01:39 PDT
Well you know what I got stupid for a few days before flying back to Canada at the beginning of the month, I actually believed I would relax during my vacations. Well you know what... nop! I still have about one week and a half to go before I fly back to Mongolia and if I was able to relax 5 minutes up to now I didn't see it pass by. So much paperwork to do, so many people to see, so many things to do...

I'm in NYC right now after an exhausting week-end in Montréal and hopefully for the next two days I'll be able to take lots of pictures. It's been a while since I did "urban shots" and I miss it. I bought a pinhole adaptor and I really want to try it. But trust me I'll have lots of different things to show you in the next few weeks, unusual stuff for me but I like it a lot and I'll try to do more before the end of the year... so many ideas

On my way back to Mongolia I'll spend a full day in Beijing, I just don't know what to go and see, there's the great wall, forbidden city, Tienanmen square... I have to choose I was supposed to spend 5 days, but with the Olympics the Chinese government seems to be only issuing 3 days transit visas which sucks big time and screwed up my plans, because of this I have to spend 4 full dans in Ulaan Baatr waiting for my flight to go back to work... 3 days in UB... wow that's going to be funnnnn yippee Good time to post process my pictures I guess and try to acclimate to the jetlag.

I could say more but I won't... so I'll write something new one of these days in the next month or so.


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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/17467733/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/17467733/ Sun, 23 Mar 2008 02:12:51 PDT
Well I'm back to an all english journal even though it's not my first language. I think english is the universal language on DA, but I don't want to start a debate over this issue lol

Well as my title says, two weeks to go before I fly back to Canada... You have no idea how much I'm dreaming about eating a big extra cheese poutine when I'll get home. I'm sick and tired of camp food, I'm lucky in one way I haven't been sick so far but lots of my co-workers are.

So anyway, during my time off lots is going to happen... and when I say lots, it means I'll be busier than ever lol. Ok traveling, I'll have to spend 2 days in Ulaan Baatr on my way out of Mongolia, little chinese visa issue I have to deal with in UB before I go. Then I'll go to both Montréal and New York in the same week, just for the fun of it. And finally... that's the best part I think. I'll spend 3 complete days in Beijing before heading back to Mongolia for another 8 weeks. And that's just the travelling side of things lol.

In my last journal I mentioned I was thinking about quitting photography or changing brands of equipment. Well I'll stick with Pentax and even upgrade to the latest DSLR and obviously I'll still take pictures. During my 6 weeks here, well I took... hummmmm 3 photos. With 12h days I'm not really in the mood to take pictures after work, but I really have to before I go back home. I'll have a truck this week so I'll be able to drive around the site. Ok... during my stay in Montréal... well I'm planning a surprise for you, you'll see sometime in May the results posted here on DA so be patient.

What else, not much to be honest with you, except a horrible headache I have at this exact moment.

That's it for today...

P.S. For those in Québec, well there's no snow here and it's always sunny

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/17281143/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/17281143/ Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:23:41 PDT
I don’t think I can find a better way than saying ouch! This week was my 30th birthday and that day felt like hitting a wall going at 100 km/h, there was so many things I wanted to do before I got to this point in life. One sure thing is I won’t set any objectives for the next ten years because if I do I’ll only be disappointed. Sometimes I wonder, maybe I should try to have a normal life instead of always running all over the place.

I’m at a turning point in photography, I got so mad this week! I sent a lens for repair because it had some focusing issues, well three days ago when I wanted to use it for the first time after the repair the zoom ring was stuck so I turned it with a little bit more force than usual and I heard a clicking sound. Well that was it the lens won’t focus at all now and does something weird to the camera itself. It pissed me so much and I’m still mad, that I’m seriously thinking about stopping photography because I’m tired of spending all that money for crappy material, I just don’t have time anymore. Or the other BIG choice, switching brands and go for Nikon or Canon… But I don’t know what to do anymore

To change my mind, when I’ll be back to Canada I’ll go and spend a few days in NYC, hopefully the weather is going to be nice. I’ll also go to Montréal of course, if I’m still into photography at that point, all of you in Montréal who want to go for a beer just let me know.

Next vacations : Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, and that’s only for 2008

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Bonjour tout le monde!

Pour faire changement j’ai décidé de faire une version française de mon journal, j’ai le temps aujourd’hui alors pourquoi pas.

Bon alors je pense que je ne peux pas trouver de meilleure façon que de dire ouch ! Cette semaine était mon 30ème anniversaire et mon dieu on aurait dit que cette journée là j’étais entré dans un mur à 100km/h. Il y avait tant de choses que je m’étais promis de faire avant d’arriver à ce point dans ma vie et évidemment je ne les ai pas fait. Une chose est sûre, je ne me metterai pas d’objectifs pour les 10 prochaines années car je risque uniquement d’être déçu. Même que quelques fois je me dis que je devrais essayer d’avoir une vie normale au lieu de courir tout partout comme une poule pas de tête.

J’en suis rendu à un point tournant en photographie, disons que cette semaine à déclenché tout un processus de réflexion. Alors voici, environ un mois avant de partir travailler en Mongolie, j’avais envoyé une lentille pour se faire réarer en raison de problèmes de focus, eh bien il y a trois jours alors que je voulais l’utiliser pour la première fois suivant cette réaration, l’anneau de zoom était coincé alors je l’ai tourné avec un peu plus de force qu’à l’habitude c’est alors que j’ai entendu un drôle de déclic. Eh bien c’était l’arrêt de mort de cette dernière, maintenant elle ne veut plus faire le focus et la caméra réagit drôlement. Cela m’a tellement enragé, et je le suis toujours, que je pense très sérieusement de tout simplement arrêter la photographie parce que je suis tanné de déenser tout cet argent pour du matériel qui brise tout le temps, en plus je n’ai tout simplement plus le temps de niaiser avec ça. Ou l’autre choix plus dramatique serait de changer de marque d’équipement et de faire le grand saut chez Nikon ou Canon… Je ne sais plus quoi faire

Pour me changer les esprits, lors de mon retour au Canada j’ai bien l’intention d’aller passer quelques jours à NYC, j’espère bien que la température sera de la partie. J’irai aussi à Montréal bien évidemment, si je suis toujours intéressé par la photographie à ce moment, tout ceux de Montréal qui voudraient aller prendre une bière, juste m’envoyer un message.

Prochaines vacances : Irlande, Australie et Nouvelle-Zélande, ça c’est juste pour 2008.

Sur ce, je vous écrierai plus tard.


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Just wanted to say hi! I'm in Mongolia since February 15th and I'm enjoying it so far. Job is great, people are nice and I don't miss home so far. I haven't used my camera yet but I will soon and hopefully post a couple pics here. The ony thing I'm stuck on a construction camp in the middle of the Gobi desert so don't expect anything spectacular. But I'll do my best... I'll be back in Canada at the beginning of April for a month then Mongolia again

Anyway have fun!!! I'm sure having a blast right now!

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This is going to be a short one, well last week I gave my notice and I'll finish working in Timmins on February 8th... and on the 15th I'll start working on a mining project in Mongolia!!!!!!!!!!

I got an offer and it was just impossible to say no. I consider this as a once in a lifetime opportunity and I just couldn't pass on it. The only thing left is to wait for my plane ticket and I'll be on my way on the 10th.

I'm very excited and happy to start that new job, I was getting tired of my old one and I needed change and this is a big one. I'll sure post some pictures here but most of them will endup on here [link] you'll just have to wait until the end of February and check the Mongolia gallery.

Anyway that was my big news!!! I'll keep you posted as of what's happening over there!!!

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I'm in Montréal right now and erchhhhh the weather sucks big time. It's slushy all over the city and they still haven't removed all the snow from the last snow storm almost two weeks ago, it's unbelievable. There's snow all over down town, at least they were able to remove much of the snow on the main streets just in time for the week-end. Last minute Christmas shopping, there's so many people in town even with that niiiiice weather. I did some shopping myself, but I did it in the morning when it's more quiet.

I thought I would take lots of pictures this week-end being in Montréal. Usually this city inspires me but the weather stopped me. Also I don't have a car this time, which sucks. The Metro is great but I can't really do everything I would have wanted to do. Oh well next time I guess. I have a project for this spring anyway, you'll see it's something different than I usually do.

Did see two conerts of Vulgaires Machins Thursday and Friday, great concerts. I took pictures of the first one and I'll process them whenever I find a minute. I still haven't processed my Vegas/SF trip pictures and even some of last summer... I just can't find the time.

What else... not much... I think I'll send AGAIN my camera to get fixed. There's a focus problem and it seems to be getting worse. There's an aweful backfocus issue, when I shoot manual everything is fine but on auto no good. But the same lens mounted on a diffrent camera is fine. Tired of these issues... Maybe I'm due for a brand change

Anyway, once again have a nice holiday season!!!

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/15379876/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/15379876/ Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:20:32 PST
On the photography side of things, not much I stored all my gear until I leave for Las Vegas and San Francisco at the end of the month (November). I don't want to touch it and I even think I'll travel light with not too much gear. Lately what's been bothering me is the fact people are not taking my photo projects seriously and it's really making me mad. Also I shot some concerts with some promises and nothing happened... yippee!!! Maybe I should sell all my gear and stop for a while... I don't know... maybe the headaches is affecting my mind.

Other than that nothing... a bunch of non processed photos and trying to plan my trips in 2008 but nothing interesting so far, ok Iceland would be great but I'm not even excited... what the hell is wrong with me?

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/15190643/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/15190643/ Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:17:49 PDT
I decided to try a new approach to try to kick myself out of my lack of inspiration... KISS... "Keep it simple... stupid." Last summer I mostly did concert photography and I think it affected me in a way, I stopped focusing on what was around me. So I'll try to focus on simple things. Also I decided to try the "picture-a-day" starting this week-end. I don't know where it will lead me but I'll see I guess. I won't post a picture a day on DA but on my pbase account I will.

Today there's only one month left before I leave for Las Vegas, I'm going to attend a conference, work related. I'll do a side trip to San Francisco as well, air fare are so cheap in the US that I'll even fly first class Well I'll have two week-ends to myself one in SF, the other one near the Grand Canyon (for the third time in my life) and a full week in LV. It should be interesting And hopefully I'll bring back lots of pictures with the KISS approach lol

What else... not much actually, I'm completing a year long project at work this week and I'll be able to move on... FINALLY!!!!!!!! This will allow me to start a personal project about my work environment, you see I work in the mining industry and I never really did any photography about my job so I'll start this soon and hopefully you'll see the result in 2008.

That's it... have a fun fall

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/14966034/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/14966034/ Mon, 08 Oct 2007 06:23:34 PDT
I decided to create a diffrent username on a photo forum I'm on, I want to test critics if they would be the same as with my regular name... oh well...

See I don't have much to say...

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/14803219/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/14803219/ Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:40:25 PDT
Wow I woke up this morning and realized fall was comming and was comming fast! Where I live almost all the trees are now bright yellow and the leaves are falling. Not to mention that now by 7PM it's dark outside compared to the 10PM in summer... Snow will probably give us a quick sneak peak very soon too and I'll have to start thinking about installing winter tires on my car... yippee... The sadest part, I feel like I didn't see the summer pass by, I was so busy this summer I just missed it Oh well, that's life...

I haven't touched my photo gear in a while, except two weeks ago when I did that self portrait. But I had a vision yesterday and I must take one picture on Friday. Why Friday, because I will be in that spot on Friday. I saw something on TV and I realized the potential of one specific spot, if I can do the framing I want it should be a great picture... I'll cross my fingers because usually when I imagine such a result either I can't do it or it's so crappy I don't want to show it to anyone. Will see I guess. Maybe this will kick start my lack of inspiration I had lately.

Other than that... not much, I'll be in Montréal mid-October and I should be able to take a few good pictures if I'm lucky, Hopefully my camera will be back by then, yeah I had to send it for an inspection, something was wrong with it.

I need to start putting a few fresh deviations on here and update my real website too, haven't touched it since May I think...

Well... That's it for now

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/14631576/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/14631576/ Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:07:27 PDT
To be honnest since my last journal I haven't really been active in either post-processing or taking pictures. A few things happened that kept me busy outside of my wonderful camera world lol. Just to let you know I had a foot incident at a concert I shot in August and I'm still suffering from it as I'm typing this journal. Nothing broken but it hurts like h**l and hopefully things are going to be better soon.

Well a DA friend of mine recently tagged me, I know, I know I haven't posted it yet but I will... just give me a couple days/weeks so I can fully recover from my month off lol...

Vacation plan lol... Except for two week-ends in Montréal in October and December nothing will happen as far as I know in 2007. But 2008 sounds interesting so far. In February I think I'll go to wither Florida or Louisiana for a long week-end and then in June it's going to be Iceland (Plan A) or Ireland (Plan B). It all depends of the airfare and all the other costs. With a strong canadian dollar this year any destination could be interesting lol.

I just bought myself a K1000 also... mmmmmm old Pentax gear! I did sell my Canon AE-1 so I'll have to change my DA id picture... that's my project this week-end. I'll try to do something in B&W... I just love B&W... Hopefully what I have in mind will work no problem.

I guess that's it for now...

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/14240787/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/14240787/ Sun, 19 Aug 2007 13:07:40 PDT
What's new in August... Hummmmm that's a good question. Well I almost change job this week and it's the first time I hesitated that much over a job offer. I just hope I made the right choice by staying where I've been for the past four years. I like what I'm doing but I had so many unfullfiled promises over these years that I got kind of sick of the place, and the mood in my department isn't that good either. Oh well, the market in my field is great so if I get tired of the place I can find something within a month I'm sure. And probably with bettre conditions too

During my last vacations at the beginning of the month I thought when I left I would take lots of pictures of diffrent things, well finally... I only (almost) took concert pictures, wich I love doing. I shot about 15 concerts in 7 days... that's a lot for me lol. Good pictures for the most, but I had some camera problems, one of my lens is misalligned and doesn't focus quite right. I have to ship it out to the doctor. Shooting a concert in manual focus... what a pleasure.

What else... hummmmm... I bought myself a nice new tv set... A Samsung LCD 40in HDTV with a new HD satellite receiver and trust me HDTV is really worth it. The picture is just amazing compared to the traditional TV.

Ok photography wise I have a few things in mind for the next few months. I'd very much like to go back this fall in a studio to do some experimentation. I'll try to work it out with some friends of mine to cut down the costs. I'd like to do more portraits, but either because I'm too shy or there's no one interested where I live it's impossible to find models. Oh well... I also have to revamp my personal website, you're more that welcome to go and have a look [link] and I think I should revamp my DA journal but I'm not too sure how to proceed on that one

Travel side of things... for 2007 it's pretty much done. I'll go a few times to Montréal and that's going to be it I think. In 2008 I'm not sure yet, I have a bunch of diffrent options. Ireland, Prague, Amsterdam, Iceland, Louisiana, NYC, Northern California, British Columbia... I have to choose in that list.

Other than that... not much is going on but I'm busy so that's good...

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]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/13591783/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/13591783/ Tue, 03 Jul 2007 12:08:47 PDT
I came back from Europe about a month ago now and I still haven't finished processing my pictures, mind you they're almost all snapshots but I still have to process most of them for my friend who travelled with me. Since then I went for a week-end to Montréal for work and on my way back, stupid me I decided to drive down there with my car (900km one way) and guess what a f****n' rock smashed the driver door window which was MY window! And that was only 200km north of Montréal!!! I had to turn back to the closest Toyota dealer which was 20km back on the road (I was lucky for that) They replaced my window with a plastic sheet so I could drive back home... My god it was noisy! 700km of pure noise... I thought I would go crazy. Anyway I had the window replaced two days after when I was back home, yippee 300$...

Ok so now I'm processing tons of pictures, planning my next vacation in Montréal at the end of July for the Francofolies (it's now a tradition), planning my next vacations out of the country next year... and over all of that I have that horrible migraine, I had to skip work... I couldn't concentrate this morning... I hate when it happens...

So next year the plan, or the crazy plan as I call it would be, Ireland for 7 days, 3 days in Prague, and 3 days in Amsterdam... and all that over a two week period. Also maybe a long week-end in Miami next year and mayyyyyybe northern California, not too sure about that one yet.

One last thing, a few days ago was Canada Day, happy 140th anniversary by to way to my country... but hummmmm... I really don't feel canadian, I have the passport, was born here and everything else... but I just don't feel it, I can't identify myself as being a Canadian and yet (being from Québec) I'm not a separatist... it's a strange feeling, I guess I'm north-american period... or maybe not... it's kind of confusing a bit!

Anyway I'll go back to my headache and my post process...

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More to come...

In now less than 48h I will be sitting in a plane going to Munich... I'm so excited, it's the first time in many years I have two full weeks of vacation away from work. I'm tired of the project I'm working on so you can imagine I have a big smile on my face right now.

So it's going to be Germany, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Austria in 11 days, it's kinda nuts but I'm sure I'll have lots of fun. I'm going there with a friend of mine so it's going to add to the pleasure of the trip. And then when I'm back I'll be going to James Bay in Québec to visit the big hydroelectric dams over there. One of them is the biggest underground hydro dam in the world, I'm very excited.

Anyway... should be fun... I'll be back sometime in June with pictures

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Other than that just over a month before I go on vacation, I'm off to Germany/Austria this time, I'm going with a friend of mine. And I have lots of plan for this summer/fall so be aware more pictures from across Canada/USA are comming this year and more and more Infra-Red too.

That's it, that's all I'll go enjoy this magnificient day outside... +18°C and a bright sunshine!

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What's wrong...

Dark, dark, dark thoughts... Nobody noticed anything at work yet, but it's really dark in my mind, nothing seems to be beautiful... I don't know... I'm 29 and I still feel I haven't done anything good in my life. Have I ever had a beautiful moment in those 29 years... I don't even know... darn...

Pourquoi est-ce que j'écris en Anglais, je suis francophone pourtant... arrrrggghhhh!!!

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Still doing photography for myself even though I'm posting a few pictures on DA, I figure it's going the same thing util I come back from Washington DC in the first week of April.

That's it, that's all for today...

I'm going to pop some anti-biotics into my body!

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Me, myself and I...

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I don't know why but the other day I woke up with a strange but good feeling. I have the feeling 2007 will be a great year for me photography wise. But I have to keep in mind I can be totally wrong too lol. I have lots of photography projects for 2007 which I've been planning for a couple weeks now and everything seems to go accroding to plan. It everything happens it could be a huge break in the music community, as a photographer of course. I'll keep my fingers crossed!

Lots of traveling for me in 2007 too. Montréal a few times, well ok at least 10 times this yeas. Washington in the spring. Germany this summer... Maybe Chicago too, I'm not too sure about that one, well for this year.

Work wise, finally I'll get out of the boring job I've been doing for the past year and a half. Some action in perspective, it's about time. I was going nuts playing with all those Excel spread sheets.

That's about it... still a bit depressed but I can deal with it. Being busy doesn't leave me much time to start going down that spiral.

D.

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For the past few days I started to feel bad and sad at the same time. I guess I'm depressed or something like that. If it wasn't for work I would move out of this rat hole of a town. If I was painting, I'm sure right now everything would be black, it's all black in my head, everything is black... Can't see things getting better in the near future

Except for photography there's nothing good in my life, if I wasn't here people would see the diffrence (I won't commit suicide trust me)

Photography... got my K10D a few day ago and it seems to be a wonderful camera. I'll test it in real conditions over the next week-end in Montréal, might post some of the pictures.

What is happines? Did I ever experienced it?

]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/10335562/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/10335562/ Mon, 09 Oct 2006 11:01:03 PDT I'm so happy about how it turned out. I'll go there, enjoy the music and take pictures at the same time. What more can I ask?

I finally decided to start working on my website, version 1.0 is now online at [link] if you ever wat to go and have a sneek peek, it's both french and english. I'm not sure yet but probably I'll change the URL to something more classic, I don't know what yet. I'm on pbase too now, interesting website for hosting pictures, seems to be better that photobucket, which was the old one I was using for forums and other stuff like that.

As you can see I started to post some of my southwestern vacation pictures, I won't post them all but at least a couple of them that's for sure. Tell me what you think, don't be shy I can appreciate comments negative or positive, there's always something you can learn.

Well as I'm typing this my landlord just came back from vacation, and his wife, who I call Bang Bang seems to be there too. I never met anoyone that was making as much noise as her when she walks it's horrible, she puts all her weight on the heels and she's walking barefoot... never again a basement appartment.

Next destination except Montréal... Hummmm I think I'll go to Chicago

]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/10206464/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/10206464/ Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:25:04 PDT
Just to give you an idea I visited :

Petrified Forest NP (Arizona)
Canyon de Chelly NM (Arizona)
Four corners (AZ/NM/CO/UT)
Monument Valley NTP (Utah)
Arches NP (Utah)
Canyonlands NP (Utah)
Grand Canyon NP (Arizona)
Las Vegas (Nevada)
Death Valley NP (California)

It was just a wonderful trip, not like the one I did in Spain/France last winter, that one sucked big time, well half of it anyway.

My next trip is in Montréal in two weeks and after that... I have no idea. Ireland was in the air for next year but it's really not sure at this point. Maybe the Netherlands too... I still have lost of time to think about it. Maybe Chicago or NYC too...

Other news, I orderded my Pentax K10D the day after it was officially announced. I can't wait to get this little piece of photographic engineering in my hands. At the announced price and with all the features... oh wow I'll have a great camera in my hands I'm sure of it.

So that's it... oh I'm finally decided to work on my web site, I'll post a link as soon as it's going to be done.

]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/10061872/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/10061872/ Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:53:35 PDT Mood: Very happy
Listening to: Compter les corps - Vulgaires Machins

Short message... Leaving Friday after work for an intense week in Arizona/Utah/Nevada/California. I'm renting a car in Phoenis and making a 10 day loop around those states... Hopefully lots of pictures to come from that trip. I'm going to see two show of "Cirque du Soleil" in Vegas, should be great.

Well I love traveling and I love even more being on vacation!

So I'll be back at the end of September.

]]> =CapitaineAbitibi http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/9713560/ http://CapitaineAbitibi.deviantart.com/journal/9713560/ Sun, 13 Aug 2006 13:19:28 PDT Mood: Bleh!
Listening to: Revolution (Maharajah)

I've been quiet lately on DA and other photography forums by lack of time and some health issues I have to deal with. Everything should get back to normal wirhin the next month or so, well I hope it will because I'm going on vacation in a month.

Mmmmm vacation, going to Arizona/Nevada for a little bit more that a week, won't be my first time in Nevada though. I'm pretty sure it's going to be an exciting trips where I'll be able to take lots and lots of pictures, maybe some of them will end up on DA who knows? But by then I'll need vacations, I'm working on a project at work which is draining lots of energy, some web/intranet/AutoCAD based stuff nothing interesting for most of the people but something very usuful for us at work.

But to talk some more about the vacations, I was so pissed this week when they announced the new carry on rules, I'm almost a 100% sure they're going to refuse my camera bag as a carry on when I'll leave Montréal for Phoenix. I'm not taking any chances, I decided to go and buy myself a big pelican case to protect my gear and be able to ckecking it in without any (or almost) risks of damage on my equipment. Hey I'm going to a place where the landscapes are magnificient, I'm not just brigning in a P&S camera with me.

One of the signers I shot at the "Francofolies de Montréal" in June asked me if she could use my pics on her website, I sure did agree depending of the use of course. But she did put one on her myspace page. Actually here's a link to her real website [link] Lets just say I was happy about the request, It's my first real publication and by an artist I really like and with some of my best live show stuff I ever did. Here the pic on her myspace page :


And not to forget about who kindly asked me to use one of my pictures for a painting, I'm actually very excited to see the results in a few weeks/months, here's the picture in question


I guess that's it for a while... I'll try to write new stuff before I leave on vacation!

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What's new under my gloomy sky? Well not much, I don't know why but lately I've felt like I lost my eye for photography, as if I couldn't take any single good shot. It's been like that since I came back from Europe last January. I was able to save about 10 shots from my trip to NYC last week-end, thanks in part to photoshop. I just don't know what's going on in my head! Is it just that I suck big time or that I've become a perfectionist monster that's never satisfied with its work? I'll have to find that out sometime before June, I'm going to spend a full week at the Francofolies in Montreal to shoot some shows. Even if I'm not satisfied by my work then, I'll sure enjoy the shows. Great french music lol

Even if I'm in a photographic depression zone, I did reserved my new camera body at my favorite store. A brand new Pentax D2 or whatever they're going to call it, it's going to be the new 10mpx Pentax DSLR the equivalent of the Nikon D200 with IS in the camera body. I just can't wait.

By the way, buy the last "The Cardigans, Super Extra Gravity" CD it's just amazing!!

That's it for today and a while I think

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Bonjour tout le monde!

Quoi de neuf sous mon aura de déprime? Pas grand chose à vrai dire, je ne sais pas pourquoi mais dernièrement j'ai l'impression d'avoir perdu mon oeil pour la photographie, comme si je n'étais plus capable de prendre un seul bon cliché. Je suis dans cet état depuis mon retour d'Europe en Janvier dernier. J'ai été capable de sauver une dizaine de clichés de mon voyage à NYC la fin de semaine dernière, un gros merci à photoshop. Je ne sais juste pas ce qui se passe dans ma tête! Est-ce que c'est parce que je suis vraiment nul ou que je suis devenu un monstre du perfectionnisme qui n'est jamais satisfait avec son travail? Je vais devoir découvrir ça avant le mois de Juin, je vais passer une semaine complète aux Francofolies à Montréal pour prendre quelques clichés de spectacles. Même si à ce moment je ne suis aps satisfait de mon travail, je suis certain que je vais apprécier les spectacles, de la bonne musique francophone

Bien que je sois dans un blocage photographique, j'ai réservé mon nouveau boîtier à mon magasin préféré. Un beau Pentax D2 ou peu importe quel nom ils vont l'appeler, c'est sensé être le nouveau DSLR 10mpx de Pentax, la réplique au Nikon D200 avec la stabilisation d'image intégré au boîtier. Je suis tellement impatient de l'avoir dans les mains.

En passant acheter le dernier DC de "The Cardigans, Super Extra Gravity" il est simplement écoeurant!!

Bon ça va être tout pour un bon bout de temps dans mon journal je crois.

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Haven't posted in a while, Since I came back from europe I've been kinda busy. I don't really have time to take pictures or to process them in Photoshop either. Ok I went to Montréal last weekend to ski at Tremblant, meet friends (photo and non photo) and shopping lol.

In two weeks I'll spend easter weekend in NYC... It should be fun... I plan to take as many pictures as I can. Hopefully the outcome will be a lot better than what happened in europe photography wise.

What else... oh well stille feeling kinda gloomy and I still don't know why.

Wow I don't have a lot to say... better stop now!

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Présentement mon esprit est occupé par un gros nuage noir... Trop de questions, pas assez de réponses...

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I'm already planning my next trips later this year, NYC in April, Montréal in June and Arizona/Nevada/Utah in September. Should be nice...

Well I don't have much to say today, still on jet lag...

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Bon... Que m'est-il arrivé durant mon voyage mis à part très peu de photos? Je me suis fait volé par des pickpockets lors de ma première journée complète à Madrid (J'ai été chanceux, il n'ont pris que L'argent comptant et n'ont pas touchés aux cartes de crédit), j'ai eu droit a une tempête de neige sur le sud de la France. ¨Ca résume très bien mon voyage, seul mon séjour à Barcelone a été fantastique, superbe ville. Je me suis grandement déçu, je n'ai pris qu'environ 250 photos durant les 10 jours de mon voyage, je ne sais pas, mon esprit ne devait pas être en mode photographie.

Je planifie déjà mes prochains voyages cette année, NYC en Avril, Montréal en Juin et Arizona/Nevada/Utah en Septembre, cela devrait être intéressant...

Bon je n'ai pas grand chose à dire aujourd'hui, encore sur le décalage horaire.

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Well 2005 is almost over now, only a few hours left... What a great time to look back at the past year. When I think about it really fast I always conclude nothing special happened, but I know it's false, totally false. This year was a special one for me, I'll start with photography... It's the year where I switched to the world of DSLR photography, though my way of thinking hasn't change facing photography it was still a revolution for me. No more waiting to see my pictures, I learned a few photoshop tircks. I guess I joined the digital revolution for good. Okay I still shoot film for the quality of it, but a lot less.

I also met lots of photographers this past year, which was really fun. Too bad they're not living close to me... or should I say too bad I'm not living closer to them! I learned a few tricks from them, and it great to meet people with the same interests as you for once, even though if they don't own the same brand of camera as me lol. Probably a few more trips than I had planned to Montréal in 2006...

On the personnal side, it was a quiet year... Still not sure after alomst two years if I want to stay in Timmins or move back east to Québec. I miss my friends, what I don't like in here is I only see my coworkers and they're really older than me, they all have grand childs... Well I'm sure you see what I'm talking about.

My passion for traveling has grown bigger... I'm planning all my trips for the next 2 or 3 years to come. I won't tell you where but you'll eventually find out. In less than 21 days I'm leaving for Spain and France, it's going to be a quick trip but it should be nice, 10 days all alone far far away from here. My plan is to relax, take pictures... well just enjoy it and not thinking at all about work.

I also decided to build a web site of my own... It should be online within the next 2 or 3 weeks. Well before I leave for Europe. It will be mostly about photography, maybe a little bit of extra stuff but I'm really not sure. I was thinking about a little something about music... For those who don't know I loooooove music, listening to it anyway. Don't know why but lately I've been listening to more french (canadian) music than I ever did before. Wow there's so many music groups I didn't knew, it's just amazing all the talent there is in Québec. Got to love the FMEAT, it's a music festival just 2 hours away from Timmins in Rouyn-Noranda (my wannabe hometown).

I'll stop here... so happy new year 2006 to all of you, and I wish the best to all of you in 2006

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I recently bought a bunch of new camera gear, two new Sigma lenses and one new bag. Two great lenses I must say, 24-70 f2.8 which is always on my camera and a 70-200 f2.8 that I just received last week. Lots of great pictures in perspective I also went in a studio for the first time. What an experience it was, I was more obsessed with the sttings on my camera than anything else. I'll try to post some of the pictures this week.

Spain... in just over a month I'll be there relaxing far, far away from work. I love vacations, it's so much fun. Not to think about my boring job and everything that's going on back home.

Just to let you know, there's more IR shots comming within the next few weeks. I was finally able to fine tune a photoshop script to process those pictures. As soon as it stops snowing I'll go shoot some landscapes in IR, I love the effect in winter.

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Alors quoi de neuf... Hummmmmmm... Bien nous sommes en mode d'élection fédérales au Canada, et devinez quoi le résultat sera probablement le même qu'à la dernière élection soit un gouvernement minoritaire dirigé par les Libéraux. Que voulez-vous... de toute façon je vais enfin pouvoir voter selon ma consience (J'ai déménagé de province depuis la dernière élection) donc le NPD vous avez au moins un vote. (Je suis dans un comté NPD en passant)

Récemment je me suis acheté un paquet d'équipement photo dont 2 nouvelles lentilles Sigma et un nouveau sac de transport. Je dois ajouter 2 superbes lentilles une 24-70 f2.8 qui est touy le temps sur ma caméra et une 70-200 f2.8 que j'ai reçu la semaine dernière. Plein de belles photos en perspective Je suis aussi allé en studio pour la première fois. Ce fut tout une expérience je doit dire, j'étais plus obsédé par les réglàges de ma caméra que par n'importe quoi d'autre. Je vais essayer de poster quelques photos cette semaine.

Espagne... dans juste un peu plus qu'un mois je vais y être en train de relaxer très, très loin de mon travail. J'adore les vacances, c'est tellement agréable. Ne pas penser au travail ennuyant et a tout le reste qui peut se passer à la maison.

Pour les personnes intéressées, je vais ajouter quelques photos IR au cours des prochaines semaines. J'ai finalement été capable de fignoler un script Photoshop pour le traitement de ces photosé Dès qu'il arrêtera de neiger je vais aller prendre quelques paysages en IR, j'aime bien L'effet que ça donne en hiver.

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What's new, honestly I don't know!?! For the past month I haven't shot anything, my camera sits patiently in it's bag waiting for some action. I just bought a new companion for my camera, a nice Sigma 24-70 f2.8 lens :droll: I should receive it within the next few days, maybe that's going to be the beginning of a new shooting frenzy. I'm negotiating a couple things for next year, if it works out it's going to be very interesting, maybe a few trips associated with it. I'll keep you posted if it becomes reality.

3 months to go before I leave for Spain, I love going out fo my country, not that I don't like it... I just love to see diffrent things. While I'll be around Barcelona I might go ant take a spin in France, just for the fun of it. Then in the following months, NYC, San Francisco, Las Vegas...

What else, busy at work, I recently changed position within the company. Boring new job, I'm sitting at my desk doing nothing but punching numbers on my computer. Oh god I need to go underground, for those who don't know I work in mining and I love it. Also. the weather sucks out there, maybe that's one of the main reasons why I didn't use my camera recently.

I need some fresh new ideas... any suggestions?

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Bonjour tout le monde!

Qu'est-ce qu'il y a de neuf, franchement je ne le sais pas!?! Je n'ai pris aucune photos au cours du dernier mois. Ma caméra m'attends patiament dans son sac qu'il se passe quelque chose d'excitant. Je viens tout juste d'acheter une nouvelle amie pour ma caméra, une belle lentille Sigma 24-70 f2.8 :droll: Si tout va bien je devrais la recevoir au courrant de la prochaine semaine, qui sait c'est peut-être ce qui va me donner le goût de repartir sur une crise de photos. Je suis présentement en négociations pour quelques trucs pour L'an prochain, si cela fonctionne comme prévu, ça risque d'être très intéressant, peut-être même quelques voyages associés à ça. Si le tout fevient réalité je vous tiendrai informés.

Plus que 3 mois avant mon départ pour l'Espagne. J'adore sortir de mon pays, pas que je ne l'aime pas c'est seulement que j'aime bien voir de nouvelles choses. Lors de mon séjour a Barcelone, je crois bien aller faire un petit tour en France, juste pour le plaisir d'y aller. Dans les mois suivant ce sera NYC, San Francisco et Las Vegas, j'ai très hâte

Quoi d'autre? Je suis très cooupé au travail, j'ai récemment changé de position au sein de la compagnie. Nouveau travail très ennuyant, je demeure assis à mon bureau et je ne fais rien d'autre que d'entrer des chiffres dans un ordinateur. Mon dieu, qu'est-ce que j'aimerais aller sous-terre au lieu de rester dans mon bureau, pour ceux qui ne le savent pas je travaille dans le domaine minier et j'adore ça. Aussi, la température est à chier depuis un mois ici, c'est probablement une des raisons explicant pourquoi je n'ai pas utilisé ma caméra depuis tout ce temps.

J'ai besoin de nouvelles idées, suggestions?

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The for those who don't know about it, it's my camera, seems to be working fine hopefully for more than a couple weeks, it's better not to be stopping working during my next vacation because I'll just go crazy.

Vacation... I decided last Friday to go to Spain at the end of January, there was a sale on KLM flights so I bought my ticket just like that. It's about 30% off... and I figure by January I'll be going crazy here in northern Ontario and I'll need to go far, far away. I need to go to europe, such a nice place...

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Eh bien... Je ne sais pas pourquoi mais la semaine dernière j'ai passé à un cheveux d'abandonner la photographie, d'arrêter complètement de prendre quelque sorte de photo que ce soit. J'ai eu une "écoeurantite aïgue de mon travail et des gens autour de moi qui se foutent complètement de ce que je fais. Le lendemain matin je me suis dis qu'ils mangent de la je ferai bien ce qui me tente. Je me doute que quelque part dans le monde quelques personnes aiment un peu ce que je fais de temps en temps, pourquoi s'en faire avec ce que les autres pensent, si j'aime ça pourquoi ne pas continuer? Cependant j'ai décidé de prendre quelques semaines de pause, j'ai probablement uniquement besoin de repos de ma vie en générale qui je dois L'avouer à été un peu folle durant les deux derniers mois.

Le pour ceux qui ne le savent pas, ma caméra, semble fonctionner normalement et j'espère que cette fois-ci ce sera pour plus que quelques semaines, elle est mieux de ne pas arrêter de fonctionner durant mes prochaines vacances parce que je vais virer fou si tel est le cas.

Vacances... Vendredi dernier j'ai décidé sur un coup de tête d'aller en Espagne à la fin Janvier, il y avait une vente de sièges avec KLM et je n'ai pas pu résister donc j'ai acheté mon billet à 30% de réduction. Normalement d'ici Janvier je vais être sur le point de devenir fou ici dans le nord de l'Ontario, alors ce sera le moment parfait pour une petite vacance loi, très loin d'ici. J'ai besoin d'aller en europe, c'est tellement un bel endroit.

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What else... oh well haven't been busy lately on DA, simply don't have time. Too many things going on at this point in time in my life. I should post more comments because I know some people really deserve it I hate seeing 10 views and no comments, if you view it put a comment duh! Probably furstration talking right now.

September is here, again, *sigh* soon snow will be back, the only good thing is skiing... Cold wind on my face what a feeling...

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Finalement j'ai reçu mon après bien plus de troubles que je n'avais envisagé, le magasin ayant envoyé la caméra au mauvais endroit... bla, bla... ça pris un mois avant de la ravoir et maintenant je fais le décompte avant qu'elle ne brise à nouveau, je ne ferai tout simplement pas confiance à cette caméra tant qu'elle n'aurai pas pris 10 000 photos sans aucuns problèmes! Pendant ce temps j'ai acheté quelques rouleaux de film que je vais devoir essayer prochainement, Fuji velvia 50, Kodak Portra 800... C'est le temps de faire de l'expérimentation. Je songe même à commencer de développer mes propres rouleaux de film noir et blanc au cours des prochaines semaines. le prix de l'essence ne fait qu'augmenter tout comme le prix du développement des films noir et blanc.

Quoi d'autre... Je n'ai pas vriament été actif dernièrement sur DA, je n'ai simplement pas le temps. Trop de choses se déroulent dans ma vie en ce moment. Je devrais mettre plus de commentaires aussi, parce que certaines personnes le méritent vraiment et je déteste voir des "10 views" sans aucun commentaires, si vous regardez commentez duh! Probablement un peu de frustration qui parle pour moi en ce moment.

Septembre est arrivé, encore *soupir* bientôt la neige sera de retour, la seule bonne chose que cela va emporter c'est le ski... Vent froid sur mon visage, quelle sensation agréable...

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About pictures... Still HATE my new camera or as I call it "The " I bought it two months ago and I already sent it for repairs 2 times, I haven't even taken 1000 pictures with it yet. The worse part, it's the same problem again. Okay it's covered by warranty, but do I want to send it every time I take 500 pictures with it, for repairs... I'll have to argue with Pentax Canada a bit I think if I want to get a new camera. It's kind of frustrating, especially with the cost of those DSLR. It's been 3 weeks and still no news from Pentax or the store, I'm getting more and more frustrated with the situation.

P.S. Am I the only one who thinks the quality of the artwoks on DA is going down?

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Oh mon dieu, nous sommes en train de planifier une journée de fou au Nouveau-Brunswick, nous sommes sensés aller à l'Île-du-Prince-Édouard simplement pour traverser le pont de la confédération qui est à environ 3h de route de l'endroit ou notre réunion se situe. Plus tard dans la semaine, peut-être que nous irons même à Percé pour aller voir le fameux "rocher percé." Si nous faisons tout ce que nous avons prévus, je sens que je vais être très fatigué à mon retour à la maison. Mais c'est agréable... J'aime ce genre de voyage imprévu.

Parlant de photos... Je DÉTESTE toujours ma nouvelle caméra, ou comme je l'appelle affectueusement maintenant "le "Je l'ai acheté il y a deux mois et j'ai du l'envoyuer a deux reprises pour des réparations, je n'ai même pas pris 1000 photos avec elle encore. Le pire là-dedans, c'est le même problème qui s'est répété une deuxième fois. Ok c'est couvert par la garantie, mais est-ce que je veux vraiment l'envoyer se faire réparer à toutes les fois que je prends 500 photos, je ne pense pas... Maintenant je vais entrer dans une partie de bras de fer avec Pentax Canada pour obtenir une nouvelle caméra, je ne fais plus confiance à la mienne. C'est particulièrement frustrant au prix où ces Réflex Numériques coutent! Ça fait maintenant 3 semaines que je n'ai pas eu de nouvelles de Pentax ou du magasin, ça ne fait qu'accroître ma frustration avec toute cette situation.

P.S. Suis-je le seul qui trouve que depuis quelques temps la qualité des oeuvres sur DA diminue?

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About pictures... I now officially HATE my new camera or as I call it "The " I bought it two months ago and I already sent it for repairs 2 times, I haven't even taken 1000 pictures with it yet. The worse part, it's the same problem again. Okay it's covered by warranty, but do I want to send it every time I take 500 pictures with it, for repairs... I'll have to argue with Pentax Canada a bit I think if I want to get a new camera. It's kind of frustrating, especially with the cost of those DSLR.

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Ça ne fait que quelques jours que je suis revenu de vacances et je me sens comme si je voudrais mourrir. Première journée après mon retour j'ai attrapé un très vilain rhume, j'ai même du manquer deux jours au travail Demain je vais y aller même si je suis encore malade, vive les pillules Le prochain voyage se réalisera plus rapidement que prévu c'est à dire dans moins de 3 semaines. Je vais aller au Nouveau-Brunswick pour affaires, cependant je vais avoir tout une journée à moi pour explorer les alentours de Bathurst et espérons le prendre beaucoup de jolies photos.

Parlant de photos... C'est maintenant officiel je DÉTESTE ma nouvelle caméra, ou comme je l'appelle affectueusement maintenant "le "Je l'ai acheté il y a deux mois et j'ai du l'envoyuer a deux reprises pour des réparations, je n'ai même pas pris 1000 photos avec elle encore. Le pire là-dedans, c'est le même problème qui s'est répété une deuxième fois. Ok c'est couvert par la garantie, mais est-ce que je veux vraiment l'envoyer se faire réparer à toutes les fois que je prends 500 photos, je ne pense pas... Maintenant je vais entrer dans une partie de bras de fer avec Pentax Canada pour obtenir une nouvelle caméra, je ne fais plus confiance à la mienne. C'est particulièrement frustrant au prix où ces Réflex Numériques coutent!

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