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A La Playa

December 15, 2011 – 8:03 pm | 27 Comments

We woke up this morn­ing dazed and con­fused. Why am I not cold? Who are these peo­ple singing drunk­enly in Span­ish? Why is this lady knock­ing at the door ask­ing if we want la limpieza?
Oh right. Cancún.

Fall Sky

November 30, 2011 – 8:15 am | 24 Comments

Between adjust­ing the clock back­ward and the short late fall days, the sun now sets around 4:30 p.m. The down­sides are obvi­ous: every­one feels tired and it’s hard to go back home in the dark. But on the plus side, we reg­u­larly get to see won­der­ful sunsets.

In The Woods

November 21, 2011 – 8:10 am | 18 Comments

On the week­end of Novem­ber 11, I packed a small bag, left my com­puter and my city life behind and headed to Bour­get, a small vil­lage in East­ern Ontario. It only took a forty-minute drive to get there but as soon as we hit Vars, we entered another world of farms, straight roads and no traf­fic. Wel­come to the countryside.

After The Rain

October 31, 2011 – 8:15 am | 19 Comments

The other day was one of these blah days. I was soaked by the time I got home. I ditched my bag on the floor and grabbed the cam­era with my favourite prime lens for a quick photo shoot—I wasn’t going to get any wetter.

Ottawa Zombie Walk

October 24, 2011 – 8:00 am | 27 Comments

Soon, a long horde of newly-deads, includ­ing Colonel Khadafy, marched down Saint Patrick Street, block­ing the traf­fic and scar­ing passer-by. Ottawa cit­i­zens stood no chance against the zom­bies, lurch­ing and groan­ing for brains. The police could barely con­tain the mad­ness. I stood on the side, try­ing to doc­u­ment the apoc­a­lyp­tic inva­sion. I risked my life for these pictures.

Ogdensburg, NY State

October 22, 2011 – 8:10 am | 28 Comments

Dur­ing the Thanks­giv­ing long week­end, we enjoyed amaz­ingly hot weather and we decided to spend the day in Ogdens­burg, NY State. We always pass through the town but never really stopped to appre­ci­ate it. Time to do it jus­tice under a beau­ti­ful Indian sum­mer sun.

Rideau Hall

October 19, 2011 – 8:15 am | 23 Comments

Weather-permitting, I’m still look­ing for beau­ti­ful fall scener­ies in Ottawa—this is the perks of liv­ing in the region! After Vin­cent Massey Park, I headed to Rideau Hall, the offi­cial res­i­dence of the Gov­er­nor Gen­eral of …

Occupy Ottawa

October 17, 2011 – 8:00 am | 14 Comments

Last Sat­ur­day began “Occupy Ottawa”, a move­ment mod­elled on the Occupy Wall Street demon­stra­tions in New York. Lots of peo­ple showed up at Con­fed­er­a­tion Park despite the cold and the rain and it was very inter­est­ing to watch. I stayed there most of the after­noon for the Gen­eral Assem­bly dur­ing which were voted the basics of the move­ment (where, why, how etc.).