I shot this in between the massive days of rain why had this month. I like the slight blur that the Hipstamatic app added to the shot. For some reason I love the way leafless tree look on “film”. Camera – iPhone App – Hipstamatic Photo Credit © 2004 JP Holecka

It had been raining for days and the fear I was that it was going to dump down the wet stuff for Noah’s second ski lesson at the Grouse Mountain Ski Wee Camp. As luck would have it the skies opened up and the sun peaked out just in time for his day on the [...]

This was shot early morning in the Spanish town of Cadaques near the French border. The picturesque town is one where Dali used to vacation as a boy and then later on returned and painted many non-surreal paintings. This is where we spent our last days on our trek through Spain and can’t recommend it [...]

I was reading about tomorrow’s Polar Bear swim here in the frigid waters of Vancouver and that got me remembering this shot I took the other year in the Mediterranean. I like this shot because of the moment that was captured between this man and oblivious woman. Checking out the other gender in other countries [...]

I shot this photo around this time last year. It had been just as cold and then wham! It dumped a huge amount of snow on us. I walked down the just as the snow had finished and snapped this. It’s actually a composite of a few different exposures. Not HDR but layered and manually [...]

After the day spent at the Reifel Migratory Bird Sanctuary wandering around enjoying mothers day in the country we made our way over to Commercial Drive for a friends art show opening. After the show Denise took Noah to the playground and I made my pilgrimage to the Santa Barbara Deli. It is by far [...]

On my way to pick up groceries yesterday afternoon I spotted this relic from the past. It’s a mid 70′s Ford Thunderbird that really shows the true essence of a bloated ara. Big hair, bigger ties and rediculasly big cars were the order of the day. I have a fondess of that time, but no [...]

This is from my very first trip to Europe in 1991. I left just before Nirvana broke and when Michael Jackson was still believed to be just a bit odd and not the crazy child hanging out of the window [alleged] pedophile that he became. Yes I was off to hostel hop via Eurorail pass and an erasable pen [...]

This is not the museum that we thought we had tickets for but it was amazing none the less. This is a shot of The Dali Theatre Museum in Figueres. Not the Casa-Museu Salvador Dalí de Portlligat as we had thought when we bought the tickets online many months earlier! There are about an hour apart from [...]

This was photo was shot on a road trip that the three of us took through eastern Washington, Oregon and Northern California in the spring of 2004. It was Easter and both Denise and I were a little stir crazy from the long winter shut indoors figuring out how to be parents with and infant child. We blasted south and [...]