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The Monday posts have been successful in making me use my camera in situations where I woudn’t usually think so, which is great.  This is why I implemented these posts in the first place.  Sure, the photos aren’t always technically good, and most are even boring, but like I said when I started, I’m treating this place as a visual diary.

Homemade pizza is one of my favorite new things to make.  I’m not quite to the point where I’m making the crust (yet), but the results are absolutely delicious.  I really have no experience cooking and I’m making it a priority of mine this year to explore that a bit, and get better, and more acquainted with food prep/selection/etc.  If you have any good blogs/websites for me to check out, please list them in the comments, I know there are a ton out there so I’m looking forward to the adventure (I’m calling food an adventure?  ugh)

fresh basil/kalamata olives/red onions/red hot peppers something/hot sopraseta/grn peppers/red peppers/mushrooms/garlic/mmmmmm..

half tomato half pesto

voila.

On the weekend Ross and Sterling came over for shisha and hotdogs, a real Canadian staple.  Sterling and I absolutely fell in love with shisha during our respective trips to India.  It’s a tobacco-free water pipe, with hundreds of different flavors, and countless different prep methods to make for different flavors and smoking experiences.  He bought his when he was in Egypt, and it has taken part in many good nights.  The best place in Edmonton to try shisha is Habesha, on 118ave and 95st.  It’s probably the nicest building in the area so don’t let 118 ave scare you off.  Sammy is the owner and main waiter, and he is the most generous and gracious host ever, he is just awesome.  It’s got great Ethiopian/Eritrian food, and as of March 1, is even open for lunch buffet.

GUNS WERE ONLY FOR POSING PURPOSES(maybe)

room with a view.

I’ve been having a good time exploring all the different delicious beers available at DeVine Wines. The Hitachino Nest Beer White Ale is a heavy favorite so far, it is wicked good.

Hasselblad love.

I also had the pleasure this week of meeting fellow mfj’er Harvey Miedreich at Vistek.  His 100 People project is one of the things on here I always make sure to check out, it’s nice to see the interview/photo format instead of the standard portrait photos you see all over.  Another funny part to this story, I got an email the next day from someone from Vistek head office in Toronto, letting me know that people have been Twittering about me, and that that’s exactly the type of feedback that they want.  Thanks for mentioning me Harvey, I don’t have Twitter, so I can’t link to it or anything, but I thought that was funny.  Apparently, her job is just looking online for mentions of Vistek on Twitter/Facebook/blogs/whatever, what a weird world we’re living in.

Music this week: Joanna Newsom’s new one, Have one on Me, and The Very Best’s Warm Heart of Africa mixtape.  Check out an awesome performance by Joanna on Fallon last night below.  I have an absolutely unjustifyable crush on her, almost to the point of obsession.  She is so adorable, and her voice is literally perfect, I can’t get enough.  This video is a bit weird.. she looks very strange while singing, which I didn’t expect.  I wish she would stop doing the “talk out the side of my mouth, I’m a pirate” thing, but she’s WAY too adorable to be doing anything controved so I’m sure it’s honest <3

PS: a great website for anyone who uses Flickr to host photos:  http://www.quickrpickr.com - It lets you put in your username, and it brings up your photos, and lets you create [IMG] tags, or HTML tags for website use.  It’s a great way to save time, without having to copy and paste a million links.

The Blades are one of the top teams in the league.. we kept up, even led 3-0 at one point, but it didn’t last.

Today I kind of peeked into the space of Vanguard Works, in my building, and it looks REALLY cool.  I’m going to contact them this week and see if they’ll let me shoot it. 

Mar 6 2010 - Saskatoon Blades v Edmonton Oil Kings - Images by Dylan Lynch

Got the film back from the Mamiya 7 rolls that I shot during this video. 

Color balance was a little wacky because I shot everything underexpeosed by accident, doh.

Welcome to the second installment of Monday Misc :)

It was a weekend full of celebrating Canadian gold medal domination, specifically the obvious highlight Sunday gold medal CAN-USA hockey game.  What an awesome way to finish off the Olympics!  I’ll be honest, I wasn’t super confident going into the final game, I was scared that Miller was going to steal it for the USA, but Canada came through and finished it how it was supposed to be finished, with our country on top. 

Not a lot of stuff to share this week, just some playing around the house with a few cameras.  I shot two rolls of color neg on my Mamiya 7, and one roll of 35mm on my Nikon S2 that I’ll be developing tonight.  Hopefully the Mamiya stuff will be scanned early this week, stay tuned for that.

First up, a few photos from my living room, just playing with the hasselblad waist level finder, and taking film out of the S2, nothing groundbreaking, but decided to take pics anyway:

When I’m REALLY bored, I’ll sometimes even take a self-portrait.  Holy cow I needed to shave (Got that done yesterday):

The cost of Canadian gold:

And it doesn’t stop there:

There’s nothing wrong with being drunk from 9am-1am, right?

….right?

My row of coats that I haven’t been having to use because the weather is BEAUTIFUL lately:

Check out a great gallery of photos from the gold medal final at the IIHF’s website, here.

Have a great week everyone :)

The four win streak is over, we were completely dominated, outscored 4-0 and outshot 53-21.  The lights weren’t working like they should, and I had awful signal everywhere in the arena except for the TV riser.  This meant lots of work for the Nikon 200-400 f/4.  Sometimes those games are nice, they’re so relaxed because you just sit in one spot.  The downside is that you rarely get something truly special form the TV spot, everything looks so “regular”.  The upside:  You see everything, you’re never not in the right spot.  I usually shoot half a period from here, the last 10mins of the game, so that I can get the winning goal.  This game, however, I spent two whole periods. 

Luckily, the game ended with 7 mins to go in the CAN-SLO game.. it was not a confidence inspiring 7 mins to watch.. Canada looked like they were sitting back, and Slovakia really made us work for it.  We have to play WAY better against the Americans or we’re going to get embarrassed.  Good luck to all the shooters there, what an amazing experience it must be to photograph an Olympic final, especially a CAN-USA showdown.

Feb 26 2010 - Kelowna Rockets v Edmonton Oil Kings - Images by Dylan Lynch

Not exactly what we were expecting.  I think one of the holders is screwed because both of the REALLY off ones were from the same holder.  Anyway, I’ll post them because I said I would.  These were the shots taken while I was shooting most of this post.

All shots were taken and composed by Carolyn Brown, I was just the muscle ;)  Check out Carolyn’s Flickr here, and maybe she’ll post more often.

Kyle Sanborn just finished editing the footage of us shooting the buildings around town recently.  I can’t believe the job he did with such minimal effort, in such little time, it’s awesome.  Kyle is in the process of building his website and portfolio, when it’s out it should be bonkers.  He’s got a RED camera on the way, and a rad lens to put on it.. once he gets ahold of everything he’s gonna be unstoppable! (is that enough sucking up, Kyle?) This video shows Keagan Brooks and myself around town shooting, for stills, check this post.  He’s manning the 5d2 with 24 t/s, and I shot a few rolls on the Mamiya 7 (should have those negs back by Tuesday, I hope.)

Anyway, on with the show:

The Visual Dynamic promo 1 from Dylan Lynch on Vimeo.  Filmed and cut by Kyle Sanborn.

For HD and way bigger size, click the link ^

We went out for a few hours on Sunday to beef up our architectural portfolio for The Visual Dynamic.  Everything was taken on a Canon 5D mkii with Canon 24 t/s lens.  Architectural photography is great because it really causes you to pay very close attention to small details.  Lines, viewing perspectives, clutter, everything is make or break when it comes to a good photo.  It reminds me a bit of shooting film, just because it really takes time and attention.  That is one of the reasons I love shooting film, the whole process is very hands on and meticulous. We’re making a big push towards architecture for the summer, that’s what we want to be shooting eventually.  It’s hard to get in to, but the pay off would be incredible, especially if you get to work for a big company, with interesting projects (Hellooooo Dub Architects!)

Perhaps the most exciting part is the fact that local cinematographer extraordinaire, Kyle Sanborn, followed us around all day taking video of the process.  Reviewing the video on his video camera was more exciting that seeing our shots!  It’s really neat to see, and it’s completely new to me, video has definitely got my interest.  It’s kind of like when you’re new at photography.. and you get REALLY excited about the shot of a row of parking meters, where one is in focus while the other ones are all blurry, because you shot at f/1.8 on your new 50mm lens.  It makes everything new and exciting again, and I want to work with it more.

Grant MacEwan City Center Campus:

Edmonton Expo Center at Northlands: 7th Street Lofts (My building, and Dub Architects building.. does anyone know them? Do they need shooters? Please?): 

One thing I wanted to make sure of when I started this blog was that I didn’t post any material from pre-2010 (Posting old stuff is kind of a cop-out, IMO). I wanted to make sure that everything I posted was relevant and new, and I’ve been successful so far, but it’s really a challenge! It has definitely been a slight motivation to take my camera more places, and to actually develop the film I shoot, I hope it’s worth the occassional read :) Can’t wait to see more and more people signing up for myfotojournal, it’s really a great platform.

Every Monday from now on, I’m going to use as a day to dump all the photos that aren’t important enough to be their own post.  These will likely include iPhone stuff, behind the scenes stuff, and other miscellaneous shots from the previous week.  We’ll call Monday Misc. my weekly visual diary.

Carolyn lines up a shot using my Cambo SC 4x5 camera outside on the patio

Hoping to have this 4x5 scanned early this week.

Her shirt reminds me of the Hudson’s Bay company blankets, it’s so cool.

More lining up shots, this time on 104ave in front of MacEwan.

Delicious lunch consisting of: Frozen grapes and Rogue Juniper Pale Ale, with a side of Sagmeister.

This shirt?  Don’t like it so much, it fits like a changing bag.

A friend told me she was afraid of heights, so I showed her where I work from..

Isn’t she beautiful?  The camera of course ;)  Nikon S2 with 5cm f/1.4 lens, it’s for sale if anyone wants it.  $600, that’s a smokin deal.

A ***delicious*** meal with Carolyn.  First time I’ve ever made pizza at home and it was awesome.  Pesto, fresh basil, hot sopprasetta, kalamata olives, tomatoes, mozza and feta.  Effing incredible.

So there you go, version one of a hopefully continuing “Monday Misc.” post.

A 4-1 Oil Kings win!  Was a great game.  Lots more fresh stuff coming soon, I’ll post it as soon as I can!

Feb 19 2010 - Oil Kings v Hurricanes - Images by Dylan Lynch