Posts Tagged ‘Fort McMurray’

Procrastination is the lame, but I'll get into that later.

Procrastination is the lame, but I’ll get into that later.

I forgot, but the dog ate my homework… Err… Anyway, glad I’m out of school, there were only so many times I would use those lines, although they never worked. I have such a huge backlog of images that I’ve neglected to post. Each day I kept adding more photos and each day the task [...]

Local Elementary School Talent Show

Local Elementary School Talent Show

It has been a busy few weeks, from working full-time at the day job, to freelancing, designing, blogging and helping others with their blogs. Okay “from and to” sentence structures weren’t ready for me, its okay I give myself a pass for working while my brain is in mush mode. So back to what I [...]

Running for Gear to Fort Chip.

Running for Gear to Fort Chip.

On March 2nd 2010, five runners from Fort McMurray will run the 300 kilometers to Fort Chipowyn, Alberta to raise money for equipment for Fort Chip. These images were taken during a training session they did on the frozen Athabasca River in Fort McMurray.  The trainers will take 3 to 5 days to run the 300 kilometers. [...]


Preston Manning Lecture at Keyano College

Preston Manning Lecture at Keyano College

Last week Lindsey was invited to attend a lecture at Keyano College and she asked me to tag along. The lecturer was Preston Manning, a member of the Conservative Party, and he was here to lecture about Alberta, its oil industry, elections and what grade he gave to Alberta and its handling of the environment [...]

Edmonton: There back and there again.

Edmonton: There back and there again.

So one thing you will notice a lot from my posts is that we go to Edmonton a lot.  Well, yes its true we do.  There really isn’t anywhere else to go and so that takes us to another installment of Edmonton: There back and there again… So a few weeks ago Lindsey, Maria and [...]

Northern Offroad Society

Northern Offroad Society

Last week I had the pleasure of photographing The Northern Offroad Society for Lindsey’s column in The Fort McMurray Today. To meet the club we had to drive to the Rotary Recreational Area and take a snow covered road to the location in which we were going to meet Shane Ganong the president of The [...]


Engineers serve up table tennis tourney

Engineers serve up table tennis tourney

The Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta (APEGGA) and Fort McMurray Table Tennis Club (FMTTC) held a second annual ping pong tournament in the little gym of Composite High School on King St. Registration for the tournament started at 7 p.m. and the warm-up promptly began at 7:15 p.m. The tournament was [...]

Moxie's Grill

Moxie's Grill

A few weeks ago on a Sunday, me, my mom, Maria and Lindsey all went to Moxie’s Grill.  It is another restaurant in Fort McMurray that is somewhat nice.  It has a nice atmosphere but reminded me of Longhorns in Atlanta.  While the food was so-so, the dessert was amazing. Oh and Maria was making [...]

Earl's Restaurant

Earl's Restaurant

A few weeks ago Me, Lindsey, Maria and her friend Ronald all went to The Earl.  The Earl is a restaurant chain in Canada and they serve a variety of different foods. This was the first time we went to a restaurant in Fort McMurray and after hearing all the time from Maria about the [...]


Mr. Rod: Driving Diversified

Mr. Rod: Driving Diversified

This is one of my older entries that I forgot to put up.  In fact I thought that I had already posted this one. A few days after we arrived to Fort McMurray, I was asked by my dad to photograph a friend of his for his ailing brother.  Well this friend happen to be [...]

At the Lake with Cubans

At the Lake with Cubans

So on Labor Day me, Maria and Lindsey decided to take a trip to Gregoire Lake in Fort McMurray.  It is about 20 minutes from where we live and it was a very nice place but before going to the lake we decided to get a Cuban Cigar.  Seeing as how it is illegal in [...]