http://www.masey.com.au/blog aspiring to inspire before i expire Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:19:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's with a heavy heart that I write this entry as this weekend back home in Brisbane features one of my home town's greatest annual events - "Riverfire". By now, my readers would have caught onto the fact that I have somewhat of a love affair with fireworks - with ... http://www.masey.com.au/blog/index.php/2008/08/brisbane-riverfire-this-weekend/ I haven't really touched on the Beijing Olympics since they started a week or so ago, mainly because my interest and loyalties obviously lie with the Aussie team, and it's difficult to follow their performances from Canada with only Canadian and US coverage available. But there's been a few notable ... http://www.masey.com.au/blog/index.php/2008/08/usain-lightning-bolt-simply-amazing/ It has to be said that Yahoo!'s new Digg clone, "Yahoo! Buzz" is a wee cracker and as of today, it has been opened up to all Yahoo! users for general use. Like other socially ranked news services, Yahoo! Buzz presents the webs most popular news and content items on ... http://www.masey.com.au/blog/index.php/2008/08/yahoo-buzz-opens-up/ Ok, so I'm a little late with this blog post considering my latest web design and development project, "ReedTaylor.ca", launched a few weeks ago now, but it would be remiss of me not to give the ladies (Danielle & Michelle) a bit of a plug to get them underway. Specializing ... http://www.masey.com.au/blog/index.php/2008/08/reedtaylorca-launched/ The streets of Vancouver's West End were today lined with hundreds of spectators who had come out on a beautiful morning to celebrate the blue ribbon event on the "Vancouver Gay Pride Week" calendar - the 2008 Pride Parade. As expected, the parade consisted of a varied array of all ... http://www.masey.com.au/blog/index.php/2008/08/2008-vancouver-pride-parade/ The 2008 Celebration of Light fireworks competition came to a spectacular close tonight with a final barage of pyrotechnic colour celebrating both the 150th Anniversary of British Columbia as well as the efforts of this year's three competitors - Team Canada, Team USA and Team China. I enjoyed the show ... http://www.masey.com.au/blog/index.php/2008/08/2008-celebration-of-light-the-finale/ Well I stand corrected. I was mouthing off all week about how Team China have left me wanting for the past 3 years that they have let their rockets go in the annual "Celebration of Light" International fireworks competition over Vancouver's English Bay. Boy did they make me eat my ... http://www.masey.com.au/blog/index.php/2008/07/2008-celebration-of-light-team-china/ Made the trip this weekend up to beautiful Sun Peaks Resort, about 50km north east of Kamloops here in British Columbia, to help my friends Brent and Sandra celebrate their wedding which comes bit of over a year after their engagement was announced back in February 2007. Making the 5 ... http://www.masey.com.au/blog/index.php/2008/07/brent-sandras-wedding/ It's that time of the year again - definitely one of the highlights of the Summer and of Vancouver's calendar year - the "HSBC Celebration of Light" international fireworks competition. Having had some good results from our shoot from the Burrard Bridge last year, Jen and I decided to make ... http://www.masey.com.au/blog/index.php/2008/07/2008-celebration-of-light-team-canada/ Spent some of this afternoon down on the sun soaked sands of Kitsilano Beach trying out my sparkling new Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8 IS USM lens to see how good it really is. Predictably, the 2008 Corona Open Beach Volleyball Tournament threw up a wealth of great photo opportunities and ... http://www.masey.com.au/blog/index.php/2008/07/2008-corona-open-beach-volleyball/