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It's been a week now since Sasquatch ended and we began our journey back to Calgary and I've finally finished picking through about six hundred photos to find my favourites to show you. I had an amazing time and plan on returning next year, if you haven't ever been to Sasquatch then I urge you to check it out. The people there are great, the scenery is unbelievable, and just the overall atmosphere of the festival is incredible. 

I'll post a good friends account of what happened last year when we attempted Sasquatch, long story short it was an amazing failure.

Hundreds of dollars are spent preparing for the trip. I buy new shorts. Levin buys a small folding table. We make countless lists. A master list, then one for each of us, items we are specifically responsible for. A driving itinerary. A grocery list. A To Do list. These couple days before takeoff are full of so many things. I find waterproof matches in the garage. How could we not have thought of this? We need this. Levin finds a vinyl poncho in his storage unit. Perfect. We are boy scouts. We are always prepared. We have a map. No, not a map, an Atlas. Important pages are dog-eared. I will be the greatest co-pilot the world has ever seen.

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I've decided to jump on the Photo a Day bandwagon and added a new 365 section to the site. I'll be uploading a new photo each day for a year, most will come straight from my iPhone with the odd one here and there taken by either my LX3 or D300s.  

Levin 

Made another trip to The Calgary Zoo and ended up taking more video footage than I did photos. New photo's of the trip will be posted here and here in the next couple of days.

Click here to watch the video in HD!

I recently made a trip The Glenbow Museum here in Calgary and once again brought along my 50mm 1.4 lens and left it at 1.4. It was the last day of the Real Life exhibit by Ron Mueck and Guy Ben-Ner which included a video shot entirely in an Ikea and the main attraction, three extremely realistic sculptures of an old woman in bed, a newborn baby, and a baby's head. The amount of realism in the three was incredible but the scale of these sculptures was just as fascinating, the old woman was roughly the size of an infant, the newborn baby was about 12 feet long and the baby's head was 9 feet high!

We decided to leave the Real Life exhibit for last and ended up spending a lot of time in the Asia exhibit. I hadn't been to the Glenbow since junior high and when we finally finished exploring every section three hours had flown by and it was finally time to see the Real Life exhibit we had left for last. Claire and I headed back down to the second floor and just before entering the exhibit I saw the dreaded "No Photos Allowed" sign. I had been looking forward to getting tons of photos of these sculptures all day and wasn't leaving without getting some sort of footage of these amazing sculptures. So with my camera at my hip I began recording a video and managed to get some pretty bad footage of the exhibit.

Head over here to watch it in HD but don't blame me if you get motion sick. 

You can find all of the photo's I took of the trip either here in the Photography section or check out my flickr stream. 

Levin