This weekend me and my wife went geocaching along the coast of Shediac and Cap Pele. It was great fun. My best friend Winston came along for the search.

My favorite thing about geocaching; discovering great sceneries.

One of the caches was hidden in an old man’s yard. His name is Desirée Goguen and he is 84 years old. He invited us into his home to see his collection of toy monkeys. He has 4153 monkeys displayed throughout the house.

Caches are not always easy to find. Even with a GPS.

Our stay at the Catalonia Bavaro hotel was amazing. Awesome beach, great food and good times. I would go back any day. Hope you enjoy the video!

Click here to see the album with all my favorite pictures. The best ones are show below:

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I knew there was a difference between a 1.6 crop (like the 40D) and a full frame sensor but I was still blown away by the margin. Especially with my 16-35mm wide lens. Simply put, cameras with a cropped sensor (most DSLR’s) don’t capture the full width of EF lenses. There are a few reasons for DSLR cameras to have a smaller sensor. Price and size are the two main factors why the market is mostly cropped sensor bodies. Cameras with a full frame sensor are usually bigger, heavier and MUCH more expensive.

The following picture shows the difference between crop and full frame. It also shows why a full frame camera would be useless with an EF-S lens. From that same picture you might also say that an EF lens would be useless with a crop camera but that’s debatable; EF lenses are generally higher quality and much sharper so you still benefit by using them on any camera.

So once I get my hands on the Canon 5D Mark II, I’ll be able to take full advantage of my 16-35mm and 70-200mm lense. Not to mention that it also has full HD video capability. Here’s a nice little review from people who use the 5D:

I thought I would share a few pictures of the building that I took while shooting a wedding a few months ago.

There are pictures of the destruction in the Times & Transcript article here: http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/front/article/939464

One of my pictures was posted in a National Post article:

40 Striking High Resolution Photography Wallpapers From National Geographic

Posted on 04. Jan, 2010 by admin in Inspiration

We love desktop wallpapers and a desktop without beautiful wallpaper stinks. Therefore today i have collected 40 striking high resolution photography wallpapers from National Geographic. I tried to pick only best ones and hopefully you will like them too.

Do share with us the wallpaper you like the most.

1. King Penguins Swimming

2. Norris Geyser Basin, Wyoming

3. Snowy Twilight

4. Desert Sunset, Giza, Egypt, 1981

5. Manta Rays, Hanifaru Bay, Maldives

6. Dune Dancer

7. Bee-Eater in Flight

8. Horse Scratching, Canada

9. Shenandoah Moon

10. Norris Geyser Basin, Wyoming

11. Wire Coral, Suruga Bay

12. King Penguins in Moonlight

13. Dragon Dance

14. Turkish Wheat Field

15. Garífuna Boat, Dangriga, Belize, 2001

16. North Dakota Wind Farm

17. Henna-Painted Hands

18. White Dwarf Star Spirals

19. Tiger Cub Close-Up

20. Alluvial Fan, Alaska

21. Aurora Borealis, Twilight

22. Frog on Lily Pad

23. Bacteria, New Zealand

24. Rainbow Over Baobab Tree

25. Prickly Pear Cactus

26. Neglected Eighty-Eight Butterfly

27. Miami: MacArthur Causeway Bridge

28. Bora Bora Palm, French Polynesia, 1996

29. Vanu Levu Island, Fiji, 1993

30. Blue Hole and Diver, Ichetucknee Springs, Florida, 1999

31. Snoqualmie Falls, Washington

32. Lightning at Huntington Beach, Ohio

33. Pearl Station and Reef, French Polynesia, 1996

34. Dominica, 1996

35. Pair of Stingrays

36. Twin Bolts of Lightning, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 2006

37. Havasu Creek Waterfall, Arizona

38. Swans in Flight, Washington

39. Gray Reef Shark, Kingman Reef

40. Chicago City Lights

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Now imagine if your subject was the Queen of England! Photographer Annie Leibovitz, who photographed more celebrities and politicians than anybody else, got the opportunity to do it. Annie isn’t one to be intimidated by such a challenge. She’s got so much experience and such a good reputation. She has the ability to make her subjects trust her talent.

Shortly after I watched that video, I read this paragraph from Annie’s wikipedia article that I thought should be mentioned:

In 2007, The BBC misrepresented a portrait shooting by Leibovitz of Queen Elizabeth II to take the queen’s official picture for her state visit to Virginia. This was filmed for the BBC documentary A Year with the Queen. A promotional trailer for the film showed the Queen reacting angrily to Leibovitz’s suggestion (“less dressy”) that she remove her tiara, then a scene of the Queen walking down a corridor, telling an aide “I’m not changing anything. I’ve had enough dressing like this, thank you very much.”[12] The BBC later apologised and admitted that the sequence of events had been misrepresented, as the Queen was in fact walking to the sitting in the second scene.[13] This led to a BBC scandal and a shake-up of ethics training. See The Tiaragate Affair.

Maurice decided that he would try to help with the use of the activity he knows best; photography.

By Patrick Arseneau

It didn’t take long to find out it wasn’t a horse. It was a young moose. Apparently it’s not unusual for mooses to wander in urban areas to escape mosquitoes this time of the year. Not sure how it managed to walk through the residential area and traffic to end up here but it seemed pretty content and happy to be there.

I learned from other people in the neighborhood that the moose had been there all afternoon and it didn’t seem to want to leave. There was a report about it on the radio this morning: “People be advised that if you encounter a moose please be careful, don’t get too close, and do NOT alert the animal or try to scare it.”

See more pictures (larger version) here