Cold

OK that's enough already! I don't mind a few days here and there that are cold but this is nuts. We never get it this cold for this long. After the pipes froze to the washing machine and having to wait three days before they were working again. Do you know how much laundry piles up with almost 4 year old twins? A LOT!!! It has been too cold to take the boys sledding. It has been too cold for them to play outside so we have been stuck inside. HEELLLPPPP And to top it off there is no indication in the forecast when this will end. Hopefully it gets better by Christmas so that the boys can see Grandma and Pappa for Christmas. Hope, pray, cross fingers, you know all that stuff!!

Weekend

What a weekend it was. After getting a bit of a blizzard on Friday night, I headed down to do Pets with Santa thinking that no one was crazy enough to go out in these conditions. After a few cancellations and postponements a few started to come in. We had 12 who had booked a time and ended up with 26 getting photographs taken.Then when I got home from that it was time to take my boys out to play in the snow for a while. After coming in and getting them undressed I discovered some spots on Williams upper body. He has very sensitive skin so I was unsure what it could be but gave him a bath and lathered him up with some cream. Sunday morning William woke up with a lot more spots and he was itchy. Thinking it might be Chicken Pox I took him to emerg where it was confirmed that is what he had. So there was half of Sunday, the rest of the day I put together new beds for them. They are bunk beds that will be separate until they are about six.
Kind of funny that they both wanted to sleep in the same bed. Oh yeah I am laughing right now!

Pets

This Saturday, December 13th I will be photographing Pets with Santa at Top Crop in Kimberley. If you haven't booked a time yet call Top Crop and set one up now! Last time I checked it was filling up quickly. It is always an adventure in photographic skills to have all the animals looking at the camera at the same time without being scared of Santa. Sort of like photographing kids with Santa except you can sometimes reason with kids. It is a very good fundraiser as all of the proceeds go to the local SPCA. That's right, I do this without compensation! But it is a good cause. More later, if I survive :)

2009 Events

Below is a list of events that Kimberley's Photo West intends to photograph in 2009, if you would like your event to be added to this list please let us know well in advance.

February 03 to 06--IPC NorAm Cup--Kimberley Ski Hill--Disabled Skiing
March 21--Bavarian Iron Legs--Kimberley Ski Hill--Combo Race
April 04 to 05--Spring Splash--Kimberley Ski Hill--Ski Hill Closing
April 11--Powder Pedal Paddle Relay Race--Fernie--Relay Race
June 13 to 14--Wasa Lake Triathlon--Wasa Lake--Triathlon
June 19 to 21--Sam Steele Days Slo-Pitch Tournament--Cranbrook--Slo-Pitch
July 06 to 11--KIOTAC--Kimberley--Accordian
July 17 to 19--Julyfest Soccer Tournament--Kimberley--Soccer
July 17 to 19--Canadian Bocci Championships--Kimberley--Bocci
July 19--Extreme Skateboard Race--Kimberley--Skateboard
August 10--Lakeside Event--Invermere--Handgliding
August 14 to 16--Cranbrook Pro Rodeo--Cranbrook--Rodeo
August 21 to 23--Championship Dog Show--Fort Steele--Dog Show
August 29 to 30--International Music & Dance Festival--Kimberley--Music & Dance
September 21--Cranbrook Summer Sound--Cranbrook--Music

As mentioned above if you would like to add your event to our coverage please contact us as soon as possible.

Event

Kimberley's Photo West is starting to offer event photography. Now I guess everything that happens that requires photography could be called an event. Therefore weddings are an event, family portraits are an event, unveiling a new commercial product is an event, sporting tournaments are an event. So I guess what I am saying is that Kimberley's Photo West is an event photographer. No matter if you are hosting a sporting event, having a wedding next year, need professional photographs of your new product for advertising, we are your choice. As such we have set up a separate blog dealing with just event photography here. Have a look as we will be updating this spot with upcoming events. Want to add your event to our coverage then drop us a line.

Volleyball epilogue

Well I am now almost recovered from last weekends volleyball Provincials and it was a lot of work, a lot of hours, and not many orders on site. Hopefully the on line orders will make up for it. There were three of us photographing and one working the computers.
It was definitely a learning experience and there are a few things that we would change next time. It was fun!

Volleyball

This weekend is the British Columbia High School Junior Volleyball Provincials being held in Cranbrook. Myself along with two other photographers and one computer desk person will be photographing, selling, and printing photographs for participants and parents. There are twelve teams involved and should be a very, very busy weekend. One of the main challenges will be cataloguing and organizing all of these images in a way that searching for images will be smooth. We have worked out a work flow that should make this all happen very easily, as I hold my breath. Hopefully it is also a fun weekend. Stay tuned.