The alley behind the school where I teach has been getting cleaned up lately. The tenants are changing and the alley is looking a whole lot different.
Tonight, as I was riding down the alley before class, I encountered a new tenant telling the old ‘tenants’ that they could no longer sleep in the entrance way to the building.

The man under the blanket grumbled something at the man.
I don’t think his words were so kind, nore do I think they were his last. 
His choice sleeping area is just left of this, now covered, NoGraffito.

you confuse me, originally uploaded by blackframesyx.

this is the truth.

But I still love you., originally uploaded by blackframesyx.

Sometimes people don’t say the things they mean.
Truth lies in the shadows.

Did they know how the shadow of the fence and the barbed wire would comment back?

“I feel trapped, But I still love you.”

I love moments when random words and light play together nicely.

Danger Bay 10 took place during the long weekend in May, which also happens to coincide with my birthday, May 24th. This a longboarding race that my friend Bricin has hosted in Pender Harbour for the last 10 years.

I raced the first few years. I hurdled myself downhill with minimal equipment on, standing side by side with 3 others making high-speed 90 degree turns while trying not to lose my shit.
This is on the top of one of the more infamous roads on the Sunshine Coast that the riders call “Jake’s Rash”. It’s broken its fair share of bones and shaved off plenty of skin!
This is the last shot I took that weekend. I was just showing my photo partner Loren the wicked road when at the top there were these porta johns or outhouses.

I never would have expected to find a NoGraffito at the top of Jake’s Rash, but I’m happy I did, in more ways than one.

Happy Birth May!, originally uploaded by blackframesyx.

This one is for my daughter, and a little bit for me. Hanna & I share the Month of May for Birthdays. Hanna was born on mother’s day, May 10th, 2009. It changed our lives.

I was born May 24th & I married Taryn who’s birthday is April 30, almost May day. We wed on Friday the 13th of last year. We found out around valentines day of this year that we are expecting our second around Halloween.

I guess I have a thing for Holidays.
Happy birth May to all you other May babies out there. It’s a great month for a bithday.

just like music, originally uploaded by blackframesyx.

My ideas are just like music, there are a lot them that I don’t like the sound of. On the other hand, when good ideas start flowing it’s like good music, and I can’t get enough!
Currently, the music is on loud, and it sounds great!

What sound track do your pictures have?
My ideas are just like music, there are a lot them that I don’t like the sound of. On the other hand, when good ideas start flowing it’s like good music, and I can’t get enough!
Currently, the music is on loud, and it sounds great!

What sound track do your pictures have?

Half way to crazy, originally uploaded by blackframesyx.

Well, in case you readers haven’t read through other social networks…

Taryn & I are expecting our second child.
We seem to be getting a lot of snickers from our friends that currently have two kids. Is this meant to be some sort of hidden warning?

(for Taryn’s full discloser of this news, www.fetuspanda.com)

OLD, originally uploaded by blackframesyx.

I knew that it would eventually happen. Time after all doesn’t slow down or change direction. The other day I was singing into on of my many online accounts and I was welcomed with my age… 37. Then I was going to submit some photos for a competition, however the cut off was 35. Ouch.

GO HUMPING, originally uploaded by blackframesyx.

I don’t usually photograph anything but writing for this project, however, this needed to be shot. I took it on Tuesday. Let’s see what tomorrow brings.

what are you looking at, originally uploaded by blackframesyx.

As a photographer I ask myself this question a lot. Sometimes the subject is obscured and that obscurity is often created by our own lack of vision.