All these music festivals Andrea and I have gone to for the past few years (Shelter Valley Folk Festival in particular) have rekindled an interest in re-learning to play an instrument. In my youth I took lessons on the recorder, then the flute. I played cornet and euphonium in a marching band too. Later in […]
Author: Peter Kraiker
Clearing My Backlog Part 3 – CX Nats
I posted some of these photos to Facebook and some others are online at PedalMag.com… this is just me getting around to having my blog up to date too. The Canadian national cyclo-cross championships held at the Forks in Winnipeg were amazing. The organizers did an outstanding job and deserve full marks. It was a […]
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Clearing My Backlog Part 2 – Down Time
As my cycling photography has gotten quiet at the end of the season I’ve been picking what will fill my calendar between this and that. Seems there are lots of options for me to pick from. And I think I’ve chosen well. I still have a few major events to cover in the near future […]
Clearing My Backlog Part 1- A Warm Winter Spot
While I’ve been totally distracted with all the technology issues I’ve fallen behind in my blog… so let me try to start doing a little catchup with this entry. Putting Babe In Storage I had planned on taking my camper to the same place she spent last winter in until a delightful opportunity came along. […]
Blog Migration
As a result of the outage I had and all the DNS configuration changes I had to make I also looked into switching my blog onto something I had more control over… and I’m happy to report that I’m close to finished the move. The original content is now here and I’ve switched to using […]
I Can See My Desk
I’ve wanted to expand my desk for a while and have had a piece of wood lined up to do it with. I finally got around to cleaning up all my paperwork (my business year-end prompted that!) and I took that opportunity to reconfigure my desk. I certainly like it! And hopefully I’ll keep it […]
Back Online
Sorry for being offline folks… the company I’ve been using to host my photography site at KraikerPhoto.com has been having a string of problems. It resulted in my losing my site and the 6 years of accumulated photographs I had on it. It also took out all of my main email accounts and the name […]
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The Weekend in Video
I mentioned that I used 2 different camera on the weekend in yesterday’s post. I did in fact use another one… the GoPro Hero3 that I’ve started carrying around. So I have 2 videos which line up with the two galleries. The first one from the Hardwood Singletrack Challenge is set to the music of […]
MTB and CX all in the same weekend
Two days, two different races. And I used two different cameras to test all my gear out ahead of the upcoming Canadian Cyclocross National Championships in Winnipeg. For the first race, a mountain bike event called the Singletrack Challenge held at Hardwood Hills north of Toronto, I only used my 7D and primarily with the […]
Magnolia Fruit
I had no idea that magnolia trees bore fruit as I’d never seen one before. But sure enough they do! Here’s a description from the U.S. National Arboretum: Although it may look like a cone, it is actually an aggregate fruit that is woody. This flowering structure has changed little over millions of years. Magnolias […]