Sharon and Jacques’ Excellent Blog

I have posted a few more Stampede galleries. Click on the thumbnail to visit a gallery in a new page.

The chuckwagon races were fun to watch even though you only saw the start and finish.

The Grandstand show was really impressive and done by the same guy who does all the choreography for Cirque de Soleil. [...]

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Sharon and I were invited by Karen Brookman to spend a few days at the Calgary Stampede with her and her family and friends. Needless to say, it was a blast. George, Karen’s father, is president and CEO of the Stampede in 2008 and we were given the red carpet treatment. We had great seats, foods [...]

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I’ve uploaded 3 new Angkor Wat related galleries:
Lunch at the Butterfly Garden Restaurant in Siem Reap:
Current Album: 0714 Siem Reap Butterfly Restaurant Images:

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One of the most incredible places we visited in Thailand was Amanpuri Resort. Sharon wrote a blog about it here and I have uploaded the photos that I took.
Current Album: 0729 Amanpuri Images:

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Every year Stephen hosts a party for his friends at his parent’s house in Oakville and for the first time in a long time, we were in the country and able to attend.
The party was a blast. We ate too much, drank too much and laughed all night long.
Here’s the gallery:
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All the old picture galleries have been convereted to use gallery2, the new piece of software I’m using to manage my photographs online.
You can access the new galleries by clicking on PHOTO GALLERIES at the top of the page.
I’ve extolled the virtures of the software below, quite a few of the older galleries are GPS [...]

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I’ve been working behind the scenes converting my photo galleries into the new system on my web site. I’ve converted all the photos and added keywords to about 50% of the pictures. As I install them, the picture galleries will go up and down with unpredictable results.

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I’ve added a gallery from July 3 of a tour of Hanoi City (mostly in the rain as it turns out). The Ho Chi Minh Tomb is incredible but you are not allowed cameras so I was only able to get shots was we walked by to get into the queue. Here’s the gallery:
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I decided I need to understand how to convert pictures from my old gallery system to the new system so spent a few hours playing with tools and techniques figuring out the best way of moving old content over.
The net result is 3 converted galleries all GPS enabled for those birders. If you want to [...]

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I have posted a gallery of pictures from our first day in Hanoi.
Current Album: 0702 1st day in Hanoi Images:

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