Matt-Gibson.org » Photography http://www.matt-gibson.org Adventure Travel and Sport Destinations, Lessons, and Blog Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:35:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Photo: 360 Degree Panorama of Kootenay Lake http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/07/photo-360-degree-panorama-of-kootenay-lake/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/07/photo-360-degree-panorama-of-kootenay-lake/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:39:47 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=3978

The other day I paddled a kayak out into the middle of Kootenay Lake to shoot this 360 degree panorama.



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]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/07/photo-360-degree-panorama-of-kootenay-lake/feed/ 4 16 Photos of the Vancouver Canucks Riots http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/06/16-photos-of-the-vancouver-canucks-riots/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/06/16-photos-of-the-vancouver-canucks-riots/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:01:51 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=3645 When Vancouver lost the Stanley Cup playoffs fans took to the streets and started flipping and burning cars and looting department stores. If you need photos, a story, or an interview about the riots contact me via email, on Facebook, or on Twitter.

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See more pictures in my Flickr photostream.

Read my first-hand account of the riot on the Huffington Post.

Update!

See the girl in orange smash a cop car with a piece of wood and then light it on fire in this video. That starts at 6:57. She has already been identified numerous times in the comments on the video (and the title of it).

I’m also in the video a few time around 4:48, 6:03, 6:15, and 6:32, but just for a few seconds each time.

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/06/16-photos-of-the-vancouver-canucks-riots/feed/ 45 Me and My Bro in the Snowboard Park http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/04/me-and-my-bro-in-the-snowboard-park/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/04/me-and-my-bro-in-the-snowboard-park/#comments Sat, 23 Apr 2011 04:37:17 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=3104 My brother and I both started skiing at the age of 3. When I was 12 and he was 15 we both started snowboarding. The first couple of years we snowboarded together, but in our teens we began to hang out in different circles and rarely went to the ski hill together. The last time I spent a good day snowboarding with my brother was probably when I was 16, which was 16 years ago.

Today, we went up to the local hill, which is closed for the season, and hiked the park and had our first good day snowboarding together in over a decade. I was rusty, having strapped on a board only a handful of times since moving abroad six years ago. He, on the other hand, has not missed a season since we were three, which would mean that, at 35, he has skied or snowboarded for about 32 straight seasons.

We only had about two hours in the park to build and session a couple of jumps and a rail, but we made the most of it, as you can see in the pictures below.

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/04/me-and-my-bro-in-the-snowboard-park/feed/ 6 The Best of My Borneo Wildlife Photography: Pygmy Elephants, Orangutans, and Proboscis Monkeys http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-best-of-my-borneo-wildlife-photography-pygmy-elephants-orangoutangs-and-probloscis-monkeys/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-best-of-my-borneo-wildlife-photography-pygmy-elephants-orangoutangs-and-probloscis-monkeys/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:24:18 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=2841 Last month I went to Borneo to photograph the island’s most exotic endangered species: pygmy elephants, orangutans, and proboscis monkeys.  All are found only on the island of Borneo (except the orangoutang, which is also found on the island of Sumatra) and all are classified as endangered. Heavy rain prevented me from shooting on all but three days of my trip, but I made the most of the time that I had. Here some of my favorite pictures from the trip.

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Pygmy Elephants

Proboscis Monkeys

Orangutans

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-best-of-my-borneo-wildlife-photography-pygmy-elephants-orangoutangs-and-probloscis-monkeys/feed/ 1 The People of Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-people-of-kota-kinabalu-malaysia/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/the-people-of-kota-kinabalu-malaysia/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:41:54 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=2833 On my first day in Kota Kinabalu I got a little camera happy and went out shooting the local folks around the city. Here are a few of the pictures.

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This is the what it looks like.

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/taiwan%e2%80%99s-most-beautiful-and-bizarre-coastline-jialeshuei/feed/ 0 Rainforest Discovery Center, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/rainforest-discovery-center-sabah-malaysian-borneo/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/02/rainforest-discovery-center-sabah-malaysian-borneo/#comments Tue, 01 Feb 2011 09:39:07 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=2793 The Rainforest Discovery Center is located in the Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve in Malaysia’s province of Sabah on the island of Borneo. The center is just up the road from the Sepilok Orangoutang Sanctuary, and not far from the Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary. The center features a walkway where you can walk above the canopy, with intermittent towers for bird watchers, as well as trails and numerous educational signs. Both monkeys and orangoutangs can often be seen at the center, although we didn’t see any while we were there. We did, however, see a lot of beautiful rainforest.  Here are a few pictures from our walk.

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Last Thursday Quicksilver was potentially going to hold the prestigious Eddie Aikau surf competition. The contest is so serious that pro surfers will fly in from around the world to wait and see if it is going to be held. You see, the organizers wait until the day of the competition to decide whether or not the waves are big, and good, enough.  If they aren’t, they call it off.  It has only been held 8 times since 1984.

Last Thursday we all waited to see if the waves would be good enough for the Eddie.  They were huge —  20-25 foot waves.  Unfortunately the event was called off because the waves weren’t consistent enough.  That didn’t stop lots of surfers from getting in the water, nor me from heading up to Waimea Bay to watch.  I was only there for an hour, but I got a few good shots.  Here they are.

]]> http://www.matt-gibson.org/2011/01/huge-waves-at-waimeia-bay/feed/ 0 A Few Random Pictures from My Trip Home http://www.matt-gibson.org/2010/08/a-few-random-pictures-from-my-trip-home/ http://www.matt-gibson.org/2010/08/a-few-random-pictures-from-my-trip-home/#comments Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:13:05 +0000 Matt Gibson http://www.matt-gibson.org/?p=1985 I’m from a small town in Canada’s Rocky Mountains called Cranbrook.  Cranbrook has a population of about 20,000 people.  The main industries are mining, logging, and tourism.  There are numerous trailer parks and it’s likely there are more people living in trailers than houses.  The surrounding area is checkered with farms. Wide brimmed cowboy hats, belt buckles that could double as coffee tables, and blue jeans so dark they look wet worn tight enough to induce infertility are always in style.  The vehicle of choice is the pickup truck.  Trucks suspended less than three feet off the ground with tires smaller in circumference than hula hoops are considered to be “for pussys”. Bingo night is big news.  Hockey is religion.

This July I went home to visit for two weeks.  I didn’t take out my camera much (just a few times to take some pictures of my family and a trip to the lake with friends), but I got a some good shots.  Here they are.

Family

Dinner at my father's house (with my sister's fiancee).

My lil' sister Brianne.

(From left to right) My Auntie Patty, cousin Holly, and mother.

My Uncle Fred and my mom.

My Uncle Fred. He's 86 and lives in a cabin in the woods that has no running water and, until recently, had no electricity. When he wants to go to town he has to shoo away the bears that sleep on the hood of his truck with a broom. I took this picture in a nursing home where he was recovering from knee surgery. He told me about his days doing construction in Northern Thailand, Turkey, and Iran. The last time he visited my mother he brought a grocery bag brimming with uncashed pension cheques and asked my mother what he should do with them. I suggested he go traveling. He had just finished reading Seven Years in Tibet, and decided he should go there. "I'd rather die over there than stuck in this place, where ya' need a damned security code just to go outside," he said. He's everything that I want to be when I'm 86

A Trip to the Lake

One afternoon my friend Theresa, her daughter Jaidyn, and her friend took me to nearby Jim Smith Lake.  It was entertaining.

Rednecks fightin' at the beach. It all started with the guy in the green shorts mouthing off the other trying to impress some 16 year old girls.

It was a really pathetic fight. Here the dude who ended up losing is hugging the other guy's leg.

Then he tried to pull the guy's shorts down. Just sad.

This is the groundhog that lived in a hole beside our our spot on the grass.

We fed him chips.

I said that the chips would probably give him diarrhea so the girls tried to give him a raisin, but he was wouldn't take it because he liked the chips better..

This picture epitomizes Cranbrook - a big ol' pickup roaring down the highway with mountain in the background.

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Below is a gallery of pictures from the 2010 Yenshuei Fireworks Festival.  You can navigate the gallery using the thumbnails, by clicking on the image, or by using the arrow keys on your keyboard.

This page has an image gallery on it. Click here to open the post in your browser to see the gallery.

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