Peoples Choice Awards

From here:

Jensen Ackles and People's Choice Awards both confirm that Supernatural was not invited to the People's Choice Awards ceremony

Saturday, 14 January 2012 08:50

According to an email from the People's Choice Awards that was posted at Winchester Family Business, Jared Padalecki and Jensen Ackles were not invited to the awards ceremony because their awards were not going to be shown on air.  They could have attended the ceremony if they wanted to, but they would not be given any screen time.  They would have just basically been there to sit in the audience and watch.  Jensen Ackles confirms this in a video taken by Linz Barker that you can see here.

Huh.   But yet Jared said otherwise to one of the paparazzi at YVR?   I think the confusion there was likely the grey line between being invited vs being on the air.   

Still the point is that the fav drama award was not aired, which seems very lame.   I think I read somewhere that House won in one of the past recent years and they also didn't air the fav drama then either.   Makes you wonder what criteria they use to determine which awards to air.  And whatever that criteria is, a genre TV show on the CW doesn't fit?   (Except tell me WHY Vampire Diaries got to present?)

In other news.... Just found out it might snow late tonight and/or for the next few days.   I guess all that sunny (if cold/windy) weather is no more.  

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7x12 (spoilers)

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SPN vanvid rec

Just found this.  By risenshine22 from here.

(I'm obsessing over SPN this morning and avoiding housework.)

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Jim Michaels tweets during 7x12

Love this.

Vancon 2010 :: Downtown Vancouver

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Photos I took from our hotel window of downtown Vancouver.  I rediscovered these photos last night while I was looking for one particular shot.  At the time I took these photos I was very disappointed in them.   I had just purchased a lens before this con and was trying it out for the first time during the convention.  I was very disappointed in it's performance.  

At the time I knew little to nothing about lenses and didn't realize I'd just purchased what was known as a "kit lens".  The relatively inexpensive lenses included with many camera bodies.  This was the Canon EF-S 18-55 f3.5-5.6 IS lens.   I also knew nothing about how to use my camera to achieve correct exposures.   So I never did anything with these photos. 

Now I not only understand how to use aperture, focal length and shutter speed to get correct exposures, I know how to adjust for white balance and how to manipulate all those to achieve effects I'm after in specific lighting circumstances.   I'm really looking forward to the panels this year - not having to use my flash will be wonderful.

Plus I know how to use post processing to correct bad exposures.   These have been heavily post-processed to correct for all those mistakes back then.  I remember trying to correct them back in the day, but the white balance error totally kicked my butt.

However, I notice I didn't have to crop most of these.  I've always been pretty happy with my initial composition decisions.  Not that I'd really call them decisions back then - it was more instinct.   

Having relooked at these, I'm considering taking out that lens and using it for a bit before LA.  The one lens my gear is now missing is a good quality wide angle.   I couldn't use this kit lens inside during any of the panels as it is not fast enough.  But outside it has definitely possibilities.   Still have either this or this or this on my next in line wish list however.

Okay, photo-geeking out rambling done.  On to the photos.  I can see doing housework today is receding.  I'm revisiting my location photos to see if I like those better now as well.

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Vancon 2009 :: Photos of Sheraton Wall Center Hotel & Downtown

  

Still going through old Vancon photos.

These are from the first Vancon in August 2009.   I was too exhausted when we returned and after I'd posted all the panel photos, so I abandoned these for the most part.   

They turned out to be perfect items to try some HDR tricks on.  And I LOVE how they turned out.



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