Colour is My aeroplane

Morning breaks, a new day wakes, I crash out on the trampoline for a few hours in the sun then head to the water to swim.  It starts to rain a little in the afternoon putting a bit of a dampener on events, but Beardyman and Bassnectar are playing and can’t miss.  But I did.  Ahhh Jet lag sucks. I returned to the campsite to take some photos of the stars for a change of pace after seeing Beardyman (little disappointing) and during a particularly long exposure, I passed out.
I woke half in half out of my tent holding the camera, both covered in a light dew. as soon as the sun came up i got stuff ready, but all of the glass on my len was frosted and took about 1hr to dry out properly (opps) got a few misty shots on the way thou, ain’t half bad.
With my early rise I went down to the Living Room to catch the last of the dawn set and take a couple of HDR shots where I met Rojin (above)  and got this (if I do say so myself) wicked shot.  Finally organized a ride back to Vancouver with some randoms from the camp and got to Vancouver at 4am tuesday morning.  Got to the door, no keys.  sleep on steps and wait for landlord who called the police on me cause they thought I was homeless.  After talking them into letting me in (I hadn’t met them til this point) I crashed into a 2 day coma, soo good.
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Yeah, so thats it, had fun, might be back next year, all things going to plan . . .

Wow, busy busy.

So after Excision we headed past the Pagoda and to The Living Room and I took a few more photos, watched some wicked lightsaber fights in the river, listened to a few more acts, there was some good music at the beach and in the Fractal Forest, but I was developing a blister and was beginning to lose things, first I lost my lens cap from my 18-200, then earplugs, then a bit of cash from doing handstands in the archway :(. Time to take home the camera but not before geting a few more shots downtown. A quick stop off at the tent and then back into it, the night started to blur between 12 and 3, but around 3am we stocked up on lollypops (God I hate cherry), then went to the Hookha Tent to smoke some Shisha and hopefully catch up with Yoshi. But alas, missed connections so we stumbled home via the Trampoline. I went and hung in the dome til the wee smalls with Storm, and I assume that Fisher went exploring into the night.

More tomorrow!

After arriving in Vancouver from London on Tuesday and making it though “extra security screening”, I got a phone, a bike and the internet set up before the jet lag set in. After a fresh start I called up Fisher to see whats going on, as you may or may not know, Mark (Fisher) is in Vancouver and some his friends from back home and myself went in on a Shambhala ticket for his birthday. Having never been he was a little apprehensive at first, but by the end of the weekend you couldn’t wipe the smile off his face

Returning to the mountains really does change you somehow, it’s like a weight is lifted, the sky is blue, the trees are green (well a lot were pine beetle orange) and the air is clean and smells delicious.

After a 9hr drive and a 5hr wait in line we got in the gate at 4am Friday morning and headed to the forest camping spot where we found the Arctic Embassy and began to set up. Still feeling the effects of jet lag and the crazy pace of the last week, as well as having only 2 hrs of sleep in the car, I was a bit of a wreck for the first day and ended up sleeping a lot just to catch up.

Awake for 7pm when Lorne B was playing in the Living Room and Ill-Esha was in The Village, I was listening to a bit of LORN before I came and thought it was the same dude, but just similar names, I was digging LORN, but Lorne B was a little undewhelming. Back to Ill-Esha in The Village and the party started pumping, SHAMBHALA! Vinyl Richie, Delhi to Dublin, Q-bert and An-ten-nae was the lineup I wanted to see, but avoiding sleep doesn’t make it go away and I crashed at about 10-11.

Fresh start in the morning, and after some serious trading at the trading post, I got out the Camera gear and headed in to town to find Yoshi and Isaac, after which I swang by the river to find it had turned green, excerpt from the Shambhala website

On the afternoon of Saturday August 7th at Shambhala, a prankster poured a green substance into the river. The substance spread quickly and afterward it was discovered as fluorescein, a harmless, non-toxic dye used in environmental testing to locate water leaks. The dye is NON-toxic, but we asked that anyone with skin allergies or sensitive skin stay out of the river until the water was completely cleared. We were in contact with the Ministry of Environment and local health authorities, and they were confident in our process.

After heading back and finding Fisher, we hung out at the Trampoline by our tent and I took a few snaps as the night built up and to get the juices flowing.

Next stop was the Village for Opiuo, Excision and Noisia, caught the end of Opiuo and and Excision was fucking awesome! Quite packed and a lot of G’s in hoodies doing the head bob, but if you had a good spot (by the waterfall man!) it was wicked, I took my camera (of course) so I’ll leave you with a few shots of Excision, I have to go out and do some shooting, will fill in the rest when I get back :)

Just got back from Shambles, big story for next post. Top of the headlines thou, somebody put some Fluorescein in the river and it turned fluorescent green! Lucky I had my Camera on hand, Photos!

More coming after some sleep.