A Vincent Mounier Photography Blog

Five Things I Wish School Would Have Taught Me Instead
June 28, 2008
Goals and focus. Sure we were given homework. Sometimes a helluva lot of it. But homework doesn't really address itself. It overburdens a student into spending entire evenings or even nights fighting for some essay or a score but it never includes instructions. Students are left on their own figuring out how to properly manage their time, set priorities and achieve their goals, and most never do. They treat homework and school classes as annoyances, unavoidable pains th...
Five School Brainwashing Topics I Could Have Done Without
June 28, 2008
History. My ancestors were barbarians. From immemorial times, they have killed, plundered, coveted, destroyed and trashed. They have waged wars, endlessly, showing that greed and cruelty are two of mankind's main assets. So to make sure all this History is retained and passed on, our education system rolls its students in it thoroughly, day after day, year after year, insuring they are properly branded and labeling them psychologically as the descendants of the beasts. ...
Carpe Diem, when I can
June 23, 2008
Sometimes, unaware, I catch myself complaining. It happened to me last night as I’d gone out to shoot the sunset. I was missing my bokkie. A stubborn layer of clouds was obstructing MY horizon and dimming what I had hoped would be an explosion of airborne colors. And there were too many people on MY beach - well behaved, mostly quiet and enjoying a beautiful end to the day, but too many of them. So I snapped a few pictures and went back home without touching the fancy dr...
Sleepless
June 19, 2008
Despite being dead tired I can’t sleep so I might as well write maybe my fingers will get sleepy and drag the rest of me to bed today I learned that medicine has a name for that annoying feeling people get in their legs sometimes which isn’t really painful but bugs the hell out of them and keeps them awake for hours counting sheep they call it RLS Restless Leg Syndrom I’m having RMS Restless Mind Syndrom man it sucks I tried banging it against a wall but it sounded empty...
Balancing The Stone
June 17, 2008
There are times and places when - and where - one wishes the former would stop and the latter could be taken home. But time surely never stops and those places only follow us home on frozen photographs and wrapped up softly in our memories. It's up to us, then, to match our pace to that of life around us and to make sure the memories live on and generate new dreams.The Seawall is one of those places, and last Sunday night, one of those times.I had noticed on my afternoon r...
Crossing the Strait of Georgia with Prince of Whales
Strangely, the idea waited to cross my overexcited mind until Marie and I were happily browsing through the colorful aisles of Granville Island Public Market on a late Friday afternoon. So while she was busily acquiring amazing organic strawberries, our ritualistic duck prosciutto and other wonderful goodies, I whipped out my Blackberry, browsed my way to a web page and found a lost phone number. It was 4:30 pm. Around 5:00 pm, the phone buzzed back. That was it. At 7:30 t...
Amazing 3D web photo browsing with PicLens
Well, I got sidetracked. Again. In the middle of posting pictures of the recent Victoria whale watching expedition with Marie, I drifted and have just upgraded the South Africa galleries [1] and [2] with the coolest eye-candy, a 3D photo browser called PicLens, by Cooliris. Now this is going to require a small effort on your part (so small, really) if you want to enjoy the full experience, but I guarantee that if you bare with me, it will blow your mind! So what are we ta...
Bliss
June 5, 2008
This blog is taking four days off while East meets West, and vice versa. Sonnez haubois résonnez musettes... :-)
An Intro to Night Diving
When you first jump in, you might as well have suddenly left the known universe behind and stepped into a mysterious black hole. If you're smart, your light is off; there is no sense attracting the eager attention of surface stingers. But then you have to be good at it, too. Dropping a light that is not on could mean losing it forever. You are dipped into absolute temporary darkness. Your suit slowly fills up and the water is likely to be chilly. You have to readjust yo...
Animal Story
June 2, 2008
Part 1 - The Canadian Geese"Hi. I'm papa-goose, the Canadian Goose. They call me papa-goose. Duh. This is my family, there, on the grass. Yes, it's pretty good size. Now tell me true... er, hold on a second..."Me: Honey, the kids are going too far off the path, I think you should bring them back, eh?Mama-goose: Hey you fat goose, can't you see I'm busy chasing off the silly human in high heels? Bring them back yourself!"Whoa, she must be pissed. One of our distant cousins ...
Bagna Cauda
June 2, 2008
Well, it was a first attempt. To be picky, I must say I don't like the way the oil seems to have separated a touch from the content, but that might be because I took too long taking the picture when I should have been eating instead. However the experience was quite satisfying. Tonight my breath will keep away vampires and humans alike...
The Flying Years
Time has flown by, and flowed by too, like a fast river in search of its estuary. Mostly, it was about flying. We were young. We had nothing but the grandest dreams and our illusions were innocent. But we were so young. Freshly out of high-school and suddenly thrown into a competitive world of adults and regulations and realities that can smash you with the weight of a mountain. Our dreams, however, rode on fast machines and their metal wings were real, and so woul...