The Big Picture run by the Boston Globe should be one of your favourite photo slideshow links. Their latest is pretty awesome. It's thirty-one state-approved pictures of dictator Kim Jong Il of North Korea.

Seen individually each photo is pretty jaw droppingly boring. See Kim Jong Il looking at pork. See him look at iron bars. See him look at fish. But see it this way, just quickly skim through the whole thing. It's a mind-knumbing blur. If he wasn't a corrupt dictator who has kept his people in the dark ages under his iron grip for decades while living the high life I might even feel sorry for what looks like an endless series of visits to drab events.

The British Journal of Photography among many others have confirmed that Fujifilm will be cutting or curtailing three film stocks: Neopan 400 in 120 (medium format), Superia Reala in 35mm and Pro 160S in 35mm.

I only shot Reala for the first time in my Olympic street series and am a bit sad that I don't get a chance to try some more. Reala isn't to be confused with regular Superia which is their consumer 35mm film.

Some time after we hit the streets to celebrate along with the whole of Vancouver after the Canada-USA gold medal hockey game I realized it was time to put away my camera. I had just watched one of the greatest and most meaningful games to be played in Vancouver and wanted to be part of the wave of euphoria rushing through the streets. About an hour in -- and mindful that I had to move later on that night, I stuffed my two cameras back into the bag and just was swept along.

Apparently, lining up for hours to get into pavilions does get you something after all. A friend of mine asked if I got one of these glorious mugs that they were giving out at the Canon pavilion at the Olympics.

First of all, I didn't even know there was a Canon pavilion. ;(

After two weeks of the Olympics the magical crowds have disappeared as if gone to the next city for their Olympics. Everyone is back to wearing grey and black.

Everything is normal again.

I got a roll back from CustomColor today and in the negative is a frame I definitely never took. The location is known to me but the people are not. I puzzled over this for awhile and my guess is that because I had bought the roll from an estate, the previous photographer had shot one frame and somehow rolled it back into the cannister.