Category: Other Fun

When it gets cold we find things to do inside. Below minus twenty and you might find us mall walking for example. Got to keep fit somehow during an arctic blast even if it means channelling our inner senior citizen. One freezing day March of 2019, we found ourselves exploring...

Just a couple days removed from that amazing El Camino Trek and we’re still basking in the afterglow. It was frenzied week on the trail, hiking and eating and downing more than a little wine, taking in the sights and connecting with the many friends made along the way. The...

Sorry, we’ve been away. A number of…let’s call them “problems”…conspired to keep us from posting new content for the last few weeks, and it simply killed us to do so, but we’re back kicking and screaming. And here to celebrate this return, a special post. Come tag along with the...

We have many obsessions here at OTBP-wC&C/BIGDoer.com. Of course you all know we’re big into abandoned stuff, old vehicles and machines, historic buildings, trains, outdoor pursuits and generally getting out there and enjoying life. And then in there’s pinball. It’s our thing, even if some readers let us know it’s...

With our most incredible El Camino de Santiago trek still a fresh memory (goodness, we never wanted it to end) we’re off to take in adventure anew somewhere down the road. Next stop, it’s a place called O Pindo, a charming and scenic fishing village on the rocky coast of...

It’s an honour bestowed to us, not once, but twice by artist Francis Marte. Here for your viewing pleasure, it’s the second painting by this watercolourist extraordinaire inspired by a photo from this website. And he picked a most incredible subject, a pair of old grizzled hands cupping grain, a...

We’ll let you in on a little secret…in our minds some of our earlier stuff…well…it doesn’t fill us with the warm and fuzzies. Mainly it’s the images we don’t like and not so much in regards to composition, but specifically how we processed them when we started shooting RAW (in...

Almost a year ago the Team got to be part of a most amazing event, the Edmonton Pinball & Arcade Show, aka YEGPIN. An entire day was spent roaming the venue and recording all the action for an article published recently. In that piece (link below), it was about the...

Sometimes things move at a glacial pace here (damn, it’s complicated) but finally here’s the second instalment in the “Frostbite Hotrods” series. It’s been a long time coming and for this we offer our apologies all around. Better late than never, they say! Right? In this series, we spend a...

We cover a lot of subjects on this here website. It might be an outdoor adventure one day, something with a history connection the next and on yet another we might show you one of our strange obsessions (Boler!), but every once in while we dabble in the lifestyle/human interest...

Before we begin…this article was scheduled to be published some two or three months ago, but Connie’s health issues forced a delay. Life has this way of throwing one a curve ball it seems. She’s mending now and doing darn good and so we’re back in full force but hopelessly...

To begin…this here article was shot waaaay back in late 2017 and was supposed to be published that following spring. So a year ago. As it happens the poop sometimes flies and a battle with a publisher, never full resolved but behind us now, and some life getting in the...

Moodonna & Child, a print (serigraph) by artist Manwoman discovered in the window of a thrift store in Calgary Alberta. It’s was a completely random and most magical find by Chris & Connie. Saw it, knew what it was, bought it, got it and now we’re twelve bucks poorer. Here...

So there we are climbing high above the tiny town of Wayne, in the amazingly scenic Alberta Badlands, in search of a shot. Up and up we go, dodging prickly things and slipping from time to time on the steep and loose terrain. Gotta get that photo – one where...

It’s July 2018, we’re just back from Spain and still basking in that El Camino glow and already we’re out exploring. We rarely sit still. This weekend it’s the Ghost Town Convention, as it’s called (Alberta edition), where friends get together and tour abandoned places. It’s as much about the...

It’s not a great photo, that of a fast moving train, but still it stands as a fine metaphor speaking of the incredible speed with which 2018 came and went. Bang! Then a mad dash off the starting line and in a blink it was over! Life’s a blur. It...

Sometimes the best laid plans…turn to crap. You do your homework, formulate, consider every single option and variable and get the ball rolling happily along. Then boom, almost immediately in it’s this realization you miscalculated and now it’s clear your naivete or a lack of forethought and research sold you out and this is not going to end well.

The Wildhorse River in the East Kootenays of BC was historically one of the better gold producers in the province. Placer mining – panning or sluicing of gravels to separate “alluvial” gold – took place up and down this rugged waterway starting in the 1860s. In the first couple decades...

A message arrives from pinball technician, and dear friend, Gary Makota. He knows the Team loves documenting pinball culture, even if we don’t do it often enough, and invites us over to a customer’s home, with their permission of course, to take in a problem machine he’ll be working to...