The British Broadcasting Corporation figures there’s some serious money to be made adding adverts to their web site.

The corporation estimates that it could earn between £48m and £105m annually in advertising revenues, depending on how aggressively the advertising were to be placed.

BBC executives must be rubbing their hands together at the prospect of so much extra income. However, they will have to balance the advertising revenue against the huge protests its UK rivals will undoubtedly make, and against internal opposition.

(full story here)

Here in Canada, CBC.CA had gone for years with no advertising on it’s news pages. That all changed 2 years ago with an aggressive sell of banners above the title and on the right side bar.

Lately those ‘above title’ banners have only occasionally been sold, mostly the inventory is promotional for the fall TV season or CBC’s uninspired 1995-era kids web site.

Another HDR. The flare on the sun is from the aperture, no cheezy filter applied.

Messing around with HDR images. 

This reminds me of those hand-painted prints from the 50′s.  I shot this one this afternoon.

I was taking some pics in English Bay today when I caught these two in for a dip.

Maybe they’re locals, but in any event, odds are at least one of them is originally from Manitoba.  Given that it was cold and windy today (despite the sunshine) I figured they deserved the paparazzi treatment. 

They had a photographer with them (on shore) but I couldn’t read the sign from my angle.

The nights are colder, we’ve bought our Cypress Mountain season passes, and I’ve been into Second Wave three times in four days.  Must be fall!