Thursday, May 23, 2013

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Soft sunlight filters through late afternoon hazy clouds over English Bay Vancouver.

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A softly setting sun illuminates Vancouver's English Bay and West End.

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

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Keepin' it cool at Studio 1011.

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Slate Grey Sunset 03 Vivitar 7mm fish-eye lens.

Goooo toooo the light ... echo .. echo .. echo.

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Slate Grey Sunset 02 - Sigma 10-20 mm wide angle lens at 10 mm.

Vera nice.

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Bowen Island's Mt. Gardner (719 m) looking quite punk with a late afternoon short lived Mohawk.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

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The 215.5' Arc x 13 sculpture on Sunset Beach in Vancouver's West End.

Part of the Vancouver Biennale outdoor art exhibition this sculpture is now a permanent fixture with the city having purchased it in 2011. Its name comes from the 215.5 degrees of arc the 13 iron rings cover.

215.5' Arc x 13 Sculpture Info.

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Detail of the weathered metal that is the Arc-13 sculpture at Sunset Beach in Vancouver's West End.

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A spring flower basks in the sunshine in the Ted and Mary Greig Rhododendron Garden in Vancouver's Stanley Park.

A macro photographer's paradise.

Friday, May 17, 2013

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Sheltered in the shade an earlier rain shower lives on as rain drops.

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Organic beauty.

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A fuzzy mallard duckling storms the beach at Lost Lagoon in Vancouver's West End.

I surrender! :)

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A nicely illuminated branch of dogwood flowers in Vancouver's Stanley Parks basks in the mid-afternoon sunshine.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

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Stanley Park's Lost Lagoon. Right at the edge of Vancouver's West End and downtown core.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

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Up close and personal.

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A super-cloud, caught in sunset glow, floats over the Sunshine Coast just north north west of Vancouver.

Looking quite awesome I must say.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

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Vancouver's West End basks in the late day glow of the setting sun.

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A powerful sunset lights up the waters lapping on the shore of Sunset Beach in Vancouver's West End.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

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A flustered English Bay unloads on an otherwise OK and cool with it Vancouver West End.

Grrrrr.

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Happy Mother's Day Ladies. :)

You totally rock.

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Boys and their toys.

Thursday, May 09, 2013

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English Bay Vancouver, the West End, Beach Avenue and Sunset Beach.

And a sail boat.

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Ahh ... the hazy lazy days of summer ... err ... spring.

Tuesday, May 07, 2013

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Vancouver's Cambie and Burrard Street bridges (pedestrian, cycle and automotive pipelines into the city) looking quite architecturally sexy in the spring sunshine.

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The crib.

Looking very Monet I must say.

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Vancouver's West End looking all tiny in the perspective distorting clarity of infra red light.

Distance haze in real life and photography is due to water in the atmosphere. Our brain tell us that the more something is caught in haze the farther away it must be. Totally smart.

Water, by design, reflects blue light which is why our oceans, as seen from space, are blue. However, by design, an Infra Red (IR) camera is indifferent to blue light and is thus equally indifferent to the haze water creates.

Take the haze out of the equation and our brain concludes that those distant objects must be up close and personal.

Tiny mountains.

Shooting in infra red is like have super hero vision.

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Vancouver's West End looking all tiny in the perspective distorting clarity of infra red light.

Distance haze in real life and photography is due to water in the atmosphere. Our brain tell us that the more something is caught in haze the farther away it must be. Totally smart.

Water, by design, reflects blue light which is why our oceans, as seen from space, are blue. However, by design, an Infra Red (IR) camera is indifferent to blue light and is thus equally indifferent to the haze water creates.

Take the haze out of the equation and our brain concludes those distant objects must be up close and personal.

Shooting in infra red is like have super hero vision.

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Looking very much like the Eye of Sauron from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of Rings trilogy a west coast sun halo peers down on English Bay Vancouver.

Frodo, ... are you playing with your ring again? Bad hobbit.

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Sirrus looms large as she practices her feline aura.

Saturday, May 04, 2013

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At the corner of Thurlow and Beach Avenues in Vancouver's West End a giant and quite ancient elm holds court over her numerous beach tree ladies in waiting.

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It had been two days since the skipper had sent Gilligan and Marian out to find the needed supplies of 7 double tall half caff no foam lattes and those yummy soft taco wrap sandwiches from Starbucks and the pair had yet to return.

Needless to say he was becoming both worried and cranky.

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Looking like something from the latest remake of the H.G. Wells classic "War of the Worlds" a collection of tiny flowers, each about the size of a quarter coin in real life, loom large.

We come in peace.

Klaatu barado nikto.

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If you're looking for diversity when it comes to subject mater for macro/bokeh nature photography the collection of flowers and plants in front of the concession stand on Sunset Beach in Vancouver's West End is not to be missed. 365 days a year.

Friday, May 03, 2013

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The Arc-13 sculpture at Sunset Beach West End Vancouver.

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The Arc-13 sculpture at Sunset Beach West End Vancouver.

It defines 'cool' when it comes to beach sculptures.

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The elm and beach trees along Beach Avenue and at the corner with Thurlow get their shadow groove on in this Infra Red High Dynamic Range shot.

Trees look so sexy in spring.

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The Vancouver AIDS Memorial shrugs off another winter and basks in the perfect spring sunshine of a mackerel sky.