Burrard Street Bridge at Sunrise Dec 30 2012 10a
Vancouver's iconic Burrard Street Bridge, the most westerly of the southern entrances into the heart of the city, bakes in the thin light of a winter sunrise.
Eclectic and Unusual Infra Red and High Dynamic Range Imagery
Vancouver's iconic Burrard Street Bridge, the most westerly of the southern entrances into the heart of the city, bakes in the thin light of a winter sunrise.
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I love this shot on a few levels. The deepest one being the "What the heck is that vertical ray of light dead center of the shot?" level.
I do 90% of my post processing at the HDR phase and adding a column of light emanating from the ground towards the sky is beyond the capabilities of my workflow at that phase.
What you see is what I got.
My guess is that it's a digital reflection of the fringe of my apartment building's exterior (fuzzy line far left). Or a spirit going to heaven. Not sure which.
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45 minutes before sunrise the late waning gibbous moon of 2012 illuminates a sleeping English Bay Vancouver.
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A few minutes before the early winter sun peaks over the eastern mountains Vancouver's West End and North Shore mountains are bathed in the pre-dawn pink of twilight.
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The eastern edge of Vancouver's Stanley Park meets Vancouver's West End. Very much a 'country folk' meet 'city folk' sort of thing.
No fighting you two.
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A wary walker navigates through the twin faces of Stanley Park's Great Western Gate.
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The Second Beach Pool in Stanley Park Vancouver. Very late fall 2010.
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Siwash Rock and the Stanley Park Seawall caught in the glow of a sunny fall afternoon in downtown Vancouver.
A shot that really shows off the geological nature of the young volcanic rock that makes up the bedrock of Vancouver's West End.
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A stratospheric fogling, several kilometers above Vancouver's English Bay , transits south west to the Pacific Ocean as an early summer sunset looks on
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A late spring frontal system plays peak-a-boo with Vancouver's English Bay. 2 sleeps to the longest day in the year. Sigh. :)
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I use a razor sharp and compassionate scalpel when I post process.
I could have masked out the two seagulls way back at the HDR phase of my workflow but .... HDR is a temporal as much as it is a colorful media. Where else but the 21st century and beyond could you see a shot like this. :)
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The 2:50 PM sailing of the False Creek Ferries service arrives at the West End Vancouver terminal on a snowy Vancouver afternoon. Brrrrr.
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Kitsilano Vancouver looking all cute and sexy in a dusting of snow.
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I think I just found my favorite shot of the year.
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I can't believe the depth of field I got in this shot at f/5.6. Honestly I'm photo-gobsmacked.
5 shot HDR sequence at f/5.6, 10mm (Sigma 10mm to 20mm lens), ISO 200, aperture priority with shutter speed range of 1/20s to 1/250s over the sequence.
Even in a snow storm Vancouver's West End looks pretty. :)
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Surge Takes Sunset Beach. Damp footage at eleven.
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English Bay Vancouver greats Winter.
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That is one sexy boat. Sigh.
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Organized chaos.
False Creek Vancouver style.
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A still slumbering West End Vancouver misses the obvious and lets a family of foglings sneak back to the sea via Stanley Park.
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The light of a late fall sunrise warms English Bay Vancouver.
As luck would have it the world did not end that day.
Next stop Dec. 21 2012. Be calm everyone. :))
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If you travel from the east side of Vancouver Island to the west there's a good chance you will pass Cathedral Grove Provincial Park. It's, in my opinion, the best stop along the route and plan on at least an hour of no muss no fuss neck stretching. Pure ancient natural beauty. Soul food.
Some of the trees date back to 1200 CE/AD.
A must see.
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English Bay looking quite pretty in the mid afternoon light of fall in Vancouver.
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A rainbow tracks behind a late fall squall travelling up Howe Sound north of Vancouver Canada.
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Acting as the city's first line of the defense the North Shore condos stare down the higher altitude snows. Sounding very much like Gandalf near the end of the first book of The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring - "You shall not pass!".
With wet snowflakes predicted for tomorrow the epic battle against winter begins in earnest. Be strong Vancouver. We'll get through it. :)
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A False Creek ferry arrives at the West End Vancouver terminal.
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Looking west towards the north east corner of the Burrard Street Bridge. The gateway to Vancouver's West End and Yaletown regions. Asleep for the winter.
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The north underside of Vancouver's Burrard Street Bridge.
Looking very Transformer in the noon sun.
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Ground Zero of Sunset Beach in Vancouver looking towards the north end of the Burrard Street Bridge.
I love lense flairs. I don't seek them out but when I find one in a shot I make it the shot.
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The long shadow of me catching the pre-noon downtown urban of Vancouver's West End on a blustery December Tuesday.
"My God. ... I'm full of stars."
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West Coast Super Weather - Vancouver Style.
The eye of a low pressure weather cell tracks across English Bay Vancouver mid afternoon early December 2012. Watching the wall of the eye track across the city was both humbling and life affirming.
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