2013 03 Mar 02 Stormy English Bay Afternoon 04a
Winter shows little urge to give Spring a chance as it churns over English Bay Vancouver early in March.
No way man. Dark and brooding is so in.
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
2013 03 Mar 02 Sirrus Lounging 01a
Sirrus hanging out in the mid afternoon cloudy sunshine of last Saturday, March 2.
New day, same comfy foot stool.
Could you get me a treat since you're up?
Thursday, February 28, 2013
2013 02 Feb 22 Sunset IROP 01a
"Bride of Frankenstein's Sunset"
... or ...
"Infra Red Orange and Purple"
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
2013 02 Feb 26 IR Predawn Moonset 03ann
Before humans invented artificial light which, torches and such aside, was not that long ago our natural sleep cycle was to go to sleep for four hours after sunset, wake for 1 or 2 hours and then go back to bed for our second sleep of 2 to 3 hours more. I experience this mini day every night and more often than not I'll cuddle with a cat or two for a half hour and then fall back to sleep.
However when there's a full moon setting and the city is still barely awake I can't resist the sirens call of the mini-day.
Saturday, February 23, 2013
2013 02 Feb 23 West End Weekend Morning 04a
The north east underside of the Burrard Street Bridge. The southern gateway to Vancouver's West End, Yaletown and downtown core.
2013 02 Feb 23 English Bay Sunrise 03a
Red sky at night - sailors delight.
Red sky at morning - sailors take warning.
With an orange sunrise reflecting off the clouds over English Bay Vancouver an incoming low pressure system makes its presence known. Sure enough, 5 hours later, a blustery and stormy afternoon arrives. Hopefully the local weekend sailors headed the warning.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
2013 02 Feb 17 Labyrinth 03a
10 of the 17 passengers with tickets for the 5:45 PM 2013 02 Feb 17 NW-NA Zone 3 "Shuttle to Mother Ship Aqua" sailing watch the landing zone's labyrinth matriarch check for FOD.
FOD - Foreign Object Debris.
Thank goodness for smartphones. They help fill the gap while waiting for yet another shuttle on yet another outer rim planet.
Sigh.
Sunday, February 17, 2013
2013 02 Feb 15 Winter Infra Red 27a
The corner of Seymour and Smithe streets in downtown Vancouver looking south east down Smithe Street.
Vancouver looking very mini-Manhattan.
Saturday, February 16, 2013
2013 02 Feb 15 Winter Infra Red 20a
The Wall Center at the corner of Burrard and Nelson in Vancouver's West End looking all tough guy and such beside the Electra building. "Hey cutie. Does this light not make me look hot or what?"
2013 02 Feb 15 Winter Infra Red 16a
False Creek Ferry - Post lunch hour 1:13 pm sailing.
The False Creek Ferries have always been and still remain as the cutest things on English Bay and False Creek in Vancouver. Seriously. Well worth the $2.50 if you are ever in town.
2013 02 Feb 15 Winter Infra Red 15b
Super natural British Columbia.
We get fresh and intricate weather.
It's what we do.
2013 02 Feb 15 Winter Infra Red 12a
The central span of Vancouver's iconic Burrard Street Bridge hovers over the entrance to False Creek.
2013 02 Feb 15 Winter Infra Red 09a
Sunset Beach in Vancouver's West End chills in the winter sun as a brief high pressure system tracks across English Bay and the city's North Shore mountains.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
2013 02 Feb 12 Cobalt Blue Sunet 02a
I'm calling this the "Burrard Street Bridge Effect". BSBE for us fans of acronyms.
It's both in and out of focus.
An unexpected visual corner of the billions of possibilities the high dynamic range post production software I use (Photomatix Pro) presents me with. I expect that a future shot will owe it's 'oh-my-god-that's-so-cool' lineage to this initial version of the treatment.
BSBE 1.0 - Elegant Yet None The Less Warm and Fuzzy.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
2013 02 Feb 10 West End Fish Eye 05ann
The 1100 block of Davie Street in Vancouver's West End.
For me a good shot is all about the "Teeth to Everything-Else"ratio.
[(te/ee) * 100%] for you math fans.
2013 02 Feb 10 West End Fish Eye 04a
The corner of Thurlow Street and Pacific Avenue in Vancouver's West End.
Pacific fresh.
2012 02 Feb 10 West End Fish Eye 03a
1011 Beach Avenue, aka the Martello Tower, built in 1969. Back when hair was big and the leading edge in audio tech was the 45 RPM single. Same year as the moon landing no less.
What a cool year - big hair, leading edge vinyl audio and our footprints (finally) on another celestial body for (perhaps) the first time in our species history.
Vancouver's West End has such cool architecture - yesterday and today. A mini-Manhatten only we don't talk with funny accents.
Wednesday, February 06, 2013
2010 02 Feb 06 Vectoral Elevation Test 02a
With the 2014 Winter Olympics now less than a year away I have the "OMG how cool was it being in Vancouver during the 2010 winter games?!" thought stuck in my head.
Like a repeating song that you none the less still like. Those were the coolest of times for the city.
A second side of the Olympics that most miss is the cultural Olympiad. It's a part of the event that is a "Nearly as Cool" shadow of the games themselves. The night I went to see Mahler's Symphony of a Thousand at the Queen Elizabeth Theater in downtown Vancouver (part of the cultural Olympiad) I came home and saw this. The Vectoral Elevation light sculpture.
Such a cool period.
And done debt free. Sort of. :)
Monday, February 04, 2013
2013 02 Feb 02 Beach Ave West End Fish Eye 02a
Beach Avenue in Vancouver's West End during a sunny Saturday afternoon in February. OK Spring. It's February already. Let's Get Green!!
Sunday, February 03, 2013
2013 02 Feb 02 Burrard st Bridge Infra Red 02a
Vancouver's Burrard Street Bridge glows with a river of light on a cool foggy Saturday evening.
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Sunday, January 27, 2013
2013 01 Jan 17 30a Stanley Park Lost Lagoon
High noon at Lost Lagoon Vancouver in the dead of winter.
Properly chilled west coast mellow - shaken but not disturbed.
2013 01 Jan 17 Lost Lagoon Stanley Park 01a
A lonely park bench looks out on a frozen Lost Lagoon in Vancouver's Stanley Park.
Dude! Someone stole the tourists! Oh wait ... it's January. Never mind.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
2013 01 Jan 18 Foggy Kits Vancouver 01ann
A foggy sunrise greats the hipsters of Kitsilano Vancouver. Just this side of sepia.
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
2013 01 Jan 17 27a Stanley Park Lost Lagoon
A sunny but cool winter's day near Lost Lagoon in Stanley Park Vancouver.
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
2013 01 Jan 17 Stanley Park 14a
The treacherous edge of Lost Lagoon's south eastern shore chills in the sun of the mid winter high noon.
Obviously these ducks can't read .. English I mean.
Sunday, January 20, 2013
2013 01 Jan 18 Power Sunset 01ann
Nothing makes me both big and small at the same times as a nice power sunset does.
With the fog churning in the Strait of Georgia another cool west coast winter evening arrives west of Vancouver.
2013 01 Jan 19 Sunset Beach Circle of Light 02a
A highly processed and nicely revealing shot of the labyrinth that appeared on Sunset Beach in downtown Vancouver last evening. My compliments to the architects! Very nicely done.
Thursday, January 17, 2013
2013 01 Jan 17 Lost Lagoon Stanley Park 05a
Willow revealed.
And a city tree that, naturally, was a bit pissed off I was taking this picture. I had to promise to come back spring, summer then fall this year and take the same picture in order to diffuse things. I'm cool with that.
As beautiful as this tree is now it will be even more so soon.
2013 01 Jan 17 False Creek Ferry 01b
Here's downtown Vancouver's Great Southern Gate, also called the Burrard Street Bridge practicing it's best 'Scary Face'.
I'm still amazed the False Creek Ferry had the courage to pass through. ;)
Friday, January 11, 2013
2013 01 Jan 11 Sunset Beach Moss Macro Hyperfocal 04a
If you look closely enough at the beached logs of English Bay Beach in downtown Vancouver you'll find numerous micro-glaciers. Parts of the log that during the winter do not get sunshine even at high noon.
This shot was taken mid afternoon today and shows how frost's made-in-the-shade nature makes it related to glaciation. Stay stuck in shadows long enough and 'ancient' ice gets created.
Not so much in this micro case of course but you get the idea. :)
Wednesday, January 09, 2013
Sunset Beach Eagle Jan 11 2010 01a nn
The rock berm on Sunset Beach Vancouver flies in for another successful landing.
Sunset Beach Winter Moss Jan 03 2013 08a cropped
Green Hornet green as seen on the palms on Sunset Beach Vancouver.
Saturday, January 05, 2013
Misty Morning Sunrise Jan 01 2013 12a
The phrase goes "New York. The city that never sleeps." And it's true. I've been to NYC a few times and it does not sleep. It's always going. 24/7.
Vancouver on the other hand does sleep. You'll find that between 3:30 and 5:00 in the morning the city is, for the most part, silent. Which, at the height of summer (June 21st) is incredible.
On the morning of the summer solstice the sun rises in Vancouver at 5:07 am. Sunshine and a quiet city. Pretty cool.
Which is why Vancouver is a far less cranky city than NYC. At least she gets a bit of sleep.
Misty Morning Sunrise Jan 01 2013 11a.jpg
The Granville Street Bridge, acting the part of the big sister, deflects the bay fog away from the Granville Island Public Market.
Friday, January 04, 2013
Sunset Beach Winter Moss Jan 03 2013 05a
If you think about it humans and plants have both had, at the very least, an equal amount of evolutionary time. Plants in fact have been on this planet as a genus longer than us animals.
Thus finding wool covered petals, on a crisp Vancouver winter afternoon, was anything but surprising.
What a smart idea.
Foggy Sunrise Jan 03 2013 07a
A busy Burrard Street Bridge, the most direct southerly access point to downtown Vancouver, warms in the early winter sunrise of January 3, 2013.
Foggy Sunrise Jan 03 2012 04a
Downtown Vancouver's Great Southern Gate, also known as the Burrard Street Bridge, keeps a flock of unruly foglings from entering False Creek proper.
You shall not pass!
Thursday, January 03, 2013
Foggy Sunrise Jan 03 2012 03ann
Bay Fog has been a consistent companion to each sunrise so far this year. However with rain in the Vancouver forecast for the next 7 days the delicate morning mists will soon be overruled by soft rain. Hopefully we'll get a few more foggy mornings like today before spring arrives. Photo-nirvana.
I love the shadows of the West End apartment buildings on the top of the fog in this shot.
Wednesday, January 02, 2013
Power Sunset Strait of Georgia Jan 02 2013 03
Between Vancouver and Vancouver Island is the Strait of Georgia and its islands. What I look at when watching the sun set.
And while the near winter solstice sunsets that settle into this oft-traveled waterway are brief they are none the less as powerful as their never ending near summer solstice siblings.
A nice balance.
Foggy Sunrise Jan 02 2012 01ann
As the sunrise twilight reaches its muted climax the smell of cooking breakfast waifs across the chill waters of English Bay Vancouver.
Mmmmmm. Bacon.
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Misty Morning Sunrise Jan 01 2012 10a
At the dawn of 2013 a misty morning greets English Bay Vancouver.
Misty New Years Day Sunrise Jan 01 2013 01a
A misty morning sunrise greats the early morning risers in Vancouver on New Years Day 2013.
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