Running In The Rain

It rained and blew up a storm the other day. 

I didn't mind being outside but it was a challenge to keep the camera dry.

Crouching Figures

An experimental shot from a month ago when I was trying Jesse's long lens.

Title: Meeting

Artist: Wang Shugang

Coal Harbour

Arc

I photographed this 'watchamacallit' once before but it seems to be slowly making it's way along the seawall.

Final Approach

Arriving from 'the island' (Vancouver Island)

Looking past the Stanley Park seawall toward Coal Harbour with a nice view of the container cranes (see banner) in the distance.

Lone Walker

The seawall near the entrance to Stanley Park

Keen-eyed followers may have noticed I've changed the banner.

It's a bit of an inside joke, but in case anyone was wondering, no, that's not a killer whale in the water, it's a rock.

Barge

It was sunny Sunday and I took a walk along part of the seawall. 

A while back, during my Granville Island Period, I took a shot of the cement plant but did not include a picture of the gravel barges that bring gravel from quarries up the coast to supply the plant. Here it is.

The barge is the yellow one. 

A Pea Souper

I'm squeezing a couple of photos I took yesterday into the Granville Island series. 

We've had unusual, for us, periods of heavy fog for a week or more. It rolls in and rolls out (or whatever it does when it leaves) and yesterday it was as thick as a wool blanket by sundown. 

The Burrard St. bridge, seen here, spans the entrance to False Creek just north of Granville Island. 

There you have it, hot off the presses and straight out of my camera. 

P.S. In a, no doubt, futile attempt at keeping Virginia, my producer/manager, happy I'm going to try posting the blog earlier, i.e., in the middle of the night. Apparently my former schedule did not suit her lifestyle. 

If this schedule is better feel free to let me know. If it's worse feel free to let Virginia know. 

Out And About

On Monday the sun was out and the seawall at English Bay was a popular spot to enjoy the snow.  Today it's snowing again, a lot. 

Road Harbour, BVI (British Virgin Islands) is blanketed in 10 inches of snow. The lettering on the stern that is.

The Southern Star is registered in the BVI. I don't know if she's ever been there, she's been tied up by the Westin Bayshore for years. 

Snow Up To Here

This shot is from a section of the seawall that borders the Second Beach Swimming Pool at Stanley Park. 

Unless I start taking pictures of the furniture in my apartment we're going to have to endure a few more days of snow photos.

Today I went to Stanley Park and the West End and it seemed like there were potential shots everywhere I looked. It wasn't very crowded where I wandered but practically everyone I encountered had a camera out. 

It may look cold but it wasn't. I didn't wear my gloves and my parka was open all day. At many intersections it became necessary to jump over or wade through snow half way to my knees from the plows and fairly deep puddles of snow melt trapped by the snow. In a nutshell, it was above 0º C. 

The temperature tonight may get to -7º C but it's forecast to hover around freezing for the next few days with rain by Friday. Things get quite ugly once the rain starts. It's a mess for a day or three.