TD Tower, redux

So busy, but must post new picture...

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)

f3.5

ISO 100

1/200 sec.

Skyline

Royalwood Golf course looking East. You have to love the Fraser Valley and its smog.

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)

f3.5

ISO 100

1/400 sec.

The Square

In the background you may be able, if you look closely enough, to spot Vancouver's official bird, the crane. They're everywhere in Vancouver right now. Almost impossible to take a picture without one showing up somewhere.

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)

f3.5

ISO 100

1/1000 sec.

Hannah and the puppies

Granville Station, Eastbound platform.

The most amazing thing: Hannah was so focused on getting on the next train that she didn't notice the puppies.

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens

f4

ISO 400

1/20 sec.

TD

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)

f3.5

ISO 100

1/200 sec.

Going up...

When you get off the Skytrain at the Granville Station you're effectively three floors underground. This escalator is a steep, long ride (we were 1/3 of the way up when I shot this) just to get to the basement of the Bay. Fun stuff, as long as you don't look back.

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)

f3.5

ISO 400

1/15 sec.

Ben

We went to Vancouver today. Just the kids and me. Wandered the Art Gallery, Robson Square (where this was shot), and had lunch at White Spot. A stereotypical Vancouver day. It was awesome.

Pentax K200D

Chinon 50mm lens

f1.4

ISO 100

1/320 sec.

B&W in PS (CS4)

Don't hit me!

No matter how good you are, you still don't like getting nailed by the ball.

Pentax K200D

Sears 135mm lens

f2.8

ISO 100

1/1000 sec.

Oblivion

Dive in. The water's great.

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)

f3.5

ISO 100

1/200 sec.

NO RUNNING NO DIVING

For a deck, it's really stern and kind of a kill-joy.

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@ 18mm)

f3.5

ISO 100

1/160 sec.

I saw three ships...

come sailing in, on Christmas Day, on Christmas D...

No. This is in Bellingham Bay, and it was last week.

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@ 33mm)

f4

ISO 100

1/320 sec.

I have never travelled over this bridge (the Lion's Gate Bridge, that is), unless it was when I was too young to truly solidify the memory in my brain. I have travelled over every other bridge in the Vancouver area, but this one, which seems so legendary, eludes me.

Eludes me. I like that phrase.

Pentax K200D

Sears 135mm lens

f2.8

ISO 100

1/1600 sec.

Ball

That's it. A ball. Kicked high in the air. Wow.

Pentax K200D

Sears 135mm lens

f2.8

ISO 100

1/1000 sec.

Vying

I spent the morning at a soccer tournament sponsored by the Bakerview Spanish Church.

These guys are really serious about their football.

Pentax K200D

Sears 135mm lens

f2.8

ISO 100

1/800 sec.

Abandoned

At the mercy of the elements, even the background lost its colour.

Pentax K200D
Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)
f4
ISO 100
1/250 sec.

Sailboat

I am impressed by people who can live this way, even for the summer. I am enamoured with the idea that I could just go anywhere at anytime and see things I've never seen.

On the other hand, I might be constantly reminded of what I ate.

Pentax K200D

Sears 135mm lens

f2.8

ISO 100

1/500 sec.

Can I pull you in?

Things always seem sadder when they're abandoned to the elements.

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)

f3.5

ISO 100

1/50 sec.

The waterfront in Bellingham. Too tired to write. Will be witty in the morning...

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm) + CPL

f4

ISO 100

1/400 sec.

sunset

"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky." - Rabindranath Tagore

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)

f3.5

ISO 100

1/320 sec.

Out of this world

So we took the kids "cosmic bowling" and they loved it. Ben took it too seriously and Hannah was happy to have the bumpers up. These were taken by steadying my camera on the scorekeeping machine and stopping down the aperture and bringing the shutter speed to a halt. It gave all my bowling photos an other-worldly glow, but I like it.

No camo?

"You know, if the Republic really wanted us to succeed they should have invested in camo armor."

Pentax K200D

Tokina 28-70mm lens (@70mm)

f3.9

ISO 640

1/25

Reflections

There are trees on land and there are trees in the water, or is it vice versa? Aargh...I can't tell which way is up!

Splash.

Dang.

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)

f3.5

ISO 100

1/400 sec.

Dorms and bell tower

The sun makes even the most boring of buildings look golden.

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@18mm)

f3.5

ISO 200

1/250 sec.

...never send to know

for whom the bell tolls. It tolls for thee. - John Donne

Pentax K200D

Pentax DA 18-55mm lens (@26mm)

f4

ISO 200

1/100 sec.

Hooray for smog!

If it weren't for all the smog in the lower mainland, we'd never get beautiful sunsets like this.

Silver lining, anyone?

Pentax K200D

Tokina 28-70mm lens (@70mm)

f3.9

ISO 200

1/30 sec.