Vancouver Photography

[Locked In]

^ Those photos are epic Klazu. Thanks for posting!

One more photo from a long bike ride to the 'burbs today:

[Klazu]

Nice contrast there, LockedIn! Great update also from you today. Keep up the good work!

[whatnext]

Some pics I took on the South Arm of the Fraser last night as boats return to Steveston Harbour and gather around the packers:

The building SpongeG referred to under construction is visible toward the left:
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[Klazu]

I love how Steveston feels so different to any other place in Metro Vancouver. It has some 'Atlantic' feeling to it.

[EastVanBoyRob]

Originally Posted by Pinion

Anyone know what the story is with this stealthy looking boat docked near Lonsdale Quay?

I know the big one behind it belongs to the owner of the Vancouver Shipyards.
I'm pretty sure that's the Attessa 3, it's the only one of the set(I think there's 3) that has a Helo-pad on it.
A friend of mine used to work at the Shipyards and help build it. I wouldn't be surprised if he owns the stealthy one as well.

[spm2013]

Think it's four from this Forbes article in 2011 and the 332-foot yacht Attessa IV.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/luisakro...perfectionist/

And the Wallypower 118 is owned (current?) by the Kondakji family and the only current production model.

[Locked In]

Forgive the awful quality. This is from a traffic helicopter on Global (?) news earlier this week, and I thought it was a pretty cool angle of the skyline - looked pretty impressive as the camera panned across the various mini skylines.


IMG_3706 by 604 City, on Flickr

[Klazu]

For a brief moment I thought I was looking at Toronto, since Downtown skyline appears surprisingly wide from that angle (normally this is only the case from Spanish Banks). That is Brentwood in the middle, right? That's a quite zoomed out view.

[Locked In]

Yes, Brentwood in the middle, and I guess Lougheed in the foreground?

[red-paladin]

Yup.

[giallo]

Awesome view. I'd love to go up in a helicopter with my camera, and snap a few pics like that one.

[Klazu]

Since not everyone reads the Canada section... Photo taken back in 2008.

Originally Posted by Delirium

here's an incredible photo taken from the international space station. it shows the entire lower mainland/southern tip of vancouver island and puget sound.

vancouver is the top left, seattle is to the right and victoria is in the middle on the island

photo by sjrankin https://www.flickr.com/photos/243544...54445/sizes/h/

Originally Posted by Klazu

For those that cannot make anything out of that space panorama (I love that word ), here are few key locations.

[Locked In]

That's great! Thanks for re-posting Klazu. I drove to and from Seattle on the weekend, so it's neat to see the entire route in one shot. Awesome photo!

[quobobo]

Yeah, that's incredible. Thanks for the post!

[Klazu]

It's 300km across that one photo and some 8 million people are living in that area.

[Infrequent Poster]

What an incredible picture! Is it just me , or does Vancouver Island seem to have way more visible clearcuts then anywhere else?

[GMasterAres]

What that photo shows is how seamless Canada and the US really are and how borders are really in the imagination of humans. Really from that photo it looks like Bellingham and the entire area of the city is quite contiguous with Metro Vancouver. If you didn't draw that line, it would be impossible to tell that they are not only separate from us but in a completely different country.

Mount Vernon -> Seattle looks like a different region as it has Mount Baker and co between them and us, but Bellingham doesn't seem so foreign when you look at that photo.

[GMasterAres]

Originally Posted by Infrequent Poster

What an incredible picture! Is it just me , or does Vancouver Island seem to have way more visible clearcuts then anywhere else?

If that was a photo of Central BC it would look very similar.

[skyscraper03]

That 49th parallel north... Another reason shows how the British (in Europe) didn't care about Canada so much... Well it is some strategic colony where good guard dogs live...

Los Angeles basin, San Francisco basin, all the way to the lowlands of Seattle...
The very last piece of flat lowland that humans could build a big city/civilization on on the Pacific coast of North America is the Fraser Lowland... and 1/3 of even that belongs to the United States of America not to speak the humiliation of Point Roberts.

In other words by the act of ignorantly drawing 49 parallel by the British government at that time that did not care (seriously), 95% of large lowland plains in the west coast of North America now belongs to the United States with 5% left over handed to Canada, which is where the border town Vancouver is located.

Even 48.5 parallel would have given Canadians at least a complete single piece of lowland patch (the whole Fraser Lowland). Well.. what about Alaska?

Damn British, and listen fellow Canadian citizens, that's what you get by being a dog to another country instead of growing up and standing up for what you think you really deserve! Thank god today Canada is an independent country whose political power located within its country by people who actually live in the land and sincerely care about the land!

[Pinion]

What a weird rant. No one cared about the west coast when the border was made, not even Canadians. The only reason they even bothered with a border was because of the gold rush - before that there was no clear division between USA and Canada. It's not like there were hundreds of thousands of people that lived here and failed to get a good border because of our lack of a bloody civil war.

Borders meant a lot less back then to regular people. You crossed it if you wanted to.