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When I left off just over a week ago, I had gotten on a bus on East Hastings Street and followed it to the other side of the Granville Bridge, then I walked back over the bridge into Vancouver, thinking that maybe the forecast wouldn't be shit and I'd be able to explore Kitsilano area later in the week. (I was wrong.)
So here we go.
This kind of thing seems to be the norm down there. It was clean and colourful but not too interesting to me as a photographer.
Now, this is what I'm talking about!
Boats!
Skyscrapers and trees.
I didn't really go to Yaletown. The downtown peninsula (whatever it's actually called) is pretty small but still has about 50 streets, and as someone who must compulsively take a photo of every building on every street, that's a lot of streets to see. :O
I like this photo. It's nice.
According to Street View, this house has been in this state for quite some time.
This was built in the 1990s somehow. I'm just going to assume it was
supposed to have been built in the 1980s and give it a free pass.
The BC Law Courts is one of my favourite buildings in the country, unfortunately by the time I got to it it was dark.
Between the Art Gallery and wherever this is, I didn't take too many photos. Not sure why. Probably the low light.
This is the view of the Skybridge, which carries the Skytrain over the Fraser River from New Westminster to Surrey, from the Scott Road Skystation. That is New Westminster's skyline in the background.
This concluded Day One. I think we ordered pizza for dinner after this. Being in Surrey, my aunt lives on a cul-de-sac that branches off of another cul-de-sac, off of a seemingly major road that doesn't really go anywhere, and they're all numbered streets that start and stop repeatedly. The pizza place was actually right around the corner but it took them 40 minutes to find us... Good pizza though.
When I go out on photo hunting expeditions, I can't really start taking photos until I've started taking photos. If you read that sentence a few times, you'll understand the dilemma I am sometimes faced with. Typically I can get over it by just taking throwaway shots. This one was taken just as I got off the Skytrain at Burrard Station. (I took it all the way to Waterfront but then changed my mind on where I would start and got back onto the same train heading back.) Typically I don't publish these, and even though this one isn't particularly interesting, I am sharing it for some reason.
To be totally honest, the process I used to determine which photos I am posting and which ones I am not posting (yet) was pretty flawed; there are some great photos that aren't in my photo thread folder so I've decided instead of the four parts I originally planned, I'm going to keep the thread going until I get tired of it.
I've got about 600 photos to share and only about 200 of them made it to this thread.
Moving on...
Day two started in Coal Harbour, then goes through Stanley Park (which was surprisingly quiet, I saw about as many people walking through there as I do in similar parks in Thunder Bay though the seawall was pretty busy) and the English Bay area, which is where today's segment ends.
I drew this one!!!! I really want to start drawing diagrams again but I haven't been able to find the time. I've been working on Winnipeg's CanadInns HSC since 2011...
I kind of laughed at this guy when I took the photo before I remembered that we have people like this in Thunder Bay, too. In the winter, they walk with those things in the mall. Back and forth all day. I imagine at some point it just becomes a blur of Lidzes and Ardenes... a special kind of hell for a special kind of person.
That's Coastal Church in the background, a nice bit of history in what is otherwise a very new neighbourhood.
Banff Apartments. I Googled that to confirm it. Banff, Alberta has apartments too.
The one on the left is called The Pointe.
I found this interpretation of the Qube to be much more aesthetically pleasing than Nissan's interpretation.
Nice little set up.
I really liked Crown Life Place. It's architecture appeals to me. If I had the time and money I'd build something similar out of Lego.
When I saw it I thought this building was from the late 1960s or early 1970s. It was built in 1998. Now that I look closely at it, its age is a bit more obvious, but at the time I was basically thinking "oh, nice" *snap* > move on.
I liked the way this one was framed.
Sometimes non-remarkable things will line themselves up in a way that makes for a good photo of almost nothing. Here is a good photo of almost nothing.
Almost nothing, close up.
I love this. I want one for my living room.
Shots like this are irresistible to me.
I think every Vancouver thread has this photo. Here is my interpretation of it. I wanted to get a similar shot from the area around Science World but never got around to it, unfortunately.
So glass! Many fenestration. Wow.
North Vancouver. (I don't care about the local divisions, that's all North Vancouver to me. Shut up.)
I don't know what those two were doing, exactly, but they were fastidious about it.
Lions Gate Bridge
The Japanese Canadian War Memorial, erected 1921. I was chased away from it by a wasp, much to the delight of some Australian tourists.
We all had a good laugh about what a pain in the ass wasps are.
You can't tell in this photo, but the trees in Stanley Park are considerably taller than those in Thunder Bay.
Like, seriously, they're at least twice the height of the trees I am used to.
I did quite a bit of searching on Google to see if there is any information about this rock, why it looks like this or where it came from, and found nothing.
Holly. One of many plants growing around Vancouver that I had never seen growing in the wild before.
This is a horrible photo why is it here???
English Bay, btw.
I think it was my grade 7 geography textbook, back in 2000, that featured this building on the cover.
The Sylvia Hotel, one of Vancouver's instantly recognizable landmarks. I like how the condo behind it mimicked the architectural style.
This scene kind of reminded me of what Miami looks like during the intro to CSI: Miami. This building is from the 1960s for sure.
Haha, I forgot about these guys until I stumbled upon them.
Part three will be posted next weekend. I assume. I mean it's a long weekend for us so it isn't like I don't have the time. After leaving English Bay I head up Denman Street to Robson, then walk the entire length of Robson from one end to the other before catching the Skytrain to City Hall and then New Westminster. Part four will conclude the feature with some views from atop the Shaw and Woodward Buildings, a walk through Chinatown, and a little bit more of English Bay and Stanley Park before a conclusion of more airplane shots; that segment should also be posted next weekend but I make no promises.
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There are plenty more palms than that! 
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