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The last part!
It took over 7 months to edit all of the photos, and then another 3 to actually upload and share them! It was fun but I am glad it's finally over because I am working on a new project.
JLousa gave me an opportunity to take photos from the top of the Shaw Tower. Literally the top—We climbed to the roof of the elevator shaft.
Almost immediately after posting this photo to Facebook, I sold a print of it. It turned out pretty good considering how grainy it is.
These photos brought my back to my early-middle days of photography, where I relied heavily on image processors to "salvage" bad shots by making them into some kind of art. It's kind of like I was instagram before instagram
was cool.
Funny story (since I don't have much of a narrative for these photos) — the ladder to climb up the elevator shaft was one of those totally vertical, metal ladders bolted to the side of the building. It was probably about 20
feet high. We have one at work that goes up maybe 9 feet, to access a storage loft. The first time I climbed up that ladder at work, I was too scared of falling to go back down the ladder, and asked my boss if I could jump
down onto his desk about 5 feet below. He eventually helped me get back down. the normal way.
I was only about half as nervous as that when I was on top of the Shaw building.
After climbing down from the top of the elevator shaft we went to a service floor to take more photos.
It was a pretty cool experience.
Here are a few photos of Gastown at night. My tripod was broken (I didn't find out until just before I took the first photos here) so I wasn't able to get too many good shots.
JLousa also showed me the view from the top of W Building, where he lives. A lot of the photos didn't turn out too good but the view was really cool.
I don't have photographic proof of it but I covered a lot of ground in Vancouver. It takes just as long to get from Surrey to Vancouver (33kms) via Skytrain as it does to get from one downtown to another (7kms) in Thunder
Bay. The 15km bus ride from Surrey Central to Langley takes the same amount of time. How Vancouver does it, I just don't know. The only part of the metro I didn't really get to see was the north shore.
These photos were taken with the Samsung ES80 point and shoot. There isn't too much of a difference between them and what was taken with the D70 aside from the fact that Samsung's cameras all have a slight blur to them.
Is this still around?
Entering Chinatown
Recessed balconies seem to be a big thing here.
The Sam Kee Building is one of the main reasons I went to Chinatown. You can't be an architecture enthusiast and visit Vancouver without stopping by to check it out.
That guy looks almost exactly like my brother.
This one looks like it was supposed to be taller, but was never finished...
I spent an hour or so in the library. It has history books about Thunder Bay that even Thunder Bay's library doesn't have! I was impressed.
Burnaby's skyline in the distance. The Skytrain goes
through the building in the centre, it's pretty cool.
After seeing Chinatown and the Library, I spent the evening wandering around town with Touraccuracy, we went through Stanley Park, English Bay, and a few other areas.
The sun came out for the first time in a few days, it was nice.
This scene reminded me of Lake Superior. This is pretty much what it looks like in fall, except the mountains are half the size.
Or forget where or what this was. But it was the last photo I took in Vancouver.
So that's it... all we have to do now is go home.
This is an Enbridge facility north of Cormer, Manitoba. It was about this point that the Chinese couple beside me on the plane opened up a shopping bag to reveal no less than a dozen hard boiled eggs, which they ate beside
me.
I absolutely detest eggs.
This is Souris, Manitoba.
Wawanesa, Manitoba
The Pembina Highway, between Morris (bottom left) and Winnipeg (top centre, but hard to see)
Passing over Lake of the Woods
Home. But we had to go to Toronto first, because that's logical. I left Vancouver at 4pm and didn't get back until almost midnight.
The tallest cliff in Ontario is shorter than its tallest buildings.
I'll continue sporadically posting Vancouver photos either in this thread or in another, as I get to them. But in the meantime, I am working on the most epic Thunder Bay photo tour ever.
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