February 7, 2010
on the west coast of canada, nestled between coast mountain range and the american border is vancouver, british columbia – my home since 1953. vancouver is hosting the 2010 winter olympics. the winter of 2010 (if we can call it that) we’ve had a very strong el niño year, resulting in the warmest january on …
February 5, 2010
vectorial vancouver is up and running! this amazing light display over english bay was created by rafael lozano-hemmer, an internationally acclaimed light artist. check his work out at lozano-hemmer.com i’ve been asked recently what the “best” settings for a digital SLR camera might be. here’s some thoughts … use either M (manual) or Tv (shuTter …
July 4, 2009
I’ve had two things come into my journey of late that I decided to put together and make available on the internet. The first is a photo essay on graffiti in and around downtown Vancouver, and The second was my recent discovery of the Creative Commons. Graffiti is any drawing or marking in a public …
May 25, 2009
On the Victoria Day weekend during on of my usual walks around Lost Lagoon, I noticed that the new bird houses that the Nature House had just put in were starting to attract residents. Sparrows had already moved in and were rearing chicks; swallows were begining to take an interest in the bird-houses-on-poles that had …