A PLACE FOR THINGS

• Tagged blue, lake, reflection, Tchesinkut Lake, water

Tchesinkut Lake, BC last, night, just before dark. I love evenings that turn blue. Beautiful. Well to me anyway.

A layer of fog covered the city this morning. Sort of comforting after the devatsting fire last night.

The plume seen here is from the pulp mill. Lakeland Mills is between the plume and the sun rising.

My prayers go out to all those who have been affected by the fire.

• Tagged city, iphone 4s, vancouver, vancouver bc, yvr

Last week I took a quick trip to Vancouver. I didn’t bother to bring my “big” camera since the trip didn’t lend itself to focusing on photography. That said, it’s difficult for me to avoid taking a photo or three.
Here are a few of the photos I ending up taking. I was pretty happy with how my trusty iPhone worked out in the city.

• Tagged golden, ice, mist, nechako, river, snow, sun, trees, vapour, water

Another great stop at the Nechako River this morning. I’ll admit that my ears still hurt a bit. It is stupid cold right now. The temperature was -34℃ when I took this shot. So worth it though. I’ve doubled back to this spot two times now. Each time the light was better than when I first wanted to stop.

• Tagged blue, bokeh, camera+, city, grain, iphone, lights, Prince George, yellow

Prince George, early morning. Bokeh courtesy of the iPhone 4S. A little processing with the Camera+ app. I love having this camera in my pocket.

• Tagged ancient forest, showshoeing, snow, the north face

Over the holidays we snowshoed the Ancient Forest. It’s an inland rainforest about 115km east of Prince George, BC. I took this shot of my wife, which turned out to be a nice ad for The North Face. Also, she’s a great model.

• Tagged pikes place, public market centre, seattle, wa

First, it was late. I had forgotten my camera. I know, I don’t forget my camera. I stood in the way of traffic and held up my iPhone 4S and grabbed three shots. I edited the best one at Starbucks with the Camera+ app and the result is what you see here. This isn’t award winning. It’s a well photographed landmark, but the fact remains that I had left my 7D in the hotel and was able to come back with good looking images that can be posted and printed large. I still make the photograph but I have to acknowledge that advances in technology sure give the photographer a lot of options.

Tchesinkut Lake always seems to present some sort of photographic opportunity. Even though the sun is actually missed from this view, the light is so great.

While in Tokyo I was able to visit the Meiji Shrine. Please enjoy some images from in and around the shrine.

I was travelling this week and I’ll be travelling next week. I love it. I’m going to be exposed to some amazing subjects next week. I hope to serve them well in this space over the coming weeks. Stay tuned.