Vancouver

Everytime I go to Vancouver, I am in awe all over again when I look up at the buildings. They are a combination of old meeting new and seem to balance each other. The next few posts will be from our photo walk today. Brook and I were in fine form again....meandering around the streets, sometimes losing each other, and at other times, we found ourselves taking the same photo but not noticing each other doing it. It was a successful, relaxing day today.

Gibsons weekend

View from the deck facing northeast.

View from the deck facing east.

Ursula, Eliza, and I went to Ursula's family home in Gibson's this weekend. It was a beautiful home with lots of history and beautiful serene views, sounds of birds and boats in the marina, and just peace. Was a good refreshing couple of days.

Any Way The Wind Blows....

If you only knew how long Brook and I worked on getting this shot...hehehee. We looked like a couple of kids blowing on dandilions over and over and over again. It was a very educational and interesting experiment. Out of approximately 50 photos, this is the one that worked. Enjoy!

HDR

We went for a walk at UBC today. I've been looking a lot at shape and texture lately. This was one I chose to take and try my hand at HDR again using the program Photomatix. It brings out a lot of the shine in the railing and it sort of appears 'raised'. I like it.

Hello? Helloooo!.....bzzzz bzzzzz.....

So we are at a party tonight to celebrate a great soccer season and some 'bonding' between the Richmond United U16 Metro team. There was plenty of food, conversation, soccer scrimmages, boxing, trampoline basketball and of course Fifa 2012 on Xbox 360 (or was it Playstation)...Anyways, while these young men kicked the soccer ball around...barefoot I might add,...the cellphones started coming out for safe keeping on a brick ledge on the side of the yard....here's where they landed. It was quite comical. I hope they all got the correct phones back! Twas a very enjoyable evening. A good group of boys! Congrats and keep your eyes on the prize!!!

Sandhill Cranes, Turtles, and Ducks Oh My - at Reifel Bird Sanctuary

Headstand!!!

 This was one of many Sandhill Cranes we saw today at the Reifel Bird Sanctuary. I like the reflection. I had told Brook that I was going to look for reflections. Can you see where the leg ends and the reflection starts?

The above was of an earlier sighting. This male was flying towards us from the next that held the female and 2 eggs. It came vey close to us. This was the clearest capture!

Some of these turtles were huge! I remember my pet turtle. We donated him to Art Knapp's when he got too big. Maybe this is Shellie! I'm sure he belonged to someone.

Some New Westminster Architecture

This was one of the pillars on one of the buildings in New Westminster on Columbia St. It's great how the city has kept the old world charm when building new modern buildings.