Long Exposures

These pictures have been taken within the last year and are my experimentation with open shutter speeds of 30 sec. The photo's start with Lake Osoyoos looking north towards the U.S./Canadian boarder. The next three photo's are from Fort Langley, followed by a series from downtown Vancouver, finally three photo's from my recent trip to Waikiki Hawaii.




Lake Osoyoos from 11:00pm at night




Fort Langley: Bedford Channel Bridge (west):




Fort Langley: Park Bench with some interesting lighting.



Fort Langley: Bedford Channel (east)






The next set of pictures were shot on a cold night -2 (Celsius) about -8 with windchill lots of fun especially when one is not dressed correctly for the elements.


Vancouver: Kits Beach









Vancouver: Stanley Park, Lions Gate Bridge

Vancouver: Burrard Street

If you are wondering how I did this here you go. Long exposure zoomed in to the full extent then when the shutter is open zoom out this will draw the light straight back.

Waikiki: Kuhio beach

Waikiki: Parking Garage



Waikiki: Kalakaua Ave.

Cherry Blossoms

These are some Cherry Blossoms from the tree in our front yard. This is the second time I have posted these pictures due myself deleting all my posts by accident. So if you have seen these already enjoy them again as a reminder of the wonderful spring weather we had or did not have depending on your view.


This picture was based on perfect timing as the breeze just about made the whole shot a blur.

Random Pictures

This is my bobble head turtle that keeps my company on my 40min commute to work. I was playing with the movement of the turtle along with the colour contrasts.



I asked the turtle if it was a Mexican or Mexicant (quote Johnny Depp from once upon a time in Mexico)
Obviously the turtle fell over so I assume it was the later, Mexicant.

Ahh the greatest game to pit people against chance and skill, Stock Ticker. Exactly like the stock market as you can reap dividends of high oil and curse those terrible industrial stocks as they tank into the abyss along with your blue, pink, yellow,white and green currency. Do not worry your investments in Bonds will save you as the low risk low reward will indubitably win the game.

Cuban statues this was my first attempt to manipulate light with a dark room and candles lit.

The Big City

If you don't know this already, you will soon find out, that I enjoy the urban environment for many reasons. One reason, the main reason is that it is human kind interacting with the environment and using some creativity to show who lives here. This has been happening since the earliest cities, monuments, architectural design and city planning, using the surrounding environment as there canvas and designing the landscape to act functionally so that those who interact with it daily can move through with ease.
So here are some pics from around the city, enjoy.


English Bay:

Inushuck down by the Bay

Arc Monument:

Sun Dial:

Downtown:

Mural of a Master and his Apprentice:

Vancouver Library:

Chinatown:

Dr. Sun Yat Sen Gardens:

Protector Lion:

Common Sight in Chinatown:

West Han Dynasty bell (Topper)

Queen Elizabeth Park:

Plant Bubble:

Photo Sesion Statues:

Bridal Veil Falls

These photo's were shot at Bridal Falls in Rosedale, just east of Chilliwack. My wife and I went on one of the warmer day's in May figured we would see some good flow dropping down the mountain side. I was disappointed at first as from the highway the promise of rushing water cascading down seemed to dawn a trickle. As we hiked, 15 min tops, the roar of a spring freshet could be heard and the process of alluvial erosion perked my nerdy geography side. Provided below is a topographic map from, natural resources Canada, at a scale of 1:75000 Grid zone 92H4, point of reference Chilliwack is located in 92H then 92H is broken down further,i.e. the 4 after the H, so a larger scale can be used to show more detail. Here is the website for the online topographic maps http://atlas.nrcan.gc.ca/site/english/maps/topo/map its interesting to look at. Anyways after examining the topographic map I learned that Bridal falls originates off of Mt. Archibald and not Cheam,which is what I assumed.
Cheam Peak from Harrison:
Also another interesting website is river forecast website it shows the snow pillows and what there status is whether they are above or below normal and has some interesting graphs showing what has happened and is happening and compares them to trends of the average, maximum and minimum ranges. The link is http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/rfc/river_forecast/snowp_map.htm. The closest snow pillow to Bridal Falls is Wahleach Lake which is located about South West of the Cheam Peak. What this can show is when runoff or the freshet is occurring and that is when the waterfalls will be cascading the best.
So enjoy these shots.

This rock came flying down the Falls from the top about 400ft up. The rock bounced 5 ft from my head over a guys head below me and landed a few feet from my wife in the standing area. You can walk up to the falls but be aware of falling rocks, this rock is about 8"x8"x6" (L x W x H)

Water flowing away from the falls:

Near the parking lot:

I was impressed by the waterfall at this time of year if you go up in summer it is still nice but the water flow will be down to half or lower to what the spring run off will show you.