Just making sure the site is working after today’s MySQL maintenance and such. If it is, you get a picture of a tugboat on the Fraser River. If it isn’t, then I get to use some colorful metaphors directed at the hosting service.
urban scenery
Photo of the Day, July 19, 2022
Shopping Carts: Romeo and Juliet Edition
Secret entrance, July 14, 2022
Okay, it’s really just a sewer cover near Sapperton Landing. I took a photo of it looking straight down, cropped out my feet, then ran it through Luminar AI to bring out the detail. I like the way it turned out!
Three tracks, July 2, 2020
Just outside of Burnaby Lake Regional Park.
Random outdoor photos, May 9, 2022
Light pole casting a shadow of itself.
Stoney Creek. It’s a creek and has stones, so checks out!
Early night sky over Hume Park.
Brunette River looking west, just past sunset.
Night shot, hospital construction
They were doing one of the mega concrete pours that can stretch on into the evening (because it’s mega, they can’t stop partway through) at the new addition to Royal Columbian Hospital. I happened to be out and aboot, so grabbed a shot of the site during this unusual mid-evening activity.
The iPhone often “enhances” photos to the point where they no longer reflect what you actually saw, but this one is pretty close. The sky really did have this eerie blue cast to it.
Photo of the Day: No Entry
The demolition of the old hospital buildings continues apace. This is part of the last building near the corner of the hospital lane way and Sherbrooke Street. I like that the door opens to a pile of rubble on a building that no longer has a roof.
Photo of the Day, May 29, 2021: Holy ship, an illusion
Ship appearing to be landlocked during low tide at Acadia Beach, Vancouver:
The moon and other night objects
I was out completing my rings tonight when I turned around on Sherbrooke Street and saw a fat full moon hanging low in the sky, just as the sun was going down. I went back to the condo, grabbed my camera…and found the battery was dead. But I had a backup battery and it worked. Yay for planning.
Here are three shots, of the full moon, the upper floors of the new hospital building next door, and the mega-crane that has been installed for the pending construction of the next hospital building, along with other nearby objects.