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Purple Sea

Purple Sea

I took about a dozen different shots at different angles trying to get this one just right. I never really caught it like I wanted to. This one comes close. The sad twig hanging down is pretty good, but it kind of gets lost in the background. The purple are tiny...

Vogu

Vogu

I love the light in the sky. And I like shooting with the 50mm lens. It removes the dickery that happens with a zoom lens and forces composition. Maybe I like it because the lens makes me work a little harder? I can't remember the neighborhood we were in when I took...

Ominous Night

Ominous Night

I should probably just attribute this shot to reading too much Edgar Allan Poe or too many Hitchcock anthologies as a kid. Or maybe too many Anne Rice vampire books. I should have put some bats coming off the building. Or maybe just Meat Loaf as a bat. Bat Loaf?

Last Night in Vancouver

Last Night in Vancouver

Our last night in Vancouver, I caught this sign. For some reason, it reminds me of Amsterdam. I don't know if it's the typeface, the crescent, the colors or the notion of a lounge and a grill. Can you think of two better things? Lounging and grilling? Pretty close to...

VWW

VWW

I remember seeing these in 2005 when we were last in Vancouver. I was struck by the typography of the initials as being mid-Bauhaus and really cool. I've got a few more from the trip this week. We've done so much travel that I have a backlog of photos to post! It's...

Granville Island Skull

Granville Island Skull

This image is exactly what I've felt like the past few days as I've watched the server get a ton of comments. My brain has been going OFF. This was taken on Granville Island, May 2008, while walking down to the marketplace to buy awesome fruits and coffee. Every day...

Brougham Cutlass Supreme

Brougham Cutlass Supreme

Took this up in Vancouver, Canada on my walk through Yaletown. Every time I see one of these I can't help but think of Cedric The Entertainer's bit about the "Bro-Ham". I think it's Cedric. Or maybe it's your mom. Either way, sweet hoopty.

Leafy Greens

Leafy Greens

This plant was huge. Little Shop of Horrors huge. I'm still nursing my bloody stump of a left arm after it attacked. I was very lucky to get this shot, actually.

Where Can A Fella Get a Drink Around Here?

Where Can A Fella Get a Drink Around Here?

Taken in Brooklyn, May, 2008. I'm always struck how real cities have neighborhood bodegas and bars. It's too bad that culture doesn't really exist in Utah, as I think it would help those not of the predominant faith find similar minded people close to them. I wish I...

Rusty Spikes

Rusty Spikes

Taken while waiting to parasail. I can't decide if these were used as hangers for belongings or as a warning to scare off timid tourists. One note, one that I'm sure I'll sing again and again: My photos aren't journalistic they are expressionistic. I don't represent...

Hoping for a Bite

Hoping for a Bite

Another from the sunset beach walk series. I almost got tangled up in the line a few times looking for crabs. The pole was unoccupied/unclaimed, so I was unable to ask what they were fishing for or if they had caught anything. Based on our parasailing adventure, I...

The Beat 94.5 FM Hit Music

The Beat 94.5 FM Hit Music

Taken at Georgia and Howe. The lens flare is all lens. No Photoshop. I dig on the light placement and the fact that at night, you can actually read the street signs. Great usability. Sadly, I did not get a chance to check out the radio station.

Crane

Crane

Found this guy posing it up as I was wandering around downtown Vancouver. I love the crazy angles. The lens makes this crane look much taller than it was in real life. I don't know why I feel so compelled to share that.

Sprinklers

Sprinklers

I was about 2 inches from these when I took this. A super wide angle lens lets you get right on top of the subject. And pummel it into the ground.

Meshy Shades

Meshy Shades

Taken while waiting for Heather to decide what to buy in the cool paper/tchotchke shop on Granville Island. These curvy shades were painted one of my favorite colors. I resemble my daughter in this way: I have a lot of favorite colors.

Inspired by 80s Gehry?

Inspired by 80s Gehry?

I'm thinking of this work, in particular. The use of natural materials and corrugated panels always reminds me of the Venice Beach House as well as his Gehry House.

Dark Bird

Dark Bird

Not sure if this is a blackbird, a raven, a crow or an alien changeling from the counter-Earth that we don't know about because its orbit is exactly opposite of ours. No matter. Birds are weird. But they can fly. Got me on the technicality AGAIN, birds.