foto buff's photos

They are bold and the light angle was just right....

On a walk down a side street in Vancouver came across this old building that an Ivy is trying to consume. There is a new development going in this area and all the old building in this block are going to be demolished.

One yellow in a large bed of purple tulips

From my archives.... this December 2009 sunrise turned out to be a really foggy morning.

The sun adds glow to the Torch. It hard to believe that it has already been over 4 years since the Olympics. A nice legacy for my city.

This is a another view of the stainless steel salmon hanging in the underground passageway between our two convention centres. Wonderful art commissioned from a local native artist.

Another angle of this beautiful statue. A Gift from Greece for holding the 2010 Winter Olympics

Finally Vancouver made a home for the gift from Greece of the Greek goddess Nike. It only took 4 years after hosting the games. It is a wonderful bronze statue... just waiting for its name plate now.

One of the hotdog vendors at English Bay beach in Vancouver He's working on the Smokies and Hotdogs. They are the predecessors to the many food trucks now available in Vancouver.

This is a view of the newer convention centre where the TED talks were held. You can see the TED symbol at the far right of the image and in the top left corner the interactive light sculpture. I have heard that everything is going well with this location and we may be holding the TED talks for a few years.

This year the TED talks are held at the New Convention Centre here in Vancouver. This mesh sculpture is suspended between the convention centre and another building. At dusk they turn on the wireless connection and light display. With your wireless phone tablet etc. you connect to the system and use your touch screen to interact with the program changing patterns on the sculpture. It is not possible to show the patterns with the photography as the exposure is several seconds. It still turns out great thought with the colour patterns. The building in the background is the Hotel portion of the Canada Place Convention Centre.

A sunny windy winter afternoon on English Bay Beach walking the dog. What a beautiful way to spend an afternoon..... me photographing. The afternoon sun makes a nice shimmer on the water and provides silhouetting of the couple and their dog.

We are having some nice sunny early pre spring weather. The snowdrops and crocus abound. This is in Stanley park.. there are bunches of snowdrops on the side of a hill. The backlight of the sun is so nice. Enjoy! Bring on spring! For Efje.

I was going through my archive again... I have so many pictures. I love taking pictures of the sun.. this was a fall sunset in 2012. I love the clouds and the layers of land.

This MD Helicopters MD900 Explorer ( British) just took off from the heliport at Vancouver harbour so I had to capture it as it is a very cool looking helicopter.

Found this angle at a park to get Cypress Ski hill lights in the background of Vancouver.

I found this in my archives from last spring. This was taken in an underground concrete structured parking lot that have these open windows to the outside. Spring is not far away now.....

On Feb 13 I was at the grocery store parking lot when I noticed the full moon rising. I put on the long lens zoomed in. This is 1/2 sec @ f40. I didn't have my tripod so I leaned the camera against a tree and took this shot doing my best to get moon and branches in focus. I like the effect.