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May 25
   Vintage! This is a random post. The year was 2008...

The South Africa Photo Galleries are up!

It’s been quite a while and they were getting dusty, but the best 90 South Africa pictures have made it into their own photo galleries. Nostalgic, eerie, beautiful, they will remain what they instantly became as the shutter was pressed: icons, timestamps, history been written and frozen in time. The two galleries are available from the main Photography menu above but to be sure you’ll visit, I’ll even include the links here:

South Africa Part 1 - South Africa Part 2

Don’t look for a particular sequence or logic, there is none but that of colors and moods. Of course most of these pictures have appeared in previous posts here on the blog in the On the Road Category, scattered between January 18th and April 18th. So while turmoil is once again gripping South Africa, here are glimpses of natural peace and harmony. Images of an extraordinary trip, in extraordinary company, for an extraordinary purpose.

2009 Update: Since the full site redesign, the 2008 South Africa gallery is now located here.

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2008-05-25 12:00 • Posted in Always: & On the road: & Photography: & South Africa:

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Nov 9

Tropical Vancouver

Since there are no tropical storms roaming around the Caribbean at this time, the West Coast has decided to pick up the flag and go ahead with some nasty weather of its own. The Seattle area is issuing Gale and Flood Warnings for tonight and as for us, well, here’s part of the Environment Canada special warning:

Greater Vancouver
3:36 PM PST Thursday 9 November 2006
Wind warning for
Greater Vancouver continued
Strong southeast winds of 70 to 100 km/h will increase to 120 this evening.
...

Ouch. That’s hurricane strength on the Beaufort scale. Déjà vu. Except that going body surfing in the storm waves is out of the question and when the fury subsides, there will be no warm sand to make up for the rain and the wind. The clouds, however, will be as brilliant. Because the sky... But that will be my next post.

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2006-11-09 18:13 • Posted in Vancouver:

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  • 1 - **Ego** says:

    « It’s almost 10pm and the weather is still calm. No hurricane here... »

    Date of comment: 2006-11-09 21:43 •
  • 2 - Vince says:

    « You’re right, calm here too, 9:55pm... »

    Date of comment: 2006-11-09 21:55 •
  • 3 - Vince says:

    « Well rain, we got. Wind? Don’t think so... »

    Date of comment: 2006-11-10 10:16 •

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