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Snow on the mountains

A few days ago, early morning, a beautifuly defined snowline on the North Shore mountains shot with the G3. The snow up there melted very fast. Now it’s back with a vengeance and blanketing the city. More pictures to come.

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2007-12-01 20:41 • Posted in Photoblogs: & Vancouver:

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  • 1 - Marie says:

    « Those are amazing...I dont understand the stark shadow, though - what made that perfect line on the mountains? »

    Date of comment: 2007-12-02 13:48 •
  • 1.1 - Vince answers:

    « It’s not a shadow, it’s just the snow line. The sun was rising and made the snow look so much brighter than the trees... »

    Date of comment: 2007-12-02 13:51 •

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Vancouver's 2007 Celebration of Light - Take two

Well this time everything worked fine. After watching the sunset, my friend Gaby and I retreated slowly up the beach as the tide rose for close to an hour, moving our towel back foot by foot and hoping for it to turn - literally. And it did. So I got the tripod and camera out.

Fireworks like the ones we were going to watch take 3 days to setup by a crew of 16 working 12 hours a day to prepare the 2000 to 4500 bombs which make the show. They are fired from a 150 ft. barge anchored by 6 four-ton anchors 300 meters from the beach. The barge is covered with 100 tons of sand in which the mortars are planted. The different components of modern fireworks, shells, rockets, roman candles, fountains, gerbs, girandoles, mines, wheels and waterfalls are usually fired electronically from a booth on the barge.

China was at the celestial DJ fire console. They did an awesome job. As far as I’m concerned, competition won. Perfect music (Klaus Badelt’s soundtrack to The Time Machine), effective synchronization, inspired fireworks and daring finale. There was emotion in that show compared to Canada’s which, I’m afraid, lacked the Chinese kick.

So dim the lights and click on an image to start the slideshow; here is my rendition of the 2007 Celebration of Light fireworks. As Marie so eloquently put it, if we could lick them, what would they taste like? Tropical berry-flavoured sour candies is my guess...

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2007-08-02 23:14 • Posted in Photoblogs: & Vancouver:

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  • 1 - Andrew Ferguson says:

    « I’m jealous, I think yours turned out a fair bit better than mine :P

    I’m surprised to hear that you thought China was the best though. I admit to not having seen Canada’s performance, but I felt China was really underwhelming.

    I loved their choice of music, but nothing leapt out as impressive in the light show. It was slow, as if it would be building up to a tremendous crescendo and that never actually came.

    The finale was so minor that I didn’t think it was the finale until the loudspeakers came on. And I’m not sure if you saw or not, but multiple times in the show fireworks intended to go up fired off the sides of the boat by accident.

    There were the purposeful ones that stayed lit or fountained down, but I saw a few clear accidents including one that created an explosion of spray less than 30 feet from the waterslide. »

    Date of comment: 2007-08-03 10:28 •
  • 2 - Vince says:

    « Surprised to hear that. It goes to show how watching something through a camera viewfinder changes your perspective. I never noticed the mishaps... But I did not see Spain’s fireworks, so I can only compare to Canada’s. »

    Date of comment: 2007-08-03 11:03 •
  • 3 - ludovic says:

    « Yep, there were some mistakes (although I thought it was pretty cool to see fireworks exploding at sea level instead of in the air). I also thought it was quite slow and not really interesting. I couldn’t hear the music well, though. »

    Date of comment: 2007-08-03 13:16 •
  • 4 - Anonymous says:

    « I couldn’t see the fireworks of any country,
    Montreal being a bit too far.
    But it was almost as good with your pictures and the vivid and enthusiast lecture. »

    Date of comment: 2007-08-05 05:23 •
  • 5 - Marie says:

    « I licked my laptop’s screen, but like the Marukawa gum it faded too fast...beautiful pictures. »

    Date of comment: 2007-08-05 11:14 •
  • 5.1 - Vince answers:

    « LOL. I don’t believe that’s mentioned anywhere in the user manual. But now I understand what LCD means: Lickable Cristal Display. ;-) »

    Date of comment: 2007-08-05 21:49 •
  • 6 - tila says:

    « hi im just wondering.. what kind of photoshop do you use? or what camera? becuase im sure your picture is ALOT better than real lifee »

    Date of comment: 2007-10-22 14:01 •

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