A Vincent Mounier Photography Blog
The urban legend of the LandLords, the LandWorms and the BlackCats
Once upon a time, in a busy eastern shore Metropolis of a remote planet in a distant spiral galaxy, lived three very different races. Two of them, the LandLords and the LandWorms, were linked by one of nature’s most cynical symbiotic relationship: the Quest for rental housing. The third race kept to itself, rarely interfering with the outside world; they were the LandOwners.
The Lords and the Worms had always needed each other to survive and because they both provided t...
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Busy times
August 7, 2007
Given that I'm quite busy these days working on parallel projects - like backing up and sorting my entire photography database (over 40 GB) and revamping all the photo galleries on the main site to use the latest Lightbox script - I don't run around taking pictures as often as I'd like.
I did miss a gorgeous sunset up at Grouse recently, too busy talking and enjoying a Hefeweisen, and also went for a swim in Lynn Creek below Twin Falls (Lynn Canyon) which, at 6 pm, was ...
Anthology of my laptops
August 5, 2007
Once upon a time, about 15 years ago, I bought my first computer after much debate with myself. I was writing a (my) book and the combination of typing and saving was a rather irresistible option. But my budget was tight and I had a feeling that portable computers were not quite yet at their peak and that waiting two or three more years would probably let them improve substantially before they stopped changing radically. How naïve of me.So I finally settled for a comprom...
Vancouver's 2007 Celebration of Light - Take two
August 3, 2007
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 ...
Rebelote
August 1, 2007
Second attempt at shooting the fireworks tonight. Now what is it I was supposed to do about the camera, again? I've got this nagging feeling I'm forgetting something...
Epiphany of the true nature of cell phones
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Vancouver's Celebration of Light
A very small boy carrying a huge piece of driftwood creeps by in the darkness, the end of his load barely missing the tripod on which thrones Abe. She must shiver at the thought of all the wet sand surrounding us and that would gladly sneak into every open space of her delicate anatomy. I make a mental note to keep the kid in my peripheral vision.This has been a strange day, one of those "lost before they even started" battles. For many reasons not worth mentio...
Invisible Light of the Deepest Nights
July 26, 2007
It’s 2:30 am. All cats are gray and people are few. The streets are wet and shiny from hours of rain, but for the time being only a fine mist fills the air; it feels almost as being inside a cloud. Speaking of which, the clouds drawn on the horizon by city lights of different color temperatures are quite eerie. I decide to interrupt my walk on the Seawall and run back home to get the camera.
Here is what I record. No, these are not sunset or sunrise shots, nor are they da...
Cascades Revisited
July 23, 2007
They’re big, they’re high, they’re sharp and they reign over the local landscape like as many kings on their respective kingdoms. They are the volcanoes of the Cascades mountain range.
My last visit to the American part of the Pacific Northwest dated back almost two years. I had driven around Mt. Hood, observed Mt. St. Helens from a distance, glanced at Rainier from the highway and marveled at the fact that Baker was not only so close to the Canadian border, but to Vanc...
Of sunsets and mankind
July 15, 2007
There's a lot more to sunset than meets the eye. From immemorial times, mankind has watched sunsets with a twinge of the heart and a sigh, while sunrises were left alone and generally ignored. Why is that?As a race, we are dreamers, yet we do not know very well how to empower ourselves and make our dreams come true. We rely on hope and we pass our wishes on to faith. But when the time comes to act and think bold, we get caught up in the moment's difficulties and lose sig...
Google Maps revisited
July 7, 2007
I've said it before, we live in a wonderful age. Even if one can't afford to travel (that would be me these days), there still are amazing virtual options to explore the world, options that weren't available to us only a decade ago. Google Maps, for instance, continues to innovate and impress me. You can now, in select U.S. cities, get a street level photographic view of an address. That's right. Anywhere in town!
Let's say you've just booked a couple of nights at the Pe...