Scavenger Hunt Dec. 4th

This is my last Canadian scavenger hunt before I head Down Under for a 6 week vacay with the family. My next post will be from Adelaide, Australia.

On a more somber note, I am having no luck with cameras lately...I just got my DSLR back from Nikon (very happy), but managed to lose my Nikon Coolpix S600 in a cab in Vancouver on the weekend (very not happy)...Oopsies! I lost a lot of fun Friday night pseudo-family dinner pics and after snapping Granville street at 3am I jumped into a cab and left it on the seat when I got out...Perhaps I had too many Christmas libations...I don't care about the hardware, but I would have liked to have seen the drunken snaps I took...the photos are now memories imprinted in my mind and a little harder to share on a photography blog. The sad thing is that the cash I was going to use for a flash will now go toward getting a new Nikon. Bah humbug!

1. In My Home

2. It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like...

Our friend, Kam has created a winter wonderland in his house in Vancouver. I saw the Citadel Theatre's version of 'A Christmas Carol' last week, and thought this guy looked like Bob Cratchett. Where's Tiny Tim?

 3. A Sweet Treat

It isn't a trip to Vancouver without a taster at the Granville Island tasting rooms. This is their winter treat, a chocolate stout. Nice, Nice, Very Nice.

 

4. Time

Movember in December...Chad was proud of his mo. It takes time to cultivate and create a mo that is worthy of keeping into December...he kept it to show his mates in Vancouver. This is the last photo of the mo before it got shaved off.

 

5. Everyday

My favourite place in Vancouver is Spanish Banks. I could look at this view everyday and live right here for the rest of my life. This view is so amazing that I had to include 2 pictures.

 Merry Christmas and a big thank you to our mates in Vancouver who look after us so well every time we visit. You know who you are...

You Capture: Wednesday, First Entry

It was a sad day, yesterday. I had to send my Nikon to the Nikon hospital in Richmond, BC. It got packed up in a neat little Fedex carton, sealed and taken from my warm arms. $168.00 and a small part of my soul later, it was off on a big adventure. An adventure that it will not capture. I feel like I have sent it away to war. I don't know what state it will be returned in or if I will ever see it again. Perhaps, it will be replaced with a new one. Since January, my D90 has slowly been malfunctioning, and it is getting to the point that I cant turn it on without it freaking out at me. When I turn it on, the aperture sets itself at f/90 and then the shutter speed moves to 240. I try to take a photo and it blinks ERROR and then the only way I can clear it is to remove the battery. Perhaps it is angry that I am now using the M mode much more often than I used to...Maybe it too, is sad about leaving Vancouver and feels like this dusty city will infect its lens and particles will enter its fragile cavity thus rendering it useless. I would never let that happen, but dust is small and invasive. At any moment it could attack. I can't protect it from everything this world will throw at it. But now, I am without my baby. All I have is my small Nikon Coolpix s600. As I have just begun to enter Scavenger Hunts and the online photo blogging world, I feel like I have to keep up my involvement, or I will become apathetic about the whole process. So, I am going to use my little Nikon and draw from my archive of the pics that I have taken recently in the last month only. Apologies for slightly breaking the rules, but I really don't want to loose momentum! Besides, it is too much fun!

First Attempt At You Capture Entry: SILENCE

My 'You Capture' photo was taken in Vancouver 2 weeks ago. It is a photo of the Millenium condo complex that is now being deemed a government embarrassment. Built quickly to house the Olympians during Olympics, it hasn't been as popular with Vancouverites as expected. Besides that, the apartments are small and expensive. $700, 000 for 800 sq. ft? No thanks!! 

I call this  photo "Inception" because it looks like a scene from the film. Most of Vancouver is vibrant and happening...this area looks like a ghost town and is very SILENT. What a shame, because the location is amazing.