lions gate bridge

On this trip to Vancouver I wanted to concentrate on night shots of the Lion’s Gate Bridge. I walked from waterfront station and made sure I arrived in time for the blue hour.

 

The next night I went to prospect point viewpoint and got a different perspective of the bay and bridge.

It wasn’t long before a crowd of photographers lined up along the bridge to get this cliché shot so I went down beneath the bridge to get away from everyone and ended up getting some of my favorite shots of the weekend.

Then the walk back…

 

Moss Lady

The weather was pretty grey at the end of the day yesterday so I figured landscape shots were out so I headed out to Beacon Hill Park to get some night shots. I’d seen pics of this new sculpture in the park that raised my curiosity so I went in search. It was a cool spot indeed, however the log post fence around it sort of ruined the natural perspective I envisioned when I first saw the piece. This was definitely added later which is too bad and meant I had to get in a bit closer than I wanted. You have to work with what you got. I took some shots before it got dark out,some of these I can definitely see using for some collages in the future,thats what I was really thinking at first.

I thought this would look best at night so after walking around for a bit waiting for the light to disappear I returned and did some night exposures and even some with a little light painting for effect.

The Moss Lady was inspired by the ‘Mud Maiden’ (below) found in the Lost Gardens of Heligan in England, one of England’s most popular botanical gardens. A team of City of Victoria staff brought the Moss Lady to life in 2015. She is 11 metres long and 1.7 metres high. The sculpture was constructed with a stainless steel frame, cement, boulders, metal pipe, vinyl-coated chicken wire and a clay-based soil created with an acidic PH suitable for moss.  The cattail and club moss were harvested from Vancouver Island.  An irrigation system mists the moss for a few minutes each day.  The hair is made of flowering crocosmia plants.

Cattle Point and Saxe Point

I headed out to Cattle Point for sunset on Thursday night. I felt like I had a hard time finding a good composition It was pretty windy and rained off and on but I managed to get a couple of long exposure shots before the lens got too wet. These were 30 second exposures.

A couple of nights before I went to Saxe Point where I found myself arriving way too early for sunset and spent hrs sitting around waiting for some good light that never really arrived. I spent many hours in the same spot so I ended up taking tons of boring shots. It was so bright and the scene I picked was looking directly into the sun. I still tried to use a long exposure but never really got anything I liked. It was cool spot so I will probably return on a different day.

Vancouver Nightscapes

I’ve been wanting to spend more time in Vancouver lately mostly because it’s a short distance away from Victoria and it feels like a mini vacation. During my most recent visit I really wanted to concentrate on getting some panoramic’s of the skyline during the blue hour and was greeted with cloudless skies and great conditions.

 

Some other night shots during the weekend.

It wasn’t till I got home and started editing did I see this object in the sky over the mountains,a freaking UFO! Well it sure looks like an alien saucer beaming a ray of light,really crazy! Don’t ask me what this is,i’m thinking a light flare from a passing plane or something…..or a UFO!