I always wondered if the metal fences on this elevated parking palace are in good shape, knowing that excessive moisture, metal and presumed lack of maintenance could be a possibility. Use your parking brakes! 
Nikon FE2, 85mm F2.0 lens, Kodak Tmax 400

More of the 'parking palace' series; under ground parking dungeons just don't seem to have the same appeal. Another 'parking palace' just bit the dust for the new Telus building, recently featured in the Stanley Cup riots of last June at the corner of Georgia and Richards. I wasn't fast enough to admire it before it was gone.
Leica M6, 21mm F4.0 VC color skopar lens, Kodak ektar 100

The parking palace owners did a little paint job awhile back. I think I prefer the rough look, but whom am I?
Leica M6, 21mm F4.0 VC color skopar lens, Kodak ektar 100 film

Elevated parking palaces ( garages!) are slowly disappearing here in Vancouver and being replaced by parking dungeons topped by 20+ floors of 500 sq. ft. condos with granite counter tops. There are a few left and a couple are real gems of pure structural utility. Here is my favorite connected to the Bay by elevated walkway.

Leica 111F (made the same year I was born), 15mm Super wide heliar, Kodak Tmax 400 film

One sunny afternoon a couple of weeks ago, as many of us were  getting some badly needed vitamin D or engaging in some shopping therapy and/ or a caffeine hit, I ran across this gentle fellow with 'his' birds. I enjoyed observing his communion with 'his' birds. And of course others were curious too.
Nikon FE2, 85mm F2.0 lens, Kodak Tmax400 film

An apartment dweller and the gulls enjoy the view and the grey shades of winter light.
Nikon FE2, 85mm F2.0 lens, Kodak Tmax400 film (love the stuff!)

Winter in Vancouver can be weeks of various forms of moisture from the sky and multitudes of shades of grey. I almost went crazy the first winter I was here from lack of sun. But occasionally like a great tease, the sun comes out and it is truly glorious. The light is warm with long shadows. Here are a few images playing with shadows taken in the last 2 months.
Image 1, Leica M6, 90mm F2.8 tele elmar, Fuji velvia 100 film
Image 2, Leica M6, 50mm F1.5 Canon, Kodak ektachrome 100 film
Image 3, Leica M6, 40mm F2.0 summicron, Kodak ektachrome 100 film
Image 4, Leica M6, 90mm F2.8 tele elmar, Kodak ektachrome 100mm
Image 5, Leica M6, 40mm F2.0 summicron, Fuji velvia 50 film
Image 6 and 7, Leica 111G, 35mm F2.5 color scopar, Fuji 400 film
Image 8, GF1, 20mm F1.7 

Our copy of "The Concise Oxford Dictionary" from 1964, (our most up to date version) defines the word " Flaneur" as idling, idler. Other definitions in regards to street photography define it terms of aimless pedestrian, to stroll, to observe. I make no claims to fully understand the meaning of the word other than use it as only one, of multitudes of ways of trying to define what constitutes the wide term "street photography"
Nikon FE2, 85mm lens, Kodak TRX film

Do smart phones make us dumb? The view from the Vancouver Convention Centre is amazing by the way!
GF1 20mm lens

One of the great pleasures of taking public transport here is some of it always involves water, (in this case it is the seabus) and most people love watching the ships in the harbour on their way to and from work, even to the point of ignoring their smart (dumb) phones for a short while.
Nikon FE2, 85mm lens, Kodak trx 400 film

This is my first post on this new journey of sharing. And, I hope this journey will be enjoyed by many.

For many years my hard drive and film cabinets have been steadily filling with imagines taken of the ordinary but often extraordinary world around me. Almost every day ordinary events, objects, and street scenes become something else when there are small changes in light, circumstance and mood. The trick is to be open to see it and ready to record it, and that is the hard part.

Parking the car in the lane behind the office can reveal amazing images, here are two, taken with a Leica M6 and 90mm lens. And this is film, the upper, Kodak ektachrome 100 (soon to disappear) and the lower Fuji velvia 100.
Cheers, March 18, 2012