I will continue for awhile with the medium format thread... This time images of sea grass from Steveston on the Fraser River...

Bronica ETRS, 100mm and 150mm F3.5 lens, Kodak ektrachrome 100VS film

I haven't used my old medium format camera in awhile and I felt it needed some air. Last week as part of a meetup group, 'Vancouver Photo Walks'; 50 of us wandered around the old fishing port of Steveston settled by Japanese salmon fishermen a century ago on a site used by first nation fishermen for probably thousands of years before them. Perched on the banks of the mighty Fraser River, Steveston is now a great place to wander, share a meal or an ice cream, but the shadows of the abundant salmon runs of the past still haunt the area...

The great cannery buildings are still there leaving us some sense of what came before us...

Bronica ETRS, 150mm F3.5 lens, Fuji velvia 100 film
The colour saturation and depth of the larger negatives even leap off a computer screen, just image projected images filling the living room wall. All this from camera equipment worth probably less then $500.00

More wonderful curves, from Frank Gehry Architect at the Music Museum in Seattle...

Leica M6, 90mm F2.8 Tele elmirit (made in Canada version), Kodak ektrachrome VS100 film

We recently had a too short weekend in Seattle, a gem of a city that was totally new to me. Must return soon...!

The Music Experience Museum in the old Seattle World's Fair Park designed by Frank Gehry Architect.
Leica M6, 50mm F1.4 Canon screw mount lens with M adapter, Kodak ektachrome 100VS film

The summer for me and many others in the design and construction world is often our busiest time of the year. Hence, summer holidays are short and hard to get. But when the sun is out in Vancouver, there are few better places to be, so catching a brief moments is possible...

Two images of holiday dreamers from the sea bus...
Panasonic GF1, 14-42mm lens

It is BC day today, and apparently British Columbia is producing a lot of very fine ales and lagers... especially around Victoria. Cheers!

Now Guinness is not actually local but...
Nikon FE2, 50mm F1.4 lens, Kodak Trix 400 film

I was captivated by this women in Pagliachi's restaurant in Victoria where we were having a wonderful evening of music and food. I only noticed later that her partner was constantly playing with his phone... Hey buddy, turn off your phone!

These images also bring up another thought; the endless debate between digital files and film. For me simply, they are different... and our world needs variety in so many things...
Nikon FE2, 85mm F2.0 lens, Kodak Trix 400 film

This may not be 'street art' but perhaps more in the order of 'street irony'... 

Maybe this shop in the old CPR station in downtown Vancouver has a little problem with their stylist and is covering their bets...

Panasonic GF1, 20mm F1.7 lens

More images of the 'art of curiosity' and our relationships with 'street art'...

Downtown Seattle,
Nikon FE2, 85mm F2.0 lens, Kodak TriX 400 film