The buyer arrives,

and the maker rests..

 

 

Quails Gate Winery, West Kelowna

Olympus OMD Mk5 11, 12mm - 100mm F4.0 Olympus Pro lens.

 New grapes,

and last years grapes.

 

 

 

West Kelowna

Olympus OMD Mk5 11, 12mm - 100mm F4.0 Pro lens.

Gastown,

Beauty and the beast.

Leica SL with Vario-Elmar R 35mm-70mm F4.0

But,
no mater what,

There always is always construction.

Leica SL, with Vario-Elmar R 35mm -70mm F4.0 lens

Gastown,

Many closed shops,
and restaurants waiting for visitor's return.

Leica SL, Vario-Elmar R 35mm - 70mm F4.0 lens.

I haven't been to Gastown since before Covid hit in early March.

In early July it felt as though the last 10 years of urban renewal,
has gone backward at least those 10 years.

Empty store fronts again are everywhere, including Army Navy,
that had been there for more then 50 years.

Cruising high end German cars among many homeless and the under unemployed.

The wealth gap feels ever wider.

Leica SL with Vario- Elmar 35mm -70mm F4.0  R lens.

British Columbia Transportation and Highways Yellow.

I am sure this is a colour that you can order,
as I sure see it often enough.

Or maybe I spend too much
time looking down.

Mobile phones with cameras are great,
you always have it with you.

Blackberry Keynote 11

In these weird times,

What to do?

Leap back to what we know,
or contemplate a new path forward.

Blackberry Keynote 11 camera phone.

Capilano River, West Vancouver.

Life Studies,

More from the deck garden,
and beside the driveway.

I am having fun, so close to home.

Lynn Valley, North Vancouver.

Leica SL, 60mm F2.8 Macro Elmarit Leica R lens.

Life studies,

in our deck garden.

Lynn Valley, North Vancouver.

Leica SL, 60mm F2.8 Macro Elmarit Leica R lens.

More still life studies,

Along the front driveway.

Lynn Valley, North Vancouver.

Leica SL, 60mm F2.8 Macro Elmarit Leica R lens.

Still life studies,

on the dining room table.

Lynn Valley, North Vancouver.

Leica SL, 60mm F2.8 Macro Elmarit Leica R lens.

As our lock down continues,

There is so much beauty and celebration of spring,
so close at hand.

Daffodils on the dining room table.

Leica SL, 60mm F2.8 Macro Elmarit Leica R lens.

Look up,
look waaaay up.

(From the 1960's CBC series, The Friendly Giant)

Though, I don't think this what they meant.

Leica SL, 21mm F2.8 Zeiss Biogon Lens

More empty chairs.
Waiting,
but not too soon,
Please.

JJ Bean, Main Street and Robson Square.

Blackberry Keynote 11 and
Leica SL, 90mm F2.8 Elmarit Leica lens.

Empty suits,
and empty stairs.

Vancouver Art Gallery.

Leica SL, 90mm F2.8 Elmarit Leica lens.

The almost empty city...

Sunday morning, downtown Vancouver.

Leica SL, 90mm F2.8 Elmarit Leica lens.

In this world,
quietly
and often alone.

Kelowna North End
Olympus OMD M5 Mk11,  F4.0 12mm- 100mm Pro lens.

Kalamar Park, West Kelowna.
Leica SL, 50mm F1.4 Summilux Leica lens

More of our reduced world...

Leica SL, 60mm F2.8 Macro Elmirit lens.

And inside my closed doors...

Our Amaryllis still bloomed.

Leica SL, 60mm F2.8 Macro Elmirit Leica R lens

Doors are closed everywhere.

Kelowna, the North End.

Images 1 and 2, Olympus OMD M5 11,  Olympus Zuiko 12mm-100mm F4.0  lens.
Images 3, Olympus OMD M5 11, Leica Summilux 50mm F1.4 lens with adapter.

March 12, 2020.

It feels like that day was my last day of relative normal,
in my small world in North Vancouver, Canada.

These are just a few images of that day,
both working outside and at play at days end.

Spring buds on the trees at sea level
and a winter sunset at the top of Cypress Mountain.

Blackberry Keynote 11 phone camera