Post-gallery photo-walk

So after an evening spent admiring the magnificent work of Andreas Gursky at the Vancouver Art Gallery (my favourite was Engadin II, an incredible shot of a cross-country ski race), I headed out onto the darkening streets of Vancouver...


Love the juxtaposition


BC Lions fans heading home


The older district of Beatty St, quite a contrast to Yaletown


I kind of had an aim to find a shot to add to the Film Noir Mood Flickr group and this was best I could come up with. I quite like the pool of light on the street corner. However, it didn't get approved - better luck next time, I guess.

Festival d'été francophone Vancouver

Well, here it is, post #1. What I'm going to do here is put of some of what I consider to be my best or most interesting photos as I take them. You can see more of my work on my flickr photostream.

This weekend featured the Festival d'été francophone Vancouver, which is the annual summer festival celebrating the French language in Vancouver, and part of that was a music festival held in W 7th Ave, just off Granville St, on Saturday evening. Three francophone bands performed, Malajube, karkwa and Pierre Lapointe. See the full set.

There were some pretty avidly patriotic (or should that provinciotic?) Quebec fans - lots of blue and white, and lots of poutine consumed (they actually ran out and had a temporary poutine drought).



I was quite pleased with my effort at capturing the drummer from karkwa in action in this shot:



It ended up being quite a fun event, and I think a bit of my high school French was coming back by the end of it all.