:AFTER 17 YEARS, A final view from my flat in the West End --August 01/1992 to August 01/2009




A final view of a waitress from the Sylvia Hotel... on August 02/09



AUGUST 10th, 2009 ... I GO TO FORT LANGLEY with and courtesy of KEITH
ROBERTSON.. a FELLOW PENTAX USER :D ....... HERE ARE SOME SHOTS WITH MY DA12-24 & K200D


Keith and his disdain for me shooting everything in Continuous




Leaving lunch ... THANKS KEITH...Keith..wait for me..... and waitress waiting for
me to leave ...






Waitress reacting to my answer to her question: What are you photographing? the
Answer: Naughty Girls of Langley





The Barber Shoppe owned and operated by the man known as Jack the Clipper





Bob in his organic and ultra-healthy food emporium in the tiny village of Fort Langley, BC .... too good and too healthy ....I wouldn't last long





Cheers and stay tuned for my next exciting chapter ......K200 & 50-135:O




AS PROMISED....... MY 50-135/2.8 AND MY K200D



An old camera, circa 1915, at (one of) the Fort Langley antique shops





for those of you like me who are having trouble reading the little sign in the
first picture of this post





One of the guides at the Fort Langley ......





Keith, a lifelong Langley, albeit not Fort Langley, resident discussing the history
of Fort Langely with the guide






Other folks, from Saskatchewan, who were visiting Fort Langley .....






After a lot of Forting .............. What better thing to do ..than doing some
Beatnik dining ..... and, the weird thing is, Keith has a cool stick on Goateeee
and, truth be told, it was a cool dining spot and, sadly, we're were only ones of
hepcat age





Cheers and stay turned for the next and last chapter ......... calm down people..quit the tears ........ the K7 and DA 300 in Fort Langley



THE K7 AND DA*300/4 --*** COURTESY OF MY PENTAX SALES REP***



Start off with a shot of a kid looking through the window of a cafe where Keith
and I settled in a coffee .......and it wasn't a Starbucks ...matter of fact,
I didn't even see a Starbucks anywhere near quaint Fort Langley ..but, before
I digress to far:






Keith looking at something in the Fort Langley Museum ....hence the sepia tone attempt






Approaching the actual "fort" of Fort Langley ...also, the bars on the window
were the closest I got to shooting my usual crime and corruption stuff





One of the guides of the fort ... a young Morrocan lady who came to Vancouver for
a holiday and her brother brought her to Fort Langley and ... BOOM that was it,
she went back finished university and back to Canada, BC and (Fort) Langley





The next two(2) pics are of family of tourists trying there hand at "panning for
gold" at the makeshift 'gold rush' portion of the fort ... I didn't wait to see if
they got any gold....... but, I daresay, the youngest of the family -- the young
lad nearest the camera -- was the most cynical of the family but his sister and
Dad were much more engrossed






Inside the Big House and, no, not the gaol but the house of the Head Cheese
of Fort Langley and he had a nifty gun hanging around and had to use flash to
keep it steady .............. not bad flash exposure





From Guns to Girls and the waitress who served Keith and I at the Beatniks Bistro and even lived to survive ..





After lunch -- THANKS KEITH -- we decided to go for a little wander around town
as the rain had pretty much stopped to a light intermittent drizzle and went
down to the river and liked this shot of the a few boats ...which are, according to
Keith, are becoming as rare as the fish I saw jump out of the water -- I missed him
but I did get the splash





A view aross the river which shows what kind of day it was:






As we were walking back, from the river, we ran into lady -- a friend of Keiths -- who
is an avid kayaker/rower as she wandered down the railway tracks with her paddle...








Whilst wandering around Fort Langley village we came across the cemetary and thought I would end this little sojourn with a little homage to those who laid
down their lives in order that the following generations could enjoy little places
like Fort Langley








heers and blast away with comments ....be they positive or negative ...all I ask for is some qualifying as to why you think the pics are good or bad ....Cheers, Jack



FROM *MY* PAST WEEKEND -- AUGUST 16th and AUGUST 17th


PHOTO #1 - AUG 16a) The crowds of people at the Gastown Motorcycle Show and Shine exhibit on Sunday August 16th, 2009





PHOTO #2 - AUG 16b) A boat moored, albeit momentarily, at Granville Island and one enviable lad on deck with three(3) nice shipmates. August 16th, 2009





PHOTO #3 - AUG 17a) Roy Sweeney looks bemusedly at the long of people waiting to gain entrance to and a free ride to the
Vancouver Int'l Airport on the new Canada Line of the Skytrain on Monday August 17th, 2009





PHOTO #4 - AUG 17b) Hmmmmmmm .... a classic shot of several city -- in this case,Vancouver -- workers standing around a.....err, studying how best to deal with a particular project -- in this case, a good sized hole in East Hastings Street -- on Monday Aug 17, 2009







PHOTO #5 - AUG 17c) One of a number of handwritten signs on Main Street warning tourists (and locals alike) of the drug trade and junkies awaiting them on (east) Hastings Street. Aug 17, 2009

CRUISE SHIP SNAGS A WHALE AND BRINGS IT INTO CANADA PLACE ON SATURDAY JULY 26th

From Last Nights (Wednesday July 29th) Fireworks ...POSSIBLY ONE OF THE
WEIRDEST THINGS I HAVE WITNESSED (over the past 17 years)DURING THE FIREWORKS A Dance Sequence (of 6 images:









Re: The Above... WORDS ESCAPE ME :O


FROM TUESDAY (July 28th) NIGHT ... A (semi) TANGERINE DREAM





FROM SATURDAY (JULY 25th) NIGHT ...
A very surreal Tangerine Sky:

THE CROWDS AT THE FIRST (1st) NIGHT OF 2009 FIREWORKS

THE CROWDS LEAVETH:




THE CROWDS ARRIVETH:



,,,,,,,,,,, and the Police watch :D

It's been a VERY LONG while since I last put anything on
my blog -- November 11th, 2007 -- so I am put on
some very random photo's and some I will put a header on (for
time and location purposes) if they were not taken in Vancouver :)

SKYTRAIN TUNNEL/WALKWAY



WHERE SOME OF MY PICS GO




METH LAB IN DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER








SOME CONCERT SHOTS FROM THE **Da Film Daze... Back In The late 80's and early
90's**

The late Steve Clark of Dep Leppard



The Who's ..Roger Daltry



Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits





Old Slowhand himself .... Eric Clapton




What you find (and shoot) whilst wandering the alley ways of downtown Vancouver .....





The sights you see whilst wandering the Streets of downtown Vancouver on a
Monday afternoon




for a change; a vertical landscape :O :O




Whooops ..almost forgot the coffee :D





NICE LIGHT IN THE WATERFRONT SKYTRAIN FOYER





A BLAST FROM THE PAST ..... film in the 1995 ...NOT,necessarily, FOR THE SQUEAMISH





ANOTHER (sequential) BLAST (no pun intended)FROM THE PAST -- (one of) THE PEPPER SPRAY INCIDENT(s) AT APEC 1997



















A SCREAMING (crack) ARREST (sequence) IN THE SKIDS









POLICE TAKE DOWN IN THE WEST END (summer 2008) ..ANOTHER SEQUENCE








BRING IN THE DOG






STILL MOTION .... from the downtown
power outage of the summer of 2008




SKIN AND BONES (literally) BEGGAR IN DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER




GASTOWN BIKE RACE .. 2008








BIG BOAT IN YALETOWN MARINA




BATMAN and WONDER WOMAN




THE GIRL (laying in the street) IS NOT INTOXICATED ...




BC's SUPERNATURAL OUTDOORS-Oct 2008-



at least it's from BC




WINE CONNISEUR IN THE DTES




DIFFERENT RULES FOR DIFFERENT ROOMS ;D




THE VANCOUVER **SWEAR** DANCE (3 shot sequence)






REMEMBERANCE DAY 2008

Rescue Dogs



Crowds and WW 1 Helmets



Young Kids watching the Parade despite the miserable weather ... gives one faith
for the future




I FEEL SORRY THIS KID, HIS PARENTS AND WHAT THEY MUST THINK OF DOWNTOWN VANCOUVER AND IT'S INABILITY TO DEAL WITH **JUNKIE BEGGARS ** INVADING RESTAURANTS,albeit
McDonalds, AND WHAT IS, EVEN MORE, SAD WAS McDONALD INABILITY (or) LACK OF INTEREST TO DEAL WITH **JUNKIE
BEGGARS**





WAVES AND RUNNERS ON THE ENGLISH BAY SEAWALL (4 SHOTS).. I do apologise for the crap quality :(







I WILL END THIS NOW AND..hopefully..WON'T TAKE ANOTHER 18 MONTHS TO POST AGAIN :D

***PICS FROM VANCOUVER'S (89th) REMEMBRANCE DAY SERVICES.....***

A YOUNGSTER DOES SOME READING WHILE ATTENDING THE SERVICES..




THIS MAN AND HIS WIFE TOOK TURNS PHOTOGRAPHING THEMSELVES WITH THEIR MOBILE PHONE WITH THE CENOTAPH IN THE BACKGROUND....AND I AM (STILL) NOT SURE IF (IMO) IT DEMEANED THE REMEMBRANCE DAY ASPECT.... ??




AND IF I HAD MY DOUBTS ABOUT THE "MOBILE PHONE PIC TAKING' ...............THIS LEFT ME REALLY BEWILDERED :o





THEN IT RETURNED BACK TO NORMAL WITH (one of) THE FLYOVER(s)...



THEN THE ARMY INVADED HASTINGS STREET WITH A FEW VEHICLES AND A BIT OF ARTILLERY, albeit a tad too late ;)





THEN THE SERVICES WERE OVER AND THE VETS IN WHEELCHAIRS DEPARTED DOWN HASTINGS STREET....




...THEN AS I WAS WANDERING DOWN COMMERCIAL DRIVE...I HEARD THE SOUND OF BAGPIPES, INVESTIGATED AND
FOUND THE VPD PIPE AND DRUM BAND .....
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.
.
.
.
.
.
.....MARCHING INTO THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION ON COMMERCIAL DRIVE AND SIXTH (6th) AVENUE FOR A WELL-
DESERVED LIBATION :)






THE END.....

IT'S NEARLY HALLOWE'EN SO HERE ARE SOME PICS FROM MY "THANKSGIVING ROADTRIP TO PENTICTON and BACK" ;D

On the rainy TransCanada Hwy outside Vancouver....



Ess Curve



Fall Colours



Shooting out the back window --Sunsetting Car Shilouette(ish)



Shooting out the front window --Car on the road



(In Penticton) ..Landscapers work on my Mom's neighbours flowers and a buck to water the lawn...quite a deal + My Mom watching one of the landscapers







Back on the road and the driver did a U-turn shoot this lake...after too many passes and not stopping...




Whilst driving through a small city (Merritt), I spotted a Cowboy (Junkie...me thinks)





While waiting to go through the Toll Booth, I spotted a Conservation Officer pulling over (potential) poachers ....of bears, deer, moose, etc....and he spotted me ;D



A huge mountain slide of slate....



A little ways outside of Vancouver ....near around where the initial shot (guy in truck) was taken....a Barn and field....



THE END :)