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Cypress Sessions (pt 2)

Strain — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:23:00 +0000

Another photo from late last season up at Cypress – Eric Poulin drops a goalpost stepdown, bolstering Cypress’ claim to the best terrain on the north shore:

Beach Days

Strain — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:11:00 +0000

Just a few weeks ago I was raving about how winter had finally arrived… it was good while it lasted, but it seems to have been short. I went from shooting on another sunny Sunday at Cypress, to enjoying burgers and beer at sunset on Jericho beach in less than 45 minutes – I really love living in this city.

I wanted to throw a strobe onto Colin in this photo, but my camera battery decided to call it quits after a long day of shooting, and the spare was in the car. I still like it.

Days 17-20: The fog is gone.

Strain — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:28:00 +0000

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the fog for giving me 2 weeks of unique photo ops around the city. Now that its gone, everything looks so… boring. The weather gods must be especially forgiving though, since the fog has been replaced with SNOW today! The more the merrier, bring it on…

On day 17, I brought my camera along for a night out at one of my favorite pubs in the city, the Kings Head. Good times, good beer, good friends, good music. Pretty much sums the night up…

Read on for days 18, 19 and 20:

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Day 18 is a bit of a cheat: these are photos of photos I took last March, and got published for a Whistler/Blackcomb park guide in the Norwegian Magazine Fri Flyt.
I’m top right:

and both on this page:

Props to the girls (Mira, Dina, Lisa and Chelsea) for a fun, productive day in the Whistler park last March!

For Day 19, I snapped a few shots of a familiar sight for Vancouverites: cargo ships and mountains at sunset. Check the new watermark! Oh yea!

I use my 50mm 1.4 for about half my photos, so needless to say that focal length can get a bit boring. On day 20, I flipped it around and shot some backwards macros with it. I collected this rock on one of my adventures in northern BC… bonus points if anyone can name all of the sexy sulphide minerals in this photo:

That’s it for now, the next update should feature some riding of the current snowfall…

As always, I’ll throw in another, shameless plug for my twitter… follow me!

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Days 12-16: mid month doldrums

Strain — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:23:00 +0000

Um, yeah. So, I didn’t quite realize how tricky this was going to be, but I’m running out of ideas. Gonna have to start photographing more people, cause I can’t think of many new ways to shoot the city in the fog (plus I think the fog is rolling out).

Day 12: the seawall in Coal Harbour:

Days 13-16 in the 2nd half of the post (note – 14 and 16 are good, just ignore 13 and 15):

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Day 13: self-portrait #1 is a pretty clear sign that I’m starting to run out of ideas…

On day 14, the fog pulled through for me, just minutes from midnight:

Day 15 was another miss, lame photo (I do like the sky though) from my balcony:

Yesterday, I decided I needed to get out of downtown to break the slump and get something a little different. Day 16 is from the pier at Jericho Beach, looking back to the city skyline:

It’s a pano, so I recommend checking a larger version.

So, that puts me halfway through, hopefully I can continue to find new stuff to photograph over the next 2 weeks…

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Days 8-11: around, above, and underneath the city

Strain — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 06:53:00 +0000

On my way home from photographing a political event in Gastown on Wednesday, I passed by the Steam Clock (a big meh, if you ask me), where a young man was reading up on the history of the famous Vancouver landmark. I think watching people watching the clock is way more interesting that watching the clock itself…

Read the full post for days 9, 10 & 11:

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I hate to say this, but for all of you stuck down in the foggy city all week… its warm and sunny on the north shore mountains. Went for a quick snowshoe up / snowboard down Mt Seymours 1st pump on Thursday, and the weather was nothing short of glorious.

Eric Poulin sends a method off a hip that’s seen many a method over the years, in the Seymour backcountry:

An alternate for day 9:

Day 10, under the Cambie St bridge:

A couple of day 10 runner-ups

Day 11 – I took over 1000 frames today, but most of that was for a time lapse video that will probably take a little while to edit – bird on a wire will have to suffice.

Don’t know what I’ll shoot tomorrow, but I have a ton of photos to edit. Check back soon for the next round of updates…

I’m still trying to get into this twitter business, follow me!

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Downtown Vancouver (Days 5, 6 and 7)

Strain — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:27:00 +0000

Didn’t get out of downtown much over the past few days… so days 5, 6 and 7 of the photo-a-day are all fairly similar. I’ll try to change it up tomorrow.

Day 5: Blue steel

Read the full post for days 6 and 7 (you’ll want to see day 7…):

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Day 6: the view down Hamilton St from my apartment:

Day 7: Vancouver’s waterfront – Harbour Centre and the SeaBus terminal. I don’t do long exposures often, so I’m pretty happy with how this turned out.

Desktops of Day 7:

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If you want to keep track of all the images in one place, you can see them in my photo-a-day flickr set.

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Yuck (Day One)

Strain — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:08:00 +0000

Vancouver is a gorgeous city, but I have to feel sorry for anyone who comes here on a non-ski/board vacation at this time of year. The False Creek area is especially picturesque with all the snow/mud slop covering everything:

I’ve found that I haven’t been taking nearly enough photos for myself lately, so I’ve decided to undertake a month long photo-a-day project, to kick-start my creative juices for the new year. I’m sure there will be many days of total suckage, so I’ll spare everyone the blog spam and post the photos every 3 days or so.

Also, I signed up for twitter awhile back, only to realise that I don’t actually know anyone who uses it. Anyone alive out there? Follow me here: ===>http://twitter.com/AndrewStrain<===

Alright, enough with the public service announcements. A couple more photos from today after the jump.

Looking down:

Some crows chillin’ in a tree.

Unloading.

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Thanks, Joe!

Strain — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:22:00 +0000

Over the past month or so, I’ve been working on a little lighting workshop with the members of the Vancouver Strobist group, which went down on Sunday. I didn’t end up shooting many photos, instead focusing on keeping things [relatively] organized… but, I did steal someones G9 to shoot a bunch of video. I’ll be putting together a little media clip over the next week or so featuring a bunch of the video as well as photos, but in the meantime, I just wanted to say thank you to a couple people:

First, to Joe McNally, for taking the time out of his day to work with us for a couple of hours (and for the shout out on his blog). Joe is an awesome photographer and an even better person, and I really can’t stress enough how appreciative we all are of his contribution to our workshop, as well as to the photography community in general. Thanks, Joe!

To Pacifica Photograhpy, for letting our group use their space (on moving day, no less!), and keeping us out of the rain or a sketchy parkade.

And of course, to everyone else who came out to shoot, model, learn, and teach: these events don’t happen without your help.

—Photos/video to come once it’s edited—

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Lest We Forget

Strain — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:20:00 +0000

I wrapped my D200 in a plastic bag and brought it along with me to the very rainy Remembrance Day ceremony at Victory Square today (lest I forget how to use my camera… I think I took 3 photos in all of October).

To the men and women who have served our country in times of calm and crisis: thank you. May we never forget your courage and sacrifice.

From the City of Vancouver Archives: Granville St, November 11, 1918:

Go big or go home.

Strain — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:11:00 +0000

A few weeks ago, a good friend of mine commissioned me to make some art for his new house. The result was a 24×41 stretched canvas print of one of my more popular images:

I was unsure of how it would turn out, printing that big from a 10mp Pentax camera… but I’m thoroughly stoked on how awesome it looks. You haven’t really seen a photo til you’ve seen it this big, in print… trust me. I’m almost sad that I’m selling it; guess I’ll have to make another copy for myself. Speaking of which, I’d be more than happy to make one for you as well, drop me a line @ andrewstrainphoto@gmail.com if you’re interested.

The original edit from a year ago:

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