General Chat / The Vancouver Collection

I recieved many positive comments from both my Australia and Japan trip threads about my photography. I take lots of pictures in Vancouver, so I thought I'd share some.


Moutain skyline from Simon Fraser University (SFU)


Development. A new community with homes for 10,000 is being built on top of Burnaby Mountain, home to SFU.


This is the first building that is part of the new community. The building is called The Cornerstone and is LEED certified. The community is called Univercity.


The Cornerstone


Flower shop at the Cornerstone.


Sidewalk at the Cornerstone. I did not use a filter on this picture, and I have no idea how I accomplished this.


This is SFU. It's designed by quite possibly the most famous Canadian architect, Arthur Erikson, and this building is highly regarded.


Siding on the University Quadrangle (offices).


Park area within the Quadrangle.


Stairs leading down and away from the Quadrangle.


Reflection of the Quadrangle from the reflecting pond within the grounds.


The Shaw Tower, Vancouver's second tallest building at 481ft. Most appartments in the building are over $1,000,000, and the penthouse was sold to Jean Claude Van Damm for $6,000,000 I believe. It's a mixed use tower, so there are 19 floors of offices. A prominent Vancouver architect, James Cheung, designed it.


This is the Marine Building (on the right and reflected in the other two buildings). It's an old Art Deco-esq building.


The Sea Wall at Coal Harbour. Coal Harbour is a residential community in downtown Vancouver. The city of Vancouver is on a penninsula, and the Sea wall wraps all the way around. and is who knows how many kilometers long. I would guess atleast 20, if not 30 kilometers.


The TD tower between two residential buildings in Coal Harbour. The two buildings in the foreground were inspired by Burj Al Dubi, and feature sweeping sails of glass.


Carderos is a restaurant built on stilts over a marina in Coal Harbour. I've never eaten there, but I'm told the food is quite good.


More buildings of Coal Harbour. The rightmost building is part of a large apartment development known as the Bayshore. There are about 6 or 7 towers in this development.


Car entrance to the Coal Harbour Community Centre. The building is fashioned after a submarine, but you can only notice this when out on a boat looking at the city. The roof features a park with play equipment for children.


The Lions Gate Bridge. It's a three lane bridge, with it's middle lane controlled by traffic signals. It was recently renovated and received many engineering awards for its complexity.


The Cambie Street bridge, near Concord Pacific.


Residential buildings in Concord Pacific, surrounding Gorge Weiborn Park.


Residential buildings in Concord Pacific/Yaletown. On the left and right are appartment buildings, in the middle/bottom of the picture is the Roundhouse Community Centre and in the background are more residential towers. Personally, I think this picture look very asian.

Feedback appreciated!

Wonderful photography nate, I especially like the bridge picture. The first is stunning as well, except that tree seems out of place...

I'm a big fan of silhouettes, and you seem to do alot of those. Good stuff, keep it coming!

On the marine building pic, if you scroll up and down, it looks like the windows are moving up and down the building.

Awesome photography, i love it all. keep taking pictures.

Absolutely gorgeous, Nate! Aside from the slightly blurry ones, the rest are beautiful.

My favorite is the flower shot... it's stunning and the colors are delectable.

The 'Cambie Street Bridge' photo reminds me of a book called 'boring postcards'. Genius.

I really like the photos - especially the ones taken form unusual perspectives (eg the cool shady one of the leaves) and the ones of seemingly mundane things that look intriguing (eg the steps in the park). Great stuff.

Nice stuff Nate, very nice. You're accentuating contrast and form which is the type of photography that I really like. Some of these photos remind me of something I would take. It's kind of eery actually. Like the siding on the quadrangle and the bridge photos. Nice use of color too.

In regards to the sidewalk picture: Maybe you adjusted your light meter wrong without realizing it? Sometimes I manually adjust that kind of thing and it yields cool results.

Anyway. Vancouver looks awesome. Real good pictures man.

what kind of camera? i am here in montreal and i am hating this 35mm, really wish i had a nice digital one.

Wow, very nice nate... some of those screens are just beautiful. I like 3+5 the best

Thank you very much for all the comments!

All of the pictures with the exception of the last four were taken with my Dad's camera (I really need to get one of those). It's a Sony DSC-H1, 5.1MP, 12X Optical Zoom, 2.5" LCD. I think it's Sony's latest camera, but it was really expensive which is why I'm going to have keep asking to borrow it. The picture of the TD tower framed by the blue sail like buildings was taken on full zoom, 12x Optical, 12x Digital (so 24x effective zoom). The last four were taken with my Sony DSC-P32 which is 3.2MP (no other features, lol).

Oh. All digital.
Never mind my babble about light meters, then.

But really. Why is it that other people have success with digitals, but I don't.

Maybe it's because I shake too much.

You can still change the light intake on digital cameras. I play with it a lot on my camera because thats about the only way to get an intresting picture (aside from trying my hardest to get intresting angles and composition). In terms of shaking, I haven't noticed any problem with daylight pictures. Night time is nearly impossible with a digital camera. They're also horrible at taking landscape or long distance shots. My Dads camera has this "Super Anti-Shake" feature and it seems to work wonders both in daylight and at night time.

And one other thing, maybe it's just me but I think the pictures look better smaller. I could have made these 800x640, but opted for the smaller size. I think it exentuates the details and depth of field.

I'm curious as to what your favourite is Nate. I personally thing the park area with the steps in on the grassy slopes is brilliant.

Night time is nearly impossible with a digital camera. They're also horrible at taking landscape or long distance shots.

Exactly.
Daylight, true, I have less trouble. But most of the photos I take for artsy purposes are landscape and long distance shots, or at night. Don't know why, but that's how it is.
Another thing, is that I can't change the shutter speed. Or at least, I don't know how to, on my digital. So a few months back I was in the front row for a concert and I was taking pictures without flash (in respect to the band's wishes), but most of them came out blurry. In some cases, it looked cool. In others, it looked shitty. Of course, if I did use flash, all the band members would have red eyes, and that's no good either.

If only I could find the right batteries for my manual camera, we'd be in good photographic shape again.

I'm curious as to what your favourite is Nate.

I don't have a favorite, but my favorites are:

1 (Sunset), 5 (Flower Shop), 6 (Sidewalk), 16 (Carderos), 20 (Cambie St. Bridge), 22 (Asia). I like the others, but they're just not my favorites. Some of them I really like the composition but the colour isn't great, like 2 (Development) or 19 (Lions Gate). Lions Gate was taken through the sunroof in a car, hence its werid colour values. Others look really good like 9 (Grassy Knolls) but I get this 'its been done before' feeling from it.

And I find it amazing that you cannot control the shutter speed on a digital camera. It seems like a fairly simple feature to include in even the most basic of cameras. I would love to have control over that. I'm assuming with a Digital SLR you could, but I have yet to see one for under $1,000. I think SLR's mimic every feature that a film camera has.

Jelly, is there no manual mode that would allow you to do this?

If so, then that's rather cruddy.

I can set the shutter speed and F-Stop on my digital and it only cost me about $200, but that's because it's way outdated. (There's one selling on ebay right now for $78) The Sony D770. It's like an SLR but without interchangable lenses. It's a good camera features-wise, but only 1.5 Megapixel, so I get a lot of grain when I use a higher ISO rating like 400. Obviously the quality of the pictures is about what you'd expect in a 6 year old camera, but if you're looking for a cheap digital with all of the features of a manual 35 camera, it's a decent compromise.