The BC Day long weekend is always good fun downtown. People from all over Metro Vancouver come here and leave their shit all over the beaches and streets during the fireworks and Pride Parade.
I was pretty disappointed with the Pride Parade this year. For reasons unknown, the organizers erected 8 foot high fencing everywhere making a decent picture pretty difficult. Perhaps there have been problems in previous years with balloon and streamer theft from the floats.
I didn’t spend much time there and only took a few dozen pictures. Compared to last year where we spent a few hours and I snapped a few hundred shots… The best part about Pride, apart from the generous exposure of boobs, is that everyone is smiling. While I don’t really enjoy taking pictures of the other humans, if I’m going to, a smile goes a long way.
The rest of the shots will make their way up to Flickr shortly…
midbach it's all about me Flickr
Went down to the beach Saturday night and brought the camera and tripod. Spain was much better than the States… I was reasonably happy with how this came out because my camera was struggling. *Click* LCD goes blank…. Busy…
I was getting better at guessing the timing by the end of the night.
midbach life Flickr
Things could always be worse; I could be living in the Avalon…
midbach Contractual Obligation Flickr
English Bay on Saturday evening
midbach just because... Flickr
A caesar at the Billy Miner Neighbourhood Pub in Maple Ridge.
Mihwa and I found ourselves in Maple Ridge on Sunday. We stumbled across the Billy Miner pub as we were driving around soaking up suburbia. It looked like a quaint little place and being hungry, we decided to go in and grab a bite to eat. The yocals stopped and looked at us like we had ‘city folk’ written across our foreheads.
They actually stopped drinking, turned and looked at us. Deciding that we were harmless, they returned to their Buds. The food was actually pretty good but we had to change tables to get away from the party.
I won’t get into some of the conversations we overhead but it was like being in 1977… Overall, it was a cool way to spend a Sunday afternoon.
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