With all the work I’ve been doing over at ArtofStance, I haven’t been shooting much other than cars cars and more cars. I’ve been trying to get out again to shoot more regularly. While over twitter, I found out my friends @GluttonwithaCam and @mananetwork started to organize some local photowalks. Of course I jumped at the opportunity to join them on an evening photowalk through downtown. Though it was a damp and wet night, its a start of things to come as I find myself doing more photowalks in 2012.
Our group also consisted of @dangerphoto, @TiannaNK, @bdashaler, @thepatrickleung and we walked, climbed, and hopped our way through downtown and the Vancouver east side. After shooting photos of cars for the past 7 months, I admit I’m a little rusty but being a part of this group will inspire me to get back into the loop!
Read More Post a comment (0)Last week, I organized another Revscene photowalk with some local amateur and pro photographers from the forum. Originally 20+ people signed up and it was looking to be our biggest photowalk yet! However the morning of the photowalk was looking pretty grey and the weather forecast called for rain for the afternoon. About 10 of us actually showed up and Richard was kind enough to pick up some Optech rainsleeves for us to protect our gear from the elements. The walk went pretty well and I think everyone managed to get some great shots from the outing. We went to Steveston after to grab lunch but as we left the restaurant, the rain was really coming down and we decided to quit while we were ahead. I plan to organize another romp through Steveston when the weather gets better.
A tugboat passes through the foggy morning
At 4:30am this morning for some odd reason, I agreed to go on an early morning photowalk with two friends. We were to go downtown to catch the early morning sunrise from the Vancouver Convention Center. We setup at the convention center and after some contemplation, we decided that we’d get a better vantage point from Stanley Park. So off we went to capture the sunrise. Well the sunrise came and it wasn’t really spectacular. The cloud formations weren’t ideal and there wasn’t much color in the sky. After the disappointment of this mornings sunset, we decided to drive around and find other places to shoot. We ended up shooting photos for 5 hours at some of the sketchier parts of the False Creek area in a few abandoned warehouses that we found. dabu6o4 had brought sock monkey with him and “Sockie” was very willing to pose for a few photos around town.
Early morning by Canada Place
On Sunday morning, I went out on a photowalk with some fellow Revscene photography forum members at Granville Island. It was a good turnout with about 13 of us taking in the sights and getting some photography practice in. Even got to check out the wonders of a 10 stop ND filter and a tilt shift lens (VERY COOL). Thanks to Jason for bringing that. Heck someone was even crazy enough to bring a 500mm telephoto lens to a photowalk (Ernie, I’m looking in your direction). We spent quite a few hours there and we didn’t even get to see everything! We’ll have to get another one going again, perhaps a night time photowalk. Here are some of my shots from that day.
