Showing posts with label city. Show all posts
Showing posts with label city. Show all posts

Sunday, 28 October 2012

A special Vancouver way to recycle








A special Vancouver way to recycle.  This previously useful building is being re purposed into a form of mixed material landfill, all, apparently without benefit of a building permit, as the stop work order on the door indicates:  

"Demolition to site without Demo permit" 

I wonder if the city is going to make them put it back together.  It takes such a long time to build and such a short time to destroy.

Tuesday, 23 October 2012

The muse is not a harsh mistress, but don't keep her waiting.












The muse is not a harsh mistress, but don't keep her waiting.  Some day she may be gone.

You ignore the muse to your peril.  She is a true lady, but it does not do to ignore her overtures.  Be prepared in season and out of season.  Where is the best place to take photos?  Where you are.  When is the best time to take photographs?  When you have a camera.  If inspiration hits, go with it.  See where it will lead you.  Learning to take photographs is not difficult.  The difficulty lies in learning how to see.  When the muse beckons, I think that it is because there is something worth seeing, but if we repeatedly ignore the nudgings, perhaps we will forget how to see, or else we just forget to see.  we cultivate our talents or we bury them.

Wednesday, 22 August 2012

perspective

Sometimes amid the towering high-rises, I look up and feel so small.  Other times I look up and am very glad to be outside.