I decided I should make better use of my camera. Perhaps it was a New Year’s resolution.
Anyway, I have gone out the last two Saturdays looking for stuff to put in front of my camera. I took a few pictures around, but I’m going to concentrate on the panoramas because I think they’re neat.
Last Saturday was close to home. I started by going up to SFU. I did a full 360° panorama in the AQ (drag around the panoramas to scroll).
Then, I went down to Burnaby Mountain Park. I set up the tripod again and did another 360° among the totem poles.
They day was pretty overcast, so there aren’t exactly any spectacular colours in those, but they aren’t bad.
This week, it was overcast again, so I went downtown to a camera shop. On the way back, I put on my sunglasses. Then I though “hey, sunglasses mean sun!” Sun means light and light means colour.
So, I cranked onto the highway and went to the most obvious place in the city to take a panorama: the Cypress lookout. I got a nice panorama from the lookout, and it even managed to stitch together without much lens flare, which was nice since I wasn’t carrying my lens hood.
I think the last panorama was my favourite. I drive around the north side of Capitol Hill, took the road as far as it goes, parked, and set off on-foot into some kind of mini-port that’s there for the Chevron refinery.
I found a good place and took a panorama facing north towards the Burrard Inlet. It’s a neat viewpoint: the light is good and the water/mountains/sky effect is good. And there’s this weird overgrown houseboat lookin’ thing sitting there.
I showed the picture to Kat who remembered a floating McDonalds at Expo 86 that looked a lot like that. Sure enough, that boat is the remains of the McBarge (!). I found some more McBarge info out there too.