I decided I should make better use of my camera. Perhaps it was a New Year’s resolution.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Last Saturday<\/a> was close to home. I started by going up to SFU<\/a>. I did a full 360° panorama in the AQ<\/a> (drag around the panoramas to scroll).<\/p>\n Then, I went down to Burnaby Mountain Park<\/a>. I set up the tripod again and did another 360° among the totem poles<\/a>.<\/p>\n They day was pretty overcast, so there aren’t exactly any spectacular colours in those, but they aren’t bad.<\/p>\n This week<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n So, I cranked onto the highway and went to the most obvious place in the city to take a panorama: the Cypress lookout<\/a>. I got a nice panorama from the lookout<\/a>, and it even managed to stitch together without much lens flare, which was nice since I wasn’t carrying my lens hood.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> for the Chevron refinery.<\/p>\n I found a good place and took a panorama facing north towards the Burrard Inlet<\/a>. 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.<\/p>\n 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<\/a> (!). I found some more McBarge info<\/a> out there too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}