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Vancouver HDR Photography: Spring and Summer

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It’s been a while since I featured only HDR photography in a photo post so I sifted through the Miss604 Flickr Pool and found quite a few gems. These are all High Dynamic Range photos from around the Lower Mainland. Photo credit: Clayton Perry Photoworks on Flickr Photos by: Tyler Ingram, Kyle Bailey and Kyle […]

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Vancouver History: Harbour Centre

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33 years ago today Harbour Centre was officially opened and at 481 feet, it was the tallest building in Vancouver at the time.1 Harbour Centre is the home of The Vancouver Lookout, a revolving restaurant, a mall, various businesses and tech firms, as well as one of SFU‘s downtown campuses. In 1977 it was called […]

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Put Your Town on the Map, Vancouver Ranks 7th

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Vancouver is currently sitting in 7th place in the “Put your Town on the Map with Bing” photo contest. They are asking Canadians to submit photos of their hometowns and at the end of the campaign, the photo with the most votes (from the most popular city) will win a grand prize. Prizes incentives include […]

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Vancouver History: City Scenes

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Trying to come up with themes for history posts is sometimes a bit tough. I’ve done everything from feature photos of long-gone hotels and aerial images of the region, to people walking dogs down Hastings Street a hundred years ago. Sometimes it’s the oddities that are the most interesting, such as that time an elephant […]

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