There have been almost 200 weekly photo roundups published on Miss604.com, over 46,000 photos shared with the Miss604 Flickr Pool, and over 11,000 photos shared with the #Photos604 tag Instagram. Residents and visitors alike love to capture our city and celebrate its poignant street scenes, beautiful landscapes, and memorable landmarks.

I enlisted talented local photographer Clayton Perry to help me share some tips for capturing some of the most popular types of photos we see of our fair city. This is the second post in a three-part “How to Photograph Vancouver” series sponsored by London Drugs.

How to Photograph Vancouver at Night

Where was this photo taken?
Granville Street outside the Roxy Nightclub.

What is the best time of day for a shot like this?
The best time of the day for a shot like this is early evening when the streets have lots of action and cars zooming by as well as all the lights from the businesses on the street are on full.

Is any extra equipment needed?
To get a photo like this you definitely want to use a tripod and a shutter release cord. This will ensure you can leave your shutter open for an amount of time that gives your image the “light stream effect”.

What is your top tip for getting this image? 
Be sure to have a shutter release cord (or remote control) – eliminating any shake in your camera.

About The Photographer

Vancouver-based photographer Clayton Perry was born on Vancouver Island and moved to the lower mainland in the late 1960s. He spent most of his childhood summers either in Sproat Lake near Port Alberni, Lake Okanagan while vacationing in Penticton, Victoria BC or his hometown of Richmond, British Columbia. He developed his skills around BC slowly developing a massive database consisting of over 45,000 images on Flickr alone. His passion lies in taking landscape and city images. Follow Clayton on Facebook and Twitter for more of his photography.

Snow may only fall on the local mountains this season but in town it will feel like winter as Vancouver hosts the debut of the country’s largest indoor Christmas festival. Vancouver Winter Wonderland is coming to the PNE Forum from December 11th to December 20th, 2015 and will feature activities, attractions, arts & crafts, and more.

What: Vancouver Winter Wonderland
Where: PNE Forum (2901 E. Hastings St, Vancouver)
When: December 11th to 20th; 3:00pm to 11:00pm weekdays; 11:00am to 11:00pm weekends (tentative)
Admission: $5 regular admission or $8 for the Santa Express to skip the line (plus fees)

This new event will include over 45,000 square feet of indoor space, and will feature more than 100 unique exhibitors and never-seen-before holiday themed attractions. Meet all of your Christmas shopping needs and enjoy culinary offerings to delight your palate while you shop and take in the Christmas enchantments that Vancouver Winter Wonderland has to offer.

Win Tickets to Vancouver Winter Wonderland

I have a pair of tickets to give away to this new event, here’s how you can enter to win:

• Leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
• Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)

Follow Vancouver Winter Wonderland on Facebook and Twitter for more information. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Thursday, November 19, 2015.

Update The winner is Tania!

There have been almost 200 weekly photo roundups published on Miss604.com, over 46,000 photos shared with the Miss604 Flickr Pool, and over 11,000 photos shared with the #Photos604 tag Instagram. Residents and visitors alike love to capture our city and celebrate its poignant street scenes, beautiful landscapes, and memorable landmarks.

I enlisted talented local photographer Clayton Perry to help me share some tips for capturing some of the most popular types of photos we see of our fair city. This is the first post in a three-part “How to Photograph Vancouver” series sponsored by London Drugs.

Winter Skyline

Where was this photo taken?
From Hadden Park near the Museum of Vancouver.

What is the best time of day to shoot an image like this?
I took this shot on a cold winter morning after some snow had fallen on the mountains overnight. It doesn’t take long for the snow to melt off the trees so you need to get out there early before the snow melts and the sun is still shining.

Is any extra equipment needed? (Tri-pod, flashes, etc.?)
I did not use any extra equipment on this shot but this is a 4-image panorama that I stitched together with Photoshop.

Do you have a top tip for getting an image like this?
My top tip for getting this shot is two-fold:
1) Get up early.
2) Dress warm. These sunny, cold, crisp winter days are great for skyline shooting.

Vancouver-based photographer Clayton Perry was born on Vancouver Island and moved to the lower mainland in the late 1960s. He spent most of his childhood summers either in Sproat Lake near Port Alberni, Lake Okanagan while vacationing in Penticton, Victoria BC or his hometown of Richmond, British Columbia. He developed his skills around BC slowly developing a massive database consisting of over 45,000 images on Flickr alone. His passion lies in taking landscape and city images. Follow Clayton on Facebook and Twitter for more of his photography.

The 19th annual Eastside Culture Crawl will showcase 457 artists over 4 days in 83 buildings and hopefully you will be one of the 25,000 visitors who check out the work of local painters, sculptors, potters, photographers, glassblowers, and furniture designers.

Eastside Culture Crawl

There is no admission fee. The Crawl opens a door to the studios, homes, garages, and creative hideaways in the area bounded by Columbia Street to Victoria Drive, and north of 1st Avenue to the waterfront. Added to this year’s exciting line-up is a series of new, intimate workshops and demonstrations in glass blowing, wood carving, and Jacquard Loom weaving.

Thursday, November 19, 2015 from 5:00pm to 10:00pm
Friday, November 20, 2015 from 5:00pm to 10:00pm
Saturday, November 21, 2015 from 11:00am to 6:00pm
Sunday, November 22, 2015 from 11:00am to 6:00pm

Win an Eastside Culture Crawl Gift Basket

Thanks to Eastside Culture Crawl Gold Sponsor, DeSerres, I have a gift basket (valued at $300) filled with art supplies to give away. This prize is ideal for the amateur or professional art enthusiast and features a selection of art supplies such as paints, brushes, canvases, and more!

Here’s how you can enter to win:

• Leave a comment naming an Eastside Culture Crawl artist (1 entry)
• Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)

I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm on Sunday, November 15, 2015. Follow the Eastside Culture Crawl on Twitter and Facebook for more information.

Update The winner is @zoeboe24!

Vancouver’s Beauty Night Society is a non-profit organization in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside that is committed to bettering the self-esteem, image, and lives of women living in poverty. In their 15 years in service, they have given over 50,000 life-makeovers and that work continues this season.

Fill a Stocking for Beauty Night

In addition to Beauty Night’s regular programs, which run 4 nights a week, they hand out holiday stockings — and they’re hoping to fill and distribute 1500 this year. These stockings are to be sewn, decorated, filled, and delivered to impoverished women and youth in Metro Vancouver.

Volunteers can pick up fabric to sew and decorate the stockings, one of which is local fashion designer Nancy Perreault, then the Carrie Wheeler Entertainment Group’s team fills the stockings. Deliveries are made by volunteers dressed as elves who hand out the stockings at shelters, transition homes, housing locations, drop in centres, health care facilities.

Items Needed That You Can Donate

Where to Donate These Items

Donations can be dropped off before November 25, 2015 at:

Vital Health 1855 West 4th Avenue, Vancouver, BC
Breizh Salon Services (3rd and Main), Vancouver, BC
Eastside Fitness 5854 Fraser Street, Vancouver, BC
Forever Yours Lingerie, 20460 Fraser Hwy, Langley, BC

You can start a product drive at work, throw a stocking-filling event, ask for donations from suppliers (like an extra toothbrush from your dentist, or products from your local salon). Follow Beauty Night on Twitter and Facebook for much more information and to see how you can help this season.