Fully prepared to put together a Vancouver Icons photo post today, I browsed the Miss604 Flickr Group for some inspiration and I found a beautiful shot of a cruise ship at the terminal in downtown Vancouver by Nattawot Juttiwattananon (below). While cruise ships don’t quite fit my Vancouver Icons series, there are enough colourfully composed […]

One place I have always wanted to visit when in San Francisco is Alcatraz, which is as notorious as some of its former prisoners. The 9 hectare island sits about 2.4kms from San Francisco and has had many lives. First as a lighthouse, military fort and military prison in the 1860s, then as a federal […]

I love to showcase the works of local photographers as there are so many talented camera-wielding folks in this town of all skill levels. I never thought of myself as a photographer but after publishing over 14,880 photos to Flickr and writing over 5,550 photo-filled blog posts, I guess I have quite the library at […]

History of the Nine O’Clock Gun in Coal Harbour, Stanley Park, Vancouver

The Squamish Valley Music Festival was the largest ever this year, with over 17,000 jubilant concert-goers packing the Logger Sports Grounds in Squamish for this festival that first began in 2010. My intrepid photographer John Biehler took some great photos throughout the event for three days. Here’s what he captured up the Sea to Sky […]

Today is the last day of the Squamish Valley Music Festival, which opened its doors for its fourth annual summer music extravaganza on Thursday night. The Belle Game and Portage & Main kicking things off on Thursday night. Photos by John Biehler for Miss604. I have covered this event, formerly the Live at Squamish Music […]

The Honda Celebration of Light fireworks have concluded for another year as the largest crowd of the season (of about 300,000 to 350,000) gathered to see what Thailand had in store for their display on Saturday. Some of the night’s most spectacular moments were captured by talented photographers who have shared their fireworks photos with […]

Canada was on display last night at the Celebration of Light fireworks in English Bay as hundreds of thousands took to the shoreline to witness the show in the sky. Although the UK received praise for their James Bond-themed fireworks last Saturday, the chatter online seems to favour the home country: Btw, tonight's @CelebOfLight #Canada […]

Last night the United Kingdom kicked off the 2013 Celebration of Light fireworks with a display that was seen live by an estimated 250,000 people. Gathered on the shores of English Bay, Kitsilano, and anywhere the fiery bursts could be spotted from the air, the James Bond-themed show dazzled. https://twitter.com/VivienAvenue/status/361395204038737921 https://twitter.com/KljajicMilan/status/361383696848257024 Omg i'm seeing every1 […]

Granville Street is often the focus of historic Vancouver photo features, with its neon lights on theatre row and ever-changing retail landscape. However, it’s just as fascinating to take a look back at some of downtown’s other key business districts, such as Robson Street. For the popular social media “Throwback Thursday” theme today, the Robson […]