With the Fourth of July coming up, I figured what’s more American than baseball. Today’s Archives Photo of the Day features two players at the Athletic Park in Vancouver, which used to be near 5th and Hemlock. Description: Baseball opening season at Athletic Park, 1930 Photographer: Stuart Thomson Archives item#: CVA 99-2415

To mark the end of Bike Month in Vancouver, today’s Archives Photo of the Day features the Vancouver Bicycle Club at Prospect Point. Description: The Vancouver Bicycle Club in front of the observation point at Prospect Point, 1895 Photographer: From the Major Matthews Collection Archives item#: St Pk P174

Today’s Archives Photo of the Day features two young Vancouver children and their “pet” bear cub. Description: Ken & Theresa Quiney with bear cub at 1820 Waterloo Street in Kitsilano, 1910 Photographer: James Luke Quiney Archives item#: CVA 7-29

The third annual Worldwide Photo Walk takes place July 24th and will see photographers of every level heading out and snapping photos as they stroll with a group. Photo credit: John Bollwitt in Flickr A photo walk is basically a walk around with your camera where you snap photos as you go. I’ve done photo […]

On a whim I’ve decided to start up a new series called, Archives Photo of the Day. I considered posting this to Twitter only until I realized that the links generated by my search queries end up expiring after a few minutes. With people heading on vacation (including us) next month I’m keen on posting […]

Empire Field (at Empire Fields with Empire Stadium around it) will host the BC Lions‘ home opener this Sunday. I’ll be heading over for a preview tomorrow and will also be at the game on Sunday however my camera-toting husband got a bit a a preview earlier this week. Although it’s temporary (aka TEmpire Stadium) […]

Our pal and local web and photography icon Kris is currently down in the Gulf of Mexico snapping photos of the oil spill effects before heading to Washington, DC for TEDxOilSpill later this month. On Twitter June 14th: Looks like we’re headed to Biloxi Mississippi bright & early to photograph a 3-State Rally for Vietnamese […]

There are few places in Vancouver where public can get a panoramic view of the city without heading up one of the North Shore mountains. There’s the Lookout at Harbour Centre (which recently celebrated a birthday), then Cloud 9 restaurant atop the Empire Landmark Hotel. The other vantage points are mostly from private suites. However, […]

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 […]

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 […]