Andrew Strain Photography

This is the post where I concede defeat. You would think with no facebook to distract me (reinstated, by the way - someone complained about a group that I admin(ed) ), I'd have all that extra time to go out and shoot... but, of days 21-31, only 22, 23 and 29 have photos. I blame the departure of the awesome fog.

22: a park bench.


See the last few photos of the month after the jump:

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Day 23: Yahtzee!


Day 29: Sunrise from the Lions Gate Bridge (I'll blame this big gap of photographic fail on going to whistler and not bringing my camera... there was no way I was taking my first laps of Peak chair this season with a 30 pound Sequence bag strapped to my back.)


And finally, day 32 (to make up for no 31 ender). Building the ramp, testing the lights... almost ready for action:


So, there you have it - maybe not complete, but my photo-a-day is done. Check back soon for future updates.
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I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the fog for giving me 2 weeks of unique photo ops around the city. Now that its gone, everything looks so... boring. The weather gods must be especially forgiving though, since the fog has been replaced with SNOW today! The more the merrier, bring it on...

On day 17, I brought my camera along for a night out at one of my favorite pubs in the city, the Kings Head. Good times, good beer, good friends, good music. Pretty much sums the night up...


Read on for days 18, 19 and 20:

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Day 18 is a bit of a cheat: these are photos of photos I took last March, and got published for a Whistler/Blackcomb park guide in the Norwegian Magazine Fri Flyt.
I'm top right:


and both on this page:


Props to the girls (Mira, Dina, Lisa and Chelsea) for a fun, productive day in the Whistler park last March!

For Day 19, I snapped a few shots of a familiar sight for Vancouverites: cargo ships and mountains at sunset. Check the new watermark! Oh yea!



I use my 50mm 1.4 for about half my photos, so needless to say that focal length can get a bit boring. On day 20, I flipped it around and shot some backwards macros with it. I collected this rock on one of my adventures in northern BC... bonus points if anyone can name all of the sexy sulphide minerals in this photo:


That's it for now, the next update should feature some riding of the current snowfall...

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Um, yeah. So, I didn't quite realize how tricky this was going to be, but I'm running out of ideas. Gonna have to start photographing more people, cause I can't think of many new ways to shoot the city in the fog (plus I think the fog is rolling out).

Day 12: the seawall in Coal Harbour:


Days 13-16 in the 2nd half of the post (note - 14 and 16 are good, just ignore 13 and 15):

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Day 13: self-portrait #1 is a pretty clear sign that I'm starting to run out of ideas...


On day 14, the fog pulled through for me, just minutes from midnight:


Day 15 was another miss, lame photo (I do like the sky though) from my balcony:


Yesterday, I decided I needed to get out of downtown to break the slump and get something a little different. Day 16 is from the pier at Jericho Beach, looking back to the city skyline:


It's a pano, so I recommend checking a larger version.


So, that puts me halfway through, hopefully I can continue to find new stuff to photograph over the next 2 weeks...

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On my way home from photographing a political event in Gastown on Wednesday, I passed by the Steam Clock (a big meh, if you ask me), where a young man was reading up on the history of the famous Vancouver landmark. I think watching people watching the clock is way more interesting that watching the clock itself...



Read the full post for days 9, 10 & 11:


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I hate to say this, but for all of you stuck down in the foggy city all week... its warm and sunny on the north shore mountains. Went for a quick snowshoe up / snowboard down Mt Seymours 1st pump on Thursday, and the weather was nothing short of glorious.

Eric Poulin sends a method off a hip that's seen many a method over the years, in the Seymour backcountry:


An alternate for day 9:


Day 10, under the Cambie St bridge:


A couple of day 10 runner-ups


Day 11 - I took over 1000 frames today, but most of that was for a time lapse video that will probably take a little while to edit - bird on a wire will have to suffice.


Don't know what I'll shoot tomorrow, but I have a ton of photos to edit. Check back soon for the next round of updates...

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Didn't get out of downtown much over the past few days... so days 5, 6 and 7 of the photo-a-day are all fairly similar. I'll try to change it up tomorrow.

Day 5: Blue steel



Read the full post for days 6 and 7 (you'll want to see day 7...):

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Day 6: the view down Hamilton St from my apartment:



Day 7: Vancouver's waterfront - Harbour Centre and the SeaBus terminal. I don't do long exposures often, so I'm pretty happy with how this turned out.



Desktops of Day 7:

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If you want to keep track of all the images in one place, you can see them in my photo-a-day flickr set.

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Here's days 2, 3 and 4 from my month long photo-a-day project. So far, so good...

I climbed about 15 feet up this tree to get an angle on a handrail we were shooting on in Burnaby. Note - climbing trees in high winds is a bad idea.


Days 3 and 4 in the full post:


I went up to Whistler on Friday night to check out the 2009 Deep Winter Photo Challenge. Unfortunately, I missed the first 2 slideshows because of this lovely weather, so I took some deep winter photos of my own...

Fun day today on the mountain. First day of the year riding with the camera, and I think we got some stuff. Not exactly the best conditions for shooting photos though...


Stay tuned for the next round of updates...


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Vancouver is a gorgeous city, but I have to feel sorry for anyone who comes here on a non-ski/board vacation at this time of year. The False Creek area is especially picturesque with all the snow/mud slop covering everything:





I've found that I haven't been taking nearly enough photos for myself lately, so I've decided to undertake a month long photo-a-day project, to kick-start my creative juices for the new year. I'm sure there will be many days of total suckage, so I'll spare everyone the blog spam and post the photos every 3 days or so.

Also, I signed up for twitter awhile back, only to realise that I don't actually know anyone who uses it. Anyone alive out there? Follow me here: ===>http://twitter.com/AndrewStrain<===

Alright, enough with the public service announcements. A couple more photos from today after the jump.



Looking down:


Some crows chillin' in a tree.


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