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The Vancouver to Victoria Ferry Photography Experiment

Shawn — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:02:33 +0000

In order to get on to Vancouver Island from the mainland of British Columbia you pretty much have two choices: plane or ferry. My favourite is definitely the ferry. The BC Ferries are remarkable in that they can carry 1650 passengers, and up to 370 vehicles between the British Columbia mainland and Vancouver Island. They’re the largest double ended ferries in the world. Plus they serve a damn tasty veggie burger on board. The most common route is from just outside Vancouver over to the capitol of British Columbia, which is Victoria. It’s an hour and a half voyage which winds through several small islands in the Pacific Ocean and is really quite scenic.

The sore point for me is watching this great scenery sail past while I have no photography skills at all. So a few days ago, I stood on the deck of the seventh floor, right up at the bow and tried my best to get a good photo. With it being a chilly February afternoon, high up on the bow of a fast moving ship, it wasn’t exactly crowded. I have a very tough time taking photos; I don’t feel comfortable taking them, plus I don’t have much of an eye for it. So excuses aside, here are a few that I got which seem fairly nice to me. Let me know what you think!

Unfortunately, photos alone don’t do much to capture the beauty of the area. You’ll just have to go there as well and experience it for yourself.

// shawn

photo credit: The top photo of the ferry wasn’t taken by me, it links through to the source wikipedia article.

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Central America 2008 Photos

Shawn — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:17:37 +0000

In 2008 I did a hasty little tour of Central America. Starting in Belize, then through Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and then after 2 months I flew out of Panama. Today I uploaded my photo album from that trip to Picasa. Many of these photos were taken by friends I made while there — actually, mostly by Charles who is a photography machine. The pic links through to the album.

// shawn

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Lazy Bastard Post: Kathmandu ’95

Shawn — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:15:43 +0000

I was going through some old photos from previous trips in order to get motivated for my upcoming trip. I’m rather fond of a couple of them, and figured I may as well share some here. I took this one in Kathmandu in December 1995. Back when cameras had film and blogs were a notebook in your pocket. Please forgive the quality, this is a scan of a photo that sat in a box for years. Kathmandu seems like eons ago now. Well, I had better go eat some fiber and glare at teenagers.

// shawn

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