Vancouver Photography - Page 16

Cypherus · #**301** Posted **Jul 9, 2007, 7:25 PM**

Best Vancouver pics I have seen in a while, Pinion. Love the comedy with the seagull...lol.

officedweller · #**302** Posted **Jul 9, 2007, 8:02 PM**

Great shots (from TD Tower).
Great view of the Cooper's Landing buildings over top of the Westin Grand (we're on the 25th floor and can't see them very well)

deasine · #**303** Posted **Jul 9, 2007, 10:27 PM**

Great pics Pinion! It is nice for everyone to share their pictures of this beautiful city =) The more the better!!!

(Hopefully we can get people to actually move to vancouver because of these pics =p)

Delirium · #**304** Posted **Jul 10, 2007, 12:29 AM**

great pics everyone!
SFUVancouver, keep up the construction updates. they're great!

here's some more typical postcard stuff from flickr.com

ps. aint summer great?

excel · #**305** Posted **Jul 10, 2007, 3:41 AM**

That second last shot is ridiculous.

jlousa · #**306** Posted **Jul 10, 2007, 3:56 AM**

^^^^ I agree, it took me a while to figure out that cluster on the edge was Kerrisdale looks bigger then I expected.

vanhattan · #**307** Posted **Jul 10, 2007, 4:09 AM**

Great photos Pinion and SFU, thanks!

Pinion · #**308** Posted **Jul 10, 2007, 4:24 AM**

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Originally Posted by Pinion

I used to work for a security company in downtown Vancouver. One of the perks of the job was having access to the top of many downtown skyscrapers - areas that only security personnel and engineers could go. So a few weeks ago, after I decided I was quitting, I thought I'd take my camera up to the top of a 30 storey building right in the middle of downtown and take as many shots as possible, because a view like this is too nice to waste on just me:

1. Looking north across Burrard Inlet (Pacific Ocean) to North Vancouver. I live in North Van in that cluster of apartments in the distance. Coast mountain range behind that.

2. Looking north-west.

3. Looking west down Georgia street, one of the main roads through the city. Stanley Park in the distance. Hotel Vancouver in the front left.

4. Looking west out to the Pacific Ocean.

5. Looking down at the main shopping/party street in Vancouver: Robson street (quiet east end of it).

6. Looking south across the Granville street bridge.

7. Vancouver's tallest building for a few more months - the Wall Centre.

8. The court building.

9. South-east condo-land.

10. More condos.

11. Half of BC Place stadium, and yet more condos under construction.

12. A seagull who was not impressed with all of Vancouver's condos.

13. "WTF are you doing up here?"

14. Mount Baker (active volcano), Washington state, clearly visible in the background even though it's hundreds of miles away. Skyscrapers in the background are Metrotown, Burnaby. Mostly condos, believe it or not.

15. Wide south-east shot.

16. Looking east. Somewhat smoggy day.

17. East again, with the Harbour Centre now in view.

Hope you like 'em... I'd appreciate any comments as this is my first post ever.

omg omg bonus pic!

Looking south from the seabus after a long day at work (so long that it is morning).

PS awesome shots, Delirium. Float plane?

squeezied · #**309** Posted **Jul 10, 2007, 5:07 AM**

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Originally Posted by Delirium

wats paris hilton doing in van city????

SpongeG · #**310** Posted **Jul 10, 2007, 5:56 AM**

notice how their ball has gone in her direction and they stand around looking at it and her? haha no one is in a rush to go retrieve it

Delirium · #**311** Posted **Jul 11, 2007, 2:40 AM**

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Originally Posted by Pinion

PS awesome shots, Delirium. Float plane?

actually, they were taken from some dude who rides along in the CTV chopper.. http://flickr.com/photos/murman/

here's another good one from him

deasine · #**312** Posted **Jul 11, 2007, 4:03 AM**

wow simply amazing

excel · #**313** Posted **Jul 12, 2007, 8:04 AM**

That pic is pretty nuts.

Hed Kandi · #**314** Posted **Jul 15, 2007, 3:46 AM**

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Originally Posted by squeezied

wats paris hilton doing in van city????

She's out of jail now!

raggedy13 · #**315** Posted **Jul 16, 2007, 3:00 AM**

Here's just one small pic I came across at the Globe and Mail site from an article regarding our heat wave last week. I just thought it was kind of cool. As a bonus, it appears that you can just make out the Shangri-La.

squeezied · #**316** Posted **Jul 16, 2007, 4:01 AM**

sweet i shangri-la is gonna look amazingly iconic from that angle! the tinted wider diagonal side makes this building look more of an office building(as opposed to clear-glass slender condos). an added bonus is that it appears right in the middle of the cbd; and once the 22-floored office building by bentall is completed, shangri-la will appear even more central! ahhhh the power of angled illusions...

and then we have one wall sticking out of nowhere like a lost and confused oaf, albeit an extremely slender one. patina to the rescue!!

Yume-sama · #**317** Posted **Jul 16, 2007, 11:59 PM**

It was such a beautiful 5AM sunrise a few days ago, I couldn't help but take some pictures. Such a clear day, and good for flying it was

I shrunk them a bit to not kill those with slower internet, and to fit in this page.... but I included a link so you can view the high definition versions

Is there a place more beautiful?

http://66.90.101.237/sunrise-big1.jpg

http://66.90.101.237/sunrise-big2.jpg

So peaceful and quiet at 5AM... it's just wonderful.

deasine · #**318** Posted **Jul 17, 2007, 3:08 AM**

I guess thats one of the beauties in Vancouver. The tranquility and beauty of its mornings. It's nice to see that Vancouverites can still look out without the fear of seeing smog. Thanks for sharing

johnjimbc · #**319** Posted **Jul 19, 2007, 1:11 AM**

I noticed it looks like you were at the Westin Grand when you took those morning photos. Did you by any chance take any photos showing the building under construction next door - L'Hermitage? If so, could you post it?

I'd like to show the progress for a friend of mine, and I'm not in BC right now.

Thanks!

Yume-sama · #**320** Posted **Jul 19, 2007, 5:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by johnjimbc

I noticed it looks like you were at the Westin Grand when you took those morning photos. Did you by any chance take any photos showing the building under construction next door - L'Hermitage? If so, could you post it?

I'd like to show the progress for a friend of mine, and I'm not in BC right now.

Thanks!

Posted them up in the construction thread:
http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=2960669&postcount=3208