Y it no in your signature?! Here, just copy and paste this in your signature box:
"For more photos, feel free to follow me on Instagram at jefrosonic ."
Your photos are beautiful. Get that following, hunty!
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There is a housing crisis, and we simply need to speak up about it.
Pinterest - I use this social media platform to easily add pictures into my posts on this forum. Plus there are great architecture and city photos out there as well.
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
Not my favourite angle. It highlights the disporportional heights in the Ice District. Fortunately, it doesn't show up very often. The photo with the guy on the penny farthing is awesome. That's BALLS
It's also just the barrel distortion of the non-corrected wide angle lens used in that photo. But yes, Stantec and JW make the older skyline look incredibly stubby. I'm hoping there's at least a couple more >200m tall buildings to be built in different parts of the core to even out and balance the skyline eventually (like Aldritt).
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"The destructive effects of automobiles are much less a cause than a symptom of our incompetence at city building" - Jane Jacobs 1961ish
I bought a new camera in January and a new laptop in February. I have been enjoying taking new photos and getting back into photography. I will post some of my recent Victoria city photos. I hope I haven't posted too many.
I can be forgiven for stealing if I quote The Great Scaper, right ?
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There is a housing crisis, and we simply need to speak up about it.
Pinterest - I use this social media platform to easily add pictures into my posts on this forum. Plus there are great architecture and city photos out there as well.
Why is it that Victoria's powerlines are all above ground? I feel they detract from many of the awesome shots. I wonder if they could be moved into alleys (if there are any) like in Vancouver.
Why is it that Victoria's powerlines are all above ground? I feel they detract from many of the awesome shots. I wonder if they could be moved into alleys (if there are any) like in Vancouver.
Putting overhead lines underground was a very contentious issue from the 1950s through the 1970s. By 1962 the innermost 30-blocks of downtown proper had been addressed, but the process has been piecemeal since then. The long-range effort that some people were envisioning in the 1950s has failed to materialize.
In April and June of this year the Colonist published a series of pictures dealing with some of the drawbacks of an overhead street wiring system, and suggesting that this matter be taken under advisement for the development of a long-range policy. Since then, so far as we are aware, nothing has been achieved on a problem with is admittedly costly and only possible of solution in a co-ordinated way over a considerable period of years...
Not a few other cities in Canada have already begun the elimination of their overhead wiring. On a long-range plan where the cure is spread over 50 or more years, and the costs divided by provincial, municipal and utility contribution, the bogey of expense can be reduced to some order. Victoria certainly paved the way for some improvement along this line when it lifted its car tracks and did away with the cumbersome street-centre trolley wire cables. To stop there and leave this grim forest of light and telephone poles, with their overhead squirrel cages of interlaced wires everywhere, is to fail in a worth while vision...
Last of the major excavation of Victoria's downtown streets for underground wiring, started in 1956, will be over in a few days.
In about a month, the B.C. Electric will let a contract for the installing of wires in some of the 128 miles of four-inch ducts buried in a 30-block downtown area, and of transformers in 38 underground vaults.
This work will continue until next April, and then the final phase of the conversion to underground wiring, the removal of poles, will begin. By the middle of 1962, the last of the downtown power poles is scheduled to be taken down.
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