More Night Shots

It was another night without rain for a change and that prompted me to go out and take a few more night shots. This time I chose a location just east of Granville Island called False Creek and took some shots of the Vancouver downtown skyline. As you can see the density of the downtown core with all of the residential highrises is pretty crazy. Vancouver has turned into a very expensive place to live and so many people want to live downtown so they just keep building more and more condos. It seems there is just no end to it. Anyways here are a few shots from tonight. Sure enough just as I was packing up I felt a rain drop.

Chinatown on the wrong day

Well I got up early Sunday morning all ready to head down to Chinatown to catch the New Years parade and Dragon dances but found out once I got there that this was the wrong day and it would not be until next Sunday. I think I had read somewhere that they usually hold it the first Sunday before the actual New Years day which falls on a Thursday this year on the 7th of February. I knew something was wrong when I got there and it was completely quiet. But I made the best of it and since I had my camera with me I took some shots. Here are some pictures I took that include shots around Chinatown, the entry way of the Sun Yat Sen Garden and the False Creek area. I tried some shots with exposure bracketing and then merged them to create an HDR picture. I'm pretty pleased with the results because it was a very overcast during the entire time I was shooting and the brightness was a bit tricky to work with.