Vancouver: An Incomplete Atlas

Some of my favourite shots of my favourite town. Mostly known these days for towers of glass, Vancouver has many faces. Some of them are here.

The West End

Formerly Vancouver's most densely populated neighbourhood the West End has been my home for most of the past 20 years. Seen here from Kits Point, under siege by Jun Ren's sculpture Freezing Water #7

Kitsilano Beach

A rare sprinkle of snow, a rainbow and a photo opportunity at the beach

Kingsway

Kingsway is the kind of street where a 1970's Ford Ranchero looks right at home in 2011. Defiantly bisecting the East Side diagonal to everything else, it was the first road to Vancouver from New Westminster following the old trails.

September Seawall Sunset

The paddlewheeler Constitution passes by the seawall near Third Beach as the sun goes down. Taken from Ferguson Point in one of Vancouver's iconic postcard views

The Lower East Side

Canada's poorest postal code, home to the down and out. A place Bukowski would've felt right at home in. I've always found it possessed a certain beauty

Queen Elizabeth Park

Autumn colours outside the Bloedel Conservatory in Vancouver's Queen Elizabeth Park.

Downtown

As seen from the North Shore while a resident plans his domination of the city.

English Bay

A Freighter makes it's way towards the Port of Vancouver in English Bay

The Lion's Gate

Fishermen on the Seawall in Stanley Park are hoping to find some fish from Alaska while tourists aboard the Celebrity Millenium sail under the Lion's Gate Bridge on their way to Alaska.

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