Briz Loan and Guitar

The other day I wanted to take some pictures of the sunset near the waterfront and on my way I drove past Briz Loan & Guitar and saw this huge guitar on the side of their building. It was hard to get a good picture of it because it had a big Plaid Pantry sign right underneath it, so I cropped it out of the picture. I love the bright orange of the guitar against all the different textures of the brick wall.

Update and new picture!

It's been hard to do this blog while it was the winter/rainy season in the Northwest and I got frustrated so I stopped taking pictures and stopped posting. Spring is here and things are blooming and getting pretty again! I'm getting camera hungry again and will continue to post pictures as I take them.

This is another side of the The Academy building that I've taking pictures of previously. I posted two edited pictures...I think I like the 2nd one better.

46/365 - Stained Glass Window

Photographing nature is one of my favorite things to do, but the Northwest in the winter isn't all that exciting or pretty at times. The trees are bare and leafless, flowers only grow in flower shops and most of the time it's overcast and dreary outside. This project of taking a picture a day for a year really had me worried at times. I wasn't sure that I would be able to continue with it - because of the lack of beauty around me. This project has opened my eyes to see beauty in buildings, trains, bridges and other crazy objects that I wouldn't normally photograph or would ever look twice at. I can now say that I really enjoy this project and I'm glad I stuck with it.

Today's picture is of a beautiful stained glass window from a church downtown Vancouver. I chose this picture today because I had to pay a parking meter to park and walk over to this building in order to get this picture. I have to make that 25 cents count for something! :)

42/365 - The Yellow Door

I had a hard time choosing which edit I wanted to post of this picture because I wasn't sure if I liked the vibrant, rich, saturated edit more then this muted, toned down version. I finally decided on the toned down version, just because. There was also a sign posted on this door that I photoshopped out because I thought it just looked better. Don't look too close...it was a quick job. :)

41/365 - Abandoned

I went back to The Academy building today and it started sprinkling as soon as I got there. I quickly walked around the building and took pictures anyway. This is my favorite side of the building. I think it's beautiful.

Day 40 - January 29, 2011 - The Academy

This brick building is awesome. The other side of it is completely overgrown with ivy and ferns. The windows up top are all broken and the ones down below are boarded up. I took a lot of pictures here but I'll have to go back and shoot it again because I was looking through my pictures and noticed where I can change the composition a bit to get better photos. This one could be improved too. Because of where I was standing, it looks like the "Academy" tower is leaning, when really it's not. You live, you learn.

Day 38 - January 27, 2011 - St. John's Catholic Church

I dropped my husband off at the airport this morning and brought my camera along so that I could take some pictures there. But as soon as we got onto the 205 bridge it was apparent by the thick layer of fog, that wasn't going to happen. I left a little disappointed, but drove around until I thought of somewhere else I could go. I ended up going to Officer's Row, the waterfront near the I-5 bridge, the train station, the Academy, downtown Vancouver and back to the waterfront. I went to a lot of places today that I will most definitely return to again and soon, they were awesome for picture taking.

After all the fog cleared, the clouds in the sky were insane and I couldn't let them go to waste. The picture I chose today is of a beautiful church that I've been wanting to photograph forever. While driving around, I saw the steeple from a few blocks away and knew that today was the day.