Charlie (or “CoCo” as her dad called her) was born yesterday at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. I was honored that I got to meet her and her family a few hours after her grand entrance. She made a wonderful subject.
January, 2010
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Jan 10
Owen: a few hours old {hospital and birth photography}
Owen was my amazing first subject for a much larger project that I’ll be showing on the blog as it progresses. He was born yesterday at St. Paul’s Hospital in downtown Vancouver and I got to meet him and his lovely mum early in the evening.
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Jan 10
Foggy Sunrise over the Athlete’s Village in Vancouver {Olympic Photos}
The sun broke through this morning over False Creek and the Athlete’s Village in Vancouver later than most days. The result was a foggy sunrise surrounded by a bright blue sky.
In front of the Athlete’s Village you can see one of the RCMP patrols that are now constantly in the barricaded inlet. They are sharing the False Creek patrol time with the Vancouver Police Department and the Coast Guard.
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Jan 10
Vancouver Olympic Line Streetcar Opens to the Public
The Vancouver Olympic Line Streetcar opened today, January 21st, 2010.
Mayor Gregor Robertson helped unveil Vancouver’s latest addition to the Olympic downtown transit system today, the Vancouver Olympic Line Streetcar. In partnership with Bombardier and the Brussels Transport Company STIB, the Olympic Line Streetcar will run between Granville Island and 2nd Avenue and Cambie Street. The state-of-the-art transport is free to ride between January 21st and March 21st, 2010, though whether this will spur additional streetcar usage in Vancouver is unclear.
Mayor Gregor Robertson (right), Kris Lauwers, Deputy Gen. Manager of the Brussels STIB (far left)
Mayor Robertson next to one of the Bombardier Flexity streetcars on loan from Brussels.
During the introduction of the streetcar to the media and gathered crowd of a few hundred people, Raymond Bachant, president of Bombardier Transportation North America, said, “Bombardier is proud of its partnership with the City of Vancouver whose vision of sustainable development is a model for cities in North America. We are confident that these award-winning vehicles will demonstrate the potential role that streetcars could play in the future of transportation in Metro Vancouver.”
Mayor Robertson is interviewed by reporters after the Olympic Line opening.
When asked in an interview with CBC whether or not Vancouver has plans to continue streetcar use after the Olympics, Mayor Robertson admitted, “it is a lot cheaper than Skytrain technology.”
The first passenger boards the Olympic Line streetcar.
The maiden voyage of the Vancouver Olympic Line.
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Jan 10
Athlete’s Village, Vancouver, in the afternoon light {2010 Olympics Photos}
Near the Athlete’s Village in Vancouver this morning, as the workers are trying to put in the finishing touches, the rain was coming in sideways pelting everyone and everything. Finally this afternoon, after a few days of constant downpour, the clouds broke and the sun came through. That always results in some brilliant light; I went out to the False Creek seawall and took this panorama of the Athlete’s Village across the water.
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Jan 10
Four-day old baby T — {newborn photography in Vancouver}
I will admit… being around newborns makes me want to have another. Check out little baby T below — he is four days old in these, his first newborn photos, and he is absolutely perfect. We kept him nice and warm in between pictures but he could only last 20 minutes at a time without going back to Mom for a refill.
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Jan 10
Panorama of the sun rising over Vancouver and the Athlete’s Village 2010
January 7th, 2010 Sunrise over False Creek and the Vancouver 2010 Athlete’s Village this morning was epic. I swear this is how it looked, straight out of the camera.
It was really brilliant.
On the left is the Edgewater Casino and Plaza of Nations, in the center is the Athlete’s Village, and on the right is the Cambie bridge.
Please click through to see the larger 4000 pixel wide version to see the detail. You can also see the final full size file at 20000 pixels wide (90 megapixels).
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Jan 10
Sunrise over the Vancouver Athlete’s Village {2010 Olympics Photos}
It was a lovely sunrise over the Athlete’s Village and False Creek in Vancouver this morning. I headed out around 7:20 am and made this photo at 7:48. There was only a few light cloud wisps over Vancouver and Yaletown and the sun came up brilliantly behind Science World. That is an Inukshuk rock sculpture in the foreground; I’m always amazed at the rock balancing that people do along the shoreline.
The Vancouver Athlete’s Village looks to be almost complete and the workers have been finishing the landscaping (and security camera installation) in the past few days. Near the spot along False Creek, there were also workers completing the large screen installation that will allow people to watch some of the Olympic Games from the park in the middle of it all.
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Jan 10
The Polar Bear Swim – Vancouver 2010
January 1st, 2010 – The Polar Bear Swim, Vancouver, BC.
Wow, was it cold. And rainy. And wet… it didn’t matter whether you went in the water or not, everyone was the same amount of soaked at the end — swimmers and spectators alike.
This was my first Polar Bear Swim and won’t be my last. I did go in! Beforehand, I asked some of the swimmers to pose for portraits:
And now for the waterborne portion of the Polar Bear Swim…
