It’s happened, on more than one occasion now, that a street performer in Vancouver has noticed my camera and decided to pose for me. These guys love all the attention that they can get and I’m happy to oblige! They are very interesting characters.
I didn’t catch his full act, or name, but the performer in the photos and video below managed to persuade me to use my camera in a crazy balancing act. The act itself wasn’t so crazy, but I was for letting him touch my camera. I made sure to put the camera on video mode so that I would have proof if something were to go horribly wrong. Thankfully, it turned out he really knew how to balance things on his chin well, *phew*.
He insisted this was a good pose.
He insisted this was even better.
Here is a video from when my camera was attached to his monopod. The aperture was around f4 so the crowd did not appear in focus from that distance, but it’s kind of interesting. Kind of.
I walked around downtown for a short while yesterday with my camera and decided to share a few random shots here.
A street performer singles me out of the crowd to pose for my camera. He then asks me to put the picture on Facebook.
A man skateboards around the city with his guitar. Vancouver is full of busking musicians and local bands.
Kids carry balloons left over from the Olympics. Vendors everywhere are frantically trying to get rid of extra Olympic stock.
I love fog in Vancouver. I love fog anywhere, but I can only photograph where I am. Lights and colours get thrown about and saturated in the mist and street lamps look like floating orbs that will float off into space.
Wearing Bandaid For Cuts
Outside the Vancouver Art Gallery today there was a rally protesting the BC Government’s proposed cuts to charities funded by Gaming (money from casinos, lotteries, Keno, etc.). Sectors affected by the cuts include the arts, sports, the environment, social services, public safety, and parents advisory councils.
There wasn’t a huge turnout at the gallery steps on the dark, cold, wet day, but the message came across. Bandaids were handed out to show how everyone is affected by the “cuts”.
You can read more on the Facebook page about event.
Arts Feed My Family
gastown sign
Gastown is an old area of Vancouver named after Capt. John ‘Gassy Jack’ Deighton, the first settler of the Vancouver area in 1867. Today it still keeps an old town feel with stone roads and brick buildings, and is a popular tourist area and place to live. I walked around and took photos of the area the other week.