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a December 15th, 2008

  1. Was Garish Yellow Ever En Vogue?

    December 15, 2008 by Gail

    transit

    The North Vancouver-Vancouver Seabus terminal corridor connecting to the West Coast Express train, Skytrain, and out to West Cordova St. I don’t know when this was built (the 80′s? Skytrain originated with Expo ’86), but somebody had the bright idea to use Ronald McDonald colours. Those poor North Shore commuters.

    Due to time constraints only 20 of the 300 photos I’ve uploaded to the Vancouver photo album thus far were edited (less than 7%), so once I start editing some of the photos in the “to edit” queue, that percentage will rise. Comparing this Vancouver album to the ones from earlier this year (April – 116, July – 77, September – 51), I’ve uploaded a LOT more this time around. At 3+ weeks, it was a longer trip, but I think the other reason for more photos is a combination of familiarity with the camera (I’ve only had it three months), which means shooting faster, shooting more, and consequently uploading more SOOC (straight out of the camera). I’ve got a stack of NEFs (RAW files) in the queue, too, but a manageable number.

    It was a great trip! The set features many children, domesticated pets, marine animals, farm animals, and the Pacific Ocean!


  2. On The Ferry One Week Ago

    December 15, 2008 by Gail

    Mobile blogging hasn’t worked for me for over a week, but I changed the post-to-blog-by-email address for Flickr and now it works again. Time to clear out my cache of cameraphone pics.


  3. YYZ. 2am. Where Is My Luggage?

    December 15, 2008 by Gail

    Update 4am:

    • AC Flight 132 left Vancouver 40 minutes late (6:20pm)
    • watched “Dark Knight” (rather long; Heath Ledger’s last performance memorable) and part of “Mamma Mia” (cinematography needed help, for one thing)
    • landed in Toronto about 30 minutes late (1:35am)
    • luggage showed up 2:12am
    • 300 Bloor-Danforth Night Bus arrived 20 minutes late (2:40am)
    • got off night bus at subway station, was passed by three taxis walking in the rain
    • arrived at home 3:15am, greeted by two very curious cats.

    In summary:

    • happy that Toronto is actually much warmer than Vancouver when I left (above zero overnight and raining), which made it easier to wait for my bus/taxi
    • happy that I was able to get home for less than $10 instead of around $50 by airport taxi
    • happy to be home!