UP, UP, AND AWAY 3

Posted by Anne (White Rock, Canada) on 27 May 2007 in Cityscape & Urban and Portfolio.

Whilst still climbing, and doing a 180 degree turn over English Bay, we were heading East up the Northern side of downtown Vancouver. We were getting pretty high for my lens capability, but my geography of Vancouver is getting better than looking at a map, each time I fly. On the South side of Vancouver "peninsula" is False Creek, coming in from English Bay. The first Bridge you can see, is Burrard St. Bridge, where I stood alongside, when I took the previously posted photo of False Creek and the Burrard Bridge. A little way west, is the highrise where I went for dinner on Easter Sunday, and took the sunset picture over English Bay. The big white dome further East, is General Motors Place, a huge stadium which is the home of the Vancouver Canucks, and many, many concerts which come to Vancouver. The green area at the Western portion of the Peninsula is Stanley Park, which is huge, and extends out across English Bay way beyond the edge of this photo. It connects to Lions Gate Bridge which is very high and allows large ships to enter into the Port of Vancouver. It takes traffic from downtown to West Vancouver. The bridge, itself, is not visible on this photo - but will post a photo of it later, taken at an earlier time. The building which looks like a large ship with sails, on the northern side of downtown, is Canada Place. Canada Place is the Port of Vancouver admin and Museum, Convention Centre, etc., and looks very beautiful from the ground with its large white sails. You can see that the area there, is full of docks for ships and many sail right up the mighty Fraser River to several other ports in the lower mainland of Vancouver. Well! There is my geography lesson for the day! Glad to be back with you all. If I can't post or thank you all individually for the next few days - it is because I have 20 very large photos to edit. love my new computer - the media centre in it is marvellous for photo viewing, and I can now handle very large files for print without having to reboot every couple of photos edited. Will take a peek at all your photos anyway, even if I can't post much. :D

Please go ahead and give me constructive criticism where needed! If there is anything that I can change that really needs changing and I can do it in editing - then I will change it and re-post the photo! I promise I won't scream and shout or cry for very long!

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