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Worldwide Photowalk 2009 in Vancouver

yumiang — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 04:58:44 +0000

I was so excited this year when I got on the list of 50 people to participate in this year’s Worldwide Photowalk.
I wanted to join last year’s for Vancouver, but by the time I found out about the event the signups were closed.

This year, which is the second annual Photowalk, the group of 50 photowalkers of Vancouver walked around Stanley Park from the Sylvia Hotel (near English Bay) to Third Beach.

Man, was it hot from 6PM-8PM. I was boiling under the hot sun.
Thanks again to David duChemin, his models and his crew for leading such a fun walk!

Now it’s time for me to decide which photos to enter…
I’ve uploaded my favorites to my Flickr set >

I’m liking these three photos… which two do you like best?
Help me pick.

: )

Now Wall

Stoney Vancouver

Silver branch

First trip to Vancouver Aquarium

yumiang — Thu, 14 May 2009 22:59:17 +0000

A couple weeks ago, I suggested to Travis that we should go visit the Aquarium because I never went before.
Plus, my Entertainment Book for 2009 was still fresh and I wanted to use my 2-for-1 coupon might as well.

We were going to drive and park in Stanley Park, but I asked about the issue about paying for parking.
I had always heard it was pretty expensive, but Vicky brought up the point that by the time we get to the entrance, it would be the peak of rush-hour.

Bussing up to Stanley Park was peaceful on the #19 from Downtown.
Less than a couple minutes, we ended up at the entrance of the Aquarium.

We literally ran out of the house, so we grabbed a couple of hotdogs for breakfast from the cashier playing on his Nintendo DS to pass his time.

The Aquarium was closing at 5PM on the day we went, and we learned that if you come during the last hour you get to pay half price. Realizing how large the aquarium is, I guess in an hour you really would enjoy half of the sites and sounds of the aquarium.

He's huuuuuuge!

Started off with the “tropical” rainforest area with giant catfish, birds, little monkeys, spiders and so many other creepy critters. Travis thought that it would be funny to tap on the glass to tick off the tarantulas… It’s pretty dark in this part of the aquarium, so I warn about blurry pictures if you don’t use flash.

Sandy and real close...

Fish fish fish and more fish!
Travis got mad that I wasn’t in front of the same tank as he was when he was looking at the Lion Fish.
Once I came by, the Lion Fish decided to hide toward the hidden top part of the tank.
Oh well.

So orange!

There are about three separate areas for different ocean life- Tropical, BC Coast, and more of the strange Jellyfish matter.

Flowing Jellyfish

Fifteen minutes were left, and that’s when I started to panic a little.
We didn’t see the sea lions, belugas and the new frog exhibit yet.

I snapped as many photos as possible, and rushed over to check out the belugas and sea lions.
I completely forgot about the fact that there were no orcas at the aquarium anymore. It’s been a long time since Travis has visited the aquarium….

The frogs were hard to find in the frog exhibit.
It looked like in the majority of the tanks that they took out the frogs and forgot to place a sign for visitors to let them know that there are no frogs….

Mexico's chicken of the sea?

The most interesting creature in the Frog exhibit was Mexico’s version of their “chicken in the sea”…
Eek.

My mac is back!

yumiang — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:18:22 +0000

Close to the entrance of the Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park

Yay!

I survived the week without my Macbook Pro!!!
I took so many pictures of this week and weekend with being at the Spring Vancouver Wedding Show at the Convention Centre, Canstruction, and Stanley Park.

I just started on organizing my photos, so I’ll be posting more as soon as I get around to them.
I’m so glad the weather has been so sunny in the usual-Vancouver.

Secretly I hope it will rain this weekend, because I know that I will be inside most of the day editing video.
: )