A winter sunset on Burnaby Mountain

Over the past six months or so I've been up on Burnaby Mountain several times. The mountain is located just east of where I currently live in north Burnaby. There is a fantastic view all seasons of the year and especially after sunset when the stars and the city lights are seen in all their brilliance. The scene above is of a sunset looking west toward Vancouver. The Ainu scuptures are in the foreground. I hope to have a post on the scultures soon as time permits. In the meantime, enjoy this image. - Volker

Cloud patterns and reflections

My old hard drive on my laptop computer died over three weeks ago and I am only now getting back to normal with the new drive working as planned. This is part of the reason why I haven't posted for a while. The other is that I have been rather busy and just lacked sufficient time to post.

A week ago Sunday I was in Vancouver during the afternoon going into the evening. I was struck by the unusual cloud patterns in the sky above these office towers on West Georgia Street at Burrard. Without the clouds this would just be an ordinary scene. Added to that are the reflections in the buildings. The building in the background in the first photo above is Hotel Vancouver on Burrard Street at West Georgia. Then the crane adds the the unusual scene. What are your thoughts and impressions?

Then this highrise office tower is on West Georgia Street at Thurlow Street. It appears to be the highest building in the Vancouver downtown.

Then above and below are images of the cloud patterns above Hotel Vancouver. This is an unusual scene I often don't see and I couldn't resist taking some photos. Comment if you like!