Vancouver

Congrats - I love Vancouver - our family originates from there. It is stunning. I haven't been for a few years - I'd heard that there were more and more Chinese and Japanese there now, but in a good way. How have you found it?

buzzlightweight · 23 Mar 2013 at 09:23

Fantastic shots, great composition, they make me wanna go there for a holiday

Well done

niko · 23 Mar 2013 at 09:46

the quality of the light looks amazing ,loads of photographic opportunities
enjoy and thanks for posting these

Clown · 23 Mar 2013 at 11:01

I saw these on Facebook and it made me remember that you take pictures

Horsehead!

GW1970 · 23 Mar 2013 at 11:30

Excellent photos

ScarySquirrel · 23 Mar 2013 at 15:45

Thanks all. It's great to be taking photos again for myself, rather than people getting married.

The_Abyss said:
Congrats - I love Vancouver - our family originates from there. It is stunning. I haven't been for a few years - I'd heard that there were more and more Chinese and Japanese there now, but in a good way. How have you found it?

We're loving the city as we've been quite lucky with the weather so far. There is a massive Asian population! We are staying in an area called Renfrew-Collingwood and we are in the minority here. I was surprised that much of the older generations don't seem to speak English, but the younger they are the more Canadian they sound.

Clown said:
I saw these on Facebook and it made me remember that you take pictures
Horsehead!

Haha, yeah it's nice taking photos again

--- Z --- · 23 Mar 2013 at 19:18

Can I ask what prompted the move so far away?

Rroff · 23 Mar 2013 at 19:23

Nice pics

ScarySquirrel · 24 Mar 2013 at 00:34

--- Z --- said:
Can I ask what prompted the move so far away?

Just something different to do really, no other reason.

xxalxx · 24 Mar 2013 at 00:46

Sometimes that's the best reason! (We moved to Oz for the same reason). Nice pics btw, now I want to go on holiday. I was in Nova Scotia a few years ago and loved the place.

ScarySquirrel · 24 Mar 2013 at 01:44

I completely agree, people keep asking "Why Canada?" and all we can think of is "why not?". It really was just a spur of the moment decision that we followed through with

Raymond Lin · 24 Mar 2013 at 02:21

USA too difficult, Australia/New Zealand too far, they don't speak English in Asia and Africa is too hot. Europe is too close and who wants to go to South America anyway?

Am I right?

gary996 · 24 Mar 2013 at 11:12

You will be back in the damn UK when your girlfriend/wife tells you she misses her mum. That's what happened to me when we emigrated

Throttle · 24 Mar 2013 at 12:38

lovely images ScarySquirrel did you use a cpl to get the rich blue skys

OG · 24 Mar 2013 at 13:07

Lived out in Vancouver (and Whistler) for around 6 months a few years back.. enjoy it dude, was one of the best experiences of my life out there

Rojin · 24 Mar 2013 at 13:17

Nice, I passed through on the way to Whistler a few years back. We only stopped for a slab of beer!

ScarySquirrel · 24 Mar 2013 at 17:07

Raymond Lin said:
USA too difficult, Australia/New Zealand too far, they don't speak English in Asia and Africa is too hot. Europe is too close and who wants to go to South America anyway?

Am I right?

Haha, that pretty accurate actually!

gary996 said:
You will be back in the damn UK when your girlfriend/wife tells you she misses her mum. That's what happened to me when we emigrated

I hope not. My girlfriend lives away from her Mum anyway so if it's going to be one if us it will be me

Throttle said:
lovely images ScarySquirrel did you use a cpl to get the rich blue skys

Thanks. No CPL used, just edited in Lightroom using the graduated filter to bring out the colours a bit more.

Phate · 24 Mar 2013 at 22:20

Awesome mate.

Oh, I'm coming to visit soon....

...justsayin

OG · 24 Mar 2013 at 22:50

For some awesome views of Vancouver city get out onto Stanley park (can hire bikes and cycle round the parks there) but you also get the chance to look back onto Vancouver city.. at sunset it is quite a site!

Also if your in Whistler (please visit since you are all the way out there.. just go for a week) Lost Lake in Whistler is truly amazing and was one of my favorite places I visited. If you want any other suggestions of places to visit around BC give me a shout and I'll do my best to remember all the cool places!