Yesterday was another fog-filled day in Vancouver, and in the evening it became particularly mysterious. A friend of mine sent me a message on Facebook at about 11:30pm to say they were photographing my apartment building, so I grabbed my tripod and camera and headed out to meet them.
We spent about an hour photographing around Coal Harbour, at which point we split up, and I continued along the seawall. I took some more photos of the seaplanes, but having already covered that subject once, was looking for something else.
I really liked the patterns on the ground that the lights along this section of the seawall produce, but couldn't get a good angle. I then remembered there is a walkway leading from the plaza to an elevator, providing access to the seaplane jetties, and this crosses the seawall.
The walkway I was photographing from is lined with high glass walls so I needed to extend my tripod above head height to get a clear wide-angle shot. Fortunately the lights were still on in the Convention Centre, lighting up the fog around with a bright, warm glow.
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We have had a lot of fog lately and it always is so intriguing how to shoot it. Love the soft lights inside and the line of lights in that perfect DOF! Sounds like on call photography too..how fun is that! Super shot!:)
This is awesome! It reminds me of my college campus which would get these eerie pockets of nighttime fog after a heavy rain. The street lamps were designed to look like something out the early 19th century and they positively glowed in the fog much like the lights are glowing here. I could walk around campus in that fog for hours- it was so mysterious! Great shot!!
