Van City Trip

A couple weeks ago I was able to spend a few days in Vancouver with my wife and some friends. We had a great time and although I didn't focus on photography that much, I did manage to grab  a few decent frames as we wondered the city.

The above image is of a captive Bald Eagle at the Vancouver Aquarium. They do a regular show with a number of different birds performing demonstrations of flight and other things that birds do (yeah, real scientific stuff, I know). I was standing about six feet from this guy and grabbed a shot with my 70-200mm. 

 

We also spent some time wondering Stanley Park after the aquarium visit. We went and checked out the Totem pole display. There were way to many people there for me to interested in trying to get any good shots of the totems, so this is all I came away with.

Sunset on English Bay from my hotel room at the Coast Plaza.

And finally a pano type shot from the 33rd floor of the hotel. Shot with my fisheye, with some minor distortion correction in Lightroom, and then cropped to a pano aspect. All in all it was a quick trip, but it was fun. We ate some great food, tried some great beer and I enjoyed a much needed 5 days off! Now I'll be working on another little vacation before winter comes. I'm really hoping I can get down to California for a few days this November, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to get the time off. Guess we'll see!