The Olympic Rings

One of the most popular photography venues these days is the seawall adjacent to Brockton Point Lighthouse in Stanley Park. From there one can see the Olympic rings that are mounted on a barge moored in Coal Harbour. Behind that are the "sails" of Canada Place lit up with the Olympic colours. The new Vancouver Trade & Convention Centre is just to the right of the coloured sails. The rings on the barge change colours on a timer and apparently the five colours don't come around to often so I was fortunate to be there at the right time. Immediately after this shot, they turned white and remained so for as long as I was there. It just didn't have the same impact as the coloured version.

Vancouver has been going through a unseasonably warm period lately (the meteorologists called it a moderate El Nino.) Cypress Mountain, where the freestyle skiing and snowboarding will take place, has virtually no natural snow on the lower mountain and contingency plans are now in place to helicopter and truck snow in from the higher slopes. Wow!



This was shot from the seawall near Brockton Oval in Stanley Park and shows Canada Place and the skyline of Coal Harbour. The very bright white object in the water is the Chevron gas barge used for refuelling boats and floatplanes.