Mexico lights up English Bay on the third fireworks night with the theme “Journey”. They were the 2006 fireworks competition winner, and it’s been 4 years since they are back. After Spain put on an incredible show on Saturday, Mexico needed something spectacular to beat them.
Unfortunately, to my disappointment, I thought the show wasn’t great [...]

Mexico lights up English Bay on the third fireworks night with the theme “Journey”. They were the 2006 fireworks competition winner, and it’s been 4 years since they are back. After Spain put on an incredible show on Saturday, Mexico needed something spectacular to beat them.

Unfortunately, to my disappointment, I thought the show wasn’t great at all (although in the newspaper it said that it had good reviews…). There were too many pauses, and some sections lacked colour and style. What’s worse, there were some parts where the fireworks were not synced together, having three shells explode first, then subsequently having another two explode (which made the fireworks looked a bit lopsided). My “artistic techniques” didn’t really quite work out the way I wanted to this time, but hey, that’s why it’s an experiment right? :-)

China Saturday!

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What… you didn’t think you would actually see a dog on skateboard here did you? ;-)

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What… you didn’t think you would actually see a dog on skateboard here did you? ;-)

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Part of Spain’s performance on Saturday

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I remembered the last time Team Spain was in Vancouver, three years ago, they had a pretty solid performance. This year with them winning the World Cup, I wondered what they would do to “celebrate” their victory (or even add to that)!
Yesterday’s shows was themed “Hell & Heaven”, and it included quite a few familiar [...]

I remembered the last time Team Spain was in Vancouver, three years ago, they had a pretty solid performance. This year with them winning the World Cup, I wondered what they would do to “celebrate” their victory (or even add to that)!

Yesterday’s shows was themed “Hell & Heaven”, and it included quite a few familiar music. After the show, my thought was “I haven’t seen anything quite like it at English Bay.” Their fireworks were choreographed in sync with their up and down music beautifully, and the way they used the majority of the sky, was pretty rare. I remember being wow’ed and getting the goosebumps a couple of times during the performance, especially towards the end when they used so many colours without overdoing it. There’s a pretty good YouTube video showing the last few minutes. I hope Mexico has something up their sleeves next Wednesday!

And I realized that there’s nothing quite like the experience than in English Bay – despite the growing crowd every year!

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Different kind of streaks – 2010 Celebration of Light – Spain. Full Images

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Different kind of streaks – 2010 Celebration of Light – Spain. Full Images

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Vancouver sunsets are… wondrously colourful

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Opening night of this year’s fireworks over English Bay. 20th year since it started, wow! USA brings their performance “In The Mood”, with a few jazz and swing music. Taken from Kitsilano Beach this time.
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Opening night of this year’s fireworks over English Bay. 20th year since it started, wow! USA brings their performance “In The Mood”, with a few jazz and swing music. Taken from Kitsilano Beach this time.

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I’m excited to be part of Murray and Jasmine’s wedding, which takes place this weekend!
I have known both of them for quite a long time now, and a year ago, they asked me to take some photos as part of their engagement session, and we had an awesome time going around False Creek taking photos. [...]

I’m excited to be part of Murray and Jasmine’s wedding, which takes place this weekend!

I have known both of them for quite a long time now, and a year ago, they asked me to take some photos as part of their engagement session, and we had an awesome time going around False Creek taking photos. They had a lot of creative things they wanted to incorporate – and Jasmine loves anything bubbly, so she brought some bubble-blowing packs! They also wanted to include a part of the session at their respective elementary schools, which I thought was quite fun and cool (walking the the same places you spent your childhood!)

Anyways, these are long overdue photos, I thought I’d share them before their wedding!

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Time for some splish and splash! – Santa Cruz, California

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Yes, because Venetian dogs are just that much more innocent, right?
When can I get my food?

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Do I smell food?

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Yes, because Venetian dogs are just that much more innocent, right?

When can I get my food?

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Do I smell food?

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