Here comes the Cold

We have been enjoying a very mild winter in Kelowna so far this year. It’s been sweater weather all winter up until yesterday! I shot this photo yesterday and I was wearing a hoody with a down feather vest, but even that was not up to the task of keeping me warm. Looks like the …

Building Buildings

There is no shortage of construction going on around Kelowna. Plenty of new buildings going up downtown and around the city. 3 new buildings just in this one party alone. Some of the old timers don’t seem to like it, but as far as I’m concerned the more the better. Kelowna is small and there …

Good times with friends

I was out shooting photos downtown and I didn’t really know what I wanted to take a picture of. Once the sun started going down and all the city lights were shinning bright I thought I’d like to get something with some shallow depth of field. Once I picked my spot I just hung out …

Happy New Year 2024!

Can you believe it’s 2024?! Holy macoral it’s the future! haha. Kelowna put on a fireworks show downtown called the New York New Years Eve Fireworks show. I didn’t understand why they called it that at first, but I guess it’s because the show happens here (in the west) at 9pm and in New York …

Posting on the Weekend

Now that I’m getting back into the swing of things with the blogging again I have been trying to decide if I want to be posting on the weekends or not. I used to just post Monday to Friday and take the weekends off. Well that was quite a while I ago that I was …

The Many Lights

There are so many different lights going on in this picture. The street lights on the street and in the park by the lake and then this really bright section in the middle. You can see the light just pouring out of the middle layer of the photo. I was tempted to tone that down, …

Milk Run

I had to run out to the grocery store for milk last night. I also knew I needed a picture for today so I had that bouncing around in the back of my head. As I was getting my stuff on to head out to the store I thought of this photo. It’s so random, …

Early Night Downtown

I was downtown last night and I knew this view was coming my way, so I brought my camera along. I love views like this at night. I mean a view like this is great in the day time too, but at night it’s especially beautiful to me. I also think this type of city …

Colourful Lake

I went out last night with a 70-200 and nothing else. It’s probably a good thing too because if I had another longer lens, I surely would have used it and I think that would have been a mistake. For this particular photo with all the colourful lights reflecting off the lake I think 200mm …

Kelowna BC on Fire!

I don’t even know what to say about this picture. In the afternoon the McDougall Creek wildfire was just on the other side of that mountain and smoke was flying into the sky like it was coming out of a cannon. I never thought it would start burning down this side of the mountain towards …

Bench with a View

I was walking through City Park as one does in Kelowna. It’s a nice view of the city on the north side of the park. There are these benches a long the promenade and people are always there enjoying the view. This picture is super random as I could have shot any one of the …

Cute Sign

I was walking down this weird street in Kelowna the other night looking for a picture when I noticed this cute snail sign. I kinda had to climb on this little fence to get a proper shot of it. I was shooting with my Leica M8 with a 50mm f2 lens which is manual focus, …

Buildings by the Park

If you’re gonna live downtown in a big city, living by a park would be ideal. This is part of David Lam Park in Vancouver and it’s bigger than it looks in this picture. Anyhow, I’ve lived in a lot of apartments in my life, but never across the street from a park like this. …