Lomography

Noticeable smoothness and great saturation, Ektar lives up to the claims. Best for strong sunlight, or long exposure with tripod etc.

One of my favourite monuments in London is The Monument. It's a monument to the Great Fire of London, it's a tower that you go inside and walk up the 311 steps to the viewing platform at the top, then enjoy the fab views.

One of my favourite places in London is the Monument. It's a monument to the Great Fire of London, it's a tower that you go inside and walk up the 311 steps to the viewing platform at the top, then enjoy the fab views.

They have the worlds largest collection of Edgar Leeteg paintings, in the world! This recently revived Tiki Bar at the Waldorf Hotel also features a completely Analog sound system, DJ's every night and great cocktails.

Is it "the poor mans lomo"? or is it a great inexpensive toy and perfect partner for whatever camera you normally use? Here, I offer some reasons to exploit it's fixed exposure and mechanical functions, there's always beauty to be found in simplicity. And it weighs almost nothing!

An Exhibition of Modernist photographs at The Museum of Anthropology, featuring Modernist Photographers of the 20's and 30's.

My colleagues loved their instax portraits so much they used it for our Christmas Card. Here's a look at the final product. Hope you guys enjoy it as much as we did!

An Exhibition of Modernist photographs at The Museum of Anthropology, featuring Modernist Photographers of the 20's and 30's.

Actually for a long time I didn’t know that 120 film sometimes comes with a canister, none of the films I had bought over the past 4 years had these. It’s quick and easy to do and helps the environment by re-using stuff instead of discarding it.

I implore you to pay a visit to the exhibition of Henri Cartier-Bresson's 25 silver gelatin prints, dated from 1930's and 1940's in the West Vancouver Museum. Be prepared to be blown away by Bresson's impeccable and awe-inspiring masterpieces.

So, do you like that low light shooting with nice glowing exposures? If like me you don't have the Fuji Natura Classica, there is a way to get this look, so long as your camera has auto-exposure like the LC-A+ for instance.

Nice Black & White film for easy mini-lab (C-41) processing. Works well in most conditions, sunny or overcast, and in low tech cameras (without metering).

An economical film for the budget conscious Lomographer and works great when you want to splash some crazy colours on everything that you snap!

Why not? and then soak it in mouthwash of different colours (blue, red, green..) for a couple of hours. Rubbing scrubbing soaking fun!

A great point and shoot camera for winter sports, underwater and low light shots, with some excellent thoughtful features. Viewfinder is directly above lens (less parallax), 2 shutter buttons – the 2nd one has a 10 sec delay, self-timer), Flash can be manually On, Off, Auto/red eye, and Macro (closest 2ft on land, 1.5ft underwater).

It's a sad story really, not far from the excellent Vancouver Aquarium, just a short walk of about 100 meters you will find an abandoned Polar Bear Pit which was once a part of the now defunct Stanley Park Zoo.

The City of North Vancouver lies to the north of downtown Vancouver, across the Burrard Inlet. Excellent views of Downtown skyline and North Shore Mountains can be seen. Travel here from downtown by the Seabus, every 15mins during peak times: http://www.translink.bc.ca/Transportation_Services/SeaBus/

Many nice things to see here and it's free! Parking is free too.

Who doesn't love those sunny summer days? Or enjoy going to an outdoor heated pool? In Vancouver we have 2 favourites, 2nd Beach Pool in Stanley Park (pictured here) and Kitsilano Pool which is great for the more serious lane-swimmers. 2nd Beach Pool has 2 small slides and it's right on the edge of the ocean, the scenery is amazing. Bikes and roller-blades whiz by on the seawall, floatplanes in the sky, forest to the rear with raccoons, geese, swans, eagles and more.

It's one of our favourite places to dine, mainly because of the design and décor, you'll wish your dining room at home was like this. A bank of TV screens behind the bar keeps the sports fans happy. The restaurant seating is mostly booths that seat 4, with cool dim lighting, very snug and cozy. The menu is the usual west coast fusion, I can only recommend the Steaks, and these are always good. Other items include Ahi Tuna, Endamame, and Fajitas. For drinks, Margaritas are popular, in many flavors.