September 1st

9pm: The nights slowly draw in, but we get some magnificent sunsets. I just happened to look up from the TV this evening & spot the sun on the peaks - it was a rush to find the camera, but i got the shot in before the sun disappeared & the mountains became shadow once more.

March 23rd

7pm: Not all of Vancouver is quite so scenic, from the river shore looking west you can see the industrial units of Mitchell Island, a little blob of land in the middle of one of the many tributaries of the Fraser River. I was still stuck working & snuck out to take this shot as the sun disappeared over the horizon. Later we ended up at the house of one of our customers for some of the best Indian food I have ever had the pleasure to eat - a hard days work, with a very nice denouement.

March 20th

 

8pm: I was pretty tired after a busy week & devoid of inspiration, but with such a cloudless sky, the vapour trail of this Westbound jet looked pretty neat as I glanced up from our back garden.

January 29th

4pm: The big freeze continued all day, I had time to my self now to wander the streets of the Lower East Side, Greenwich Village & NoLita. This typical streetscape has to around Bleecker & 7th - although the shops & restaurants have modern facades, the fire escapes and old doors/windows can place you in an old 50's Film Noir thriller without too much imagination.

January 28th

6pm: Freezing, bone-chilling cold in New York today - the wind whipping in from the river & lowering the mercury to 15 below. We had walked around Battery Park after passing briskly through Ground Zero - hardly able to comprehend what had gone on there a decade or so ago. Nicky & I got engaged on top of the South Tower of the World Trade Centre in November 1999 on a similarly freezing day - I can recall clearly how your sende of direction in New York was always anchored by your relation to those towers.