Amanda | December 19, 2011
Finch’s Tea and Coffee House, Vancouver Epic sandwiches served in brown paper, tables placed in raised window displays, ivy growing up the walls, mismatched furniture, and Horlicks served in mugs. Charm exuding from every nook and cranny.
Category: Cafe Life, Vancouver |
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Tags: cafes, eat, Finch's, Vancouver
Amanda | December 7, 2011
And a ho! ho! ho! to you… Here’s something a little different for me. I’ve been teaching my Shoot By Design course participants to step out of their comfort zones and I really should practise what I preach, right? So here I am with some darker images with no natural light in sight. I didn’t [...]
Category: Creativity, Photography, Vancouver |
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Tags: Christmas, Embracing, Finding the Beauty, winter
Amanda | September 2, 2011
Ah Main St, such a fun place to spend an afternoon. OK, before I go on Vancouverites, I know…the Sylvia Hotel is not on Main St but it was part of my Vancouver wander in the last month and I wanted to share. It’s such an awesome looking building. The rest of these were taken [...]
Category: Vancouver, Wandering Neighbh'ds |
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Tags: Main St, Vancouver, Wandering Neighbh'ds
Amanda | June 1, 2011
Reasons I love record stores: The endless possibilities of new music to discover. There’s something special about loving a record that has already been loved and shared with others before you. The anticipation of stumbling upon that longed for 7 inch vinyl that you’ve scoured many record stores for. There’s always the chance that this [...]
Category: Photography, Shop Shop, Vancouver |
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Tags: Fuji Natura 1600, Record Stores, Vinyl
Amanda | May 13, 2011
I was very lucky to be invited to attend the Opening Night of the brand new Vancouver Anthropologie store last night. I have had a love affair with Anthro since I first discovered it in Seattle back in 2005 and have longed for a store to open in Vancouver since I arrived here. I didn’t [...]
Category: Photography, Shop Shop, Vancouver |
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Tags: Anthropologie, Shopping, Store of my Dreams
Amanda | April 21, 2011
I cannot help myself. Will I ever tire of shooting them? Probably not. I made a comment on twitter about how ridiculous it was that I took 14 photos of cherry blossoms on one roll of film. According to a lot of my twitter followers, I have nothing to worry about and shooting bloom after [...]
Category: Photography, Vancouver |
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Tags: cherry blossoms, Sakura, Spring
Amanda | April 19, 2011
These are scenes that I will never get used to. Coming from a place where the ocean is often blue and the sand white, walking along beaches like this truly makes me realise how incredibly different our big world is. We took a rather large staircase to wind our way down to Wreck Beach. It [...]
Category: Living Abroad, Photography, Vancouver |
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Tags: Beaches, Kodak Portra 400, Sean, The Seaside, Wreck Beach