Some time after we hit the streets to celebrate along with the whole of Vancouver after the Canada-USA gold medal hockey game I realized it was time to put away my camera. I had just watched one of the greatest and most meaningful games to be played in Vancouver and wanted to be part of the wave of euphoria rushing through the streets. About an hour in -- and mindful that I had to move later on that night, I stuffed my two cameras back into the bag and just was swept along.

Apparently, lining up for hours to get into pavilions does get you something after all. A friend of mine asked if I got one of these glorious mugs that they were giving out at the Canon pavilion at the Olympics.

First of all, I didn't even know there was a Canon pavilion. ;(

After two weeks of the Olympics the magical crowds have disappeared as if gone to the next city for their Olympics. Everyone is back to wearing grey and black.

Everything is normal again.

I got a roll back from CustomColor today and in the negative is a frame I definitely never took. The location is known to me but the people are not. I puzzled over this for awhile and my guess is that because I had bought the roll from an estate, the previous photographer had shot one frame and somehow rolled it back into the cannister.

There's some extremely beautiful portraits of the actors / characters from Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland feature film making the rounds now. These were taken by Mary Ellen Mark using huge Polaroid cameras (20x24) to take these studio shots of Johnny Depp, ingenue Mia Wasikowska (as Alice) and Helena Bonham Carter.

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This is only my second shot ever of Coal Harbour at night, one of the more iconic Vancouver locations that untold generations of visitors have captured. However, I doubt that many have taken it with an old tank like my Polaroid 600SE or with instant film. It happened that I was on my way to check out the Saxony House (an unofficial pavilion by the Saxony region of Germany) and took this shot with Fuji instant.