In December 1990, Vancouver experienced several successive heavy snowfalls. Here is the scene "the morning after"... Scanned from the original Kodachrome 64 slide.
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I was walking down the street, past the site of a fire, where demolition workers were cleaning up the rubble, when I heard one of them let out a shout. He had just found an old license plate in the debris. I asked him to show it to me. He did, while flashing a smile, and I quickly squeezed off a couple of shots.
Scanned from the original Tri-X negative. Photographed in Vancouver, BC (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1978 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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No, not a double exposure - a straight shot, single exposure, no digital manipulation. I focused through some sort of construction screen, using a polarizing filter to limit surface reflections. It was like LSD without the brain damage. Vancouver, BC, the unreal city on Canada's west coast...
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Last in this set of old Vancouver photos. I posted these in colour years ago - they were shot on Kodachrome - but recently thought of converting them to b&w for a photojournalism feel. It's really unfortunate that I wasn't shooting Tri-X that day, for two reasons: 1 - the 400 ISO speed would have frozen the action better, and 2 - the Vancouver Sun (newspaper) building was in sight, and they did buy from freelancers. Anyway, the story...
I had just switched my camera system over from Pentax to Nikon. Equipped with a brand new Nikon FE and three lenses (24mm, 105mm macro, and 200mm), I was walking across the Granville Bridge via the south end off ramp one evening when I heard a screech of tires and a bang. I turned around, saw this guy in a late model yellow Ford Capri bouncing off the guard rails, and instinctively started shooting. No motor drive. Click - wind - click - wind - etc. Luckily for the pedestrian, the car ran out of momentum before it could wipe him out.
The driver stumbled out, looking shaky. The passing driver who had stopped saw me taking photos and beat it out of there. So did the pedestrian. A moment later a pickup truck stopped and gave the driver a lift, leaving me standing there with my camera next to a wrecked car, and behind me - not visible in any of these shots - was a blind curve in the ramp. Cars were speeding around that curve, hitting the brakes. I stood at that bend flagging down all traffic, to prevent a pileup. What a good citizen! No cell phones in those days, of course. I even gave a passing hippie on a bike a dime to call the police, but I think he kept the dime.
After 20 minutes, a police car finally arrived on the scene, and I gave the two cops my report. One of them said, "You really got pictures of this guy flying around the bridge here?" The other sniffed some liquid on the pavement. In 1981, a charge of leaving the scene of an accident carried a far lighter penalty upon conviction than, say, impaired driving. I don't know if anything has changed. The following year, in the Yukon, my girlfriend was hit by a vehicle and knocked off her bicycle into a ditch. The guy fled the scene, went straight to the nearest bar and started drinking. It could not be proven that he was drunk when he hit her. He got off easy and she had back problems for years afterward.
Photographed in Vancouver, BC (Canada); scanned from the original Kodachrome 64 slides and converted to monochrome. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©1981 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
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