Pic Spam ahoy!
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webbgirlSo I'm spending the weekend in Vancouver with crimsonquills and tartary_lamb. Yay!
No trip would be complete without me losing something, even if it's only temporary. This time it was my new (and very not cheap) sunglasses. I had put them on top of the pile in the bin going through the x-ray machine at security. I didn't realize until about 10 or 15 minutes later, after I'd gone through and gone down to exchange money that I didn't have them.
I went back to the security checkpoint and asked TSA if anyone had found them. They did a half-ass look and couldn't find them. I finally talked to the LAX police and they said they could have their people check the cameras to see what happened to them after I put them in the bin. After they checked, it turned out that they had dropped off and a guy behind me had picked them up. He tried to give them to TSA, but they ignored him. One of cops got the description for the guy and walked with me through the terminal to find the guy. We finally found him and I got my sunglasses back (yay).
I have to say that I felt sorry for the guy because he was clearly freaked when the cop approached him. He was great about giving them back and he had tried to do the right thing, but was summarily ignored. The cop told him that next time he would need to make sure he handed them to someone because I could have had him arrested. I made it clear that I had no intention of that and I just wanted my sunglasses back.
After all that I have a mixed feeling of security and being watched by Big Brother in an airport now.
So funner things. Sincecrimsonquills and tartary_lamb both had to work today, I was on my own for fun making. I decided to pick someplace that I'd never visited in Vancouver. I went to the VanDusen Botanical Gardens.
The gardens are gorgeous and HUGE. 50 acres. They have an amazing variety of plant life and even some ducks and geese hanging around. So, since I took my camera and shot 260 pictures while there, you guys get to be subjected to them. Okay, I've only uploaded 19 so far. Photoshop is being a pain on the clean up.
While I took quite a few pics of the Cherry Blossoms, there are only a couple uploaded so far. I had an issue taking wide shots of them because they lost the definition. I think it was a combo of the lighting and the trees themselves. They looks like big, pink fuzzy blobs when I shoot the whole tree. I'm going to try and get some more in the area tomorrow though.
I cut to save your flist, but I'd love any feedback (kind constructive is definitely welcome) on the pics themselves.
crimsonquills and tartary_lamb. Yay!No trip would be complete without me losing something, even if it's only temporary. This time it was my new (and very not cheap) sunglasses. I had put them on top of the pile in the bin going through the x-ray machine at security. I didn't realize until about 10 or 15 minutes later, after I'd gone through and gone down to exchange money that I didn't have them.
I went back to the security checkpoint and asked TSA if anyone had found them. They did a half-ass look and couldn't find them. I finally talked to the LAX police and they said they could have their people check the cameras to see what happened to them after I put them in the bin. After they checked, it turned out that they had dropped off and a guy behind me had picked them up. He tried to give them to TSA, but they ignored him. One of cops got the description for the guy and walked with me through the terminal to find the guy. We finally found him and I got my sunglasses back (yay).
I have to say that I felt sorry for the guy because he was clearly freaked when the cop approached him. He was great about giving them back and he had tried to do the right thing, but was summarily ignored. The cop told him that next time he would need to make sure he handed them to someone because I could have had him arrested. I made it clear that I had no intention of that and I just wanted my sunglasses back.
After all that I have a mixed feeling of security and being watched by Big Brother in an airport now.
So funner things. Since
crimsonquills and tartary_lamb both had to work today, I was on my own for fun making. I decided to pick someplace that I'd never visited in Vancouver. I went to the VanDusen Botanical Gardens. The gardens are gorgeous and HUGE. 50 acres. They have an amazing variety of plant life and even some ducks and geese hanging around. So, since I took my camera and shot 260 pictures while there, you guys get to be subjected to them. Okay, I've only uploaded 19 so far. Photoshop is being a pain on the clean up.
While I took quite a few pics of the Cherry Blossoms, there are only a couple uploaded so far. I had an issue taking wide shots of them because they lost the definition. I think it was a combo of the lighting and the trees themselves. They looks like big, pink fuzzy blobs when I shoot the whole tree. I'm going to try and get some more in the area tomorrow though.
I cut to save your flist, but I'd love any feedback (kind constructive is definitely welcome) on the pics themselves.
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on 2010-03-20 07:44 pm (UTC)Spring hasn't actually happened yet, here -- temperatures have started to rise, but we have neither leaves nor flowers -- so any pictures of cherry blossoms and greenery would be welcome. But from Vandusen gardens! With a backdrop of mountains! The pictures make me happy and homesick all at once.
I have to say, though, I find it amusing that even in a relatively manicured garden, with all the blossoming and spring-like deciduous trees, the photos are nonetheless framed by dark conifers, looming somberly in the background.
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on 2010-03-25 04:39 am (UTC)It was my first time to VanDusen and I have to say that I'll definitely be going back at some point. They're gorgeous.
LOL at the conifers too, because I would have felt I'd been transported to some other planet if I didn't see them somewhere in my line of sight while in Vancouver. It's like palm trees here. :)
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on 2010-03-21 05:08 am (UTC)These are so ridiculously pretty?
... um. Yes.
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on 2010-03-25 04:39 am (UTC)