I’ll add my plug for Vancouver Sun photograher Lee Bacchus’s and Bernie Lyon’s new blog, Splinter in Your Eye:
Images we like. Some we made, some we didn’t. The motif is largely Vancouver, B.C. in transition, with some exceptions.
It’s a mix of photography and drawing that aims to capture this fast-changing city. Great idea. But as one of the first images reveal, this is a city of a certain constancy too:
One can walk block after block along Hastings, from Main to Burrard, and by far most of the buildings have been around since before World War II. The same is true of whole neighbourhoods in this city, like parts of Mt. Pleasant and Grandview. Indeed, even the post-war neighbourhoods are largely intact in many parts of the southeast.
This is such a young city that one expects change and transition as the norm. Indeed, I have a whole set of shots that illustrate the dynamic growth of the downtown peninsula. But that shouldn’t blind us to the fact that much remains of our past, and much of that is protected by various heritage designations. In short, we are not in danger of losing our past to progress.
