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With the setting sun reflecting in the windshield, train 594 cruises through Southern New Brunswick during days last night with a high headlight leader in charge.
Passekeag, New Brunswick.
December 23, 2023.
Before Tim and I headed to Beachy Head we couldn't resist getting some shots of the pier at Eastbourne.
Photo of Nason Creek captured via Minolta Maxxum AF 16mm Fish-Eye F/2.8 Lens. Washington's Central Cascades Range. Wenatchee/Chelan Highlands section within the North Cascades Region. Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Chelan County, Washington. Late October 2021.
Exposure Time: 0.3 sec. * ISO Speed: ISO-100 * Aperture: F/22 * Bracketing: None * Color Temperature: 4500 K * Plug-In: Rustic Autumn 1 * Elevation: 2,067 feet above sea-level
Sky mirror at Lake Tyrrell. After several days of clear skies and still air, we had a night with some light cloud and a rising wind. This is the view of the sky and lake cloud reflection with all those beautiful colours.
Hotel Europe is a six storey, flatiron style building, built on a pie shaped property located in Historical Gastown, Vancouver BC Canada.
Construction began in 1908 and the hotel was completed and opened in 1909.
It was the first reinforced concrete structure to be built in Canada and the earliest fireproof hotel in Western Canada.
For the first years, the hotel flourished as people arrived to Vancouver by Steamship and stayed at the hotel.
The ground floor was once a beer parlour and is now currently a store. Below this beer parlour was an underground saloon accessible by stairs from a sidewalk entrance.
The underground area, including the saloon is said to have extended under the sidewalks on both sides of the hotel. These extensions were known as “areaways,” a typical feature of buildings in the Gastown area. Areaways were used to load and unload freight through trap doors in the outside sidewalk.
The Hotel Europe’s areaways were eventually filled in and bricked up and the underground saloon is said to be now a storage basement.
A more luxurious, Vancouver hotel opened in 1919 and the guest traffic shifted to the new hotel. At sometime it was said that the Hotel Europe became a brothel.
This building was later renovated into suites and is currently an affordable housing complex.
Rumored haunted. It is believed there is one, possibly two ghosts residing in the Hotel Europe. The first ghost was reported in the early '80s by a contractor who had been working on some repairs alone in the cellar, near the bricked up areaway entrance. Supposedly, he had left the cellar briefly and when he returned he found his tools had been scattered all over the floor. He heard scratching noises coming from behind the brick wall (a wall said to have been previously filled in) and felt a bad presence. He grabbed his tools and fled. Also, reported was a man dressed in a black coat with a flat cap that appeared in the shop on the ground level. One evening in the early 2000's after the shop owner had closed the store, the owner saw a man/ghost clearly reflected in the convex security mirror at the top end of the store. She was surprised to see him as she was sure there were no customers left in the store when she locked up. When she went to investigate, there was nobody there. The man in the mirror had vanished. The owner was left shaken and fled the property. This man/ghost was reported to return again at a later date.
It is questioned if this was the same original ghost or indeed a second one.
**Please note: All enclosed information has been collected from various online sources and has not been verified to be true or accurate.
Thank-you for visiting
~Christie by the River
Canada goose preening on out a thin layer of water covered ice after several days of very cold weather. Warmer days now but not for too long.
Sorry for so many photos, just catching up. No need to comment, just saving memories. :-)
A black-and-white portrait of a dancer standing against a bright sun-filled window, The strong backlight and bold pose create a powerful mix of elegance, confidence, and contrast.
No photo chopping a reflection here. Just the perfect still waters of Voss in Norway. No wonder they charge so much for the bottled stuff! lol
Reflective peace sign in diamond-grade orange - super visibility! Unique, distinctive, reflective creations at reflectingyou.com
"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection...” Edward Weston
If you have the time take a look large, I think that is best.