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The famous Steam Clock, powered by a steam engine and electric motor, chimes every 15 minutes and then emits a puff of steam at the top of the hour. The clock is located in the historic Gastown area of Vancouver, Canada.
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The historic Steam Clock in the Gastown are of Vancouver, Canada.
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On the east side of Vancouver is an old steam clock. In the Steampunk universe, these things are commonplace.
Everyone stands around and waits and, after about fifteen minutes or so it gives off steam. In the age Apple Watch, it's fascinating to watch a relic mark the hours by vapor and gears.
The area is known as Gastown, and it has a lot of places to hang out. You could eat at a different place each night of the year. Whenever I'm in town, I come here and shoot night scenes. It's been a few years so I can't wait to come back. And unlike the glass towers a few blocks away, this Gastown is in a universe all it's own.
I took this shot of the popular Steam Clock in Gastown on a vey rainy and wet night. This clock and around its area have been "shot" to death many times by tourists and photographers alike. But I just felt that any local photographers should have this subject in their portfolio one way or another.
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A shot from the archives from one of my trips to Vancouver last year. Still haven't had the best weather here in Victoria so far... Thanks for having a look, and have a good day!
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-Tonemapped in Photomatix Pro 4.0
-unsharp Mask, contrast adjustment, and vibrance boost in Photoshop CS5
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Candid capture taken on a dark and wet evening.
Location: Historical Gastown,
Vancouver, BC
Canada
I believe a child had tucked down under the umbrella and the squatting adult was taking photos with their cell phone.
To the right.... a woman held, what appeared to be a baby wrapped in a blanket, both sheltered from uncooperative weather conditions.
Another youngster dressed in a red raincoat appeared to be mesmerized by the heavy rain and beautiful lights.
Also, found in this image is 'The World's First Steam Clock' - more images and the clock's history to follow .
Reflecting light scattered off the wet cobblestone.
Gastown is the original settlement that became the core of the creation of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Today, it's a national historic site, at the northeast end of Downtown Vancouver.
Gastown was Vancouver's first downtown core and is named for "Gassy" Jack Deighton, a Yorkshire seaman, steamboat captain and barkeep who arrived in 1867 to open the area's first saloon.
The town soon prospered as the site of Hastings Mill sawmill, seaport, and quickly became a general centre of trade and commerce on Burrard Inlet as well as a rough-and-rowdy resort for off-work loggers and fishermen as well as the crews and captains of the many sailing ships which came to Gastown ( Info. as per Wikipedia)
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Halation: The scattering of light. To surround, as if with a halo. The instance where light disperses while hitting film emulsions, especially around highlights.
I try to keep my geeky, technical side in check with photography. I am a bit wary of it, truth be told. I try to make my photography less technical and more creatively by chance. But I do enjoy geeking out now and again while learning the technical nuts and bolts of how film emulsions work and why certain films do certain things that other films don't. When pursued properly, such technical information can inform the less formal creative exploration of film photography. As long as I don't get too fixated on it, or too narrow-visioned, I find it can open possible avenues of exploration.
Anyhow, I was reminded of this general philosophy recently while researching the characteristics of Fomapan 400, which is kind of a unique film among black and white negative films. There are two things it does kind of strangely. The first is that it has a very uncharacteristic spectral sensitivity chart. While most black and white films kind of balance out in their sensitivity to the visible spectrum, Fomapan 400 starts out with relatively low blue sensitivity and progressively gains sensitivity as it moves to the red end of the spectrum. It makes the film behave almost as if it has a built-in red filter in terms of how it renders tonality and translates color into shades of gray. The other thing it does is exhibit frequent halation, especially in 120. I am guessing this is because the 120 format is coated onto a polyester base instead of the more usual triacetate base, and polyester bases are prone to "light piping". Fomapan 400 has an anti-halation layer added to it to help prevent this but apparently it is not super effective, as evidenced by this and other images I have made.
Anyhow, I dig this kind of thing and just wanted to share a little bit of it. I don't think I was aware of all these qualities while making this image, so they were a bit of a surprise... but a good one.
Hasselblad 500C
Fomapan 400
Despite seeming like a remnant of the Victorian era and being located in Vancouver’s “Gastown” (which was the original townsite from which Vancouver grew in the 1870s), the Steam Clock is actually from a hundred years later, built in 1977 by horologist Raymond Saunders and metalwork specialist Doug Smith. Saunders was hired by Gastown’s local merchants to build the clock as a monument. It also had an alternative purpose: Placed over a steam grate above one of the aforementioned pipes, it kept local homeless from sleeping on the warm spot. The clock is likely only the second steam clock ever constructed, the first having been built by Englishman John Inshaw in 1859, to draw customers to his tavern.
Saying the clock is “steam-powered” is a bit of a misnomer, as the clockworks itself is powered by descending weights. The mini-steam engine at the base of the clock case takes up the role of the human “winder” by raising a series of ball weights and delivering the weights to the clock drive train. But the steam engine is connected by a rubber belt to an electric motor hidden from view - much more reliable than steam power.
Every quarter hour, the two-ton Steam Clock shows off a bit, whistling and shooting steam from its five whistles in its version of the Westminster Chime. On the hour it marks each hour with a toot from each whistle.
There are six other working “Steam” Clocks in the world. The lesson was learned, though – only the whistles are steam and the clockworks are electric.
Two out of three things in this photo are almost always there. One of them is a clue to where this is.
Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 at the corner of Cambie and Water street in Vancouver's Gastown neighbourhood. The clock produces a puff of steam from its top on the hour. .
What is she playing under the clock?
Is that the melody of time?
Gastown Vancouver. February 2017.
小提琴獨奏的，是時光的旋律嗎？
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Gastown steam clock - Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver, 49°17′04″N 123°06′32″W. Although the clock is now owned by the City of Vancouver, funding for the project, over $C58,000, was provided by contributions from local merchants, property owners, and private donors. Incorporating a steam engine and electric motors, the clock displays the time on four faces and announces the quarter hours with a whistle chime that plays the Westminster Quarters. The clock is featured on the cover for the 2011 Nickelback album Here and Now. [source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_clock]
Vancouver, officially the City of Vancouver, is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada, and the most populous city in the province. The 2011 census recorded 603,502 people in the city, making it the eighth largest Canadian municipality. The Greater Vancouver area of around 2.4 million inhabitants is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city. The City of Vancouver encompasses a land area of about 114 square km, giving it a population density of about 5,249 people per square km (13,590 per square mi). Vancouver is the most densely populated Canadian municipality with over 250,000 residents, and the fourth most densely populated such city in North America behind New York City, San Francisco, and Mexico City. The original settlement, named Gastown, grew up on clear-cuts on the west edge of the Hastings Mill logging sawmill's property, where a makeshift tavern had been set up on a plank between two stumps and the proprietor, Gassy Jack, persuaded the curious mill-workers to build him a tavern, on 1 July 1867. From that first enterprise, other stores and some hotels quickly appeared along the waterfront to the west. Gastown became formally laid out as a registered townsite dubbed Granville, B.I. ("B.I" standing for "Burrard Inlet"). As part of the land and political deal whereby the area of the townsite was made the railhead of the CPR, it was renamed "Vancouver" and incorporated shortly thereafter as a city, in 1886. By 1887, the transcontinental railway was extended to the city to take advantage of its large natural seaport, which soon became a vital link in a trade route between the Orient, Eastern Canada, and Europe. As of 2014, Port Metro Vancouver is the third largest port by tonnage in the Americas (displacing New York), 27th in the world, the busiest and largest in Canada, and the most diversified port in North America. While forestry remains its largest industry, Vancouver is well known as an urban centre surrounded by nature, making tourism its second-largest industry. Major film production studios in Vancouver and Burnaby have turned Greater Vancouver and nearby areas into one of the largest film production centres in North America, earning it the film industry nickname, Hollywood North. [source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver]
December 25, 2015 - Day 359 - 365 Day Challenge
For the past 3 years I have wanted to be on the streets of downtown Vancouver at daybreak on Christmas morning, but plans with family made it impossible. It was an amazing experience to be out there in daylight without all the cars and people that would be out at the same time on any other day of the year.
This is Water Street in historic Gastown.
The Steam Clock in the Gastown area of Vancouver, British Columbia. This was my third trip to the city and as I try to do just about anywhere I go, I made a point to look up at least one new area to visit. Gastown seemed like a good destination. I had never been to that area of Vancouver before, it had an interesting history and there is a steam-powered clock. What more needs to be said?