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…but not those kind of tracks.

These kind of tracks:

I actually rested the camera on the track to capture this image. And then I messed with the colors and saturation in Photoshop. True confessions.

…to love Seattle.

I mean, come on now. What more needs to be said?

There are docks all over Vancouver, what with it being a port city and all. There is even what they call a “SeaBus” to get commuters from one side of the north bay to the other.

In keeping with my “cities are more interesting at night” theme, here is a shot of a ferry docked in North Vancouver (”North Van” to the locals). You can see the Vancouver city skyline clearly in the background.

One of my favorite pics from Victoria, British Columbia:

I am of the opinion that cities are at least as fascinating by night as they are by day…so I always try to make it a point to take my camera out for a walk late at night when I’m new to a city.

I have a friend who suggested to me with a tongue-in-cheek wink and nudge that perhaps the reason I’m posting non-current stuff in my blog (aside from the fact that I have not been all that active with my camera of late) is that I’m kind of subconsciously evaluating some of my past experiences in light of my current situation. Hmm, I said. I suppose that could be.

Fun pop psychology question, that.

And so, what is my current situation, you might ask? Good question. Make a comment or send me an email if you want to know and I’ll either address it in a later post or deal with it on a one-off basis.

Now, on to the question that I’m really interested in today. Look at this picture below before you look at any of the others. Try and figure out what it is. And then look at the next picture (which answers the question) and tell me if the two fit together. Here’s what I mean. When I took this closeup, I thought it could be a very cool picture…and it is…at least in my mind. But standing alone, I think it’s a little abstract. That is, the casual viewer would be like, “what the hell is that” rather than, “oh, that’s a cool picture of a ‘x’”. Well anyways. What do you think?

Here is the source picture. It’s a fountain/sculpture thingy that stands (or stood) in the center of the Salisbury Cathedral:

Shoot! I almost forgot one of the primary reasons we went to Salisbury Cathedral!! They have a copy of the Magna Carta there…which if you are a student of history at all, you know that it is an ancestor document to our own US Constitution and Bill of Rights. It was quite a remarkable experience to look at this ancient piece of paper…just a piece of glass and some inert gas between me and history. Wow.

The last day of my 10 day trip was spent in London. I walked and bussed all over that city in one day…it was a bit of a whirlwind, but SO worth it. Totally fell in love with the place. If you walk out the front door of the hotel in which I was staying and make a couple of lefts, you end up walking out onto Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, which were just lovely in May. These two greenspaces seemed to me somewhat analagous to Central Park in Manhattan in that they are smack dab in the middle of city-ness. The below photo was taken on one of the city streets immediately to the east of Hyde Park. I noticed a traffic jam as I was walking toward my hotel, and then lo and behold what should appear:

Pretty cool, huh?