Old Gastown Metal Print

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Gastown is the small neighbourhood that was the first part of the city of Vancouver, BC, back in the late 1800s. Today, there are still many buildings from the early 1900s and I have tried to give this image the feel of that era with some vintage texture and hand tinting.

I began photography with a Brownie camera my parents gave me as a child sometime in the 1950s. In the 1970s I finally graduated to an SLR and actually won a few contests, then took a hiatus through the 1990s but picked up digital photography in earnest in the mid-2000s. Now, many years later, it still excites me to venture out and try to find what the world is all about in my own way through this wonderful medium. To me, photography is about capturing the hidden meaning, the emotion, and the invisible in a given moment in time. It transcends mere composition and lighting. When it's done well, we sit up and take notice, we pause over an image, and if everything is perfect, we might even feel that slight tingling up the spine. While I try...