Urbania...Photos and "Fun"

If you haven't read Kevan's blog yet you won't know that we thought it would be a good idea to go downtown and shoot early morning pictures, getting shots of the light hitting the windows in the buildings and what not.

Well, we ended up going out in the morning at about 7:00am, coffee in hands, ready to expand our photographic eye into Urbania. We parked near the eastern edge of downtown, just west of Centre Street, and started walking. A few blocks later we saw some neat patterns in the office windows so we stopped to take some shots.At another point we found a very cool tree that had the sun blasting through it's leaves that were changing colour. It was an interesting shot because some of the leaves were being illuminated from the rear and some were not because of a building casting a shadow.We kept walking, hoping to find something amazing, something unique that was not so cliche. We ended up in Olympic Plaza after about 10 minutes of wandering around and came upon what I thought was a homeless person. He stood up, slugged a huge hiking pack on his back, and turned around. He then told Kevan to tighten his straps. I don't think Kevan knew how to initially react, maybe it was the fact that he was French, maybe it was the fact that you don't expect someone to just turn around and ask you to tighten their straps! We decided at that point we had enough, we were hungry, and we needed to get out of Urbania.

Breakfast...so many options in a city like Calgary. How do you narrow it down? Actually, it's quite simple. You find the one that's open! I think it was about 8:15am and we went back to the place in Kensington that we tried a few weeks before and it was closed. Opens at 9:00am. Ugh. So we started North and ended up trying the North Hill Diner on 16th Ave. Closed. Crap! I wanted to eat some breakfast! No worries though. As we were driving down 16th Ave headed in the general direction of our church I remembered Tipperaries (I spelled that wrong) had a cheap breakfast. We got in there and saw the sign, OPEN, but next week we're starting to serve at 9:00am. I guess God was looking out for our bellies on Sunday! It turned out to be a decent breakfast, though interesting...There were two tables with a total of three customers in the pub eating breakfast...including us. The waitress came over to our table and asked what she could get for us (their menu included bacon and eggs, and bacon and eggs). I should have said a beer. It was quick, it was cheap ($10.50 for both of us including tip), and we both left satisfied.

I think I would like to try this experience over again but have a goal of something to shoot before going. Kevan and I both commented on how it would have been good to place ourselves somewhere where we know the shot is going to be really good and just sit until the time is right. Next time...(I think I'd also like to get more than 5 hours sleep before going again too).

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