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Thursday, August 06, 2009

A VancouverFountain.com photo essay, containing some night time photos of fountains, has recently been featured in the 'In Focus' section of the re:place magazine website http://regardingplace.com/?p=5140

re:place is a non-profit organization devoted to facilitating the holistic discussion of relevant urban landscape and public space issues throughout the GVRD.

The re:place website has lots of other very interesting information and features about the Vancouver area and urban issues. Its well worth your time to take a look!

Thanks to re:place magazine for featuring VancouverFountain.com's fountain photos!


New fountains added, site updated
Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Here is an update of changes to the website.

1. I've updated the front page of the site so it now has one photo for each fountain so visitors can get have some idea of what the fountain looks like before clicking through to each fountain's page.

2. VancouverFountains.com has some new fountains. I have added the following photos:

- Canadian Tire Water Fountain
- Broadway House Fountain
- Stone Bridge Pond
- Vancouver Museum Pool
- Vanier Point
- Veterinarian Water Bowl

3. Some existing fountains have some new photos added:

- Kryptonite Hot Tub (great new photos with the fountain's lights turned on!)
- Planetarium (lots of new photos of the majestic steel crab and pool)

Btw, last week, while listening to CBC Radio 2 in the afternoon, I called into an interview about public art in Vancouver to remind them not to forget fountains!

Thanks for visiting. Enjoy the fountains.

Another Vancouver fountain photographer!
Friday, July 20, 2007

I got an email from another Vancouver fountain aficionado recently with links to his Flickr account which contains photos of about 80 fountains and other water art in Vancouver.

dmckil (his Flickr account nickname) is a great technical photographer, creating very clear, vivid images. He also takes his photos from interesting and creative distance and angles, which capture the best features of the fountains. Most, if not all, of his photos are taken in the daytime as he takes his photos at lunch time.

Great photos dmckil!!

His photos can be seen at:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dmckil/sets/72157594326947412/
VancouverFountains.com is the Georgia Straight's Geek of the Week!
Saturday, November 04, 2006

What an honour to be highlighted as

Geek of the Week!

Thanks to Dave Watson (Dot Comment and Geek of the Week columnist at Georgia Straight)!

http://www.georgiastraight.com/content.cfm?id=21701

My updated favourite fountain list
Thursday, October 26, 2006

With all the new fountains up on the site, I have to redo my favourite fountain list.

New Favourites:

1 harbourfront place - I like the colour of this at night, it has that mysterious green colour which contrasts with the jet black stone
2 kryptonite hot tub - the glowing kryptonite rocks are really cool and the roiling hot tub water is so unusual... I really have to get photos of the rocks lit up!
3 carina salmon stream - as a former salmon habitat biologist, I have a soft spot for salmon creeks and streams
4 bentall bistro falls - at night this has a haunting luminescent aquamarine blue colour
5 thunder chasm - I like the variety of this but the thundering waterfalls, and the large granite stones under the pools surface really make this a favourite.

Glad to hear about your favourites too!

Even more new fountains added! (and updated!)
Friday, October 20, 2006

I added the following fountains today:


I also updated these existing fountains:
New fountains added
Tuesday, October 17, 2006

New fountains added yesterday:

A few night time photos added to the canada place flag pond.

Also saw three new fountains today! No wonder it rains in Vancouver so much, all that fountain water evaporating : )

Finally, another post!
Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Ok, summer has come and gone. So the fountain blog is not regular. At least there is a fountain blog, right!

There are thrree new fountains added, but as you can see on the About page, there are a whole bunch more fountains on my list. Which reminds me, are there any eagar fountain photo takers out there? Give me a nice set and I will put em up with your name on the page.

New fountains added today:

I've also added more photos to the vancouver art gallery centennial fountain.

I have been noticing new and previously unseen fountains and water art every week. It is really amazing how many there are in Vancouver!

Stay tuned!

Vancouver's fountains are dry (just in the winter though)
Wednesday, March 01, 2006

Even though Vancouver's winters are exceptionally mild (by Canadian standards anyways) it seems that many of Vancouver's fountain managers have drained their aqueous ornaments and turned off their lights but don't worry, it appears to be a seasonal thing.

I understand the reason for this if there were significant danger of freezing. For example, no fountain in Winnipeg, Manitoba would remain unfrozen in the winter and expanding ice might damage the water art.

But it doesn't seem to be too big of a concern here in Vancouver because many other fountains which remain operational appear to be no worse for wear. None have frozen up that I have seen although there may have been some ice on splashed surfaces during our few brief couple of day cold snaps.

Which fountains are currently shut down:

So the question is put to Vancouver fountain managers: why do some of you shut down your fountains during winter?

Welcome to VancouverFountains.com
Sunday, February 12, 2006

This is the first post on the FountainBlog, the VancouverFountains.com blog. Don't expect a lot. How much can one man, even the FountainMan, write about fountains, pools and the like? Hmm? On the other hand, it is a blog, so I will have to write something.

So, to start this off, in no particular order, I am listing my top 5 favourite fountains:

1 athenian delight
2 magic flower pool
3 bentall bistro falls
4 coal harbour waterwalk (this is much more extensive than pictures shown - I need to get more photos up to do this work of art justice. In the meantime, check out these two videos of the coal harbour waterwalk video 1 video 2)
5 carina salmon stream

Which are your favourites?
To do list
Sunday, January 01, 2006

Here are some other fountains on my list to be photographed (and there are easily at least another number that are not on the list!):

  • 1501 Haro paul plaza
  • savoy 930 richards
  • stone fortes fountain english bay
  • 711 broughton @ alberni
  • 1128 alberni indoor pond
  • 1288 alberni indoor pond
  • 1710 bayshore dr
  • big pool falls beside bravo bistro coal harb
  • law courts at robson
  • w georgia at jervis
  • 1239 w georgia
  • richards & davie emery barnes park
  • w georgia & bute north
  • w georgia & bute south
  • alberbi & bute
  • 1080 hornby
  • hornby & nelson
  • law courts robson at howe/hornby
  • outside stadium skytrain

 

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