Life of Dave

Life of Dave

Sunday, July 15, 2012

MG x 2

It was completely by chance that this photo op overtook me. I was driving home from Maple Ridge on Friday when I noticed a pale yellow small vintage English sports car a few car lengths ahead of me in traffic. I'm more of a German car afficionado (VW Beetle, to be specific) so I often can't immediately identify English makes. At first glance I thought this one was an MG, which turned out to be correct.

Before getting in my car to leave the jobsite I almost didn't grab my camera from my tool vest. It's not often recommended to drive and photograph stuff at the same time, but every once and a while I encounter something in my travels that I'm able to capture on film (on electrons?) while en route.

As I drove I noticed another small car up ahead of the same hue as the MG, which was also an MG, but a newer model. Obviously the occupants of the 2 cars were traveling together. Both cars contained driver and passenger, complete with sun hats (it was a rather smokin' hot afternoon by Lower Mainland standards). The older model was RHD while the newer car was LHD. I actually thought the newer one might be a VW kit car; the wheels didn't look quite right somehow. But it didn't have the familiar air-cooled flat-4 engine chortle, nor the twin pea-shooter muffler.

I really wasn't anticipating getting a decent shot of even one of the cars, much less both of them, but as I had to stop at several red lights I ended up with a few unorthodox photo opportunities. I captured 3/4 of the newer LHD car first, ironically as it was being passed by a road race bicycle at that instant. My second opportunity came at a stop light where I was able to sight one car beside me with a view of the other in my side rearview mirror. The next intersection had both cars inline behind me, facilitating another rearview mirror shot.

Finally, a few kilometers ahead, nearing Port Coquitlam, I was able to shoot both cars inline in front of me in the next lane over. Both exactly the same shade of yellow, both vintage MGs.





Saturday, July 7, 2012

Canada Day in Whistler

Here are some photographic highlights of our Whistler weekend over Canada Day. We wanted to go somewhere we could bring Tannah. The weather didn't cooperate but we still had a relaxing break. Dan Mangan was playing at the outdoor stage on Friday night which an unexpected surprise for us.

Breakfast at The Tomahawk.
Shannon Falls





Tannah met a bear.

Dan Mangan

The clouds finally parted...at sunset!
Sunset reflected on snow.

Tannah gets a trailside drink.

Happy Canada Day!

Brandywine Falls
Tannah posing with Dogwoods
We hiked around Lost Lake with Tannah
Brandywine Falls