----- Original Message -----
From: "John Hudson" <OM4T@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, 03 December, 2004 10:15 PM
Subject: [OM] Re: Walking Victoria
>
> Here's a shot I took when I was last in Victoria.
>
> http://www.hudsonphoto.ca/143.html
>
> Taken during a walkabout on Government Street during summer 2001 I think
it
> was.
>
> Taken with an OM4T / 35/80 f2.8 zoom on Provia hand held. In the slide the
> items on the menu board at the top of the stairs are clearly legible
> ......... great lens!
>
> This is what the Victoria waterfront [just off Cadboro Bay Road] can look
> like in the late autumn ...... late November in the late 1980s I think it
> was.
>
> http://www.hudsonphoto.ca/305.html
>
> and for miserable weather on Vancouver Island, see here
>
> http://www.hudsonphoto.ca/143.html
sorry ........ should be
http://www.hudsonphoto.ca/035.html
>
> which was taken in late January 1994.
>
> John H
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Hinderks" <bkhinderks@xxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, 03 December, 2004 08:01 PM
> Subject: [OM] Re: Walking Victoria
>
>
> >
> > At 07:20 PM 12/3/04 -0400, John Hudson wrote:
> > >
> > >Barry ...
> > >
> > >Brian ..
> > >
> > >Where did all the ivy and other leafy coverings of the Empress hotel
> > >[02.jpg] disappear to? That's as much as to make one want to stay at
home
> > >for tiffin and afternoon tea and scones instead of wandering down to
what
> > >used to be a beautifully clad building.
> >
> >
> > John,
> >
> > You are seeing the newer section in that shot. there is still ivy on the
> > 'older' section of the Empress - although even that is much reduced. I
> > understand that after a time the ivy actually contributes to the
> > destruction of the facade.
> > Barry H
> >
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