Vancouver = Bespin, The Cloud City « The Blog According to Buzz

A friend emailed this photo of Vancouver in the fog to a friend who emailed it to a colleague this afternoon. I HAD to share.

This is the view from the lookout on the road to Cypress Bowl as the fog continues to shroud the city.

**UPDATE** this photo has done much circulating through emails today, I posted it to my flickr account without attribution since I dont know who took it. If you know who did, let me know – let’s give credit where it’s due!

**UPDATE 2** The picture was published in the Vancouver Sun on January 22 and credited as Scott Miller / Special to the Vancouver Sun. page A6.

**UPDATE 3** Many photographers took very similar photos that morning. Here’s Blair Kent telling the story of the Vancouver in the Fog.

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JP Holecka

Dude a Bespin reference! That's awesome shot and an even more awesome reference to the cloud planet.

The planet Bespin is a gas giant that is about 118,000 kilometres in diameter. Like most gas giants, it has a solid core made of metal followed by layers of metallic gases. Most of the layers of gas are poisonous, and the pressure and temperature are far above what a human could tolerate. But from approximately 150 to 180 kilometres down from space there is a habitable layer known as the Bespin Life Zone. This layer has an oxygen atmosphere with the temperature and pressure that makes it ideal for human life. It is in this layer that Cloud City is located.[3] Like most gas giants, Bespin has a number of moons. Bespin has a 12 hour day, and completes an orbit around its star about every 14 earth years (10220 Bespin days).

rachael chatoor

Stunning photo, interesting to see it from this perspective!

Kat

Hey Buzz,

Isn't that shot just AMAZING...I love it. And, I will be able to answer the WHO took it (tomorrow) b/c my friend's friend took it - I'll get her name.

However, we think based on the angles of the buildings that it had to have been taken from closer to Grouse, the fog is very deceptive though - I will get confirmation LOL...

We were trying to use google earth to align the buildings and the roads but it just wasn't jiving LOL.

Derek K. Miller

There can't be too many people in Vancouver who have a Canon EOS 5D Mark II camera yet, and that's what took it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/buzzbishop/3214272...

She should add her copyright to the menus, and then every photo she takes will include her info.

Kat

The photogs name is BLAIR (don't have his last name right now - getting that soon)...

Derek K. Miller

By the way, according to my quick Google Earth zoom, the two peaks in the distance are on the U.S. side of the border. I believe the one on the right is Orcas Island, and the one on the left may be Stewart Mountain southeast of Bellingham, Washington.

unclespeedo

my money is still on someone from endeavor snowboards...

http://www.endeavorsnowboards.com/blog/?p=1189

Kat

Photo courtesy of BLAIR KENT!

Buzz, I have just emailed you the "signed" version - Can you replace this one and your flikr one with that one so he gets full credit?

Blair Kent

Yes this is a shot I took up Cypress Bowl last weekend. The Vancouver Sun Photo is wider(Less Zoom). The original is 4.8 megs in size taken with a Canon 5D Mark II and the 28-200L Lens. There were plenty of cameras up their but I think I was the only 5D'r. I actually made 5 trips up their and I have sent Buzz more shots of the fog. You have to see these at 12x18 to appreciate the camera ! Thanks to Canon... Cheers Blair Kent

Derek K. Miller

Okay, I know this is obsessive, but I made a video showing that they are two different photos, from two slightly different perspectives. The one Buzz originally posted is not this photo, but they are so close that I certainly can't say I prefer one over the other. Whether the first one was Scott Miller's, I don't know:

http://www.penmachine.com/2009/01/two-vancouver...

Sophie Chambers

Hi Blair,

Fantastic Shot, we are a digital printer in Vancouver and would love to print this picture and hang it in our reception area.
If you are interested I am very keen to work out a deal with you.

Regards Sophie..

YUES

That was taken from MOUNT SEYMOUR. not up Cypress. If it was Cypress, there would have been all the mountains in the Mount Baker area in the shot. PLUS there wouldn't be all the distance betweeen the Empire Landmark, and Harbour Center Tower

buzz

If it was taken at Seymour the buildings would be in reverse. It was taken from Cypress, here's the photographer telling the story.

http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog/2009/01/23/who-t...

Ting

If the Vancouver Sun credited Scott Miller, but Blair Kent took the picture, shouldn't their be a correction notice? ( If indeed that was the picture )
Regardless, it's a great picture. I wish I took it! ( as opposed to having taken it ).
Makes a great screen saver though.

Melyssa Rose

YA.... mmmm the credit for this pic is questionable..... I received this email on the 19th..... from my transport coord.... I posted it on FB right away... saying I didn't take it but had to post because it was totally STUNNING!! Shortly after a it was tagged... by Soderman... first name alludes me because I trusted your source as Scott Miller... so YES I removed the tag... but I'm thinking other wise.... hmm

Melyssa Rose

Just remembered..... PAT SODERMAN

buzz

thanks for the info Melyssa, you can see the updates to the photo I received from photographer Blair Kent, here: http://www.buzzbishop.com/blog/2009/01/23/who-t...

Melyssa Rose

Thanks Buzz.... that was definitely a great mystery while it lasted.