Going through my photography archives is quite the trip down memory lane. It also reminds me of how far I have come in my photo editing. When I first edited this scene, High Dynamic Range (HDR) was all the rage in photography circles. Almost everyone I knew was editing that way. In hindsight, many of the photos processed by photographers at the time were not very good - very garish and unreal. My HDR photography was no exception. When I came upon this photo in my archives, I was embarrassed that I ever thought that was ever any good. I really liked this scene and memory so I re-edited it. Below is the writeup that I used when I first posted it:
Canada Place, with its iconic white sails, is located in the heart of Vancouver's downtown harbor front. It was opened during Expo ’86 and includes the Pan Pacific Hotel, the World Trade Centre and the Convention Centre, and it also serves as the main cruise ship terminal for the region, where most of the cruises to Alaska originate or terminate. On this morning, we were coming to the end of the Alaskan cruise that we took in 2011. We had a wonderful time in Alaska and the subsequent cruise down the inside passage. Vancouver is a fantastic place to visit and we were really looking forward to our 3-day stay in Vancouver. As the cruise ship began to position to dock, I took a quick shot of this scene.