So, I was out and about last Thursday morning (March 4th) & decided to take my
itty bitty digicam along for a chronological photo documentary of our little
outing through the ghetto.
Here's the digicam I brought along:
It's a Spypen Luxo - made in Germany. 1.3mp, no flash, 99 low res or 24 high
res pic capacity. Uber small.
Here's a pic of the camera from
http://www.spypen.com to give an idea of it's
physical dimensions:
We (myself, my cousin & my God daughter) were off to Toys R us to pick up a BMX
bike for my cousin's son's 8th bday.
Anyways, on to the pics! (I scaled them down to 60% and resaved as jpg's rather
than bmp's.) Here's a good idea of the typical results achievable with this
miniature bad boy:
My God daughter sitting in the back of my car, which we all know so well as
Tron - thanks to a vortexer from Quebec who whipped up a pshop of my car a
couple years ago:
and another:
Ah, 7 blocks from my house... this is the corner of Scott Road & 96th Avenue
bordering the Municipality of Delta & the City of Surrey, British Columbia,
Canada. See that nameless building off behind the Shell gas station? Yeah,
that used to be a 7-11... but it was closed down last year or so ago because it
was the most often robbed 7-11 in the entire North American Chain, thanks to a
SkyTrain Station, 2 pubs, and a methadone clinic nearby...
another pic of the same corner from a different angle. kinda artsy w/ the
positioning of that ghettofabulous construction pylon, eh?
:p
Aaah, the Wheelhouse Pub & Bistro... this is the 230person + 65 person
neighbourhood "plub" & bistro I work at. (Pub in the early evening, a bit more
of a club on fri/sat nights - bumpin dance floor and such. someday I'll have
enough pennies saved up for a digicam complete avec flash & will show ya what
she's like inside over in my neighbourhood pub thread in the food and beverage
forum.) This is about 9 blocks past the 7-11, East on 96th Avenue if you must
know.
This is the new Central City Tower in the center of Whalley. It was built
initially to house the Insurance Corporation of BC & Tech BC (University) but
both tenants have backed out/folded, so it's now home to a major credit card
call center and some other crap. The ground floor has a classy brewpub/coffee
shop in it called Central City Brewing with a licenced capactiy of 500 in the
pub and 300 in the restaurant - making it the largest in Surrey. It's a bit
too classy for the neighbourhood though, and was quite costly to setup.
($5.5million) It's partiall owned by singer Collin James. Whalley has the
highest personal property and autotheft rate per capita in the English speaking
world. This is the only pub you can have a nice beer, sip a gourmet coffee,
listen to a $500k sound system (collin james concert spec), eat pizza fresh out
of a $75k stone slab oven.... and watch the cops bust drug dealers and
prostutes through the window over at Surrey Central Station in broad daylight.
