4/15/20 4/15/20

Vancouver Gas Prices 2019 vs. 2020

Last year on April 15, 2019 I took a photo at a downtown Vancouver gas station as the prices were rising dramatically and I wanted to document it for history. This year as the prices were falling I went back out on the same day around the same time (after 3pm) on April 15, 2020 to document the price fall. What a difference a year makes - 74 cents/L! Fun fact: This is the only gas station in Vancouver's downtown penninsula. All other gas stations have been sold for development.

Price of gas was 95.9 cents/L at a downtown Vancouver gas station on April 15, 2020. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Price of gas was $1.69/L at a downtown Vancouver gas station on April 15, 2019. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

4/14/20 4/14/20

Vancouver Store Fronts Boarded Up

Vancouver store fronts are being boarded up due to a increase in break-ins during the pandemic.

Entire block of store front on Robson St. boarded up. Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Man walks past boarded up store front on Robson St. in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Store fronts on Robson St in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

11/11/19 11/11/19

Remembrance Day - Downtown Vancouver, Canada

Alastair and his family have been decorating this statue in Vancouver since 1994. He felt that the statue wasn't being honored so he began his tradition.

Alastair and his family pose for a photo with the statue they decorated. Vancouver, Canada.

Family decorates this statue with roses every year. Vancouver, Canada.

Remembrance Day statue in Vancouver decorated with roses. Vancouver, Canada.

10/26/19 10/26/19

Greta Thunberg at Vancouver Climate Strike March on October 25, 2019

16-year old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was in Downtown Vancouver on Friday October 25th, 2019 to speak at Climate Strike March.

Greta Thunberg at a Climate Strike march in Vancouver, Canada on October 25, 2019.

Greta Thunberg with Severn Cullis-Suzuki at a Climate Strike march in Vancouver, Canada on October 25, 2019.

David Suzuki at the Climate Strike march in Vancouver on October 25, 2019.

3/13/19 3/13/19

Barack Obama in Vancouver

Barack Obama's motorcade arriving at the Vancouver Convention Centre for his talk on March 5th, 2019. I couldn't get a ticket or pass for the event so I waited a couple of hours for this photo instead. I waved at the motorcade hoping he'd roll down the window and wave back and I would have this epic photojournalistic photo, but no luck. That's ok. I'm pretty sure I'm the only photographer who got this photo. There were no other photographers around at this point - the rest of the media took crowd photos and left. The 30 or so bystanders didn't know who it was so no one had their cell phones out.