John Enman — A enjoyable day photographing Granville Island

John Enman — A enjoyable day photographing Granville Island

Published 10:00 am Tuesday, June 16, 2026

On an pleasant Sunday morning a couple of Aprils in the past in Vancouver, I made a decision it might be good to spend the day wandering round Granville Island.

The peninsula and buying district of Granville Island has been a well-liked vacation spot for each native Vancouverites and vacationers like me because the Seventies. There is a superb public market the place one can discover nearly any sort of meals, the ever-popular Granville Island Brewing and lots of outlets that home a thriving artist group.

I can’t recall the variety of occasions I’ve wandered, digital camera in hand, in that thrilling visible location photographing the structure, the seafront and the individuals. Gosh, the record of the various completely different cameras I’ve used to {photograph} that location goes again (like Granville Island) to the mid Seventies.

This time I had my little Nikon V1 mirrorless digital camera. I’ll say that the small interchangeable lens Nikon V digital camera is, despite it’s small sensor, a pleasure to make use of, and I’ve no bother making sharp giant prints. The focus is extraordinarily quick with a blazing 10 fps and surprisingly constant in program mode.

I don’t all the time maintain it as much as my eye to focus. It is simple to lazily estimate how I need my topic composed and maintain the digital camera out and shoot. It’s small and straightforward to hold in my jacket pocket if I wish to store.

On that spring morning, I received there early sufficient in order that, just like what the characters Merry and Pippen within the novel “Lord of the Rings” would say, I might have “second breakfast.” The public market has an ideal meals courtroom the place I sat and seen the waterfront and people-watched. People may also step outdoors to sit down on the benches. (If you might be careless you’ll find yourself sharing your meals with the birds).

The day was sunny, heat and ideal for wandering the various outlets crammed with superb art work and nice for pictures.

Granville Island is so vibrant. Any route I appeared there was an image ready to be taken. I did discover a few different photographers organising tripods for scenics of the Granville Island bridge and one other girl was crouching very low with a wide-angle lens to {photograph} one of many many road performers.

I believe a photographer has to work any setting with dedication. I’ve completed that previously and spent hours seeking out topics on Granville Island to {photograph}. (Not that one has to do a lot looking out). I learn as soon as that one of the best factor about Granville Island is its fantastic sense of creativeness. I believe that’s so.

These are my ideas for this week. Contact me at emcam@telus.web. Stop by Enman’s Camera at 423 Tranquille Road in Kamloops. I promote an attention-grabbing number of used photographic gear.