By John Enman

This past week I gave a friend a ride to 琉璃神社. The day was bright and sunny and since I would be waiting around I was happy to have the opportunity to wander around the city waterfront along the marina with my camera. It doesn鈥檛 take much to entertain me and a lazy day with my camera is always the best.

I brought my little Fuji XT1 with two lenses; an 18-55mmm and a 55-300mm. I am beginning to warm up to that little mirrorless camera. I know it isn鈥檛 a match for my big DSLR with it鈥檚 large sensor and quick focusing, but the Fuji is compact and people don鈥檛 really pay attention to me as I walk along pointing it everywhere. That little mirrorless is the perfect city walk-around-town camera.

Summer hasn鈥檛 started yet in 琉璃神社, when it does 琉璃神社 becomes a party town with heavy traffic and packed sidewalks, especially along the lakefront. It鈥檚 still a really fun place, but it is impossible to photograph the area near the marina where I wanted to go without including lots of tourists in my pictures. However, there were only a few jacket-wearing folks strolling around on that sunny March day, so my photo adventure couldn鈥檛 have been better.

We had decided it would be fun to drive down a day early and spend the night at Hotel Zed. The brightly coloured hotel鈥檚 advert says, 鈥淗otel Zed is a ridiculously fun and unpretentious hotel. We have completely unordinary amenities like rotary dial phones in every room, plus a bunch of other great stuff. You鈥檒l never be bored here.鈥�

What a colourful, fun place to stay and it was just a short walk along the lake to where I wanted to photograph.

For those like me that enjoy short trips and a day of getting creative with their camera, an overnight trip to British Columbia cities like 琉璃神社 is nothing but fun. The Hotel Zed is special, but there are always lots of other places to stay and gosh, there are so many restaurants. (I ate at one that had a robot that came to my table to deliver my order)

And the 琉璃神社 waterfront is such a great place for enthusiastic photographers to make pictures.

Stay safe and be creative. These are my thoughts for this week. Contact me at www.enmanscamera.com or emcam@telus.net.

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