There appeared to be a lot of aircraft arrivals overhead going into runway 28, so I got up and had a look. The first plane I saw (coming in from the east) was a red and white special paint scheme Air Canada Airbus A320, rego C-FFWN. Unfortunately the camera was still in the bedroom, so the only pic I have at present is off the website http://www.jetphotos.net/. I turned on the scanner, and the reason for the traffic was obvious: the main runway (16/34) was closed for maintenance and all traffic was using 28/10. When I finally got the camera out there was just a constant parade of Westjet B737s and Air Canada B737, A320 and Embraer RJs, plus a few smaller Jazz Bombardiers. One Westjet Boeing, flight 398 had a missed approach and had to go around again, something that took a further 22 minutes, before he passed me again.
After breakfast I walked to the train station (30 minutes). While walking to the station a warbird, possibly a Beech C-45H flew in, arriving on 28, plus a United Express (Sky West Airlines) CRJ-701, another new paint scheme for me. It is the story of my trip: The interesting aircraft only come in or go out when my camera is away; I seem to see only the regular commuter jets when I have my camera out. Nearly all the animals at the zoo turned their back to me or walked away when I raised the camera, and we saw the tail end of more trains than the front end.
Anyway, I took a train to the city. The Camera Store was very busy with about 30 customers in the store. I wondered how many were going to be on one of Calgary’s three Scott Kelby World Wide Photo Walks later in the day. I purchased another two Wimberley lens plates (both P20) for the 400mm and 70-200mm, and then wandered back to 8th Aveneue, taking a few photographs of buildings and construction as I went.
The exhibition at The Art Gallery of Calgary (117 8th Avenue SW) looked interesting so I paid my $5 and ventured in. The main exhibit was by Donald Woodman and titled The Rodeo and the West, a series of large inkjet prints (most were 52” x 44”) from scans of Polaroid 4 x 5 (4” x 5”) type 55 p/n film. Most were recorded over 20 years ago, but they looked like they had come out of the current Lensbaby craze. Donald used an old Brownie box camera (not the roll film type that I grew up with but the original glass plate model), that he adapted to take a Polaroid back. The largest prints in the exhibition were 12’ x 14’.
I then checked out the shop at the Glenbow Museum and purchased a $5 book titled The Line that tells the story of the CP line from Calgary to Vancouver. Has some interesting facts about the names of all the rail locations between these two cities. One interesting fact that I did not know (I wonder how many do) is that Lake Louise and the province of Alberta are named after the same person: Princess Louise Alberta, daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of the then Governor General of Canada.
Leaving there, I wandered along Stephen Avenue (no vehicles allowed), and came to a square where there was a Latin festival underway, with music and heaps of food stalls.
I wandered back to 7th Avenue and collected a new ticket from the vending machine just as a McKnight-Westwinds train arrived heading east. Arriving back in the north east I headed into Tim Hortons and grabbed a coffee and a couple of Chicken Snacker Wraps (2 for $3.99), and after eating these wandered back to Falwood Way. Nearly there I saw Rozi and Shamina heading off to the supermarket.
Anyway, I took a train to the city. The Camera Store was very busy with about 30 customers in the store. I wondered how many were going to be on one of Calgary’s three Scott Kelby World Wide Photo Walks later in the day. I purchased another two Wimberley lens plates (both P20) for the 400mm and 70-200mm, and then wandered back to 8th Aveneue, taking a few photographs of buildings and construction as I went.
The exhibition at The Art Gallery of Calgary (117 8th Avenue SW) looked interesting so I paid my $5 and ventured in. The main exhibit was by Donald Woodman and titled The Rodeo and the West, a series of large inkjet prints (most were 52” x 44”) from scans of Polaroid 4 x 5 (4” x 5”) type 55 p/n film. Most were recorded over 20 years ago, but they looked like they had come out of the current Lensbaby craze. Donald used an old Brownie box camera (not the roll film type that I grew up with but the original glass plate model), that he adapted to take a Polaroid back. The largest prints in the exhibition were 12’ x 14’.
I then checked out the shop at the Glenbow Museum and purchased a $5 book titled The Line that tells the story of the CP line from Calgary to Vancouver. Has some interesting facts about the names of all the rail locations between these two cities. One interesting fact that I did not know (I wonder how many do) is that Lake Louise and the province of Alberta are named after the same person: Princess Louise Alberta, daughter of Queen Victoria and wife of the then Governor General of Canada.
Leaving there, I wandered along Stephen Avenue (no vehicles allowed), and came to a square where there was a Latin festival underway, with music and heaps of food stalls.
I wandered back to 7th Avenue and collected a new ticket from the vending machine just as a McKnight-Westwinds train arrived heading east. Arriving back in the north east I headed into Tim Hortons and grabbed a coffee and a couple of Chicken Snacker Wraps (2 for $3.99), and after eating these wandered back to Falwood Way. Nearly there I saw Rozi and Shamina heading off to the supermarket.
Later in the day we went around the corner to Naushad’s brothers house where we had a lovo (hangi). Meat was well cooked but some of the vegetables, especially the kumara could have done with a bit more. Naushad and I were walking home about 10:20pm when I looked up and saw a very bright satellite travelling overhead. It had to be the space station, so once home I checked the Nasa site on the computer, and it advised that the station plus attached shuttle would be seen over Calgary at 10:22pm for about three minutes, and that it would be seen again, but lower in the southern part of the sky at 11:58pm, so we stayed up and saw it again an hour and a half later.
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