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2012-02-16T17:04:00.001-08:00

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"5 o'clock"

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2012-02-13T17:08:00.001-08:00

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"Abstract "

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Dano Pendygrasse shared an Instagram photo with you

2012-02-10T14:52:00.001-08:00

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"Friday with @strangeways989 "

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2012-02-07T17:08:00.001-08:00

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"Chillin', checking the view, watching the toys."

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2012-02-02T17:34:00.001-08:00

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"Vancouver sunset. Nice."

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tracks

2012-01-16T13:27:00.001-08:00

tracks
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Snow in Vancouver is my favourite.

New view

2011-11-06T19:25:00.001-08:00

New view
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

I've moved. High up.

Clydes

2011-08-31T12:03:00.001-07:00

Clydes
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Spent the afternoon at the PNE. Horses have hard feet.

birds

2011-08-16T15:13:00.001-07:00

birds
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

pool

2011-07-23T23:36:00.001-07:00

pool
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Went to watch some music at the showboat the other night. Vancouver hasn't had enough blue this summer.

crooked forest

2011-07-21T23:49:00.001-07:00

crooked forest
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Just a misty little scene from shuswap lake last week.

diver on the mast. el aguila.

2011-06-26T13:13:00.001-07:00

diver on the mast. el aguila.
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

shooting a lot underwater these days...

dorito love

2011-06-11T09:03:00.001-07:00

dorito love
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

A fun little moment of innocence on a dock in Roatan.

bubble

2011-05-08T08:47:00.001-07:00

bubble
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

a little scene in whistler

trippy shadow today

2011-03-29T19:43:00.001-07:00

trippy shadow today
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

traveling right now. I always like when this happens out a plane window but this is the first time I've got a decent shot of it.

-dano

4:24 AM.

2011-03-18T19:29:00.001-07:00

4:24 AM.
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

I hope this was the last snow of the season. I am ready for spring.

Open

2011-02-19T10:27:00.001-08:00

Open
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Been doing more street photography lately. This kind of shooting comes slowly to me but the victories are sweet.

baldwin park, paia. maui, hawaii.

2011-01-07T22:28:00.001-08:00

baldwin park, paia. maui, hawaii.
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

this one speaks for itself.

shopping

2010-12-16T14:06:00.001-08:00

shopping
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

I've shot this little scene so many times. Never quite getting it right. There is so much unspoken going on here.

d.

break time at hastings and main.

2010-12-13T19:55:00.001-08:00

break time at hastings and main.
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Another from Chinatown on the way to work. I don't shoot strangers well but I'm working on it. Little Chinese ladies can't chase you down and smack you.

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chinese pharmacy

2010-12-08T23:37:00.001-08:00

chinese pharmacy
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

I walk by here most days. The smell is completely unique and it will stick with you.

d.

Car theft

2010-11-26T15:54:00.001-08:00

Car theft
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

A little sidewalk jewelry in Van.

evening ride on the seawall

2010-11-09T21:38:00.001-08:00

evening ride on the seawall
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Sometimes you just find the "right place" and wait for it to be the "right time".

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Morning condensation

2010-10-24T12:10:00.001-07:00

Morning condensation
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

I woke to a thick layer of condensation on the glass of my patio. It made an amazing pattern and the closer I got, the cooler it was.

In 30 minutes it was gone.

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Hotel pool in Belize

2010-10-20T11:43:00.001-07:00

Hotel pool in Belize
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Spent an afternoon at this colourful location last week. It was nice.

Great clouds the other day

2010-09-16T22:43:00.001-07:00

Great clouds the other day
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Been having fun with the GF1 as a walk around camera. even with 4 lenses, it all fits into my briefcase/laptop bag.

This is the 7-14mm lens.

Watch your fingers

2010-09-06T13:10:00.001-07:00

20100823_0125
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

I sat looking at this hand for 5 minutes before I just HAD to take a picture.

I'm doing some new stuff here.

Take a look!

Stockholm is a bike friendly city.

2010-08-25T01:27:00.001-07:00

20100813_d2x_0031
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

What better way to get around an old cobbled street? By bike of course. Everything is close at hand and everywhere you go there are bikes. My kind of town.

20100811_0059

2010-08-12T13:50:00.001-07:00

20100811_0059
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

abstract. rain and roof tiles.

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2010-07-25T19:15:00.001-07:00

20100722_0018
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Diving in Roatan, Honduras.

2010-05-14T15:01:00.001-07:00

Diving in Roatan, Honduras.
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Heading back to Roatan for awhile. I always miss it when I'm gone and usually can't wait to leave. What is it about that crazy place. I have this picture on my wall about 3 feet tall. It looks good big. It's my wife T descending to the El Aguila wreck at 110 feet.

another urban snippet

2010-04-14T18:15:00.001-07:00

another urban snippet
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

I walk past this door most days when I'm working out of the Monster office. Most days it doesn't say anything to me, but this day it was just screaming.

urban memory

2010-04-08T14:10:00.001-07:00

urban memory
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

There used to be a building right there. With a roof. I never saw it, but you can tell.

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2010-02-28T23:51:00.001-08:00

20100228_0159
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Today I watched Canada beat the USA in the biggest hockey game of my life time.

What a day. Good night.

20100120_0009

2010-02-23T09:49:00.001-08:00

20100120_0009
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

I've been spending a bunch of time up Grouse Mountain lately. It's easily the best view in Vancouver.

20100216_0017

2010-02-16T19:38:00.001-08:00

20100216_0017
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

It was raining really, really hard last night. I stopped to make an exposure of something else and just as I was leaving I glanced over at the other side of the parking lot. The sign there was reflecting in the soaking wet pavement. Wow. So Red.

Obvioulsy I had to take a photo.

20100209_0047

2010-02-14T16:01:00.001-08:00

20100209_0047
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

Oakley's tram at Grouse Mountain with Vancouver in the background. The ad spending during the Olympics is amazing.

20100124_0122

2010-02-04T09:40:00.001-08:00

20100124_0122
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

The Vancouver Skate plaza is right beside my house. As soon as it's dry it's full of skaters and the occasional BMX crew, but on a rainy night, it provides a dry spot for a sleeping bag.

2010-01-05T09:25:00.000-08:00

Thinking about Kevin Pearce today. Sending good vibes your way KP and family.

20080218_blckmb_0388

2009-12-14T19:40:00.001-08:00

20080218_blckmb_0388
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

This is an old shot that was an outtake of a shoot I did on Blackcomb. Never found out who the rider is but was trying out different ways to use the fish. It never found a home but I like it.

20091213_0030

2009-12-13T13:55:00.001-08:00

20091213_0030
Originally uploaded by dspphoto

This photo is a metaphor for my life. Or maybe I just like it.

2009-10-14T20:25:00.000-07:00

I'm kicking off (sorry about that) some changes on my website. It's cleaner and better and more functional. I've been shooting a bunch of different things this fall and that's been really rewarding.

This Friday is the launch party for my book and the reviews so far have blown me away.

Off to Maui next week. Life is good.

2009-04-06T09:42:00.000-07:00

The Cobalt is a shitty old punk bar that is directly behind my apartment. Above the bar is the nastiest crack hotel in the city. This is the back of that hotel.

A Gallery show.

2009-03-20T11:33:00.000-07:00

I'm showing photos in Whistler this week. At the Blake Jorgenson Gallery. The Opening is Saturday, March 21st at 7 PM.

You can read all about it here, here, here, and here.

The Divers

2009-01-22T13:49:00.000-08:00

Here is a new shot from a series I've been working on for the last few years called "The Divers". For years the scuba industry was populated by middle aged, paunchy nerds with bad sense of style. It wasn't pretty.

These days there are a new generation of divers, travelers and interesting younger people who are taking over.

This is Dan. He is a diver.

pre-season anxiety

2008-12-13T14:16:00.000-08:00

Winter has been really slow to come to British Columbia this year. I've kept myself busy with other projects, but I was really hoping to get some powder days in before Christmas in Roatan. Now it looks like that won't happen. Instead I dug into the vaults and pulled out this photo of me riding at Retallack Cat Skiing in the Kootenay's a couple years back. That's about as close as I'm going to get to the deep pow feeling until after Christmas. Still, pretty cool.

Norcal

2008-10-03T14:31:00.000-07:00

I posted this on the blog on my website, but I'm really liking it so I'm putting it here too. Go read that post and maybe help out another Photographer here.

2008-09-26T00:23:00.000-07:00

Murray Siple has the best house. I went over there to interview him recently. It was a perfect Fall day, we sat in the yard, had a beer, talked about his movies, the characters in "Carts of Darkness", the good old days and everything. I looked up and saw this.

Dano

Lost in the mix

2008-09-03T17:06:00.000-07:00

Sometimes a photo languishes in the mix for awhile and never gets published despite the fact that I love it. This is one of those times. Dave Short on Whistler Mountain from the Deep Winter Photo Contest.

Pemberton Fest

2008-07-30T19:52:00.000-07:00

Pemberton Festival was a blast. I blogged about it on www.danopendygrasse.com but here is another photo that didn't go up over there. Life is a carnival.

gastown

2008-07-05T00:31:00.000-07:00

i don't drink much. not anymore.

2008-06-24T14:27:00.000-07:00

I recently went to shoot Japanese Professional Snowboarder Tadashi Fuse for a page in a magazine that no longer exists. I was having a hard time finding anywhere in his house that I wanted to shoot, so I went into the dark garage and isolated him a little. I like the subtle clutter in the background.

2008-05-26T07:38:00.000-07:00

Spring hit around these parts not too long ago. All that soft, white winter flesh started showing up on grassy banks and park benches all over town.

I like the duck just chilling with a fat dude.

2008-04-20T14:16:00.000-07:00

Spencer and Meghan

something new

2008-03-23T16:25:00.000-07:00

It's been a little while since I updated here. I have been focusing on www.danopendygrasse.com instead. I'm not really ready to give this spot up though. So here is a shot from yesterday of Simon Chamberlain. We had a couple really good days shooting and I took this just after he loaded up his snowmobile.

2008-01-06T10:19:00.000-08:00

Last night I presented a slideshow to 700 people. My team worked really hard on it and I am really proud of it. You can see it here:

http://www.danopendygrasse.com/page19/page7/files/tag-deep-winter.php

Here is a shot taken from the show:

2007-12-09T12:01:00.000-08:00

So here is another one from the newly cleaned scanner. When I met this kid in 1992, he was already getting famous. Now he's one of the biggest legends the sport has ever had.

Terje Haakonsen at the Camp of Champions.

Clean scans

2007-11-29T11:21:00.000-08:00

My scanner has been sucking lately so I ripped her open and found a thick layer of dust on the mirror. A couple swabs later and I'm getting lovely scans again. I guess that stuff happens when you move 6 times in 3 years...

This is Gaetan Chanut in 2001, a month or so before the 911 attacks. I don't know if I'd shoot this photo today.

2007-06-11T11:46:00.000-07:00

I took this picture of Todd Richards a few weeks ago at his home in Encinitas, California. It was an outtake from a portrait shoot for the mag. I quite like it.

2007-01-21T15:08:00.000-08:00

2007-01-13T17:02:00.000-08:00

There is some sense of sentimatality that I have for the Peak Chair on Whistler Mountain. Long before a chair was built there, my dad used to take us hiking out of bounds to ski these slopes. And later when I was a liftie, I used to work the original triple chair.

The Peak is often shrouded in clouds and the goldrush mentality that takes over when it opens after a storm has to be experienced to be understood. There is a tangible energy in the air as people line up and wait for the patrol to say "it's open".

2006-12-17T15:12:00.000-08:00

David Carrier Porcheron is known to the Snowboard World simply as 'DCP'. He has carved the best kind of career out of shredding, combining his family and travel to make an enviable existence.

What is Canada?

2006-12-16T13:41:00.000-08:00

On a trip home to Vancouver this past Autumn, a friend and I walked some trails out in Kitsalano. After months in dusty Southern California I was just overwhelmed by all the green...

2006-12-10T16:35:00.000-08:00

Out in the wilderness of British Columbia, there are countless "boom towns" gone bust. The air is thick with the ghosts of miners and believers who chased a dream that now slowly rots and decays back into the nature from which it was hewn.

2006-12-08T15:10:00.000-08:00

Way out in the middle of nowhere I came across this Totem Pole on the shoreline of a frozen lake. It was new and had been raised in the time since my last visit to this spot the year before. It is far off the beaten path and I can only imagine the effort that went into getting it there.

2006-12-07T13:44:00.000-08:00

This is James Andrews, a native-born
Belizean and my Dive Master on a recent
trip. We spent about 15 hours underwater
together. Here he is in the tank room of
Blackbird Caye Resort.

2006-12-06T09:09:00.000-08:00

On a recent trip to Vancouver I found myself in the middle of a snowstorm. Coming home from Toshi's I snapped this photo of City Hall from the intersection of Cambie and 12th.

people

2006-12-02T22:01:00.000-08:00

Professional Snowboarder Danny Garrity.
He has his home state (New Hampshire) motto tattooed down his
forearm: "Live Free or Die"

The black and the white.

2006-12-02T21:35:00.000-08:00

This is a snowy Crucifix I found in Chamonix, France in March of 2006.