A Tourist in My Own Hometown

One of my favourite things to do is grab a camera on a nice day, and walk around downtown, taking shots of whatever strikes my fancy. Somehow, looking through the lens of a camera makes you notice things you might not have otherwise taken the time to look at.  Little pieces of art, little structural details, the contrast of different flowers next to each other.

Below is a set of photos taken of the architecture around the downtown core of Victoria, taken in black and white with a Fuji S7000.



Although I cannot, for the life of me, remember which pictures belong to which building, the majority of the above photos are taken local cathedrals simply because I love the architecture traditionally found on cathedrals.

I do remember, though, that it was a beautifully sunny day when I took these, and my partner and I had at one point gone to one of the markets in Chinatown and bought ourselves some fresh fruit to snack on. In among the bag of fruit, there were two dragon plums.  If you don't know what these are, they are probably the biggest plums you'll ever see, being about the size of the average closed fist.  They were juicy too- a little tart and a little sweet at the same time. Given that they came from Chinatown, they were dirt cheap too.  If you buy produce there, you can buy almost a whole shopping bag of fruits and vegetables for maybe $10!

Anyway, fresh (and cheap!) fruit that is impossibly huge is definately best eaten on a clear sunny day, when one is simply wandering and enjoying the town they live in.