Photography, technology and Vancouver life.
The exhibit is full of retro gadgets, as you’ll see below, but the most interesting to me were the bisected lenses and cameras, the insides of which show the precision of a CAD drawing. Read on to see sawn-off gadgets, the origin of digital cameras and a secret doorway just for horses.
Sometimes you can find adventure on your own doorstep. Although not exactly the Himalayas, the Brecon Beacons in South Wales provided teaching assistant and amateur photographer Ron Tear with his own Everest
Austrian ‘Fearless Felix’ Baumgartner holds the record for the world’s highest BASE jump – off the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur – and, far more dangerously, the world’s lowest BASE jump, from Brazil’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue, pictured here
The image captured by photographer Eric Nathan shows an abseiler (the yellow speck on the left) descending only the bottom quarter of Lesotho’s Maletsunyane Falls. At four times the height of Niagara, it is home to one of the longest abseils in the world – a terrifying 192m drop
There are a few more photographs after the jump…
The High Roller Sushi Roll features marinated and poached fois gras that is wrapped with succulent lobster. The roll is then brushed with saffron & vanilla bean butter and encrusted with caviar. The chef personally comes to your table to top off the roll with fresh shavings of white Alba truffles and drizzles 100 year balsamic over this delicious treat.
Try it at the Koi Restaurant in New York.
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