Brandon Fleming Urban Studies Graduate Student | GIS & Policy Analysis

Photography

Mostly the Lower Mainland. Transit, infrastructure, buildings that are about to change, and whatever the tide leaves behind.

A floating dock of white rowboats beside the Crescent Beach Swimming Club hut on dark water, with two forks of lightning striking the horizon beneath a heavy sky — Lightning at the Wharf Crescent Beach, Surrey · Digital

The geodesic dome of Science World against a grey sky, a thin crescent moon above it — Science World as seen from the Expo Line False Creek · Film

An orange excavator parked beside a boarded-up character house with a detached bucket on the lawn — Excavator waiting on a boarded-up bungalow Surrey · Film

Looking up at night between two recently built residential towers with curved stacked balconies, their undersides lit orange against a black sky — Two new towers, uptown between Martin and Foster White Rock · Film

Passengers descending a long escalator through a tiled vaulted tunnel lit by a single strip light — Down to the platform SkyTrain · Film

A SkyTrain arriving at an elevated platform, motion-blurred, destination sign reading Waterfront — Waterfront-bound, pulling in Gateway Station, Surrey · Film

Downtown Vancouver glass office towers seen past a trolley bus at an intersection, an orange car in the foreground — Glass towers and the 44 UBC Express Seymour & Pender · Film

The vertical neon sign of the St Regis Hotel photographed from below against a bright sky — Neon holding on Dunsmuir & Seymour · Film

A green-shingled heritage corner building housing Arbutus Coffee, with a striped awning and a garden out front — Corner store that survived the block Arbutus Ridge · Film

A BNSF locomotive approaching a level crossing beside the sea, tide out, pier in the distance — Southbound freight at the Cypress Street crossing White Rock · Film

An empty sports hall with a single blurred figure mid-stride on a badminton court — Court one, mid-rally Surrey · Film

Two tall carved poles standing either side of a pair of stone interpretive plaques, with the sea and a long pier behind them — Coast Salish house post and Haida pole, above the pier White Rock · Film

A small catamaran under sail close to shore, with people standing on the rocks watching — Catamaran coming in on the tide Boundary Bay · Film

Wooden salmon cut-outs painted by schoolchildren wired to a fence above still water at golden hour — Painted salmon on the estuary fence Blackie Spit · Film

A yellow sailboat moored on flat water at dusk, with a beach, trees and the low sheds of a sailing club behind it — Moored off the swimming club, last light Crescent Beach, Surrey · Digital

A small red tour boat crossing calm water at dusk, with a wooded spit in front of the distant tower cluster of Metrotown, hazy on the horizon — Metrotown on the horizon, twenty kilometres off Boundary Bay · Digital

A lake ringed by forested hills, with bleached driftwood leaned together into a shelter on a gravel shore and the corner of a tent at the right — Driftwood leaned into a shelter, tent at the edge of the frame Digital

The band of the Milky Way across a dense starfield, with a faint meteor trail crossing the upper right — New Moon Digital

Close view of two wet balanced stones on the growth rings of a cut stump, the lake behind them thrown far out of focus — Closer, with the water gone soft behind Digital

A dense tangle of bleached and blackened driftwood filling the frame, one pale reed standing upright through it — Everything the lake put back on the shore Digital