My contentious relationship with the sun was established on a summer day in Kelowna, BC when I was four years old and overheated to the point of having a seizure. My memory prior to the seizure is vague; we were at the now-shuttered Kelowna Grand Prix "family fun centre" and so all I recall is seeing a row of refrigerator-sized arcade games before the brown patterned carpet rushed up at me. However, my post-seizure memory - waking up in hospital a tub of ice - is still vivid and I have spent my life since then avoiding the possibility of a repeat performance, and thus the sun, whenever possible. You could say I'm a bit of a night owl.
While this means I'm useless at the beach and in the early morning, it does allow me to see a different side of the world around me, a perspective my Lonesome Creepy galleries are aimed at capturing. In this particular batch of photos, I've decided to focus on one particular location - my home of Victoria, BC. Seeing the city at night has given me a deeper appreciation for a place many people - myself included - dismiss as picturesque but bland.
Many, if not all, of the below photos have appeared on my Instagram feed, albeit in cropped form under the tag #yyjatnight. If you're on IG, please feel free to use that tag and show off your own view of night time in BC's capital.
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All photos taken with an iPhone 5s
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| Carmella Court, Lower Cook Street |
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| Between Mason and Pandora, Upper Cook Street |
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| Regent Towers, Michigan Street |
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| Viceroy Apartments, Fairfield Road |
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| Quesnel Street |
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| View Towers, View Street |
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| Parking lot of the Songhees Wellness Centre, Maplebank Road |
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| Robalee Apartments, Helmcken Road |
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| Robalee Apartments, Helmcken Road |
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| Back of First Metropolitan United Church, Quadra Street |
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| Church of the Nazarene, Craigflower Road |
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