False Creek, but true colours
I went to the False Creek construction area with a fellow photographer today. The area is supposed to be called the Olympic Village or Millenium Waterfront or something like that, but the final name for the area is probably going to come from New Orleans.
In the Garden District of New Orleans are a group of houses called ‘Freret’s Folly’. Freret was a developer who sunk a bunch of money into the construction of one block of five houses in 1861. Then the U.S. Civil War stopped construction. By the time the houses were completed, after the war, all his projected profits were gone.
Great idea, bad timing, all the money gone. Freret’s Folly.
So ‘folly’ should definitely be in the area’s name, now it’s just a matter of who gets attached to it. Vancouver’s Folly? Sullivan’s?
I love the richness of the colours in the final image of this collection “Out to the Ocean”
Martin
16 Feb 09 at 6:00 am