Hello from Vancouver Canada...

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Hello from Vancouver, Canada!

After a few years of consistent poking and prodding, my great friend @jongolson has succeeded in inspiring me to join the blockchain community known as Hive. Originally from central Canada, I have now spent most of my adult life on the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada; Vancouver and Vancouver Island--to be precise.

It is in my Being to live for adventure, explore, make memories, and meet amazing humans. For my entire life, I have been that guy with the camera in peoples faces attempting to capture the perfect moments--never wanting to miss a moment. Having said that, until recently, this has been nothing more than a casual hobby. The new life born on Hive is concurrently running alongside my new life in taking photography (as well as documentary film) far more seriously. It is a long road ahead.

Documenting the journey of my passions through this outlet, as well as my gradual understanding of the blockchain world, should be an adventure in itself that I am pleased to be embarking on.

My goals on this site are: to help build community, help build my craft, as well as be a contributing factor in other peoples growth in pursuing their own passions. Not to mention, get my feet wet in the ever-intriguing world of crytpo!

So this is my first post to say hello, drop a few photos of my city & welcome anybody to provide feedback or advice on the platform.

I look forward to this new experience!

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(Photo taken of Downtown Vancouver - April 16th, 2022)

  • Above photo faces west, showing the view of Downtown Vancouver. Historic Gastown runs along the left side parallel with the train tracks. Harbour Centre Tower can be seen in the centre of the photo. The Pan Pacific Hotel/ Convention Centre/Port Of Vancouver and the Canadian World Trade Centre border the right side of the photo. Some may feel that cropping this photo to zoom into the skyline closer would be a better shot. The parking lot is not a desirable aspect of the photo. However, my favourite aspect of this photo is the transition from rugged railroad & heritage buildings progressing into to current day Vancouver. Much of Vancouver provides constant views of newer picture perfect buildings and terrain. This photo reminds me of where it started. This photo gives off an entirely different aspect than photos of the Vancouver skyline normally provide. The parking lot will just have to be put up with.

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(Photo taken of Downtown Vancouver - April 16th, 2022)

  • Above photo is taken standing on the docks of the Port Of Vancouver facing the Waterfront Station. Waterfront Station is a hub where the Skytrain, Seabus and Westcoast Express all link together to take you on different directions from the core of the city.

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(Photo taken of Downtown Vancouver - April 22nd, 2022)

  • Above photo taken from behind the Seabus Station.

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(Photo taken of Gastown, Vancouver - April 16th, 2022)

  • Above photo was taken at the same time as all of the other photos posted. Giving the photo a vintage look seemed appropriate in matching the composition itself. Out of the batch, this is one of my favourites as the truth of the photo would not have been possible without the editing process. To be honest, the photo still does not do the visuals justice of how unique this stretch of buildings appears in person.
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Welcome. @jongolson is how I found Hive also. I continue to follow his lead becuase I have learned a lot from him and the CTP crew,@elianaicgomes and @blainjones to just name a couple.
I look forward to your post's.

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Hi Tom. Thank you for the welcoming! Looking forward to getting involved.

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Looking forward to seeing you crush it here man!

This is like, the home you have been missing in social media ;)

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great start Man.
Hope to see you around more, and also have fun poking around

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Appreciate that! Still getting a grasp on everything but I will be sure to explore soon.

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Great photos Rick! I'm just a little down south in Oregon so nice to see another PNWer here!

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Thank you 🙏. Oregon is also such a beautiful place!

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Welcome to Hive @rick-scarrow
I am very familiar with Burrard Waterfront when I explored this area in my crazy younger days.

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Ohh the crazy days of running around downtown Vancouver--I can relate lol

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Welcome Rick great to see you here on Hive. I joined last year and like you Jon brought me into Hive. There are a lot of great communities, games, and people. Hope you have as much fun as me 😀

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Thanks for the welcome! It seems great already..

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When I first joined Hive I was expecting something like Facebook you joined and have zero followers now what. Thanks to Jon, Blain, and Eliana plus the entire CTPTalk community everyone made me feel so welcome and within my first couple of days, I was picking up followers, and making crypto from my efforts.

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Hello @rick-scarrow ! This is @chillwithshanna from @ocd (Original Content Decentralized) team. Congratulations on making your first post on Hive and welcome to this amazing community!

Awesome photos there! Make sure to check out the different Communities you can subscribe to which are all categorized based on interest or topics. Share your blogs to the appropriate community to have a wider range of audience or you can check out the Communities Incubation Program.

If you are looking for tips and information as a Hive newbie, click here: Newbie guide. If you have questions, you can hop into Discord server and we'll gladly answer your questions.

Also, letting you know since content on the Hive platform is monetized, using other people’s ideas or images could be considered as an offense and which is also viewed in a serious light on the blockchain. Here is a useful collection of resources about how plagiarism and abuse is viewed and handled on Hive.
Happy Blogging!

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Hi Rick. Welcome to Hive! I'm not too far from you. I live in Kelowna. :)

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Thanks! Awesome to see a fellow British Columbian!

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🙌🏻 Welcome to the Hive Blockchain Community, Rick! Great Jon @jongolson managed to get you into it. I am very happy to have joined with my Finance Podcast about a year ago.

Vancouver is obviously a beautiful city and I hope to visit it some day. Closest I got so far was San Francisco years ago.

Regards and greetings from Germany
Thomas

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Hi Thomas, thank you for the warm welcome. North Americas west coast is an incredible stretch of beauty. I would love to see Germany some day as well!

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Welcome to Hive Rick the only question is why did it take you so long.(grin) Great shots hope to see more of your work here on Hive. Hope you enjoy your stay on Hive it is a great place with lots of great folks.

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I know, I know I hear it all the time from @jongolson lol. Thank you for the photo compliments, I will do my best to do my part!

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Welcome to the community and I hope you enjoy your time here.

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Welcome Rick,

As a relative newbie myself, just over a month and a half now, I know it does feel daunting jumping into something new, and finding out about Hive, and its myriad of communities, is a hugely steep learning curve, but there is no need to rush anything. Learn at your own pace and you'll get to where you want to be. Obviously you have @jongolson on hand to guide you, which will be of huge benefit. AND most of all enjoy the experience.

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Thank you for the message! The details are confusing but like anything, it will just take some time. I already am enjoying it!

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Welcome aboard Rick. You are in for the most wonderful experience. Hive is the place to be!

I am on the other end of Canada, Newfoundland.

Followed you :)

!BBH

!ALIVE

P.S. Came here from ListNerds

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Because this is such an awesome post, here is a BBH Tip for you. . Keep up the fantastic work

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Welcome to hive! Make sure to join all the photo communities there is plenty of them!
If you like challenges there is a ton of photo contests you can join.
!LUV and !PIZZA and !HBITS

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Thanks 🙏. I have been poking around and started to join!

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Welcome to our little corner of Hive Rick.Jon has that effect on ppl lol. I am from Manitoba. I have been on hive a few months myself thanks to CTP & Listnerds. You got some great shots there. You'll enjoy your time on Hive here there are so many different Communities to check out. It's hard to wrap your head around Hive as a whole but baby steps work well here.Enjoy yourself have fun,look forward to more posts & pics from you. I'm following you.I came here thru Listnerds. Thanks @jongolson for poking and prodding to get Rick on Hive.

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Thanks for the welcome! The learning curve seems steep but the basics are fairly straight forward. In time. Thanks again!🙏

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Hi Rick!
Great to see that @jongolson managed to persuade you to come and join
us here on Hive! And welcome to this mad bunch! Hehe, just kidding.
But not really. 😆
I think Vancouver is a very beautiful city, I've heard many great things about it.
One day I'll visit the city. It's definitely on my list!

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Appreciate the message 🙏. It is an amazing city, but does still have it downsides. Picture perfect though!

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I love the vivid colors in your photos. Very clean and clear.
!PIZZA

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Thanks for the compliments! It seems as this was the best way to go for this particular batch.

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Welcome @rick-scarrow. You should have listened to @jongolson sooner but we can't go backward in time and you are finally here. Again welcome. I hope you enjoy the Hive.

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@rick-scarrow welcome to this wonderful community, as I also followed your buddy @jongolson here. It's been an incredible 14 months of activity for me on the HIVE blockchain and I've never looked back. Based on your first post, you fit right in!

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Much appreciated! I already like the structure of it all even though there is a lot of learning ahead. I am happy @jongolson didn't let up!

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You are going to love it here on Hive! Jon nagged a lot of us to come here, and we are glad we did. !BBH

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I think I am warming up to it fast! Happy to have joined as well.

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Because this is such an awesome post, here is a BBH Tip for you. . Keep up the fantastic work

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Damn.. 3 days on the chain and already writing a better post than I have in almost 5 years.. welcome to the chain-gang ✌️

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Thanks my man 🙏! I have known to be long winded at times so this seems to be a great place for that lol

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We are also new at this adventure! Welcome and thanks for sharing your beautiful art.

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