Although the curvature caused by the fish-eye lens is quite pronounced in this photo I like this view of the Empress Hotel from the small sq...

A striking addition to the Empress Hotel is the Porte-cochere they have built to shelter the new entrance to the hotel at the front of the n...

Hard to believe this "bee-loud glade" is on one of the busiest corners in the whole city. It's where the Empress Hotel keeps i...

As I wrote yesterday, "Every year I put together a calendar for friends and family, of photos I have published on this blog for the las...

Sunday saw the final day of the Victoria International Buskers Festival and of the humongous car show, Northwest Deuce Days . Between the tw...

I mentioned that the new owners have been refurbishing the Empress Hotel. Above is what it looked like this weekend. Below is what it looked...

As part of the makeover of Victoria's iconic Empress Hotel, they are retiring the Bengal Lounge. It will only be open for a short while...

Lots of rain these days but when it stops and the sky clears the light is splendid.

Here's a quick snap of today's Pride Parade taken only a few hours ago. For many years the city's Victoria Day Parade was the bi...

Here's a Causeway panorama all the way from the Bateman Centre (white building on the far left) to the Empress Hotel (on the right). Thi...

Francis Rattenbury was the architect responsible for the British Columbia Legislative Assembly Buildings pictured yesterday and was also res...

Stefan Jansson suggested in a comment on yesterday's post that a good experiment would be to shoot a panorama using a standard lens and...

Here's another in the Hands of Time sculpture series by Crystal Przybille, this one entitled "Raising a Teacup". It is install...

Here is a Victoria resident who is very special for a several reasons. First, he's got what is arguably the classiest address in the...

It recently occurred to me that though I have often included the Fairmont Empress Hotel in the background to shots of the Inner Harbour, I ...

The title of this post is in French because it sounds better than "two lovely old ladies." The two are The Fairmont Empress Hotel ...

About this time of year Victoria's downtown core blossoms with these beautiful hanging flower baskets, about a thousand of them. While n...

No blog about Victoria would be complete without some reference to the Queen for whom the city was named, so here is a photo of the statue o...