Ashley Richards

This is a picture I did not take of a homeless man sitting at the corner of Robson and Burrard, next to a newspaper box surrounded by army green blankets and a backpack. He leans on his left elbow, smiles a half-toothless smile, and shakes the curls coming out from his worn baseball cap. People [...]

Overheard at The Hip concert: Boy: Are you Canadian? Girl: No Boy: Well, you look Canadian. Girl: Um, thanks? Boy: Can I buy you a beer? Yes, someone did use that as a pickup line at The Hip concert. So cute.  So Canadian. It was a fantastic concert. I’m not sure you could see The [...]

Saturday we spent the day wandering around downtown San Francisco to see all the holiday decorations and get into the Christmas spirit (as much as it can feel like Christmas in California). We wandered all over and checked out the new mall. Crowds take too much out of me and I was dealing with the [...]

In Mountain View of a man in the pouring rain on 2 Jan 2006, wearing nothing but sneakers, swim trunks, and snorkeling goggles. He marched on toward Pioneer Park oblivious to the world, as if it was completely normal to be a fish out of water in a monsoon. And there I was in the [...]