{"id":867,"date":"2011-10-19T20:23:29","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T04:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/?p=867"},"modified":"2011-10-21T12:01:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T20:01:25","slug":"sky-high-in-shangri-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"Sky High in Shangri-La"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Living in a home at the top of Vancouver&#8217;s tallest building has a distinct advantage &#8212;  there is nothing blocking your sightline. I&#8217;ve seen lots of incredible views of the city before, but none from this height. Even on a grey, overcast day, the panorama offered by the floor to ceiling windows takes your breath away. I don&#8217;t have a fear of heights, but just getting close to these windows made my pulse race a little.<br \/>\nI would love to have spent a few hours there, but time was limited and the conditions were not ideal. Most of the furniture was in transit to the owner&#8217;s new home, and although the cloudy sky gave me a nice soft light to work with, an evening shoot would have produced some jaw-dropping images. But I can&#8217;t complain. Not too many people get paid to take pictures of homes like this. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2545_6_8_9_fused1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2545_6_8_9_fused1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2545_6_8_9_fused\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-881\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2550_2_3_fused1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2550_2_3_fused1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2550_2_3_fused\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-882\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2565_6_8_9_fused1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2565_6_8_9_fused1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2565_6_8_9_fused\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-883\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_19991.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_19991.jpg\" alt=\"Shangri-La Vancouver\" title=\"IMG_1999\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-877\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2560.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2560.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2560\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-871\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2563.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2563.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2563\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-872\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2573_4_6_fused.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/IMG_2573_4_6_fused.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"IMG_2573_4_6_fused\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-874\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Living in a home at the top of Vancouver&#8217;s tallest building has a distinct advantage &#8212; there is nothing blocking your sightline. I&#8217;ve seen lots of incredible views of the city before, but none from this height. Even on a grey, overcast day, the panorama offered by the floor to ceiling windows takes your breath [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-luxury-living","category-views","category-west-end"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.johnbentley.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}