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2019: The Year in Pictures A look back at the photos that defined 2019

Photos are the soul of a newspaper, our windows into the communities we cover and the stories we tell. What might take a writer several sentences or paragraphs to tell, a photo has to capture in a mere glance. And getting to that storytelling moment isn’t just a matter of holding up the camera and saying, “OK, now it’s time to take a photo.” A good photo isn’t “taken.” It’s made. Good photography can seem effortless. But into each photo goes a multitude of decisions, all of which must inform how the push of the shutter button will serve the story, whether it’s on our website or in our weekly print edition. At a time when pretty much everyone can take a photo by reaching into their pocket and pulling out their smart phone, news photos have to be something more than just a record that somebody showed up and did just that. Here, then, is our retrospective of some of the photos we made in 2019, along with a bit of information about the thought processes and technical considerations that went into them.

JANUARY

A worker is dwarfed by giant wooden beams at the new PoCo Recreation Complex that is under construction on Wilson Avenue. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: ""Back in the day when newspapers actually employed staff photographers who spent their whole shift doing just that, we'd often use downtime between assignments to check out things we'd spot in our travels that might make a good photo. Sometimes those photos — we called them "wild art" or "tour shots” — would end up on the front page, and sometimes they'd help an editor plug a quarter-page hole deep in the paper. I made note of these magnificent beams being lifted into place at the new Port Coquitlam Community Centre, then did something about it when we needed a photo for a construction update story."

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BARTEL: "Ron Bradbeer has been running the weekly roller skating sessions at the Poirier Forum for the past 2.5 years, but he's really carrying on a legacy from his mother, Doris, who conducted similar sessions at the old Poirier Arena across the street in the 1980s. For this story on a weekly roller skating program for seniors, I wanted to create a bit of a nostalgic feeling, trying to capture that first moment when the wheels hit concrete. So I set up a light to create a bit of a silhouette and waited for Ron Bradbeer to head out onto the floor."

Heather Wallace-Barnes and her husband, Johnny Barnes, check out the "ladies room," one of the themed rooms in their Pinball Alley Vintage shop in Port Moody that sells clothes and all manner of curios from the 1950s, '60s and '70s, as well as old vinyl records. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "They're selling the shop to move their family to Spain. Generally, I'm dismayed by mirrors. But I love the challenge of integrating them into my photos. You just have to be careful with your positioning so you don't end up in the photo, and then think about everything else — like lighting and composition — backwards."

Chris Lancaster heads back to the barns at Fraser Downs after working out one of his horses. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "It's been more than 30 years since I had the opportunity to photograph a horse racing story, so I relished the chance to soak in the atmosphere and characters at Fraser Downs while spending a morning with local trainer and racer, Chris Lancaster."

The canoe is carried into the gymnasium at the Kwikwetlem First Nation's Healing Spirit Centre. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: ""It's not everyday you get to photograph a giant, 30-foot canoe, so it was important to somehow capture the effort it takes to move such a behemoth into the new First Nation's Healing Spirit Centre.""

FEBRUARY

Heritage Woods Kodiaks wrestler Devin McCrae is following the footsteps of his dad and older sister onto success on the wrestling mats. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Chris Wilson, who's organized the bi-annual sales of used sporting equipment to help raise money for KidSport Tri-Cities since they began in 2007, says he's seen all manner of gear and interpretations of what is sport. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Doing something to help get the word out about KidSport's bi-annual used equipment sales is a highlight of every spring and fall. So when Chris Wilson pulled out this bright red kite from the storage room, I knew what I had to do. The rest was up to the backlighting from the late-afternoon sun."

MARCH

Llyn Lindo, a traffic controller on Kingsway Avenue at the site of the new Port Coquitlam recreation complex, said she loves the snow, but the sign she's holding seems to sum up the thoughts of most people as a snow squall rolls through on a Thursday morning in March. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "It's March and it's snowing, just when everybody is thinking about spring. The key to capturing good snowfall photos is a dark background."

(LEFT) Zach Hamed, a 17-year-old student at Heritage Woods secondary school, begins his descent from the training tower. (RIGHT) Elliot Heath and Callum Borden, both students at Dr. Charles Best secondary school, celebrate their successful descent from the training tower. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "While I'm not afraid of heights, there are other places I'd rather be. So when I get to cover people doing things in high places, I'm always fascinated by that moment they release themselves to gravity, such as this student descending from the tower at Coquitlam's main fire hall during a junior firefighter camp."

Jade Lee cried when she first started competing in Tae Kwon Do. Now she's a Canadian junior champion. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Suburban living rooms usually don't make for the best photo studios. So that's when you simplify by setting up a single light and zooming in."

APRIL

Port Moody councillor Zoe Royer enjoys the sunshine of the Queen's Street plaza. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "The chair of the city's arts and culture committee is hoping to animate the space with outdoor furniture, kids games and programming to make it a gathering place in the summertime. A local councillor’s attempt to animate a barren plaza to create a lively community space needed to be illustrated with a photo that expressed just how dull and lifeless it currently is."

Retired engineer Cosimo Geracitano has surrounded himself with paintings in his Coquitlam home by some of the world's great masters, including Da Vinci, Renoir, Van Gogh and John Constable. But he's not fabulously wealthy. He's meticulously painted the reproductions himself. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Every once in a while a story comes along that makes even the most grizzled journalist go "wow, that's so cool." Cosimo Geracitano's dedication and talent to recreate paintings by master artists was one of those stories. Walking into his Coquitlam home was like entering a hall at the Louvre."

A visitor to Coquitlam's Town Centre Park photographs the blossoms on Thursday. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "The key to finding a good photo of spring blossoms or fall leaves is a bit of backlight and a dark background in the distance."

MAY

Port Moody's Julia Budd is about to be joined on the Bellator MMA circuit by her stepson, Lance Gibson Jr. Budd will be defending her featherweight world championship in July. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "MMA fighters do their thing in a caged arena, so of course that chainlink cage has to feature prominently in telling their story. Budd would go on to win her fourth straight title victory in July, winning by TKO. She hasn't lost in more than seven years."

A passerby seems to invoke a sneer from a painting for a camel that is part of a new public art installation at Ioco Road and Barnet Highway in Port Moody. The project features works by artists that belong to the Esplanade Artists Studio and camouflages a temporary parking lot required by TransLink to accommodate parking displaced by its construction of a new storage facility for 30-40 SkyTrain cars just west if Falcon Drive in Coquitlam. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "I'd been trying to figure out what to do with the art banners affixed to fencing near the Moody Centre SkyTrain station for several days, then just decided to stake it out one afternoon for about 30 minutes. The similarity between the passerby and the painting behind him was just a serendipitous accident."

Daniela Hammond samples one of the 60 or so olive oils and balsamic vinegars she offers at her new olive oil dispensary in Port Moody's Newport Village. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Popping light through bottles is a fun way to bring a shot to life."

Callan Morrison juggles oranges while his fiancé and business partner, Jessica Clark, loads the commercial juice presser that is installed in a custom shower enclosure at the back of their new Port Coquitlam juicery, Squish Juicery. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "The enclosure allows for quick and thorough cleaning of the juicer between pressings. Making juice from a large, industrial squeezer is not the most photogenic activity. But when that juicer is positioned in a huge shower stall and the subject is willing to play along with your suggestion to juggle, the result is a fun photo."

Wendy Swalwell, the chair of Port Moody Legion's property development committee, admires the new branch on Clarke Street from its stage. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "As a background for a photo, the interior of the new Port Moody Legion is rather uninspiring. Except for the giant mural of a poppy field."

Competitors in a boys 100m race leap for the finish line. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Shots of the finish line at a sprint race are pretty standard. Less common is catching all three top finishers in mid-air."

Amelie Privat, a Grade 8 student at École des Pionniers-de-Maillardville in Port Coquitlam, tweaks her team's robot. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Finding a quiet, clean moment that wasn't packed with kids running about was a challenge at this robotics event, but I like this contemplative competitor and the symmetry of the posters on the wall behind her."

A family of transient orcas hunt off Port Moody in late May. Over the last few years, the several pods have returned to the Burrard Inlet pursuing a burgeoning Harbour seal population in what one marine mammal expert calls, "The re-wilding of the Salish Sea." STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

LABBÉ: "In the past I've had males separate from the pod to breach off our bow. These transients were set on hunting and kept their heads down. So instead of an acrobatic moment, I pulled back to capture the skyline. When it comes to shooting wildlife, sometimes the best you can do is wait them out and be ready."

JUNE

Angela Teymoori turns her arrival at the Tri-Cities Babies + Beer meet-up at Yellow Dog Brewing in Port Moody into an Instagrammable moment with her son, Darius, who's five months old. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "It's only fitting that a visit to cover a beer and babies event at a Port Moody brewery, organized on social media, start with an Instagram moment."

A worker prepares the entrance to Port Coquitlam's new $132 million recreation complex for the installation of front doors. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "These preview tours of big new construction projects usually follow a similar script: The reporter and I start off together with our tour guides, then I inevitably fall behind as I look for interesting angles, light and features."

Penny Ball and her partner, Kaine Delay (centre), are about to bring their pinup and punk vibe to Port Moody's Pinball Alley Vintage shop as owners Johnny Barnes and Heather Wallace prepare to up stakes for Spain. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "A fun, beloved local shop is getting new owners, so the photo of that transfer should be fun as well."

Staff photographer Mario Bartel takes a break from reporting the story to become the story. Here he's seen testing a new bike path that's been dubbed the "Gatensbury Gasp" for its sustained incline. The average gradient on the hill may be about 12%, but it has pitches steeper than 18%, making it a challenge for pedestrians and cyclists ascending its new multi-use path on the west side. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

LABBÉ: "During the short window I had to shoot Mario in action, I tried to stay ahead of him — a challenge because there were few places to safely pull over. When I saw this sign, I knew it would both tell the story of a steep ride and add an element of depth."

(TOP) A participant in water blessing ceremony drops a cedar branchlet into the waters off Port Moody during National Indigenous People's Day. (LEFT) Tsleil-Waututh elder Ta'ah Amy George welcomes a crowd to the ceremony. (RIGHT) Canoes raft during a water blessing ceremony. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

LABBÉ: "I knew once I boarded the canoe, I would be left with few options to move around. So I took the seat at the bow where I'd have a wider angle to shoot and waited for a tight, telling moment."

Ivy Peers, a First Nations dancer and singer from Alert Bay, performs at National Indigenous Day ceremonies at Port Moody's Rocky Point Park on Friday. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "The bright colours and the similarity of the dancer's motion to the figures painted on the background caught my eye during this performance at National Indigenous Day ceremonies at Port Moody's Rocky Point Park."

JULY

Tabitha Zander prepares for her debut circus performance at a show in Coquitlam. The Florida native has helped transform Circus Osorio, traditionally a family-run circus from Mexico, into an international troup of acrobats, sword-swallowers and magicians. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

LABBÉ: "The combination of low-light and acrobatics can make shooting these kinds of shows a challenge. Either way, I was more interested in the the troupe's backstage rituals. So I did my best to stay out of the way and find the few shafts of light that would make an telling picture."

A young black bear wanders past the entrance of Minnekhada Regional Park during a shutdown due to increased activity. Human-bear conflicts spiked in 2019 — a year which the Tri-Cities saw a 20% increase in black bear sightings, while conservation officers ended up killing 31 bruins. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
At one point, Metro Vancouver tracked 35 bear crossings in a single day from the park forest into the adjacent blueberry fields. The high level of bear activity prompted officials to close Oliver Road to car traffic. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

LABBÉ: "After we found out the road would be closed, myself and another reporter decided we'd head down and proceed on foot, careful to maintain our distance should we see any bears. This little guy popped out of the bushes right as we were packing up to leave and walked right into the two frames I was looking for."

Danika Michelsen hangs from a high bar at the Momentum Ninja Training Centre in Port Coquitlam. She's one of 36 athletes from the gym who've qualified to compete at the Ultimate Ninja Athletic Association world championships in Minnesota in July. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "This local Ninja gym is chock-a-block with climbing walls and other apparatus that can quickly overwhelm a photographer, let alone create busy backgrounds. That's when it's best to keep things simple."

Sydney Willmott spends her days reading between the lines of Metro Vancouver’s trash. As a banned materials inspector at the Coquitlam Transfer Station, she keeps an eye out for paint cans, electronics and clouds of gypsum dust that often pour out of garbage trucks dumping the woody debris of a recent renovation. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

LABBÉ: "I was looking to capture a candid moment amongst the immensity of garbage that comes to the transfer station every day. The challenge here was navigating heavy machinery, shifting piles of trash and a backlit scene that only worked when Sydney turned her head the right way."

Fitness diehards from across Western Canada gathered at Percy Perry Stadium to compete in the CanWest Games, an event built around the popular CrossFit training regiments. Some of the elite competitors — like navy marine technician Max Honeyman seen here — were using the event as a springboard to the next World CrossFit games.⁠ STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

"The heavier the weights, the more intense and fleeting the moment you have to shoot. But it all makes for a more interesting photo."

AUGUST

Coquitlam's Matthew Shanley, right, celebrates his seventh homerun with his teammates at the BC Little League Majors provincial championship tournament at Vancouver's Hillcrest Park. Coquitlam defeated Layritz, 7-6, in eight innings. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Heading into Vancouver to cover the local Little League team at the provincial championships, who knew this would be the start of a magnificent journey to the World Series for these kids."

Carola Alder, of CityState Consulting, that shares space in The Silk Gallery, removes one of the paintings left behind when two neighbouring buildings on Port Moody's Clarke Street caught fire Sunday night. The gallery, which is run by Coun. Zoe Royer, sustained smoke and water damage but most of its contents were safely removed to a nearby storage container. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "It's been years since many newspapers had the ability to monitor fire and police radios, but often the human storytelling shots of a disaster happen after the fact, as people try to understand and deal with their loss."

A purple martin takes flight from the finger of Tri-City conservationist Kiyoshi Takahashi as it's released to the wild by Wildlife Rescue, which raised the bird from a nestling that had been abandoned in a boat at Salt Spring Island. Takahashi helped reinvigorate the local population of the once threatened bird by building nesting boxes at the east end of Port Moody Inlet. MARIO BARTEL/THE-TRI-CITY NEWS
Officers from Port Moody police and the BC Conservation Service, track a bear in the greenbelt at the west end of Heritage Mtn. Boulevard on Thursday afternoon. The neighbourhood was put into semi-lockdown after a family a mother bear and her three cubs was spotted earlier in the day. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Bears in the 'hood was a big, ongoing story in the Tri-Cities this past summer, but rare was the opportunity to be on the scene for just such a hunt."

Jack "Kwikwetlem" Williams, son of Scowlitz Chief Sunny Williams, approaches the finish line during the first Indigenous canoe races held in Port Moody in over 100 years. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

LABBÉ: "The biggest challenge shooting for hours on the water, in the rain comes down to one thing: keeping your camera and lenses dry."

Wendy Yates, playing a suspected impaired driver, tells "officers" to give her more space during a simulated traffic stop at Coquitlam RCMP's Junior Mounties camp, last Wednesday at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "This year's RCMP Junior Mounties camp changed the script from the usual obstacle course around the mezzanine at the Poirier Sport and Leisure Complex, but what's not to love about the animated expression of a volunteer playing a suspected impaired driver."

Workers move the Terry Fox Library's collection of more than 260,000 items into its new home at the new Port Coquitlam Community Centre next door on Tuesday. The move took two days and, the librarian's manager, Kimberly Constable, said, everything will be in place, along with several new items and features, in time for the community centre's grand opening on Tuesday, Aug. 27, at 4 p.m. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "It's not often a local library moves into a new facility. And when that move is just a short walk away, the toil of that move can make an interesting photo."

SEPTEMBER

Centennial's Felipe Ruiz tries to knock a pass from a Carson Graham receiver during a recent controlled scrimmage at the Centaurs' home field in Coquitlam. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "A controlled pre-season football scrimmage doesn't usually produce dramatic pass receptions."

Hang out at the "beach" at the annual Donkey Cross cyclocross race in Port Coquitlam long enough, and somebody is bound to go down. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Sitka, a 22-year-old Steller sea lion, breaches the water during a training run up Burrard Inlet. She’s one of four animals at the Marine Mammal Research Station in Port Moody, a one-of-kind facility whose future is now in jeopardy as long-term funding comes to an end. Photograph By STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

LABBÉ: "For this series, I tried to capture the semi-wild life of these sea lions — some shots in a cage, others interacting with trainers and still more frolicking in open water. I shot this photo, which ended up as the most dynamic of the day, from the side of the research boat as we headed back to the dock."

NDP leader Jagmeet pays a visit to local candidate Bonita Zarrillo's campaign office in Port Moody. The riding would end up ending up becoming the tightest race in the country, with Tory candidate Nelly Shin eventually coming out on top. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

OCTOBER

Media rogue, Nardwar the Human Serviette, negotiates with Conservative Party campaign officials for access to federal leader Andrew Scheer during a campaign stop at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam on Friday. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Election campaign appearances by national leaders are usually tightly-controlled affairs designed to produce exactly the kind of moments and stories their handlers seek — until renowned rabble-rouser and celebrity interviewer, Nardwar, the Human Serviette shows up."

Andrea MacIntosh checks out one of the beers brewed by Tinhouse Brewing, which is located right off the Traboulay Trail in Port Coquitlam. The new Tinhouse Brewery in Port Coquitlam is located right on the Traboulay Trail near the Pitt River. My challenge was to tell that story with a captivating image. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS
Port Moody councillor Meghan Lahti gets emotional at a meeting of city council as she speaks to a motion by fellow councillor Diana Dilworth asking Mayor Rob Vagramov to resume his leave of absence until his charge of sexual assault is dealt with. Lahti said "it's our job to maintain the public's trust." MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Shows of emotion are rare at a city council meeting. At least as rare as bringing a camera to cover that meeting."

Port Moody Mayor Rob Vagramov is framed by a TV news camera as he listens to councillors debating a motion requesting his to resume his leave of absence while a charge of sexual assault against him remains unresolved. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "We don't usually bring cameras to city council meetings because, frankly, people sitting at desks discussing bylaws doesn't make for arresting images. Until that council's mayor has actually been arrested and his future is up for debate at an emotionally-charged meeting."

MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS Andrew Cequeira, of the Terry Fox Ravens, is grabbed by Pinetree Timberwolves defender Amir Kazemi while Amar Kezedzic provides support in the first half of their Fraser Valley North Soccer Association senior boys match, last Thursday at Coquitlam's Town Centre Park. The teams played to a 1-1 draw, after Pinetree's Mehrshad Azizinia scored on a volley from just outside the box with two minutes left to play. The jersey tug in soccer is always a good photographic moment.
The Liberal MP for Coquitlam-Port Coquitlam, Ron McKinnon, watches election night results come in with one of his campaign volunteers, Haley Hodgson. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "For all the buildup to covering election nights, they're usually a visual let-down. The celebration parties are usually in dark, crowded halls, restaurants or pubs with lots of hugging and handshaking. So when Liberal MP Ron McKinnon decided to spend a little more time at his nearby campaign office to monitor the incoming results, I asked if I could tag along."

Port Coquiltam's new aquatic and community centre are seen through the remnants of the old ice arenas at it's demolished by an excavator. The second phase of the $132-million project includes a new ice pad with spectator seating to join the other two already opened in late August as part of the first phase. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "The old arenas that comprised the Port Coquitlam Recreation Centre were hardly architectural wonders, but when they came down, their tin-roof plainness made a nice contrast to the magnificent beams of the new community centre facility."

Ryan Purdy even designed and built a special funhouse mirror that will project images from behind for the ghoulish Halloween displays he's built in front of this home at 825 Runnymede Ave. in Coquitlam. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Another mirror challenge."

NOVEMBER

Andre Dionne said it takes him nearly three days to affix more than 50 strands of lights along the rail fencing on the east side of Lafarge Lake. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "When the calendar turns to November, I know it's time to keep my eye out for crews beginning to install the annual Lights at Lafarge Christmas display."

A young female red-tailed hawk that was rescued by Coquitlam city workers is released along the hydro right-of-way on Mariner Way by Carol Norris, of Outdoor Wildlife Rescue (OWL), last Wednesday. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "Bird releases are always a bit of a photographic gamble as to when the bird will actually take off, which direction it will take, and can my finger react on the shutter button quickly enough."

DECEMBER

Reid Demelo accepts the high-fives of other students at Heritage Woods secondary school in Port Moody after his three-point shot at the buzzer of last Thursday's Kodiak Klassic senior boys basketball tournament game between the Kodiaks and Kitsilano secondary went viral on the Internet. Principal Tood Clerkson said everyone in the school knows Demelo, who has Down's Syndrome, and his moment of glory is testimony to the student's sense of acceptance and inclusion. MARIO BARTEL/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

BARTEL: "As soon as I walked into Heritage Woods secondary to meet Reid Demelo for an interview about his sudden social media celebrity, I spotted the parting wave of well-wishers and high-fiving friends ahead of me and the enthusiasm never let up as we headed for the main office to extend our chat to the school's principal."

A trio of runners in the annual Ugly Sweater Dash approach the finish line along Brewers Row in Port Moody. The 5-km run (or walk) for charity celebrated its sixth year with a lap up and down Murray Street from Parkside Brewing Co. to Eagle Ridge Hospital. STEFAN LABBÉ/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

LABBÉ: "I saw the pair in the blue snowflake suits earlier as I shot a group of runners down the road. With a handful of characters in my head, I sped to the finish line and waited for a symmetrical moment."

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STEFAN LABBÉ