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Alison Appelbe
Yew Street Media
#336--1979 Yew St.
Vancouver, B.C. V6K 4R9 Canada


Day Phone: 604-733-4896
Biography:   Alison Appelbe is a writer and photographer. Her articles, news, features and travel, and photos have appeared in newspapers and magazines in the U.S., Canada, Europe, Australia and South America

 

 

 

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Stock Collection: 1,000 - 5,000 photos

General Subject Areas: culture, history, politics, architecture, detail, art, travel, urban

Awards: Starwood Hotels photography award; B.C. Newspaper Foundation, news-writing award

Books / Publication Credits: Secret Vancouver: The Unique Guidebook to Vancouver's Hidden Sites, Sounds & Tastes, ECW Press

Geographic Coverage: Europe, including Balkans and Turkey, U.S., Canada, Mexico, East Asia

Future Travel: Denmark

Typical Stock Photo Examples:
Vancouver, British Columbia, Whistler, Squamish, Sea-to-Sky Highway, mountain bike, mountain biking, Gravity Festival, Stanley Park, windy English Bay beach, freighter, Lost Lagoon, Albion ferry, climbing wall, Chinatown, Chinatown gate, Chinese clan society building, neo-colonial architecture, padlock, decorative wrought iron, Chinese New Year, fan dance, Chinese children, lion dance, Yew Street, Kitsilano, Kitsilano Beach Park, Burrard bridge, Richmond, dikes, fishing boat, West Vancouver, Ambleside, passenger ferry, False Creek Ferries, Aquabus, False Creek kayak, Indian Arm, Kitsilano in winter, snow-laden trees, pair of Dalmatians with pedestrian, ornate street lamp with dragon, barbeque meat shop, Chinese produce, Chinese dried foods, cheery ceramic Buddha, Chinese tea shop, Sun Yat Sen Classical Chinese Garden, neon, Chinese sign, Chinese Tao temple interior, Marine Building, bare-chest male joggers, seawall, buoys on beach, Sylvia Hotel exterior, rainbow over Vancouver (vertical), trees in fog, scrap metal, illuminated Downtown Eastside lane at night, Gastown, street artist vendor, Third Beach, Sunset Beach, Brockton totem pole, Strathcona, Sikh Baisakhi Day parade, Sikh temple, Punjabi Village, Golden Village, Steveston, martini drinkers, 2010 winter Olympics venue, Coal Harbour, harbor, under Lions Gate bridge from cruise ship deck, ship wake, Canada Place

South Chilcotin Mountains, Cayuse horse, wild-born horse, pack horse trip, trail, guide cowboy rests in meadow, tourist sleeps in front of tent, enamel wash basin on tree, shaving (with brush) wilderness, overlooking mountain ranges with binoculars, cowboy mountain ridge, Fraser River, native, aboriginal, salmon, fishing, camp, Barkerville, Gold Rush Trail, 18th century costume, women with bustle, girl with old-fashioned bonnet, tipi, tepee, gold miner cemetery, historic log cabin with sod roof, native Indian church, decorative steeple with cross, road signs South Cariboo, Fort Chipewyan, Peace-Athabasca River, delta, Cree, bison head, remote outhouse, aboriginal homestead, quad, ATV unload from boat, Catholic native cemetery, grave, cross, native chief, Mikisew, Jasper, Maligne lake, canyon, Spirit Island, historic boathouse, Edith Cavell Mountain, Angel, glacier, guide, interpreter, Medicine Lake, VIA Rail locomotive, Metis, sash, beaver lodge, Edmonton, Russian Orthodox Church, Medicine (disappearing) Lake, rustic log cabin, mountain-style McDonalds, Banff, Rocky Mountaineer, dome car, photographers from train, Asian tourist, Fraser Canyon, trestle bridge, beautiful American in Canada hat, scarf, winter landscape from train interior, frozen Bow River, Upper hot spring, thermal, bathers in steam steamy silhouette, guide with antlers, snowshoe, Lake Louise, horse-drawn sleigh, ice castle, Alberta, Lesser Slave Lake, kayaker, kayak, bare-chested muscular man with camera (from back), ornithologist, naturalist, birder, bird-watcher, McLennan, hand-held sharp-shinned hawk, banding, Grouard, mission, wine route sign, South Okanagan, Osoyoos, lake, swimmer, grapes, pinot gris, gewürztraminer, ehrenfelser, winery, vineyard, Black Sage Bench, Black Hills Estate Winery, Burrowing Owl Winery, old A-shaped barn, Desert Centre Center, family on boardwalk, cactus, Pacific Rim National Park, reserve, salmon hatchery, spawn, storm-watching, Chesterton Beach, Wickaninnish Inn, beach, surfer, Pacific Central Station, couple cuddle nuzzle dome car snow-covered Mount Robson, train white stark frozen, Kelowna, Mission Creek Greenway, Arbutus, Parksville, Lillooet, Bridge River, Carpenter Lake, man lying steps reading book, fit, well-equipped, elderly, senior, male hiker, Garibaldi, Taylor Meadow, lichen, anemone, Skookumchuck, Catholic church, flowering cacti, Medicine Hat, coulee, idyllic wood, Waterton Lakes, Cypress Hills, fireworks

Niagara Falls winter, wrought-iron rail, rainbow, Quebec City, architecture, turret, grill, decorative rooftop iron fretwork, Rene Lesveque home, pink daisy patch, L' île d'Orléans, Ile de Orleans, l'Amerique francaise, farmer, gaggle geese, meadow, pond, 400-year-old farmhouse, farm-fresh radish bunch, Domaine Steinbach, Ferme Monna, black current, Saint-Pierre, Saint-Jean, boulangerie artisanale, artisan bakery, funky birdhouse, economuseum, Route of the Navigators, Highway 132, Bas Saint-Laurent, St. Lawrence River, sign Maison des Chapais, Saint-Denis-de-la-Bouteillerie, Jean-Charles Chapais, Father of Confederation, eel traps, Kamouraska, fertile farmland, coastal French village, typical rural cottage, porch, veranda, Bic, tidal inlet, Auberge du Mange-Grenouille, art, boutique, church Saint Fabien, Pointe-au-Pere Lighthouse, national historic site, Musee de la Mer, Empress of Ireland, sea-farer cottage, Saint-Luce-sur-Mer beach, Gaspe, basilica St. Anne de Beaupre, pilgrimage, candlelight, Catholic shrine, Feast of St. Anne, Old Quebec City, Upper Town, Lower Town, Rue de Tresor, artist street market, shoppers Rue Saint-Jean, Royal 22nd Regiment, changing of the guard, citadel, regiment mascot, mountain goat, regiment sign, hanging sign, volute, terrace café, Quartier Petit-Champlain, ferry, street theatre, Samuel de Champlain look-alike, Place Royale, Notre Dame de Victoires, massive wall mural, historic figure, character, trompe-l'oeil, Montmorency Falls, restaurant, New Brunswick, Kings Landing, historic, heritage, dress, women long dress basket hurry in rain meadow (old-world ambiance), man top hat, bowler, cravat, Ottawa, winter, Rideau canal, skate, child, Beaver Tail (confection), eatery, food stand, take-out on ice, Gatineau Hills, snowshoe, Montreal, old porches, stairs, decorative architecture, wood metal work, detail

St. Martin, St. Maarten, Netherlands Antilles, sail, 12-meter challenge, America Cup yacht, True North IV, woman women raise sail, Philipsburg, courthouse, Front Street, tourist, school girl, waterfront eatery, beachside stall, stand, guava berry outlet, Queen Mary 2, II, anchor, old fish boat with modern speedboat with cruise liner, dolls West Indian, Marigot, St. Louis, fort, cannon, streetscape, market, metal, tin, Haitian bus, hand-carved cane, folk art, canvas, lobster live, barbecue, grill, platter, Busby's Beach Bar, Oyster Bay, Dawn Beach, surf, bathers, Oriental Beach stall market, Butterfly Crossing sign, young, vivacious, West Indian, mulatto woman, palm with signs club, bar, development, Sonesta Maho Beach, resort, pool bar, swim-up, drink, stool, patron, man with ornate tattoo cross on back, camaraderie, social, booze, swim, patron, middle-age, popular, local, Mullett Beach, black, child, sand, surf, infant, toddler, boy, ball, sport, tranquil, family, turquoise water, blue sky, cloud, color, Anguilla, flag, Mead's Bay, Malliouhana Resort, spa, Tasty's, restaurant, sun-lit, sun-dappled table, Methodist, church, roadside liquor, store, Sandy Ground, dock, wooden float, cyclist, veranda, porch, home Sir Emile Gumbs, Scilly Cay, boatman, couple share platter, lobster, surf, black man washes chicken at white-cap, wave, surf, hydroponics garden, gardener, CuisinArt Resort, Cuisinart, culinary tourism

South, southeast, Kentucky, elderly wood carver, carve, whittle, Monroe County, Marble Dome, rolley-holes, flint marble, heritage 1950s grocery store, Pedigo Grocery, owner, rural road, school bus, mailbox, ferry, Turkey Neck Bend, Cumberland Gap, Cumberland Falls (autumn), waterfall, Lake Cumberland, state park, raft, zodiac, guide, paddler at falls, Big South Fork railway, park, female forester, Barthell, Nashville, fan fair, barebacked girls, river stage grass, female fan, kiss both cheeks, country singers, band, Montgomery Gentry, Nashville Convention Center, fan with cardboard cutout of Kenny Chesney, fans with Marty Stuart, president Andrew Jackson homestead, The Hermitage, actor Jackson, Hatch Show Print, sign, shop, books, papers, Elvis Presley image on antiquarian shelves, historic brick wall sign for string instruments, Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, two wrought-iron rail, swirl, circular, fountain, Bellingham, Fairhaven, Victorian-era, national historic district, railway, outdoor florist, aluminum tub with pansy, pansies, hanging sign for Chimney Sweep, Berkeley North, North Garden Inn, National Historic Register, Queen Anne house, University of Western Washington town, Bellingham Bay, pilings of former fish plant, pioneer, Dirty Dan Harris, contemporary, bronze, statue, figure relax, laze, Chrysalis Inn and Spa, Whatcom Museum of History and Art, red brick, Sycamore Square, Tony's Café, historic bank building, sign, festival, Village Green, playful, costumed women, ladies, brothel, red-light district, heritage doorway with fanlight window, Harris Street, Fairview Village red double-decker bus, eatery, Alaska Ferry, dock, Village Books, Colophon Café, heritage lamp standard, lamp stand, Dos Padres sign, restaurant, cantina, Chuckanut, drive, Highway 11, off Interstate 5, Samish Island, Larrabee State Park, Edward R. Murrow, Edison, Longhorns Saloon & Oyster Bar, watering hole, Blau Oyster Co., oyster farm, Juan de Fuca, Olympic Peninsula, rural mailboxes, mailbox with dolphin figure, farm, dairy, Padilla Bay, national estuarine reserve, folk art, metal, towering trees, coastal forest, red poppy, poppies, Amtrak, interior café, Alcatraz, island, sailboat, penitentiary, national urban park, historic graffiti, sign, Indians welcome, guard tower, prison block, garden, walkway, path, Gandhi statue with faded bouquet, flowers, Chinese child in ornate shawl on woman's back, red, traditional design

Alaska, Sitka, Russian Christmas ornament, doll, St. Nicholas, St. Michael's Cathedral, graveyard, White Pass and Yukon Railway in snow, reflection, window, World Explorer cruise ship, Alaska tug, dolphins, native, aboriginal boy with bicycle, girl with cockles

Mexico, Quintana Roo, Cancun, beach, scenic, Mayan, Chichen Itza, figure, design, climbing pyramid, entrance, shop, tourists, pelote, ballgame, hoop, Xcaret, enter, cenote, underground river, actor, Maya warrior, Tulum, various, ruins, Mexican boys play with stones, beach, tourist, Playa del Carmen, beach, Tres Rios, actor, sensorama, Isla Mujeres, town, Garrafon Park, pool, Morelia, UNESCO World Heritage Site, peasant, nun, street musician, school children, food vendor, cathedral, baroque, Herreresque, colonial, vice-regal architecture, colonnade, Hotel Virrey de Mondoza, door, carved wood, artisan, craft, wrought-iron gate, street scenes, Patzcuaro, peasant on cobblestone, Templo El Sagrario, Santa Clara del Cobre, cathedral, Tzintzutzan, archeology, archeological, complex, stone, tree and outlook to lake, Lago de Patzcuaro, region wooden figure, figurine (contorted face of white colonial)

Mexico City, zocalo, Zona Rosa, laborer, tradesmen, cathedral, Metropolitana, Palacio de Bellas Artes, detail, Alameda, street, blind drummer in band, shoeshine boy, woman food vendor, Acapulco, bay, beach, street entertainer, performer, Aztec in headdress, Mariachi pants, ornate brass street lamp, gate, entrance, Oaxaca, World Heritage Site, colonial, architecture, Iglesia de Santo Domingo, street sweep, natural broom, pilgrim, religious image on license plate, sidewalk fruit vendor, Mitla, domes, children, ornate stone work, Mount Alban, aerial view, vendor, valley weaver, Cholula, convent, Convento de San Gabriel, Acatepac, wedding, marriage, bride, Puebla, cathedral railing with ornate figures, angels, San Miguel de Allende, Templo de San Francisco, Churrigueresque, small girls seated, ornate brass knocker shaped like a hand, cobble streets, sweeper, streetscape, doors

Holland, the Netherlands, The Hague, Kurhaus, hotel, Scheveningen, North Sea, Vermeer, museum, gallery, Mauritshuis, Girl with Pearl Earring museum poster, Dutch Master, knights hall, Ridderzaal, Binnenhof, Muslim, Moslem woman, headscarf, Lange Voorhout, 18th century townhouse, ornate, doors, balcony, shop, antique, Denneweg, No. 56 Denneweg 19th century white cast-iron building, ornate wrought-iron, topped with crown, commemorate 1898 coronation of Queen Wilhelmina, façade, Dutch mercantile building, Madurodam,

Delft, Dutch wooden shoe, clog, Nieuwe Kerk, town hall, Gothic, Renaissance building, canal house, cottage, fortress, turret, drawbridge

Rijksmuseum, museum, detail, Masterpieces exhibit banner, Kröller-Müller Museum, sculpture, floating, Hoge Veluwe National Park, wheelchair with flower basket on seat back, protest, political gathering, demonstration, plaza, International Court of Justice, peace palace, Maastricht, River Maas, Basilica St. Servatius, St. Servasbrug bridge, window trendy clothes, cobble, cobblestone street, evening, car lights, rooftops, Amsterdam, tram, canal, autumn, bicycle, cycle, Amstel River, drawbridge, Narrow Bridge, Nieuwe Herengracht, book market, used books, shelf, table, stack, Van Gogh Museum, Museumplein, park, Rembrandt, statue, canal boat, canal house, night, almshouse, woman, Begijnhof, beguinage, Golden Age canals, architecture, roof with pulley, Singel


Switzerland, Suisse, alpine transport, mountain bus, public, tourist, PostBus, Engadine, Mustair, Zernez, convent, monastery, St. John, Johann, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Romanesque, fresco, painted house, shutters, wall sun dial, shrine, Crucifix in field, road, Graubünden, Chur, old town, cathedral, historic building, door, doorway, antique shop exterior, fresco façade, Café Bichaler, Jubilee Bahn, electric train, viaduct, Rhatische Bahn, Swiss Rail, railway, 1902 Landwasser viaduct with train, tunnel,

Grimsel Pass, Gletsch, motor cycle, motor bike, leather jumpsuit, flashy helmet, train, steam, engine, Furka Bahn, train engineer, brass, lamp, Bernese-Oberland, Ballenberg, Swiss open-air museum, farmhouse, chalet, hand-carved lintel, girl, geranium, balcony, Meiringen, Sir Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, bronze statue, pipe, baker, meringue, architecture, church, Mount Pilatus, Luzerne, Luzern, River Reuss, wooden, covered, bridge, lake, Vierwaldstattersee, boat, Palace Luzern, Hofkirche steeples, hill, cottage, farm, cog railway, view from Pilatus, north plain, Kulm hotel, Lugano, plaza, outdoor, café, St. Moritz, town hall, Heidi, log cabin, view from 3057-metre Piz Nair, art deco sign Hanselmann's Konditorei Café, Ticino, Lugano, lake, city, city steps, umbrella on modern mosaic plaza, Maria degli Angioli, Church of St. Mary of the Angel, boardwalk, wrought-iron gate, Egon Schiele poster, hanging sign with pilgrim

London Eye, Ferris wheel, Hop Exchange, East London, Spitalfield, Shoreditch high street,
Trafalgar Square, tourist, fountain, Leicester Square, sidewalk café, Windmill Street, Bloomsbury, British Museum, Great Court, interior, ceramic sculpture, statue, dome, plaza, mask, girls, Whitechapel, Brick Lane, Indian, Bangladeshi restaurant, store, Cockney, food stand, eel, Columbia Street flower market, vendors, musicians, Islam, politic, poster, Islamophobia, Islam phobia, Georgian, house, architecture, Christ Church Spitalfield, Nicholas Hawksmoor, Huguenot silk-weaver, rooftop, loft

Balkan, Croatia, Zagreb, city, central square, Trg Jelacica, café, tram, statue, patriot, Josip Jelacic, baroque, art nouveau, 19th century, youth with friar, monk, Gradec, St. Mark's Church, Croatian coat-of-arms, railway station, Glavni Kolodvor, aerial shots from gun tower, St. Catherine's Church, statue, poet, black man, Croatian Railway, rural, station master, Dalmatia, male sunbather in stripe suit, Split, Diocletian palace, peristyle, entrance, tower, café, from tower, from bay at dusk, Ivan Mestrovic, Gregorius of Nin, statue, brass, foot, toes, nun (from behind) with bouquet, schooner, sails, mast and lines, Brac, Blaca monastery, island Hvar, Starigrad, harbor, early morning sky, cobblestone lane, hanging potted plant in Petar Hektorovic museum, Jelsa, bright red and black Citroen, Brboska, fortress walls, view from fortress, wall niche shrine, Romanesque church, Hvar town, views from fortress, cathedral, plaza, stone steps, architectural detail, wrought-iron, metal studded door, stone houses, laundry, Korcula, St. Mark's Cathedral, portal, detail of overhead figure, vendors on roadside, plants, dried pods, liquor, alcohol, statue, headless priest, boats, Blue Grotto, Bisevo, near Komiza, Vis, 17th century, church, monastery, Dubrovnik, harbor, plaza, plaka, boy on bike, Franciscan monastery, Pieta, rector's palace, gothic, Renaissance, Ploce Gate, monastery door, sculpture, ornament, niche statuary, St. Ignatius, slate roof, procession, society, knights, kavana, Pile Gate, Franciscan monastery, fortification, wall, walls, overview of city, roofs, repair, damage, café, beach, Adriatic, boat, ferry, Rejika

Salzburg, from grill Festung Hohensalzburg, cartouche, Mozart sweets, candies, St. Peter's Abbey, grave, churchyard, cemetery, wrought-iron, memorial, Munich, Oktoberfest, shop windows, town hall, King Ludwig I, memorabilia, interior Alte Pinakothek, gallery, gate, courtyard, Residenz, bike carrying red basket with plant, Frankfurt, wedding, marriage, town hall, ornate door handle, detail, Vienna, MuseumsQuartier, Leopold Museum, Museum of Modern Art, lava or basalt box, Karlsplatz, art deco, St. Stephen's, cathedral, Karls Kirche, national library, entrance, detail, frieze, statuary, Schonbrunn, shops, Karnternstrasse, The Hofburg, horse-drawn carriage, fiaker, gargoyle

Belgium, Belgian, carnival, carnavel, Wallonia, Flemish, Flanders, Aalst, Binche, Eupen, Gilles, men dressed as clown, peasant, mask, costume, clog, ostrich feather headdress, satire, satiric, mock religion, Catholic church, mock nuns, dressed as grandfather clocks, Lent, Ash Wednesday, Rose Monday, Shrove Tuesday, dead-pan masks, white skull-tight caps broad lace collars, Musée International du Carnaval et du Masque, Vuil Jeannetten, Trojan-like Horse Bayard, brass bells on the big dray horses, children as Pierrots, harlequins, cartoon paintings on store windows with big bare boobs, costume, French aristocracy, Brussels, Grand Place, winter, Asian tourist photographer, Manneken-Pis, shops, needlework, sweets, chocolate, statue, statuary, Cathedrale des Sts. Michel and Gudule, detail, cathedral, Flemish house, Place de St. Catherine, café, snow on tables, neon street scene, art nouveau, Victor Horta, buildings, detail

Ireland, Eire, St. Patrick's Day, parade, leprechan, child, marching band, American, majorettes, The Lusitania bar sign, colorful working-man row houses, Blarney Castle, bright red wagon wheel, countryside

Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Chinatown, barbor, shave, Penang, beach, sarong blow on beach line, Chinese temple, faded colonial shop houses, young Muslim woman in ornate dress uses payphone, sign charcoal dealer, stone lion mouth, Philippines, Manila, Makati intersection aerial shot, rain, Jeepney, typhoon, slum, poverty, children, woman, flood, Casa Manila, Cebu, Cebu City, Mactan Island, resort, pool, beach, Asian man on lounge in pool with book, coconut husk drink, Taoist temple, basilica, Basilica Minore del Santo Nino

Hong Kong, Star Ferry, tram, crowd, dragon statue spouting water, junk, Aberdeen, Bank of China building, temple, alter, yellow candles on ornate turquoise Chinese hanging, foreign journalists club building, bank of air conditioners, Filipina nannies, Kowloon, slum highrise, Nathan Road, signs, neon, Cheung Chau, harbor, woman in conical hat, dried fish, temple, girls bathing in surf, shredded nut, Tokyo, crowd, Shijuku, Japanese, teen, teenage girls, fashion, trend, purse, eccentric dress, Shinto temple, market, kimono, Imperial palace, Shibuya-Ku, Meiji-Jingu shrine, bride in traditional dress, flea market, books, folios, Ginza theatre façade, Kamakura, shrine, temple, detail, red souvenir,,,

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