Chesterfield Beach
These pictures are taken in Ross Bay, near my favourite storm drain and directly across the street from the cemetery which can be seen in the background.
The weather is getting nice, and someone is obviously determined to maximize beach comforts – no splintery driftwood for their delicate posteriors. There is a wood barrier in front creating a “living room”, presumably to reduce the breeze and maximize the opportunities for melanoma.
Anyway, it was surprising to come across this, and I think it makes for a pretty strange picture. Especially the bull kelp left to dry, as if forgotten by Neptune’s dominatrix. Looks too like her cat was sharpening its claws on the arm of the chesterfield.
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Canon EOS 5Dii, Nikkor-N 24mm/f-2.8 lens, ISO100, ~f8, 1/400th
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This post is set to publish in my absence. I will have limited access to a computer. I might be able to respond to comments over the weekend; if not I will do so in a few days.
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I say call the cops… unusual scene, good b/w effect, and a nice composition make for a strong photograph. I like it very much.
Thanks a lot Joseph!
If it was Oak Bay, which is only a few blocks away, the cops would have been called, and the city would have come out to clean up the ‘mess’.
Hah! The sound of me laughing . . .” Especially the bull kelp left to dry, as if forgotten by Neptune’s dominatrix” This is a real photo that is completely surreal – the cover of a Philip K. Dick or Clive Barker book perhaps? Love it!
Thank you Lynn!
For me, the picture is made a bid more surreal by the jaunty angle of the chair. Frozen motion of some kind.
Bull kelp had to have been invented for some reason.
Poor lonely sofas. They have just the sea and cemetery to comfort them now.
I bet they are used, maybe at night. But they do look lonely. Probably will be off to the dump pretty soon, so its really a sad ending to their lives.
How unusual and interesting.
It is. I think it would be interesting to see them after some rough treatment by a few winter storms, but I don’t suppose they will last that long
Gosh, you guys take your comfort seriously!!! we only have hard wooden benches by the Lake. I’m going to have to thake this up with our local Chamber of Commerce.
I wonder if they would listen? If so, they can have these ones, I am sure they would be free for the taking.