Ross Bay Promise

Kayak promising a trip to the inner harbour and then back here, Ross Bay, Victoria. The Olympic Mountains are in the distance with a great slash of white cloud where a streak of blue sky was emerging.

This image is my second today – it is by way of an apology for the first one which I realise belatedly is a pretty crappy photograph.


I posted that one because I was seduced by the idea of a shadow on the side of the building, but really it did not work out in any lasting way.

I think that this image works much better. I took it a few hours ago.

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Canon EOS 5Dmkii, Canon 50/1.4 lense, ISO100, f11, 1/160th

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38 thoughts on “Ross Bay Promise”

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  4. What an absolutely STUNNING piece, my friend! Wow, I just love the drama and tension you brought into the frame naturally through your perfect composition here! GREAT work!!

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    • Hi David. Well, the real problem is that I like the idea and came to realise that I did not like the image very much. So I should apologise to myself for lowering my guard against dross, and to all of my great viewers who are coming to expect better of me. I hate to disappoint them, or myself. Anyway, I came up with a good replacement. And, I have since taken at least one other shadow on side of house shot that is a lot better, and probably will be taking others. So the idea lives on. I really should delete that post though…

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    • Thank you so much David. I really appreciate that 🙂 I too am pleased with it. I hope to keep on getting a few good ones, here and there, and increasingly on purpose rather than by ‘feel’ if you know what I mean. Doing it with some understanding and prediction.

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    • Hi David – I am not sure how I am ending up with so much B&W in my blog of late – perhaps because the light has been so flat and I am trying to get more out of the pictures. Anyway, it will be interesting to see what you come up with.

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    • Hi Lee, welcome to my blog, its nice to have you coming by. You won’t find too many faces, or stories of people in this blog, other than a very long and drawn out story that concerns me.
      This image can evoke also the end of a paddle, kayak waiting on a receding tide to be brought safely up the beach while the tent is being set up and a campfire kindled beyond tide’s reach. And perhaps there is some seafood to go with the dried vegetables in the soup pot.

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    • Hi Maggie – I expect that the man had just that kind of day. I on the other hand came back to a nearly flat tire on the car and had to deal with that. A screw had embedded itself. Of course, the car had just been in the garage two days earlier. But the tire was fine and I was forced into a walk home that I should have been taking voluntarily, so that was good too.

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    • Thank you Lynn – this shot is much better that way in black and white, I had to adjust the sky quite heavily, and the water quite a bit too, to get the balance I was after.

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    • Hi Karen – it is. Not a sunny day, not a bright day, but the distant sky was interesting, and it has been quite warm out. This shot could be from the middle of the summer.

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    • Hi Ryan – the owner was getting stuff ready in his car. I had another view planned but he came back before I could take it. He was heading around the corner into the Inner Harbour, a few km away. He looked like he does this all the time so I did not suggest he head the other way towards Harling Point and into McNeill Bay, which is where I would have gone.

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