Drain with Wood
This is another storm drain picture from a rainy morning two weeks ago. I love this colour of driftwood.
You can find the other storm drain pictures through this link.
Canon EOS 5Dmkii, Nikkor-N, 24mm, f2.8 lens, ISO640, ca f8, 1/200th second.
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burnt embers 
A silvery sheen –
Sky, sea, and stone: the driftwood,
A ruddy red, contrasts.
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Wow Ryan! What a lucky blog this is to be graced with one of your wonderful Haiku. And, it really does describe this scene too. Thank you so much!
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No problem! It was a beautiful shot.
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I would love to stand on the end of that ledge and inhale the infinity.
Beijing doesn’t have horizons. There are only buildings, then fog, then hills. The only time we can see more than half a mile here is when looking at the moon.
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James, your comment makes Beijing seem like a very unattractive place, at least for those of us used to horizons. I know a bit of what you speak having lived in London for 4 years, and worked in the City, and indeed spent a lot of time in excavations many metres below street level. However, on my train ride home there would often (depending on weather and route) be glimpses of the distance, along the Thames you could often get a good prospect, or from taller buildings, so it was not a relentless lack of horizon. I think I would find that quite oppressive over time.
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Actually, Beijing is a wonderful place to live! I painted it in a less-than-flattering light because (shhh…!) I’m leaving soon. I would recommend Beijing any day, and will probably come back 🙂
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Ah! I understand that. When I got mentally ready to leave London I suddenly discovered all the warts of living there. Are leaving China? Will you go somewhere with a horizon?
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Yes! The place I’m going has enormous horizons 😀
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Actually, your comment, “When I got mentally ready to leave London I suddenly discovered all the warts of living there” makes perfect sense. When I was mentally ready to leave Cambridge, all I could see were the shortcomings of the place. The gold came off everything. At the same time, I adopted an irritatingly pro-China stance on everything. It’s all just preparation for migration!
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So, you are now (irritatingly) pro-horizons, the broader the better 🙂
Careful what you wish for, you could end up on the Canadian prairies – endless horizons but seemingly endless winters to go with them.
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I may not have noticed before but the pebbles at the base have so many colors it’s amazing. I like the use of the wide angle on a vertical shot like this, it’s not seen too often.
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Hi Ken – I think the rocks must be from glacial terraces in the Sechelt area – there are huge quarries there and the importation of these rocks to this beach was a huge operation. The glacial origin would likely explain the colours as there are many different rock types in the mainland mountains.
I had not thought about vertical shots with a wide angle as being unusual, I was just shooting. But now that you mention it …
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Wonder what kind of tales the drift wood could tell!
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I often wonder how far drift wood drifts. This seems to be a local species, but one would think that sometimes we get wood drifting up from the California and Oregon coast, and possibly from Asia too, at least on the outer coasts of the northwest. The rounded and bruised form of this bit of suggests some tales of woe and agony, and perhaps memories from before the bite of the saw of happy gentle times swaying in the breeze and sipping from the soil.
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I love this “drain”. Shame it is one. Would be nicer if it was a jetty or short pier but what’s in a name? Not much when you can make it look so beautiful.
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HI Kathleen. It is used like a short pier or jetty. On nice days you often see people standing on it, walking out to the end to look over the edge. I have pictures of this, but none of them have worked out very well.
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