Seaweed Dawn
Yesterday’s post Kunghit Dawn generated a comment from Ken (Oneowner) about the colour of the seaweed in the foreground distracting from the reflection of dawn-lit trees. I had to agree, and had not really noticed because I took that picture while also taking a series of the Fucus seaweed (bladderwrack) lit by the early morning sun. That prompted today’s post which shows some of those images taken for their yellow lit seaweed foregrounds, or for strips of yellow seaweed in the middle distance. Some of these look interesting in b&w too, so I might get around to posting other versions at some point.
These pictures are all taken on the south side of Kilgii Gwaay from either end of the archaeological site. The boat was anchored and tied off to shore on those days we used it to get to the site – the last several days we walked as keeping an eye on the boat as the tide fell, and rose again, was distracting. If the boat is in the picture, then in the background is Rose Harbour.
To my Canadian readers – Happy Canada Day!
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- Seaweed Dawn 8 to ESE, distant strips
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- Seaweed Dawn 7 to ESE
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- Seaweed Dawn 6 to southeast
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- Seaweed Dawn 5 to ESE
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- Seaweed Dawn 4 to ESE
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- Seaweed Dawn 3 to west
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- Seaweed Dawn 2 to west
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- Seaweed Dawn 1 to WSW
This link catalogues my posts about volunteering on the Kilgii Gwaay archaeological site project.
Tansy, one of the Quimper Hittys came along and has blogged about the trip from a doll’s view and you can find those posts here while this post has close-ups of Fucus.
Canon 5Dii, Nikkor-N (pre-ai) 24mm/f2.8 lens (one shot is with Canon 50mm/f1.4 and ISO640), ISO800, various speeds up to 1/8000th, aperture unknown (EXIF data does not record with adapter of manual lens, so ignore what it says in the gallery).
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Whenever I see your amazing shots I am reminded of a research essay my daughter did recently about the Enbridge Northern Pipeline and i feel your photos accentuate the reason we need to protect our west coast. So gorgeous.
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Paula – you reflect exactly the sentiments of the Haida and other residents of this coastal area. I was amazed at the breadth and depth of feeling about the proposed pipeline and related marine traffic on the islands and have a post planned to show that feeling a bit. I was amazed not because I did not expect the anger and outrage, but because everyone seems to share the feelings including the traditionally anti-environmentalist crowd. I suspect that the politicians have not really clued in yet, or if they have there is a cynical calculation of votes on a remote coastal area versus in the more populous oil producing regions to the east. I also have a post coming up on the intertidal species in front of the site – just the quickly observed and photogenic ones like starfish.
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I look forward to those posts and I will pass them to my daughter.
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Fantastic shots!
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Thanks so much Helen. This stuff is extremely tricky to navigate across – very slippery. But it sure glows on the beaches.
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