Rose Harbour B&W
I have previously posted about the evening we spent at Rose Harbour across the water from our cabin. Those posts highlighted the spectacular colours that came with the sunset. This post is more about the textures I saw around Rose Harbour, often emphasised by the strong evening light. The shed above did have a red door knob – this is processed using a “focal black&white” filter narrowed in to just the red bit.
Everywhere the whaling station is rotting back into nature. The Rose Harbour inhabitants are gently hastening the process by recycling bits into their sheds, buildings and floors, by re-contouring parts of the land for gardens and lawns and by leaving the rest to nature. An organic process is every sense of the word.
For other views of the rusty equipment lying around the site, see the post of Tansy inspecting it at the Quimper Hittys post, Whaling Station.
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- Rust streaks on try-pots
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- Try-pot roof rivets
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- A Riveting landscape
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- Try-pot bracket
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- Are those bearings?
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- Becoming one with the beach
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- ART. The art of rendering?
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- Dock remnants
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- Dock supports
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- I bet this drum winched whales up ramps
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- Boiler firebox?
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- Boilers, I think.
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- Susan’s
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- Susan’s – she made a wonderful meal
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- Headland house
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- Shed in mossy field
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- Shed with snow shovel
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- Red door knob on shed with chair
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This link catalogues my posts about volunteering on the Kilgii Gwaay archaeological site project.
Canon 5Dii, Canon 50mm/f1.4 lens, Nikkor-N 24mm/f2.8 lens. For the latter lens, the EXIF data in the gallery view is incorrect for aperture as the camera cannot record it for the adapted manual lens.
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Amazing series. You’ve captured some wonderful contrast and texture in these images.
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Thank you Ryan. Sometimes it hard to abandon such rich colours (especially in the try-pots), but its often worth a try.
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Well they look just as amazing in monochrome. 🙂
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Wow. Wow. Wow. I really really want to visit this place! I am blown away at the rich drama you’ve been able to capture in this set, the B&W really adds a lot to this. Really great work here, Ehpem. This is really one of those very special places on earth that is full of dichotomies and things of interest. Thanks for capturing and sharing these, it’s really been a highlight for me the last couple week in following along with you here!
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Thank you so much Toad. It is one of those beautiful corners of British Columbia. I like the dichotomies too – people come here for the natural beauty and are surprised by this kind of thing I think. I was anyway. I am nearly done this series from Gwaii Haanas, just a few more posts. And not a lot of pictures taken since then that I can show, at least at this time, so I am going to be scrambling a bit.
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Oh, I’m a sucker for texture and these photos have it! Love the shed with shovel photo; we had an old spring house on my family’s farm that looked very much like this and I constantly photographed it in black and white. Brings back memories 🙂
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Hi Lynn – it is very satisfying to find my photos provoke memories like this. Thanks for your comment 🙂
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Thanks Ken. Interesting choices of image, as I would have guessed they would be further down most peoples list. It makes me look at them again, differently.
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Another great series. I’ll pick the “BOILER FIREBOX?” and “Dock supports” as my favorite. I sort of like the man made object and nature coexisting together theme. Very nice.
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