Island View Pink
Back to my recent trip to Island View Beach. One of the more poignant observations of that visit were the carnations floating along the water’s edge. What the story might be I can only imagine.
My imagination initially supposes a tragic story of a drowning memorialized, or of ashes recently spread. But for all I know it was a lover’s tiff or a drunk, careless of their lover’s affections.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 100mm/f2.8 macro lens, ISO100, f2.8, 1/1600th, except middle image ISO400, f 2.8, 1/3200th.
burnt embers 
Beautiful.
David.
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Hi David. Thanks so much. That mountain calls gently to us Islanders all the time, but I have only been to visit a couple of times. The glaciers are true awesome, in the old sense of the word and a pretty easy hike to reach some of them too. Of course there are some very challenging climbs to be had there as well.
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How poignant, Ehpem! I love a little mystery to a story, and quite honestly your photos here really deliver on that as well as a little romantic tension.
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I celebrated my high school play party on this beach – I remember nothing romantic about it, but some tension for sure. I think a teacher had to haul my sodden self out of the water’s edge. Not sure how I got there though….
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Beautifully composed and elegantly simple
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Hi Andy and thanks for your compliment. Does that view of Mt. Baker give you itchy climbers feet?
It is about 120km distant, so that gives you some idea of how tall it is (3286m – not actually very tall, except it rises from near sea level) and it is covered with glaciers (1.79 km3 of ice!) and has huge annual snowfalls some years (1999 = 2,900cm). It is always white from a distance. And, it’s an active volcano, in a the same geographical series as Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Rainier, Mt. Shasta and many others.
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These are so sad, so lovely.
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Thank you Melinda.
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Muy buenas imágenes.
La segunda, personalmente, me parece excepcional.
Un saludo
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Thank you so much! Me gusta la segunda (thanks to my partner for translating).
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Son tan hermosas. Me encantan tus fotografías. Son de una calidad excepcional.
Mi más sincera enhorabuena
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¡Muchas gracias
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Interesting, poignant images.
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Thank you Karen
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Now there is a sight you don’t often see. Makes for good photography, no matter what the story.
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Thanks Ken – I wonder if it is more common than we know. People leave flowers beside the highway all the time, I could see them putting them in the ocean, river or a lake quite often too, for similar reasons. Still, they don’t collect in one place like the roadside shrines, so we are not too likely to see them.
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My goodness – it does leave you wondering…
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And the possibilities are so many and so broad that there really is no likely answer.
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very nice photos 😀
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Thanks Bosstiger – welcome to my blog, nice to have you here, and commenting.
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you ‘ve got great pics, keep up that way, i’ve got a photoblog too, http://supersteadyshot.wordpress.com, would you visit it and tell me your opinion, it’s fresh, just started 😀
Have a nice day 😀
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Hi – I did go and have a look a couple of times. I love the vibrant lush greens in so many of your photos – I hope you keep on posting, and photographing.
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