Evening Sahsima
Yet another face of the multiple personalities of Sahsima, the transformer stone on Harling Point, this one during a spring sunset. It is also known as Harpoon Rock, and the Songhees story that goes with this place has been recounted in earlier posts.
I took the brackets that go into these images in mid-March. Not sure why I was bracketing (manually), other than that it was a tricky lighting situation and I was probably covering the bases. These are a rare appearance of my vintage 35mm Takumar lens which has been with me for 35 years or so (and I think was used when I purchased it).
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Canon EOS 5Dii, SMC Takumar 35mm/f3.5 m42 lens, ISO100. Top: 5 brackets at 1/40th, 1/100th, 1/125th, 1/160th, 1/200th. Bottom: 4 brackets at 1/40th, 1/60th, 1/80th, 1/100th , handheld.
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burnt embers 
Wonderful light!
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Thanks! It is perfectly situated to catch the sunset at almost all times of the year. And sunrise for part as well.
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There is some awesome natural light at work in these shots, Ehpem! Love the way it brings out the colors and tones in the shot, and how it gives everything a bit of depth and scale. Wonderful photos here!
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Thank you. I wish we had evenings like this all the time, or at least all the time that I have camera in hand and time to take pictures.
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As the Transformer
Stone, I strive to weather change:
Grace and constancy.
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Hi Ryan – that is a terrific play on words – weather change – as if withstanding weather and controlling it too. It is interesting to think of this rock here for 10 or 15,000 years, sometimes inland, sometimes deep underwater as sea level has fluctuated during the Holocene. And yet I doubt that it’s general form has changed much at all. Thank you for your contribution 🙂
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Yes, lovely warm light. Beautiful.
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Thank you Karen!
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Gorgeous as always.
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Thank you James!
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I like the rich look of the light in these shots – particularly how the light brings out the copper colors.
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Thank you Melinda. This place is quite magical when the light is like this. Copper is the perfect descriptor too.
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Beautiful light on the stone. Looks like you were there at the perfect time!
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Thank you Howard. As someone newer to my blog, you might not have noticed yet that this stone is only a block from my house so I am down there quite often, and am getting to really know what light suits it well. The orange lichen (and whitish granite) combine so well with the orange light of sunset – it really makes the stone glow.
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The light is perfect in that first shot and it looks pin sharp. Some of those old lenses were way ahead of their time.
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Thanks Andy, this vintage of Takumar lens is really very satisfactory with great optics and very good coatings. And it is very satisfying to marry them up with an adapter with chip so that it gives focus confirm, something they never did on the Spotmatic and increasingly needed with my declining eyesight. I only wish this lens was a stop (or two) faster – I would be using it all the time.
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Fantastic lighting – the wide landscape is spectacular, Ehpem! I have always loved catching those shots with dark skies and brilliant lighting, makes for great drama.
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Thanks Lynn – the low evening light really picks out this stone. Perhaps one of the reasons it has such an important story associated with it as it must be visible from miles away when at sea. The HDR has made the clouds a bit softer than they actually were, I suppose they were moving pretty quickly.
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It’s interesting how the stone picks up the light and just seems to glow. The 35mm Takumar is tack sharp on the Canon. You were so lucky to find converters to work well with the old glass which is, as far as sharpness is concerned, at least as good as some newer lenses.
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Thanks Ken. I had to file a sliver off the rear element housing so it did not catch the 5Dii mirror on the way down – it went up fine, but when fully retracted hung up the mirror. It is brass under the black coating. It was a tricky job to do that without getting filings into the guts of the lens. They are a bit slow those lenses (I actually have two of them, got one with a used body once) but optically they are nice lenses. Very small too.
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