Sahsima Light
Sahsima the glacial erratic and transformer stone is seen in the distance and beyond is the sailboat featured a few days ago, and the more usual ship trafficking between Vancouver and China.
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Canon EOS 5Dii, Nikkor-N Auto 24mm/f2.8 lens, ISO200, 1/2,500th +/- 2.0 E.V.
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burnt embers 
Could you please tell me exactly where this photo was taken in Oak Bay? Thank you.
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Hi Deanna, and welcome to my blog. This is on Harling Point, just in front of the Chinese Cemetery. Look up Penzance Street on a map – if you drive to the SE end of Penzance there is a gate entering the cemetery – head through the gate directly to the waterfront (south) and you will arrive at this spot. Next to the gate is a cairn that explains the significance of the rock to the Songhees. If you click on my Sahsima tag above where the comments start, it will give you a list of my many blog posts about this rock, including some that describe its background.
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Great shot, I love that reflection on top of the water in the distance there!
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Thanks Toad – it was a beautiful day – very classic light for this area at certain times of day and year. I was glad to capture it.
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Gosh that is beautiful. Makes me feel very peaceful.
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Thanks Karen. It is a very peaceful spot – glad that you got a bit of that feeling from afar.
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It’s extraordinary how you continue to find new and different images of this particular stone. This is a particularly strong composition, and as others have said – it has great depth and beautiful colour.
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Thanks Andy – it is an extraordinary location that is constantly changing – I am very lucky to have this spot a few minutes walk from the house so that I can keep an eye on its moods.
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Actually, how did you get such clarity at ALL field-depths using a huge f/2.8 aperture? As oneowner says above, it looks like the aperture was absolutely tiny.
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Ahh, that aperture is a lie. The lens is an f2.8, but it is 40 years old and does not register aperture in the EXIF data, so I don’t actually know what it was shot at. Ken’s (oneowner) guess though seems about right, f-16 or so.
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Ah, I got it.
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It’s so vivid and colourful and its all in focus. It looks like a computer rendering of some mystical world! (Like those games, Myst and Riven—have you seen them?) I almost expect to be able to press the arrow keys, wade through the water onto that rock and take a closer look at the ship! 😀
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Hi James. I find it interesting that you and Ken both responded to the depth of field so positively. It tells me to think about it more often, as I have been on a shallow depth of field jag for way too long now. If you waded into that water for a closer look at anything, you would be hypothermic in a matter of minutes!
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Not if I waded virtually on a 27-inch Mac! I’d just get a message saying “that’s cold, better turn around”
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Skim boarding on a big Mac might be feasible!
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I just realised the Big Mac connotation – should have said large mac….
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I’m amazed at the depth on this one. You probably don’t get a record of the aperture in the metadata but I’ll guess at the focal length and the brightness of the day it was around f16-22.
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Hi Ken. I think it could have been f16, or maybe f12. I tend not to use f22 unless I really need to for a long exposure as the lens performs best in the f5.6/f8 to f16 range. I must have chosen just the right focal point as well, though I don’t recall what that was.
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Looks like a jewel box, Ehpem! Beautiful scene, beautiful photo.
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Thank you Lynn. A jewel box is not how I would have thought of it, but I think I see what you mean 🙂
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