Wall 51
Another set from the Royal Roads University garden – the wall on the right is one side of a small shed which has the doors in its opposite wall, as seen in yesterday’s post.
If you ask me what the number is for, I won’t be able to even guess. I saw no other numbers or sheds – let alone 50 others. Maybe it has no meaning but was provided for photographers pleasure. Likewise, I have no idea about the chimney – incinerator for infected plants, or garbage? A kiln? And why did the shed have a low window in it. One with a granite window sill. Looking at the bottom photo there are hints of granite (or other) blocks beneath the stucco, which is suggested also for the shed with its heavy sill. And the lower wall is topped with a granite cap.
No messing around for these guys – you will see in a future post that the house built to go with these garden sheds has absolutely no room for trivial corner cutting.
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Canon EOS 5D MkII, Canon EF 100mm/f2.8 macro lens, ISO1250, f2.8, 1/1000th (top), 1/1250th (middle), 1/200th (bottom), all HDR processed from three +/- E.V. images.
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I would have loved to join you and the Toad on this outing. So much fun and a creative outlet as well. Toad Hollow has an excellent site with great photography and a good knowledge of history.
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Totally agree on the Toad Hollow observations Ken. As it happens, we just this afternoon spent a couple of hours with both Toads – we met up at the grand opening of a historical house that has been undergoing the most painstaking restoration for 13 years now. Down to hand painting replacement wall paper, special ordering carpet, reproducing by hand the painted flooring – a precursor to lino done on canvas, all to period correctness (1860s). It was fun to see them and we had a bit of a wander in Ross Bay Cemetery across the street as well. Not to take pictures per se, but to check out an interesting grave site the story of which is fascinating Mrs. Toad at the moment. They are both history buffs, which makes a great combination with his love of old buildings and things.
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This is a link about Toad Hollow and the Ross Bay Villa where we all met today (and last year as well, for the first time).
http://blog.conservancy.bc.ca/2012/06/toad-hollow-photography-visits-ross-bay-villa/
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Very interesting observations…you now have a quest to find out the answers!
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Thank you David! The problem is that it is about an hour drive from my home, and they expect a fee be paid to enter the gardens, in the high season anyway. I should go back in the fall when I don’t have to pay to enter, and poke around back a bit more. I really liked this bit of the garden as it is a lot more rustic than most of it, and interesting to the lens, my lens anyway.
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Interesting questions! I love the texture in the last image, looks like you had a good time at the campus. 🙂
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Thanks David. I did have a good time – I was with the Toad, of ToadHollowPhoto fame, and we pretty much stuck to the area around the mansion that eventually became a University building, and the Japanese garden left over from the mansion days of many decades before. It was a rare treat to get out with another photographer, something I have almost never done, and so far only with Toad.
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