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Early last week I went to Port Renfrew on the west coast of Vancouver Island with my son, just to hang out for a couple of days. Here he is passing beneath the bridge I was walking over.
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Canon 5Dii, Nikkor-N Auto 24mm f2.8 lens, ISO400, f7/1, top: 1/1600th, bottom: 1/1000th.
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Nice angle and great colors.
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Thanks Joseph. To find colours like that in February in this area is always a treat. I liked the angle of the canoe in this shot the best of the 6 or 7 I took.
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These are both very nice. I like the tropical color of the water combined with the gloved hands!
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Good observation. Later on this day I stopped to photo a chair, with you in mind as it happens and for some reason, while he did his best to break through the ice on puddles. Not at all easy. By now those puddles are probably frozen solid.
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A chair, you say? Will it be on the blog soon?
My mind wants to think that it was warm/hot in these photos because of the color of the water; it’s hard to believe otherwise. (My mind can be VERY stubborn.)
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The chair will make an appearance. And it is really a very hot chair, on the cold frozen ground, so your stubborn mind will have (yet) another reason to dig its heels in.
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Ha! Ha! As if it needed (yet another) reason!
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Hot chair? Cold ground? I’m intrigued….
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Amazing image. I love the aerial perspective.
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Thank you Ryan! I do too. It is a very nice spot. There is a beach nearby with amazing tidepools at the foot of a cliff but the tides were not cooperative while we were there, so I will have to revisit some time.
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Sounds delightful enough to deserve revisiting.
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It is. Indeed, he is back out there for this past weekend, playing at a music festival, but often goes to stay at his friends’ cabin on the beach.
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These show a very nice vantage point on your son. And I love the shade of green in the water. We usually don’t see that around here, especially this time of year.
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Hi Ken. This bridge is over the mouth of the estuary and is mostly salt water at this point. The colour probably comes from the sand reflecting the sunny blue sky. I knew this shot was going to work out well and called my son over to pass beneath me – one of those views that once imagined are dead certain to work (barring technical glitches).
Wonderful weather the past week, but cold. For the first time in as along as I can remember (decades) I was able to walk over a creek (I am not a habitual walker-on-water type) which was a good thing as I had left my rubber boots in the car. Perfect weather for getting back into a bit of field work of the looking around variety in preparation for some research I will be doing later this year, especially since I was in an area north of here that is notoriously wet at this time of year.
The Hittys, who agree that I may live among them (so long as I behave myself), posted a shot today of an iced-up fountain in Victoria, by way of illustration of what is for us unusual weather (http://wp.me/p1VTqd-1SO).
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The first photograph is wonderful because of all the lines, detail and texture, the second of almost tilt-shift, excellent perspective.
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Hi Victor – thanks for the comments! I had not thought about the tilt-shift comparison but now that you mention it I think that is probably what appeals to me about the shot.
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Wonderful viewpoint, I like this very much! Adrian
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Thank you Adrian, and welcome to my blog. It is great to have you visit and bring your blog to my attention – some very nice photos there.
What I especially like about about this view is the sympathetic colours of the treated bridge timbers and the water. I did very little to this shot other than to crop out some noisesome bits of bridge abutment on both sides of the canoe.
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