Headland Diptych
I like how the in-camera diptych has changed this linear shoreline in front of Beacon Hill Park into a closed bay. On the left to the east is Clover Point, on the right is Finlayson Point. This image is taken looking from the same location on the Beacon Hill stairs that I have featured quite often around here.
This is perhaps not the best exposure but it does accentuate the transformed shape of the water. The weather was downright lousy – raining and strongly overcast in early January – and even though I had the lens wide open and used the shortest shutter speed I was beyond the exposure range of the Olympus Pen. I think it gives an antique snap shot-y feel to the photograph, which this camera model must often have produced in its heyday, and I like that about it. Nothing about this photo asserts digital sensor or high tech.
This is more from my series of half-frame photos from the Olympus Pen. These are all adjacent shots on the film-strip, taken multiple frames in order to scan as single images. Click on the photo to see it much larger.
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Olympus Pen, half-frame camera, Efke KB50, ISO50, 1/50th, ~f3.5
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burnt embers 
Came across your site quite by chance, your work with the Pen is very interesting and this one is really quite stunning, might inspire me to drag mine out of the cupboard!
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HI Piers – thanks so much for dropping by and commenting. I have been enjoying the Pen a lot – it has cranked up my creative juices in many unexpected ways. And it is such a basic and simple device compared to my DSLR that it feels like a whole different photography. The cupboard is not the best place for a Pen in my current opinion 🙂
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I have noticed before that lousy weather can make a photograph better (compared to the nice sunny day). This may be the best diptych so far, or at least my favorite.
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Hi Ken. Thanks so much. I keep on being drawn to this one and then wondering with the imperfections if it is presentable, so nice to have some confirmation that it is!
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