Snowy Lane
Another shot from Quadra Island last week. It snowed for a few days, though this is the morning after the first day of snow. Eventually the trees started losing branches under the weight of snow, and with them went the power, and thus the water as we were on a deep well, and the heat, and wifi. Which put a crimp in our work. But, shortly after that, it warmed up enough for the roads to clear and I could leave for home.
These were all taken as I walked from my sleeping accommodation to the space we were using as an office. It is a truly lovely place, in all seasons. I will be spending a few weeks here in the summer conducting field work as part of a research project. I am really looking forward to that.
I did take a fliptych of this scene, but the single frame works much better.
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This continue my series of half-frame photos from the Olympus Pen. I am still feeling a bit under the weather, but hope to get to my backlog of comments, and blog viewing very soon.
Olympus Pen half-frame camera, 28mm 3.5 lens, Rollei Superpan 200 film, Gossen Luna-Pro lightmeter.
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burnt embers 
Quadra evidently looked a lot like Gabriola and had the same kind of damage. I took a look at the power outage map at one point after we lost power but before we lost wifi, and as far as I could see all of the Gulf Islands were out. Quite the snow experience!
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Hi Skadu. It was quite the experience. I would have missed it at my home in Victoria as there was little down on the most southerly end, but Quadra was well blanketed, with pretty much continuous and heavy snowfall for three days or so which prevented effective road clearing, and gave us many small power outages before they accumulated and were were stuck without for a couple of days.
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That really has a fairy-tale look about it. Takes ma way back to childhood – the wonder of new snow, untouched and delicately hanging there. Great image, Ehpem
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Thank you Andy. Mostly it was delicately hanging, but every now and then a branch, usually high up, let loose a load of snow which often caused a mini avalanche as it past over other branches. I was clobbered a few times!
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This reminds me of some classic Josef Scaylea shots from when I was a kid. So quintessentially west-coast. Love it.
That PEN camera is a truly versatile tool. I never used one but I did borrow a friend’s Rollei for the summer once.
Could you possibly post the same shot in the summer? That would make an excellent contrast…
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Hi Sam. I had not heard of Josef Scaylea before you mentioned him. His work can be found here, for instance. Fine company to be place with – thanks so much!
I have a hankering for a Rollei 35S – talk about pocket-sized film camera. And so beautifully engineered. Though I am getting spoiled by the half-frame format and getting so much bang for the film buck.
I will be back there in the summer, probably walking this path several times a week, so I will try to remember to reshoot this location. It would be an interesting contrast. You would like this place, it is an emerging mini version of Friday Harbor, privately owned and operated by a foundation interested in researching past and present environments in the area. I am very lucky to be part of the research.
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