X Marks the Spot
I found these photos from 2011 in my archive, nearly forgotten. They are from the Chinese Cemetery on Harling Point in Victoria BC.
This is a benchmark for surveying, and the painted X is to mark the location in aerial photography to help scale or set the elevations on maps drawn from the photographs.
I have seen these in other areas, like on top of Gonzales Hill, but this one had been freshly painted when I photographed it on top of a bedrock outcrop.
You can see why I got out the camera, it is really out of place.
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Canon 5Dii, Canon 50/1.4 lens, ISO640
burnt embers 
Every one’s a winner in this set Ehpem. I particularly like the very oblique views.
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Hi Andy. It was so unexpected to come across this big X in this area that I had to work it up from all angles. I like the oblique views the best too – the ones that show (or perhaps ‘suggest’ is more accurate) a bit of the cemetery in the background.
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These are very interesting and not at all what I expected from the brief snippet I saw in the email about a “Chinese Cemetery”.
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Thanks! This is at one end of the Chinese Cemetery which is a very interesting place, and a National Historic Site. You can read more about it in my first post that involved the cemetery.
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