Ferry Riders
I went to Vancouver in September on one of those extended summer days that linger warmly in the memory part way into winter.
Since the memory is fading now, it is time to get out another one of these photos.
There can be quite a rush to get to the best spots for lounging during the ferry ride.
These guys must have hurried up from the car deck, and probably were in one of the first vehicles that got on.
I am sure they are together. Not only from their selfish occupation of several spots each, but from their shoes.
There is a motorcycle club in Victoria called the Fairy Riders – its membership is gay bikers.
I suspect the guys in this photo are garden-variety ferry riders.
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Olympus XA, f2.8/35mm lens, Fuji Superia X-Tra 400 film, scanned with Epson V700
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Hi Richard, that was a particularly annoying link you provided – the way the gallery loaded was terribly awkward, and besides which it is in that now horrible right wing rag that used to be one of the best publications in Canada, diminished to a mockery of good journalism. So, instead I pasted in the link to the image you were referring to and for some inexplicable reason it has displayed as an image rather than as a link. Must be a WP change because it has always been an involved process to make a link display as an image in the comments section. I’ll take it though, better communication.
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Alex Colville! Check out “To Prince Edward Island.”
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Hi Richard, I have long liked Colville’s paintings, though I have never really understood the urge toward photo realistic painting. Even so, there are some things for photographers to learn from it, such as the ever so careful composition. One thing I now find interesting about the paintings, at least pictures of the paintings, is that many of them have colour tones that are more like film tones and less like natural ones. I had not noticed that before I started shooting film again. I don’t think it is because they are photographed using film which has then been scanned, but I suppose many of the images might still come off of slides.
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And now their photo is all over the Internet! FOREVER! Who do these guys think they ar, Americans? Where are the Ferry Police when you need them?
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Hi Ken. I have immortalized them on their plinths, like some weird pair of statues waiting to be bronzed.
Up here we would probably substitute Albertan for American in that first question of yours.
However, about 30% of ferry traffic, at least in the nice season, is American tourists so they might actually be Americans even though September is a bit later than usual for your average tourist. Why Americans take the overpriced BC Ferries when they could get to Vancouver Island on cheaper American ferries I am never quite sure.
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Selfish gits!
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Hi Yvonne, the evidence would point in that direction, but I did not feel it at the time. Perhaps because I had a seat indoors by a window, perhaps because I was walking about with my camera looking for things to photograph.
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