Kiix?in Pinnacle
A couple of days ago I made a day trip to the Bamfield area in Barkley Sound for a meeting.
Bamfield is about a 4 hour drive from Victoria, much of it over logging roads.
Our meeting was at village called Kiix?in (the ? is a glottal stop) which is a Canadian National Historic Site.
It is in the territory of the Huu-ay-aht First Nation and looks out towards the Deer Group of islands.
This photograph is from the exposed beach to the west of the site.
Canon 5Dii, 16-35mm f2.8 lens, ISO 800 – 16mm, f8, 1/2000th
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This is such a beautiful shot – I especially like the way the clouds and the white foam mirror each other.
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Thanks Melinda – it is a lovely spot that I have revisited many times over the past 30+ years. This was one of the best days I have seen in all that time, and certainly the best photos I have taken there.
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It was worth the 30 year wait!
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I guess so. One of my photos of the location, but taken from on the slope to right on the way up to the fort, ended up on the cover of a book. This one would have been better.
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Maybe you could suggest it for the second edition of the book?
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I’ll keep that in mind. It was an academic volume – I had a chapter in it about the village that is partly behind this beach – very unlikely to be reissued.
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this photo looks so much like a painting….really beautiful work! Such creativity!
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Thanks Sherry! It’s a magical place and we had great conditions for photography.
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The light in this shot made me think, for a second, that you had photographed a mural or a painting. That is just incredible. I know how hard it is to shoot some of these places – I’ve been trying since I was a kid growing up in WA State (hi, neighbour). Most of my shots turn out rubbish; I get it.
Hooray for Bamfield and environs! I wish I had known about the First Nations village before I was there as a youth – I would have been over there to ask permission to see it in about 5 seconds. You are so fortunate to have a career which lets you work in such beautiful places.
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Hi Sam, nice to hear from you again. I am very fortunate – this is one of those special places that stand out from a fairly long career – I first worked here in 1984 and have been there quite often over the years, including more great projects.
As to the technical side of things – there were very strong shadows and contrasting light in this photo – since I shoot raw files, I tried to select and exposure that would allow me to pull information out of the shadows and balance the contrasts a bit. It leaves that slight painterly feel, but is a better photo for the changes, I think.
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The clouds mirroring the shape of the rock really makes the image. Terrific.
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Thank you Jane – everything came together just right for this shot. Made all the better by a 545AM start, a four drive there, a nice hike out to the adjacent landform to do some work and then to have this as we wound up our day, prior to the four hour drive home. Makes it all worthwhile, though the rest of the time was really good too.
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Sounds like the hard work was worth the reward!
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terrific photo, the colours, the terrain, even the clouds heighten the drama.
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Thanks Val – I’m not really sure why, but I have never before managed a decent photo from this beach.
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