St. Mary’s Ecumenical Church
Another photograph from Port Renfrew from a couple of years ago.
This church is a traveller and a bit lost now, I think.
Probably it is looking for its cemetery, which can be found here.
It was originally built in 1874 at Somenos on the other side of Vancouver Island then suffered a bad fire and was rebuilt in 1909.
The church abandoned its cemetery to a lonely existence when it moved to Port Renfrew in 1970.
In its new home it became a joint operation of the Anglican, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian and United Ministries.
I don’t suppose it sees a lot of use these days, but it will be jumping in a couple of weeks as one of the venues for the Song and Surf Music Festival.
Barnacle Haven
These barnacles at Botanical Beach have found a place to hang on for dear life.
Big waves scour this bedrock at higher tides, and most of the sea life is confined to tide pools, usually bigger ones than this.
Ice Map
Another photograph taken in Port Renfrew two years ago.
It was cold on that trip. The puddles were frozen.
Using a Pentax Espio 738G: from 52Rolls
Last year I reblogged my 52Rolls.net posts but the settings have changed and I can’t do that anymore, so I am republishing the first part. To see the full post with my nosy interpretation of the found photos that were in the camera click here.
This roll of film was a case of “using” rather than “testing” as I did not put the camera through its paces very thoroughly. I tend to shy away from zoom lens point and shoot film cameras. They have very slow lenses and usually not great optics as well, especially when zoomed. However, I came across three cheap point and shoot cameras, all with film still in them, and two of them with working batteries. So, I bought all three because of the allure of the exposed film, and because the amount I paid would be about what the film cost, if there were a full roll. One of the cameras has an expensive battery in it too. This camera is the Pentax Espio 738G which came out in about 1998. The lens is a 38-70mm f/4.8-8.5 and apparently made by Pentax. I won’t go into much more detail than that – you can find all the specs you would ever care for at this link, and a bunch of others you probably don’t ever want to read. (more…)
Birthday Balloons
When my granddaughter and her parents visited for her third birthday a couple of weeks ago I shot some film with a camera I was “testing”. All of the photos I took with that camera were of her and her dad blowing up balloons, and occasionally letting one fly around the room. My most favourite is the one above – such concentration and anticipation, and so much hard work by her dad.
The rest of the images from that roll are presented as my fourth roll of 2016 over at 52 Rolls in a post called Using a Pentax Espio 738G that has been published at the same time as this one. About half the roll are exposures already taken on the film that was still in the camera when I bought it.
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