Quonset Destruction
This Quonset hut is suffering wanton destruction.
It feels like a bomb site.
For years it was a government building in the block behind the BC legislature.
Like many of the other buildings in this block it is now being torn down.
Mayne Island Wedding
Here are quite a few photos I took at a wedding on Mayne Island a couple of weeks ago. Made with a small point and shoot film camera.
The day after I returned from Haida Gwaii, the subject of my last post, I set off to Mayne Island for the wedding of friends. They had a designated photographer which meant, thank goodness, I did did not have to “pretend I was the wedding photographer that I do NOT want to be” (to quote Graham Lander). I have shot weddings, for friends, but have learned it is a great deal more fun if I can just take photos because I want to, or not take any at all. In this instance, I used a DSLR for most of the photos I took, and shot one roll of Fuji Superia X-TRA 400 through the Olympus mjuii at the wedding. I also finished of my roll 31 around “town” on Mayne Island and have included those shots here too. The more I use the camera, the more it impresses me. Many…
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Daisies
I found these daisies in the summer while visiting my daughter and her family in the Comox Valley area. Previously I showed a macro from this same patch of a green-eyed fly
Apache Backdrop
My granddaughter at the Comox Valley Farmers Market earlier in the summer.
She came all the way to Victoria for Thanksgiving yesterday, it was delightful to see her, and her parents.
Hlk’yah GawGa
This 52 Rolls post is from my most recent trip to Haida Gwaii, taken on some time off when we visited Windy Bay for dinner and a visit. Click through to 52 Rolls (link) to see the rest of the roll of film. It was shot on the diminutive Olympus mjuii, a camera that performs way higher than its weight class.
Roll 31 is from September when I spent a bit more than a week in Gwaii Haanas looking for and recording archaeological sites in the intertidal zone. The time was short as it was scheduled to coincide with the lowest tides possible, and typical of working with the tides, early mornings were involved. It is one of my favourite kinds of work – riding in boats and walking on beaches in very remote places with other people rarely seen.
We were based in a float camp in the Bischof Islands off the south end of Lyell Island and were invited by the Haida Watchmen to visit for dinner at Hlk’yah GawGa (Windy Bay) on the north east shore of Lyell Island – about 20 km by water. Fortunately our boat was fast, and the seas were perfectly calm. These pictures are from that evening trip – the dinner was delicious and…
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Web Masters II
Dew soaked spider webs in Beacon Hill Park.
For some reason the webs in one corner of the park were unfinished.
Were they all swept aside by dogs, or deer, at the same time and are mid-rebuild?
Or are they all siblings with a strange genetic mutation?
Back From The Road, For Now
Finally I am able to get some film up at the 52Rolls Project. Here are some shots from Quadra Island around the bunkhouse where I stayed and which contains our lab.
Well, its been 2 months since my last post, which makes this number 30, and puts me behind considerably. I will try to catch up over the next while.
During the past two months I have been in the field for 6 weeks on two different projects, writing up two others and took a road trip to give a presentation and get some rest in Portland. Another trip for this week was postponed due to weather, so I have caught my breath a bit, taken some film in for processing, and began to get caught up on all kinds of things. Anyway, those are my excuses for not posting around here, though I did warn you all! It was a big enough struggle to keep my daily blog ticking over, which has relied too heavily on phone and field point-and-shoot camera photos.
I did shoot some film while in the…
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