Tomato Grid
Once again the Moss Street Market is open every Saturday.
The camera was with me, but I took almost no pictures.
However, fresh locally grown tomatoes are eye-catching and make nice patterns.
This group of six punnets gives us some variations on a theme.
The colour is pretty nice, but I like the smooth tones in monochrome too.
Sticks on the Path
Even though Melinda has fled to Texas, I am still posting shots from Point No Point.
Explaining why I like this one is going to fall on deaf ears.
Unless you have walked a lot in the temperate rainforest where there are always sticks on the path.
But then you won’t need an explanation.
So I won’t waste my breath.
Happy Birthday
It’s my mum’s birthday today! She lives northward of this location about 20 miles.
And it is Melinda’s turn to write about our collaboration today; this is the last one we have planned.
Melinda’s photo is the one above, mine is below and here are Melinda’s words from her co-post:
“Today marks the last post in the current collaboration between Ehpem and me, and it seemed fitting to end with the storm drain, because that’s where it all started.
“If you follow Ehpem’s blog (and if you don’t, you really need to!), you’ll know that he has a strong attachment to a certain storm drain. There was one particular storm drain photo that he posted, in the fall of 2012, that I liked. I liked it a lot. I liked it so much that even a week or so after it had been published, I was still thinking about it. I put a comment on Ehpem’s blog, asking if he’d be willing to sell me a print. He replied right away, and soon a great email friendship developed.
“We have many things in common, and enough differences to make it interesting. I’ve been lucky enough to have visited Ehpem and his family two times, and we have as much fun in person as we do in our emails. Who would have thought any of this could happen from a couple of photography blogs? Certainly not either of us.
“And that photo I wanted to purchase? It’s on my wall, along with a couple of other prints of Ehpem’s. (Collecting art was also not anything I initially anticipated from writing a blog.)
“Both of my visits to Victoria started with a stop at the storm drain; on my most recent visit, we went there at least one time every day. And I can see why it’s such a captivating subject: it looks different every time.
“And, not only does the drain-to-ocean view warrant a photo, so does the drain-to-city view”.
Red Railings
Our collaboration continues apace with my image above, and Melinda’s below; her co-post can be found here.
This bridge is built on top of a very large log. I wonder how they got the log across the gap. Perhaps a tsunami dropped it there long ago. What will the resort do when it needs replacing?
This is a lovely spot and the bridge, which has bright red railings, unexpectedly adds to the beauty. Perversely we both chose to process our photographs in black and white.
Lacking a very wide-angle lens and space to back up for an equivalent look, Melinda chose to emphasis the spider-like pattern of the bridge railings. From her point of view it is creepy to walk into that embrace.
I think these two photos are an excellent example of collaboration. They emphasize quite different aspects of the scene and do so in a way that enhances one another.
Ogden Point Breakwater
Post 21 at 52Rolls includes quite a few pictures I took on film while out and about with Melinda.
I am slowly getting back in sync here. Quite a while ago now I posted a polaroid out of sequence to mark world pinhole day. One of the shots on today’s roll 20 was taken at the same time of the same subject, and was the beginning of this roll of film. This roll also overlapped with the one posted last week from a different camera, and continued beyond that time. I have been experimenting with my Canon SLR (Elan 7N/33V) and various lenses, some that I own and some that I have borrowed. Today’s shots are taken with an EF 16-35mm f2.8 L and an EF 50/1.4 using Fuji Superia 200. More will appear in future posts from other lenses.
Most of today’s photographs were taken during a visit from Texas photographer Melinda Green Harvey that I mentioned in my last post. We are just wrapping up our co-posts from that experience that…
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Far Sighted Dining
Melinda and I are back at Point No Point with this ongoing series. Her photo is the one above, mine is below and her co-post is here. Once again it is her turn to say something, and she says it all:
“Remember the other day when I said that Ehpem and I would point out things that the other may have missed in our recent photographic wanderings?This is an example – I pointed out this dining room scene to Ehpem. But that was after his spouse had pointed it out to me.
“We spent one night at the Point No Point Resort; it was a great place and all of us would not have minded a longer stay. Our cabin had views of the ocean and distant headlands, a hot tub on the deck, a fireplace. And there were trails down to the ocean.
“And the dining room had spectacular views, and binoculars to bring those views closer. How can you not like a place that includes binoculars as part of the regular place settings?”
Compare and Contrast
My collaboration with Melinda continues with golden views to the western horizon. My photo is the one below, Melinda’s above and her co-post is here.
It was inevitable, if this series went on long enough, that I would end up blown out of the water, or perhaps a better cliché would be blown sky-high. And to add irony to injury, she does it using colour.
I did take digital colour photographs of this sunset but I became wrapped up in catching some golden light on the beach below, and the photos did not work out all that well.
The picture I include here is from a point and shoot film camera. It does show the setting from which Melinda was shooting, including that we were at the top of a bluff above the ocean. She had burrowed into that fringe of vegetation right to the edge of the cliff like she had grown up in these parts.
Even though the thick shrubbery was cloying and excessively damp by Texas standards, she managed to stay on point and capture this great shot. Given that we were standing on Point No Point that is quite something.
But then that’s Melinda for you.
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