Parsnip Dweller
I found this while at the kitchen cutting board a few weeks ago.
Who knew that such things live inside parsnips?
Maybe some people do know, the same ones that don’t much like to eat parsnips.
Which would explain quite a bit about that prejudice.
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By posting this image I am trying to discover its merit. I have this feeling that I like it, but why?
I don’t expect you to answer – the answer is likely to come by seeing it around on my blog for a few days.
Or perhaps it won’t.
Jutland Snippets II
The past while I have posted the occasional shot from the redeveloped industrial land on the Jutland Road waterfront of Victoria’s Inner Harbour.
All those pictures were taken with my back turned towards today’s pictures. This metal recycling operation is right across the mouth of Rock Bay from the new shiny buildings and walkways. It needs to be on the waterfront as the scrap metal is recycled off Vancouver Island, and is shipped there by barge. They have cleared some of the vegetation against the retaining wall which has uncovered what appears to be quite old graffiti, probably protected from subsequent tagging by blackberry canes for the past decade or so.
Ironically many of the government workers in the new buildings with a view of this yard work for the Ministry of Environment.
Lucky Thirteen
Here is my post about this week’s roll of film in the 52 Rolls project. I am all caught up now, I think.
So far this week I have shot 5 rolls – 4 at a concert. Not sure when I will get them back, but am anxious to see how they came out in those difficult conditions.
I am not a superstitious person, so the thirteenth roll is not giving me the tiniest frisson of fear. Indeed, I got married on the thirteenth 30 years ago; that worked out pretty well.
This roll has a variety of stuff on it. I have pulled out just the storm drain photos which is my favourite single subject for photography, and a couple of architectural shots. The storm drain has many faces, and can be difficult to photograph well, especially if it has people on it, so it keeps me coming back for more. If you want to see more of my photographs from here in all kinds of weather and lighting then check out this link which lists all the posts in my blog which document my efforts to keep track of the personae.
The bigger challenge this week was the film colour. I shot this with a Mamiya M645 Super using a…
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Drain Guys
I seem to be on a bit of a roll lately with storm drain photos. Just making up for a quite a long time when it was neglected.
These three guys were hanging out drinking coffee before heading off to a class.
One of them was quite interested in my spot meter and how it worked.
I think maybe he was just trying not to be too aggressive when finding out why I had taken a picture.
There is no hiding the shutter sound of the Mamiya, even at a distance!
Another of them had a terrific tattoo all the way up the back of his neck and over the top of his head.
I had just shot the last frame or would have asked to take a picture of the pack of his head. He looked a lot as if he would say no.
View Towers Testing Ground
Yashica Electro 35GS, 45mm/f1.7 lens, Kodak Gold 400 (expired 1990s), Sept 2014
I find that when I am testing a new camera I gravitate to a few spots over and over. One of those places is this HVAC system on the side of View Towers in Victoria. I came across it while shooting a second roll through my Olympus Pen – that was the roll of film that got me going on film photography again after years away. So perhaps it is for sentimental reasons I come back here, but also because now I have a collection of such shots and it can be useful to compare them. Even if the lighting is different each time I visit, and the film is different too, I always focus on the same spot (more or less) and so it does give some useful information. Besides which, I like the shot.
Today’s post has shots from eight cameras, 6 types of film and includes one with my DSLR by way of comparison. Some of the ones in the gallery have been posted before, but most of these have just been sitting in my archive. I probably have more, but the computer gods took away my LR5 catalogue, and all the backups too, at least back to August 2014, so searching is more labour intensive.
Cameras included here are
- Canon 5Dii (digital, as a standard comparison point)
- Canon Sure Shot AF35Mii (Autoboy 2)
- Mamiya M645 Super
- Olympus Pen Half-frame (for the setting, not comparable point of view)
- Olympus XA
- Olympus 35RC
- Yashica Electro 35GS
- Yashica AF-M ii
Film used includes:
- Fuji Superia 200
- Fuji Superia X-TRA 400, expired 2004
- Fuji Superia X-TRA 400 (new)
- Ilford Pan F Plus, ISO50
- Kodak Gold 400 (expired 1990s)
- Kodak Portra 160VC (expired)
- LomoChrome Purple, ISO400
I think my favourites are taken with the Olympus XA and Yashica Electro. I love the optics of both those cameras, and they make very nice exposures too.
New Jutland II
Some more from the Jutland Road development on the Victoria’s Inner Harbour.
This is the same building as in New Jutland, on the same day, but with different film and better light.
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