Street Spheres
I think you can see what caught my eye in this part of Government Street one day. But it was only just now that I noticed the small cupola in the distance, on the roof of the Empress hotel. It fits well with all the other circles, ovals and round arches.
The picture below was taken for different reasons but of the same building that has the mural above, just around the corner on Humboldt Street. In the second picture I was playing with depth of field to see how the Mamiya works. It takes a bit of adapting my thinking for larger film because even though the 80mm lens has a field of view equivalent to a 50mm lens on a 135 film camera, it is still an 80mm lens. Thus the depth of field is compressed in the same way as when using an 80mm lens on a smaller film camera (or larger one). This takes a bit of mental adjustment, but does mean a shallower depth of field is achievable with this f2.8 lens than is possible with a 50mm/f2.8 lens used on a 35mm film camera.
Embroidered Royal
A street musician on the upper causeway in Victoria’s inner harbour.
He presents as quite spiffy in his blue jacket with embroidered edges and colourful trousers.
Though if you look closely (which one doesn’t when listening to street performers) quite a few frayed edges speak a story too.
I think it is probably a hard life, even on a sunny day, to play an instrument for donations.
We chatted for a while – he is also a portrait artist. It would be interesting to see some of that work.
Bin There, Again
This was shot from the same recessed door as Bin There, but a few months later, with a different camera.
As I said in that post, this location was the entrance to my office for years, so I have been here many times.
I saw this guy coming, with the great light shining on his bottle collection, so I stepped into the doorway and waited for him to be back-lit.
This was taken with an Olympus XA2 on colour film, and converted to black and white in Lightroom 5.
Aspire
This blog has gone ecclesiastical with three church photos in a row, but not through any plan.
Wondering what to post for today, I noticed that this shot of Victoria’s Roman Catholic cathedral fit with yesterday’s quite nicely.
Fresh Squeezed
This is one of the older churches in Victoria having been built in 1876 which is pretty early for Victoria. It used to have a great deal more breathing room, but recent developments on formerly empty lots are bearing down from most angles now. Freshly squeezed church juice is unlikely to be potable, but if things continue this way soon it will be flowing along Humboldt Street.
This is shot on expired colour film – I prefer the monochrome conversion above, and for the shot around back I prefer the colour.
Cathedral Blues
Fall colours against the Anglican Cathedral in Victoria.
This film expired more than a decade ago.
I played with the colour a bit, but decided that the blue was in some ways the best part of the shot, so left it alone on the top shot and muted it a bit on the bottom one.
I like the way the leaves came out in the bottom shot, and the architectural framing in the top shot.
Coffee Culture was taken right below this spot.
Ross Bay Stroll
Some more photos from a stroll I took around Ross Bay. It is a great place for a stroll, even when lugging a large camera.
The woman below agreed that I could take her picture. I did not ask her name, but her poodle is called Murphy, and is very friendly.
The first two shots are at the east end of Ross Bay, the rest are towards the west end in the vicinity of the storm drain.
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