Garden Centre
More from a test series I have been taking with a new work camera. These were all shot at the Garden Works gardening store in the Blenkinsop Valley. I am liking how this camera performs.
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Primary Columns
I thought this was a strange coincidence in my day yesterday. The top photo was taken in the morning at a garden centre. The bottom one was taken at lunch time downtown.
I was testing an Olympus OM-D E-M1 which has been purchased by my employer as a project camera for the summer and coming years of field work. It is a micro 4/3’s camera, fresh out of the box, with a very nice zoom lens. The lens is an Olympus f2.8, 12-40mm, though when accounting for the smaller sensor size, this is equivalent to f5.6 and 24-80mm on a full frame camera. Which I guess is why the micro 4/3’s lenses frequently come in speeds that seem extremely fast, like f0.95, but which in fact are not as fast as they seem.
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Trackless
A few weeks ago I stayed in Tofino on a job. I was at a perfectly located hotel on Mackenzie Beach; the view from my room can be seen in this post. I had little chance to get out and take photos, but did venture onto the beach for a few minutes. It is heavily used and much of it has been tracked across since the last really high tide. I prefer the patches without footprints, though the prints do have a certain interest.
X Marks the Spot
I found these photos from 2011 in my archive, nearly forgotten. They are from the Chinese Cemetery on Harling Point in Victoria BC.
This is a benchmark for surveying, and the painted X is to mark the location in aerial photography to help scale or set the elevations on maps drawn from the photographs.
I have seen these in other areas, like on top of Gonzales Hill, but this one had been freshly painted when I photographed it on top of a bedrock outcrop.
You can see why I got out the camera, it is really out of place.
Shadow of Pine
Back to the shadows at the Gonzales Hill Observatory. I think the tree in question is a pine, but it could well be a Douglas fir. Either way, it throws a nice shadow.
I prefer the black and white version for the boldness of the shadow, and the depth and layering as if the shadow is in 3-D. But the colour has quite a bit going for it as well.
Waiting Room
Yesterday I spent some time waiting to give samples for my annual doctor’s tests. The waiting area was unusually empty.
Except for chairs, of which there were many. Usually there seem too few, and I am not sure how that works – I know chairs have legs, but do they use them to get out for a break?
The photos on the wall are OK, though I think I could have taken them and that makes me think the office could have tried a bit harder.
I took this picture with my phone to post in a square format on another platform, which I did. But it works better in the original long format.
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