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During my first visit to Quadra Island of this year, I dropped by the extraordinary dwelling of local artist Paul Bishop. One could spend hours with a camera here. For instance, this installation of typewriters is in the centre of the driveway where it loops in front of the house. There are many other interesting things around his place, but I felt a bit self conscious blazing away. He said I could post these pictures, for which I am grateful.
As soon as I saw these typewriters, I was reminded of the barbie doll exhibition in Fairfield, Victoria that I posted about (here) a couple of years ago. That post still gets views, partly because it is barbies, and partly because it is interesting, eccentric (in the literal meaning of the word) and thought provoking too. Paul’s typewriters are all of these things and would likely rest very comfortably under the barbie tree.
I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. I had poor light to photograph them so I had to push the processing a bit, but you will get the idea I think.
Horizon(tal) Fliptych III
This is part of the Horizon(tal) series. Generally, the series combines my exploration of Fliptychs with the stark winter water.
This shot has the mountains too, which add a bit of complexity. And the light leak adds a bit of interest as well.
View Towers Burns
Frequent visitors to this blog will have seen that I have a bit of a thing about photographing the View Towers building (click here for the others). On Wednesday evening I experimented with my phone camera panorama feature to try to get a shot that imparted the feel of the building looming (see below) over the bus stop I used to wait at nearly every day. On Thursday morning (yesterday) the other side of the building was on fire. Fortunately there were no serious injuries – 1 resident and 4 (or 6, reports vary) police officers who were clearing the building suffered smoke inhalation. However, many people are out of their homes and likely will be staying in shelters for long periods of time.
Yesterday morning I had my phone camera with me, so I experimented with shots in various modes, but mostly using animation of a somewhat unrefined “Cinemagraph” type (I love cinemagraphs and have wanted to make some for a long time which meant that finding my phone will make them was a really pleasant surprise). Unfortunately, this mode creates very large files (often greater than 10meg) which will choke up devices without a fast connection. I have made the gifs somewhat smaller and put them into the gallery below since WP will not allow reduction in gif sizes, though it will create animated thumbnails. I recommend you only open the gallery if you have a fast connection, but I think it is worth finding one as the images work very well.
I have also included some stills, all straight out of the camera without even being reduced in size (click on them for the full size) with no edits of any kind. The top image is taken with a telephoto setting from a block away. The next two images are the ones I took on Wednesday from the other side of the building using the panorama mode. The building has just finished a 1 year or longer face-lift involved a lot of sealing of cracks and repainting and so on. Looks like that work is not over quite yet.
The image before the gallery is taken yesterday on the north side in panorama mode. The panorama feature takes many photos while the camera is panned and stitches together little slivers. It often works pretty well, but can result in stripey effects if the panning is not perfect. I think it works better for horizontal panning than vertical, but there are many interesting effects possible, like the middle picture below, which allow for creative stuff to be done. I hope to post more about that sometime soon once I have the permissions of the people in the photos.
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Railing with Shadow
The railing on the side of the Gonzales Hill Observatory. As I write I prefer the colour one, but I like the shadow definition better in the monochrome. This is what I was shooting when some earthlings came leaping through the photo.
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