Pumping Station
Clover Point shows up a lot in my blog. It is firmly within my personal geography, and so gets my camera(s) pointed at and around it a lot. What I don’t normally show is evidence of the sewage works that are buried in the hill at the back of the point. Today, I am doing so.
It is not really a sewage treatment plant – I think there is some sterilising and blending and then it is just pumped, barely treated, out into the Strait of Juan de Fuca a mile or more offshore. The scientists that study such things, both the academics not beholden to the operators and the consultants paid by local government (who are the operators), say it is not a big deal for the environment due to dispersal and dilution in the strong tides and very large volumes of water. However, recently other levels of government have deemed things must be changed, after years of controversy. So, a sewage treatment system is about to begin construction, and this place will have a different function. I am told my property taxes may rise by seven or eight hundred dollars a year to help pay for it.
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Thetis Lake IV
My walk around Thetis Lake last week with my daughter and granddaughter was very pleasant. I think I took more pictures of her than of the scenery, and so today that is what you get. Doting grandfather photography. She’s pretty cute, eh?
Barrier Fliptych
Another fliptych, as I have come to call them, this one of a barrier on Clover Point, with lamp standard and Trial Island in the distance. None of these details are immediately obvious, which is the way I like it. I also like the interplay between the light standard verticals and the medial horizontal line. It is almost like an architectural detail – windows or something.
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5,488 km (or 3,410 miles)
If you have not discovered Dirtgazing already, here is a plug for the blog. One of my photos, which appear here from time to time is in this edition combined very sympathetically with photos from other bloggers. Get out your “dirty” pictures and send some along to Melinda, she appreciates submissions.
Three photos that span North America:
From guest blogger Ehpem:
Moon Man in a Rectangular Universe
Victoria, British Columbia
From my own archive:
Santa Rosa, New Mexico
From guest blogger Linda Grashoff:
Central Florida
Half Frame Freight
This is from the lookout along the Beacon Hill Park waterfront – a lookout I have previously photographed here. I saw the ship coming and thought it would be interesting to have it pass through my photo, ever so slowly, and in the rain. What I was not prepared for was the scalloped 3-D feel to this shot, as if the film is curled within each frame. I really like that effect.
It was a bit of a chilly wait for this ship especially as I could not move my feet as this sequence is hand-held and keeping my alignment was a bit tricky. You can see I concentrated on the framing at the expense of levelling the horizon. Really, a tripod would be a good idea, though the slightly wonky alignment is part of the process and part of the charm too, I guess. And a tripod certainly defeats the purpose of a pocket camera.
Fliptych
I have received back my third roll of film from the Olympus Pen, and it leads me to the new term ‘fliptych’. I just made this word up, though I see it exists with another meaning. My use is for the half-frame images that proliferate on this roll of film. The ones where I have taken a picture with the camera pointing in one direction, and then flipped the camera 180 degrees for the next picture, and then back again sometimes.
So, this is another in my series of half-frame photos, and indeed it is also a diptych. But I prefer the term fliptych since it is more descriptive of my process, and can include triptych and other formats too. Get used to the word as I plan on using it, and I have lots to share, and continue to experiment with the form.
This is one of my favourites for its simplicity. I like the toning too. Click on the picture for a bigger version.
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