Drain Gull
Another Ross Bay storm drain picture, this one taken the same day as my pictures of salmon and Goldstream River that have been showing for the past week. I am very pleased with this photo and the way the water and sky surface of the drain merge together with the barest hints of their borders. And I am pleased with the gull, a model at posing.
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Salmon Log
In yesterday’s picture there was a man standing still for a long time – this is what he was looking at, and I think, photographing.
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Root Island
This is from the main salmon viewing area closest to the parking area at Goldstream River, taken near the end of my time there when most people had gone home and it was getting dark.
I was drawn to this mass of roots around a lone tree, isolated from the river bank by a back eddy. I am guessing, from the bark, that the tree is either a broadleaf maple, or an alder.
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Fall River
More from the Goldstream River located near Victoria. The salmon run is in full swing, but the long exposures disguise that. If you peer closely you can see ghosts of salmon under the water surface in some places.
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Fish-eye Portrait
Another shot of spawned out salmon at Goldstream River. The picture above is the first time I have taken a self-portrait with a fish-eye. Somehow it seems proper for a photographer to be reflected in a fish’s eye when using a 24mm lens (perhaps not quite a fish-eye lens, but pretty close). The image below is a crop from the one at the bottom, just to emphasize my fishy portrait. I wonder if some remote-sensing wizard could take this image and render a recognisable photograph of me from it, like they must from satellite photographs.
Fall Salmon
Now for something a bit more serene and restful on the eyeballs, though my yellow theme carries on. Or golden if one believes the name. The Goldstream River is located just outside of Victoria, about a 20 minute drive when the traffic is down along the Island Highway which leads to communities on more northern Vancouver Island.
These images are combined from numerous exposures, most of them quite long. They don’t show the moving salmon too well, but do give a nice feel to the water’s surface. The top image is with a circular polarizing filter, the bluer version of the same view is without as are the others.
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