Erratic Storm
At the very real risk of boring my viewers, I am showing yet another long exposure from the storm last Sunday. This is the penultimate post on this topic, at least from that storm. I am saving the best until last, so you could just wait until tomorrow to look at my favourite of all those storm pictures. Or you could look at this lesser image of a teetering glacial erratic on the edge of the Chinese Cemetery. The view is westward towards Clover Point across the mouth of Gonzales Bay and Ross Bay more distant.
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Sahsima Storm III
This week I have been showing pictures from a major storm that blew through last Sunday, including other long exposures of the transformer stone Sahsima on Harling Point. The ones I am posting today are in response to some comments on earlier photos which wondered if faster shutter speeds might better depict the power of the storm.
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Fence Stormed
This view is from Trafalgar Park looking at SE corner of Harling Point across a small bay in front of what we call Pebble Beach. These views have been featured in this blog in the past but in markedly different conditions – it is a pretty spectacular difference with the view in my Pebble Beach post from mid-October. This view is from the middle of last weekend’s storm. On the rocks in the distance can be seen a post and part of a fence. The fence is one that I have previously featured – it was a heavily weathered redcedar structure that was slowly blending into the rocks in its lichen covered state. Unfortunately the wind has taken it out. I heard last week that the property that this fence belongs to is now being considered for redevelopment, so I expect that it won’t be replaced for a while, and when it is, it will be something quite different.
Storm Plant
As illustrated yesterday, we had a major storm blow through on Sunday and I went out to document it. My first idea for photographing the storm arose from sitting in the house watching bushes thrashing about in the back yard. I wondered if I could show how windy it was with long exposures of the vegetation. It was this idea that got me dressed and out the door in the first place.
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Sahsima Storm II
Sunday we had a major storm blowing for much of the day. On Harling Point, the neighbour’s weather station recorded gusts of 88 km/hour during the time I went out to take photos. A few days ago I posted some monochrome shots of Sahsima or Harpoon Rock found on the beach in front of the Chinese Cemetery. I mentioned it had many different personalities, depending on the weather. Here I show another sharply contrasting one, with 2 and perhaps even occasionally 3m waves breaking on the rock shelf that surrounds Sahsima.
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Chimney Lichen
The smokes of many burnt offerings have wrapped the arches of the ceremonial chimneys in the Chinese Cemetery at Harling Point.
Winter Bracken
This clump of bracken is near the wooded entrance to the Unitarian Church on Matterhorn Drive (map), across the street from The Red Barn Market on West Saanich Road. These pictures were taken on the same outing as when I took a series of photos against a rusty tank behind the market, and of swans on the seasonal pond next to the tank. I had been out this way a week or two earlier, without my camera, and the bracken along West Saanich Road had caught my eye – something about its luminous quality and also a brown colour that I really liked. When I went back with the camera I found the brown had faded to a less pleasing tone (or the light was different). I took these photos to see if I could salvage something of the fleeting impression gained when driving by. I am pretty satisfied with the luminous qualities (especially the first one), but they work far better in a contrast-y black and white than in the colour, so that’s what I have to offer today. (more…)
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