King George Arbutus
Like yesterday’s post, this is from last week’s walk to Anderson Hill Park. The tree is an arbutus (Arbutus menziesii) on the eastern slope of Gonzales Hill next to King George Terrace, in Oak Bay (map link).
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Light Hips
Last Thursday we went for a walk to Anderson Hill Park and home via a circuituous route. I took along the camera but the light was already failing and I did not bother to take it out of its bag till halfway through (and even worse light).
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Storm Bay
Last week I made two posts of waves on rocks during a storm – one a series of shots from the same vantage but different exposure and the other details that appear to be miniature landscapes. Today’s blog is two views from the same set up with different exposures, and this view contains most of the miniature landscapes that I already posted (to give you some idea of how much cropping goes into those views). These are looking along the eastern edge of Gonzales Bay, with the Gonzales Observatory in the background and Harling Point to the left. The shots are taken immediately below the small out building that I featured in another post. Another similar building with a blue door and a hanging surf board is visible on the bedrock behind the big drift log at centre right.
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Ladybug Shadow on Rust
The Red Barn Market is a grocery store on West Saanich Road just north of Victoria. As shown on the satellite images in the summer it sits between the road and a nice green agricultural field. However, at this time of the year it is on the shore of a small shallow lake with many waterfowl and numerous small birds in the bushes around the edges.
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Aerial Landscapes III – Low Lying Fog
I had a lot of fun taking these landscapes of low-lying marine fog clinging to the shoreline and twined around and through a small archipelago. It’s not everyday that one gets a low angle overview of wonderful scenery like this.
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Sunrising Rock
What better way to begin the new year than with a sunrise? This picture was taken at 8:30am on December 31st. I was out early trying to get more long exposures of the ocean and this is near the end of useful light.
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Storm Rocks
Happy New Year everybody – may you all have a healthy, happy and prosperous 2012.
As I write Harling Point is being lashed by a winter storm with wind washing 1m and bigger waves onto the beaches. I went out at sunset to take some ocean pictures – I had waited for lower light levels so I could experiment with long shutter speeds. Winds were gusting to nearly 70km/hr while I was out there, according to my neighbour’s weather station. I have previously posted pictures of a stormy Harling Point beach which was my first foray into photographing moving water. Since then I have tried a couple of times without much success. I wanted to try extended exposures to see if I could replicate the beautiful pictures of smooth creamy water that some people manage to take (thanks Toad for putting me onto Marcin Bera’s photos).
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