Clematis Seed
Once more I have visited the clematis seed heads. They are only a few doors away, on a route I often return home by if photographing in the neighbourhood. This was on Tuesday after an hour or so of wandering about, mostly in the Chinese Cemetery. The light was perfect, and some of them had shadow behind them, to give a nice black background.
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Adirondack Rock
As I said in another post about adirondack chairs along this public waterfront: nice neighbourhood – no one steals the chairs.
This chair is on the rocks at the end of the Chinese Cemetery, Harling Point. I have taken and rejected many photos of it. On Tuesday the early morning sun lighting the moss and grass amongst the rocks finally gave me something along the lines I had been wanting, but only in monochrome. This chair is a navy blue and has a memorial plaque to someone that I never heard of, but possibly a former neighbour.
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Wildlife Photo Exhibit
OK – this is a very long post. If you don’t want to read my long-winded blather, then here is the take-home: Find the version of this exhibit that is near to you and go see it. If there isn’t one within reach, then the book promises to be a good buy. There. Now read the next paragraph for some useful links, skip over all the reasons why it’s a great show and look at the pictures far, far below. And say happy 100th post in the comments on your way past. Thank you.
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Last Friday the Royal British Columbia Museum launched a travelling exhibit called Wildlife Photographer of the Year which runs until April 9, 2012. Wildlife Photographer of the Year features the 2010 winners and runners-up in an annual contest sponsored by the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine in London, England (the last image of mine below includes local sponsors of this show). The exhibit will appear in many places around the world, lots of them simultaneously, (17 cities in 10 countries outside Britain, another 18 cities within Britain); you can search for ones near you through this link. The RBCM website has links to information about their version of this exhibit, and a few of the images released to the press, which are here.
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Aerial Landscapes of Moss
On the rock to the east of the Chinese Cemetery are several depressions that fill up with water at this time of year. They are smooth glacial gouges into the bedrock, and in the summer are dry and of little interest. Now they have filled with clean water and are surrounded by flourishing moss, lichens, liverworts and the occasional blade of grass. My wife commented that the top photo looks like an aerial view of a forest next to a lake.
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Seaside Fence
This fence is between the bedrock end of the Chinese Cemetery and the first private property towards Pebble Beach. If you look at my Pebble Beach post, you can see the fence in those photos – it is just beyond and above the roof of the green shed near the end of Harling Point. The fence serves to keep pedestrians off the front rocks that are on private property, and since just after the fence there is a small steep area, all slippery with seaweed, that spans the full intertidal zone it is not possible to walk around to Pebble Beach from the cemetery without trespassing.
The fence is redcedar for the upper portions, but then the bit closest to the ocean, which must be subject to wave action in winter storms, consists of a wire rope attached to wooden post, which is anchored with another cable into the rock. There are remnants of a fastener of some kind on the wire – I expect it held a no trespassing sign at one time. The top cedar rail of the fence is so heavily weathered that it has lost nearly half of its original thickness, and the galvanised wire rope is quite rusted. I think it has stood for a long time.
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Sunset Railings
Sunday last week had some sun, in spite of what I said in recent posts about grey December weather. So I discovered when I looked back on pictures taken this week. It must have been just the latter part of the day, but I no longer remember. Anyway, I was going out shopping for Sunday dinner and was in a rush. I did notice the nice evening light and stopped for maybe five minutes at the east end of Ross Bay along Dallas Road in front of the Ross Bay Cemetery. Among the pictures taken were these shots of the railings at the beach access, glowing in the setting sun.
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