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Colour or Black and White?

May 21, 2014

Teija on Stage colour

Teija on Stage B&W

On the ArtSpring stage during the recent GISPA rehearsal grab shot that looks like a portrait

The image was shot in colour and processed as a colour image and as a black and white image.
I like them both; do you have a preference?

photo info: Canon 1DX, ISO 6400,  f/2.0,  1/1600 sec,  0.33 ev, 135mm (no noise reduction applied to the images)

Filed Under: People, Photog's Favourites

Beach Walk

May 20, 2014

Port Renfrew Area Shoreline

Quick trip to the west coast yesterday—got in a low tide beach walk near Port Renfrew. Easy and scenic day trip from Salt Spring.

Filed Under: Daytrip, Nature, Photog's Favourites, View

Salt Spring Challenge Cup, 2014

May 19, 2014

Defensive Header

Home grown Saltspringer and Island electrician Gord Akerman makes an excellent defensive header. The Salt Spring FC team went on to take this game by a healthy margin (OK, not a New York vs Montreal margin, but healthy just the same).

The game was captured by a significant number of cameras including this one attached to a top secret CSIS photog from Toronto.

Photog in the Grass

Filed Under: Ganges, People, Soccer, Sports

Round Saltspring Island 2014

May 17, 2014

Sailing round Salt Spring Island 2014

Round Saltspring Sailing Race 2014,
4:45 pm Trincomali Channel

JAZ, a Beneteau 36.7 First from Glenmore Sailing Club splits tacks with Shuriken, a Flying Tiger 10 from West Vancouver Yacht Club. The Beneteau has a handicap rating of 93 while the Flying Tiger has 45. This means that the Flying Tiger is a faster rated sailboat and, this close to the finish, should be much farther ahead of the Beneteau.

The race distance is 42 nautical miles, but since the boats cannot sail tight along the Island’s shoreline, the actual distance is much farther. And this year’s race seems to be a wonderfully fast ride, at least for the 40 or so boats just ahead and behind the boats pictured above. Completing the course in time for dinner is not often achieved on boats affordable to mere mortals (we only did it once). The abundance of tides and lack of wind makes this an overnight race for many boats most years. Hopefully no one gets left bobbing around on the wrong side of the tideline tonight*.

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* this post was published at 6pm on the 17th

** Information about the race was completely absent this year making it frustrating for people who wanted to watch the race but were unable to get to the Douglas Road club for the start. The new website was no help as it was still saying this afternoon that “registration for the race would be closing soon”.  And then was offline with “Error establishing a database connection” this evening.

Hopefully next year the race committee will use the site and/or social media to:

  1. publish which way the boats were going around, early on, perhaps by 9 am so we can get where we need to be before the boats arrive
  2. publish the ‘who’s who’ list that’s given to boats in the race (boat name, skipper, sail number, spinnaker colours etc) to help us identify, well, who’s who as the boats travel the course
  3. update on the website, and social media, the positions of at least the leaders so we can estimate when the boats will be at certain viewpoint on the Island

 

Filed Under: Fernwood, Sailing, Sports, Street, View

King of the Beach

May 17, 2014

King of the Rock

Now being a mature and experienced five year old Westie, Cameron has claimed this beach bolder from the beach birds. And awaits a cookie as acknowledgment of his conquest.

What he really needs is a trip to the spa where he can get a shampoo, a haircut and his nails done.

Filed Under: Animals, Fernwood, Nature, View

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