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Pre-Dawn Shore

August 6, 2014

Salt Spring Shoreline

 

Pre-dawn

Blue light paints a south Salt Spring Island shoreline.

Filed Under: Nature, Photog's Favourites Tagged With: blue, long exposure

Salt Spring Tuesday Market Scene

August 5, 2014

Salt Spring Tuesday Market

Hot weather attire at the Tuesday Farmer’s Market on Salt Spring Island.

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Info for photographers:

I blew the image below. It’s always best to get the shot ‘right’ in the camera. Not to try to ‘fix it’ in ‘photoshop’.

Leaving the market I saw the couple again; this time in the perfect shade of a vendor’s stand. I quickly raised the camera and fired off a shot forgetting that the camera’s manual settings were intended for the blinding sun. The original image was horribly underexposed, so dark that the tattoos were barely visible.

But an advanced camera sensor with excellent dynamic range and careful ‘developing’ (in software) produced the image below. Not the recommended way to go, but lovely lucky this time.

Dynamic Range and the Leica M

photo info: Leica M, ISO 200,  f/5.6,  1/1500 sec,  50mm Summilux

Filed Under: Ganges, People, Places, Street, View Tagged With: shade, tattoo, tourist, underexpose, visitor

Ferry Feet

August 4, 2014

Ferry Feet One

August long weekend ferry overload

Mystery:

With little to do—squashed onto the Swartz Bay to Fulford ferry—I decided to wander around to see what I could see. Had a good talk with a guy about the Toyo tires on his Tacoma, something I need on mine soonish. Then I noticed some feet sticking out of a white car (perhaps a GM of some type) reading a book.

Wait; the feet weren’t reading the book and neither was the car. Someone with green rolled up pants was reading the book with her feet sticking out the window. I headed down to the car deck to see if there might be an interesting photo. Note the position of the green ‘pressure washing’ truck.

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Eight minutes later (On the way I stopped to take a funny photo of two men sleeping sitting up in their car, one with a seat belt across his face. I decided not to show you that photo). Anyway, no long distracted, I went searching for the feet. Found them. And now with a table saw jammed into the trunk and ‘secured’ with a skipping rope, yellow polly rope and some heavy duty fishing line. So, good photo I thought.

But when I loaded the images onto my computer I noticed the car was no longer beside the green truck but parked behind it, the white car was now a silver VW and the feet…well the feet look exactly the same. Ferry Feet Two

Filed Under: Musings, People, Street Tagged With: feet, ferry, long weekend, overload, swartz bay to fulford

Pier

August 3, 2014

Ganges Pier, Salt Spring Island

 

Experimental Sunday.

A pier in downtown Ganges beside the Coast Guard Station.

Filed Under: Art, Construction, Ganges, Street Tagged With: abstract, experiment

Mid-Island Home

August 2, 2014

Salt Spring Home Another home for your Saturday viewing pleasure… …and another architecturally designed home with many surprising spaces and sight lines.

Filed Under: Architecture, Art, Construction, Design, View Tagged With: architect, home, saturday

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