Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron
Standoff
Cameron found this playmate at the veterinarian’s farm yesterday.
* update:
Thought I’d share this comment received via private email this morning, “Now you blew it! : > ) One day after Chinese New Years year of the sheep, you missed a great joke. And what’s with this dispute about whether its the year of the sheep or year of the goat? Both seem mentioned on wiki. Anyway for Salt Spring, either could not be more appropriate. Happy New Year John”
A February dawn, seen from above Ganges, on Salt Spring Island.
Some sky drama on our morning dog walk.
I wanted to remove the power/telephone/cable wires but Cameron said, “Don’t you dare; we’re all tired of you whining about them—they are part of the view so just leave them.”
On the BC Ferry pier at Crofton, heading back to Salt Spring Island
The big green Shamrock Fuels truck is coming off the ferry, having taken an earlier dangerous cargo ride over to Salt Spring.
The camera’s shutter speed was not fast enough to stop the motion of truck in the foreground, hence a blur that hints at the feeling you get as the pier shakes a bit as tons of truck parts noisily accelerate by a couple of feet away.
Meanwhile, looking back through the side mirror of my wee truck, we see someone paying at the toll booth. And there’s Rick of noofoto fame bringing his own kind of dangerous cargo back to Salt Spring (in his school bus) from a skating trip on Vancouver Island.
We’re looking east from Salt Spring to Portland Island, Ruckle Park (also on Salt Spring), a BC Ferry travelling from Vancouver to Victoria, Pender Island, Saturna Island and the Cascade Mountains south of the border. Oh, and the moon.