
This weatherbeaten chair, on its last legs, made a beachcomber’s day.
Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron

This weatherbeaten chair, on its last legs, made a beachcomber’s day.

Looking southeast from the main Ganges dock on Salt Spring Island.
This is everything I saw, exactly how I saw it.
This is a colour photograph.

During a bit of wind yesterday, many maples set their leaves free.
These leaves had artfully arranged themselves at Baker Beach.

A foggy morning in Ganges Harbour. I love changes in weather; it’s as though mother nature has given her etch-a-sketch a good shake so we can look at a familiar scene in a new light.
The light here of course is what caught my eye. I’m on the look-out these for views that have a variety of luminance values rather than a variety of colours. Normally, dense fog has a flat grey monochromatic look (which can be beautiful in its own right). The sodium vapour lamps on the dock gave a contrasty, but somewhat ugly yellow colour.
The high contract of the foreground with the low contrast background make for a lovely black and white image.

Fishing on St. Mary Lake in the pouring rain. The absence of NHL games has led to all kind of alternative activities.
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This post is a weekend extra. Think of it as a rainy day special :)
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Photographs of Salt Spring Island and areas reachable by ferry and road (and sometimes off-road).