Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron
Not many weeks ago the playing fields at Gulf Islands Secondary were parched, devoid of grass and prepared for a rebirth. The SD64 grounds crew will continue to baby the fields for a few more months and then set the fields free to the not-so-patiently waiting hoards. It looks like it will be worth the wait.
A senior art student at Gulf Islands Secondary School works with charcoal excavated from 100-year-old kilns at Mouat Park. A selection of drawings will be on display today (Sunday, Oct. 4) in the GISS multipurpose room and will also be part of a show and lecture at the Library more info…
An experienced tree at the edge of the sand along Beddis Beach.
(Why is the background black? The morning light was low and harsh on this old Arbutus. I manually adjusted the camera to expose for the tree, not the entire scene. So the background—rocks and bushes already dark in the deep shade—is even more underexposed. And thus the tree gets all the attention. Which, of course, is the intention.)
From a late day beach walk that yielded new artwork every few steps.