Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron
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.
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:
The Gulf Islands School of Performing Arts (GISPA) has collectively created their yearly May show around Daniel Wallace’s Big Fish. The last performance is tonight at ArtSpring.
This photo is from the dress rehearsal where I had the opportunity to wander around on-stage in an attempt to capture some of the creative and performing genius of these kids.
Many of the students are proficient in more than one area; Maya Cook, above, is one of the GISPA musicians but regularly does double duty as an actor.
*The show takes place in the 50’s when images were shot in the early days of 35mm film. This low contrast, backlit image has that retro look but popped out of a digital camera pretty much as you see it.
A day trip to the city and a man dressed in red.
And yes, it really was that red, so red it hurt the eyes!
Gulf Islands Secondary School, Ganges
When the time, location and light are right, sometimes everything just clicks.
I was asked to get a photo of the new International Education Support Teacher. But, after looking at the studyinbc.ca website, I realized a student was also necessary. Fortunately I’d been working with a Gr. 12 work experience student on the GISPA photo shoot all morning. She was from Germany, so that’s International right? We stopped along the mezzanine above the multipurpose room (though I’ve heard it termed other things like ‘the multi’, or the less flattering—’multi-useless room’). The light’s often soft and indirect along the mezzanine so it’s a great photo spot. Except at the start of lunch, which it was. 700 people frequent the halls of that school at lunch…
But with one simple direction both the teacher, who looks way too young (I mean, really!), and the students (one Asian girl and one German girl joined us—they have lunches in their off-camera hands) turned this improvised scene into a believable photo with great interaction and mood.
This is a wonderful high school by the way, filled with great kids and an increasingly young and dynamic staff. Extraordinary learning experiences occur daily on that campus. It’s unfortunate that we go about our daily lives not knowing or experiencing just what goes on at GISS.