
6:40 am Ruckle Park, Oceanfront Walk-In Campground
Bikes, coolers, tents and view. The Queen of Cumberland rumbles by sleeping campers. Summer of ’14 on Salt Spring Island.
Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron

6:40 am Ruckle Park, Oceanfront Walk-In Campground
Bikes, coolers, tents and view. The Queen of Cumberland rumbles by sleeping campers. Summer of ’14 on Salt Spring Island.

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.


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. 

Experimental Sunday.
A pier in downtown Ganges beside the Coast Guard Station.

Friday afternoon—or most any afternoon in the summer—looks like this in downtown Ganges. The main parking area in the centre of town. And a road runs through it. Just for giggles.
Vistor’s beware, some locals have a favourite spot in this area or around the town outskirts where they like to park year ’round and can get a wee bit growly when you get there first.
Photographs of Salt Spring Island and areas reachable by ferry and road (and sometimes off-road).