

Dress rehearsal onstage at ArtSpring
Show information and performer portraits here.
Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron

Time to fly for this GISS Music and GISPA student at Butterfly, the Gulf Islands Secondary School end-of-semester music performance at ArtSpring on Salt Spring Island.
Instructor Bruce Smith helps students perform this kind of metamorphosis every year. It’s fascinating to see who’s going to steal the show each semester. (Two unique shows actually, Bruce—a kindred type A personality—just has to get every detail right. And thus is driven to produce two somewhat different shows Wednesday and Thursday nights)
This photo was taken during the dress rehearsal. Nice energy for a rehearsal; I just wish you could hear this photo!
p.s.
I look forward to another stunning performance from this young woman and her peers at GISPA’s Night Circus next week.

Saw the dress rehearsal for this year-end performance yesterday: great fun!
Show runs today and tomorrow at ArtSpring
Was kinda busy on Friday with the GISPA performer portrait photoshoot. All I can say about the samples below is that you’ll get to see all 32 as high resolution prints soon. Hints for now: black and white and sometimes a touch of red. A gate outside a mysterious circus opens at midnight. A show I couldn’t possibly miss. You?




Photos were shot in black and white with grain all over in keeping with the time period.

GISPA close up of image above

Salt Spring Island sinks a bit lower each year on ‘May Long’. One hundred sail boats with crews upwards of 20 plus the huge invitational soccer tournament, plus art show openings, plus the Saturday Market, plus the great weather…well, you get the picture—it’s fun busy. But not fun parking in Ganges ;-)
Photographs of Salt Spring Island and areas reachable by ferry and road (and sometimes off-road).