Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron
Supermoon 8:35 pm, August 10, 2014
There was a big crowd out in Ganges to watch the moon rise Sunday. The Coast Guard area provided a good platform to view the moon which rose in the east-south east (105º). Some low cloud and haze provided great colour when the moon was near the horizon. Apparently this was “the biggest and brightest moon in 20 years.”
By 9:10 pm darkness was setting in and more detail was visible:
3 pm, 1000 feet, looking South East over Ganges Harbour
Lots to see in this photo if you live on, or have visited, 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.
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.