
A peaceful fall morning at daybreak. St. Mary Lake on Salt Spring Island.
Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron

A peaceful fall morning at daybreak. St. Mary Lake on Salt Spring Island.

The sign seems to have lasted longer than the company. What happened to Hanna’s Air?
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Life is full of these short moments; the interaction of light and face remind us to keep observing.
This photo was taken at an all candidates meeting of school trustees. The girl in the photo is, I believe, a leadership student who was helping run the meeting. She looked down at her notes and into the light from the high windows of the multipurpose room.

With Salt Spring’s November weather living up to it’s reputation, scene’s like this are becoming short lived.

There have been grape vines on Salt Spring Island for hundreds of years, but in the last ten to twenty years wineries have come into their own. And this is the perfect time of year to have a look.

A beautiful and telling face from the 2011 Remembrance Day ceremony on Salt Spring Island.
On a related and personal note, we recently lost our favourite veteran, Jim Green. Part of his story is in Friday’s Lives Lived column of the Globe and Mail.

I saw this truck a couple of weeks ago and have been meaning to make a portrait. A foggy afternoon seemed perfect to capture the muted colours, the texture and the mood of this old workhorse put out to pasture.
It’s a Chevy 1420 series pickup, probably built in the early 1950’s. But I’ll leave that to the experts. Anyone?
Photographs of Salt Spring Island and areas reachable by ferry and road (and sometimes off-road).