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Salt Spring Photographer John Cameron

Last Daytrip: Salt Spring Island to Ucluelet

Larry Lake, Vancouver Island

With a sudden forecast of one wonderful weather day at the coast, a final trip in the Four Wheel Camper became the agenda. I left Salt Spring Island in the morning rain. The rain was heavy with significant fog heading north to Nanaimo but began to clear as I headed west. Instead of a non-stop race to the coast,  I made photo stops in the sunshine at Larry Lake (above) and at Kennedy River (below).

Kennedy River

So, the 7am ferry from Salt Spring, two comfortable photo stops, and lunch in Ucluelet at noon. Then an afternoon hike on the Wild Pacific Trail. And a late afternoon check-in at a Green Point campsite (in Pacific Rim National Park)—with an ocean view.

Many ‘Salt Springers’ admit to having an obsession—a need—to visit the Ucluelet to Tofino area of Canada’s west coast. And I’m one of them. Stay  tuned for the next two photos of the day; both are from Long Beach in Pacific Rim Park. And then we’ll get back to regular Salt Spring Island programming.

Circuit Board Horses

© Peter McFarlane

I enjoyed working with a group of wild horses this week.

This is a five foot wide commissioned piece by local artist Peter McFarlane. It needed to be shown as it might appear displayed on a wall. The piece includes a wooden cleat to help it lie flat and away from the wall. An interesting shadow is created when properly lit. This implies motion I think, and adds visual interest.

Like all of Peter’s pieces, this one is built from reused/recycled material. The circuit boards are lit so that the colour are true and the solder is alive but not shining.

I look forward to more photographic challenges like this—in the home-based studio space. During the long, dark, temperate rainforest winter. :-)

 

S.W.A.T.

Teachers at GISS lunchtime Costume Contest

When Thursday is the last school day of the week and when Hallowe’en is on Saturday and when you are at Gulf Islands Secondary…there’s a lunchtime costume contest. And when you are a teacher, you get to play along.

I grabbed a quick photo of these two teachers who, despite trying to look like the local S.W.A.T. team (we don’t have a S.W.A.T. team on Salt Spring Island), were helping the students set up for the contest. Lovely lighting for this photo was provided by the sun flooding through the large multi-purpose room windows.

Photos by John Cameron

Photographs of Salt Spring Island and areas reachable by ferry and road (and sometimes off-road).

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