more Sointula

After all the recent distractions, I am trying to return to writing more about our island hopping journey in September. I last wrote about Sointula and now just want to add some more photos from there before moving on.

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You know how intrigued I am by aging, weathered and textured things,

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and the patterns of both light and dark and the disintegrating architectural shapes.

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The above images are of the same boathouse as shown in the previous Sointula post.

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This is a different one which has almost merged with nature’s overgrowth, almost melting back into the earth.

carved tree

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on a busy walkway on Granville Island in Vancouver
not quite a dendroglyph

more driftwood

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In this series of driftwood on Lillooet Lake which I’ve been posting, many of the photos appeared somewhat blue in hue. With this group, I played with desaturation, which gave me black and white, then added a light sepia filter. To me, this seems truer to the tones of the bleached and beached wood. Or maybe these just look more “artistic”?

driftwood

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I have been sorting and organizing some of this summer’s photos. I suddenly remember all the many driftwood shots I took at the B&B on Lillooet Lake on our trip in June, of which I’d only shown a few. So I have just had some fun cropping my favourite details of textures from some of the others – enjoy! More next time…

another moth

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Why is my studio a graveyard for moths?
Are they offerings for this artist to commemorate in scans, such as I’ve done before?

tibouchina redux

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It has been a long while since I have been doing any macro photography. As I was caring for my tibouchina plant on the deck, I felt inspired to fetch the camera to capture the unusual details of the shattered blossoms. Why “redux”? Please view my 2010 photos of the same plant.

cedar twine

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At the Squamish Lil’wat Cultural Centre in Whistler, which we visited last month, a guide had taken a group of us around. The end of the tour saw us in a longhouse style activity room where each of us was given a narrow thin strip of previously soaked cedar bark. Following the guide’s instructions we each bent a strip around a peg (one in front of each person) on a long table and firmly twisted one half around the other half, then tied the ends. The top image shows simple samples of what can become the beginnings of complex multi-twisted twine or rope having many purposes, including clothing, hats and baskets.

These pieces have been sitting on my desk for a while so today I felt the urge to do some scanning and image play with them. The images are a bit small to show all details of the fine bark. Especially cool to me was to discover the shocking stains on the scanner bed which emerged when the levels were played with. What fun and who knows, maybe I’ll use these in some work one day.

slow road interlude

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As I mentioned in the previous post, after a long day of driving we spent a very pleasant evening relaxing on the dock of the B&B place. Most enjoyable for me was to have the time to look very closely at the wonderful details in the pieces of driftwood lying about. Here are just a few of my favourite shots.

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Added later: Here are the other posts in the slow road series should you like to visit them:
part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6 and the finale.

variegations

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More intriguing investigations that I discover while out gardening…

pink

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It’s the season for the flowering plants and various cuttings which have wintered over indoors to move outdoors for the summer. As I care for them I note again that a majority are pink. Is pink really the the dominant colour of flowers in the plant world, I wonder. I scanned a few – at left are some oleanders, in the center are single flowers from geranium clusters , and at right is a dipladenia blossom. Some closeups below.

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My favourite colour is red, and pink is a light red, vaalenpunainen in Finnish.
So many many shades of pink… Nature is quite the artist.