ferry details – 4
This ferry to Quadra Island and back was a treasure trove of great details for my eye and for my camera. I think these are the last of the best!
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by Marja-Leena ferry details
Still remembering our wonderful island hopping trip in September. I love the small ferries and the opportunity to stand on the open car decks and take a close look at interesting details while also enjoying the sea crossings. We had boarded the ferry to Quadra Island early so had a bit of a quiet wait with no crowds nor vibrations, perfect for taking photos. As always, my interest in the weathered and the rusted details shows!
by Marja-Leena links
As most readers know, I love photographing details of interesting things like rusty objects. These are from the ferry that we rode a few weeks ago to Quadra Island and back. As I’m searching in my mind for a title, I think of ‘links’. I know that word has a multitude of meanings and assocations but I’m surprised at how many there are!
These are mostly rusty chain links, but can the twisted rope chain also be called a link or links? I recall taking similar detail photos on a ferry years ago but do you think I could find that link in my huge archives, or maybe I never did post the photos I’m thinking of? A missing link somewhere?
by Marja-Leena 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.
You know how intrigued I am by aging, weathered and textured things,
and the patterns of both light and dark and the disintegrating architectural shapes.
The above images are of the same boathouse as shown in the previous Sointula post.
This is a different one which has almost merged with nature’s overgrowth, almost melting back into the earth.
by Marja-Leena carved tree
on a busy walkway on Granville Island in Vancouver
not quite a dendroglyph
by Marja-Leena more driftwood
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”?
by Marja-Leena driftwood
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…
by Marja-Leena cedar twine
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.