A Rock among Rocks

I have always enjoyed photographing around the ocean's inter-tidal zone especially when the tide is on its way out, I find that there is a whole new world revealed when the water has receded, I think its an interesting part of our earth, not really permanent land nor is it permanently under water. In this particular photograph taken at Taylor Beach in Metchosin on Vancouver Island I was at the beach late in the afternoon this past November, the tide didn't really start to make much progress in terms of water levels lowering until late in the afternoon, near the end of our short fall/winter days in this part of the world. I was really amazed by this large smooth rock that had been worn down by the smaller round rocks, I can only imagine how long that would have taken.

Waters of Reflection #2

Here is another image version of the same image from my previous post " Waters of Reflection", I got a couple of positive responses from Howard and Colin in which Colin mentioned that "some people might have walked right by" and as I posted in my response to their posts, I almost did walk right by, well I had my little point and shoot digital with me while on a hike with my sister and niece, so I passed by these very interesting, dark, murky, bottomless black holes of puddles and though there is an interesting picture(s) to be made here, so the next day I came back with my 4 x 5 view camera and a supply of black and white film and made some pictures for my self. I like making images of things that others might very well pass by, when ever I show these kinds images to people they always seem to find them interesting ( well not everyone ), when I hit that kind of mark, its a bulls eye and that gives me a lot of satisfaction.

On another note, I have lots of film scanning to keep me busy these days from photography I did in late November/December 2008. I took a trip to Vancouver Island where I was visiting family and of course photography for two weeks, I shot a 166 sheets of 4 x 5 film ( the new T-Max 400 ) which I edited down to about a 100 images to scan, then I will do a final edit as to what to print down the road. so far I have about 70 of those scans done. These past few days while I was at home here with the flu I thought I would get a large bulk of my scans done but it didn't turn out that way as I did not have the energy to remain focused, oh well, I'm better now. When those all of scans are done I will work at revising my website, which is due for an update, that is if I don't get side tracked with more photography, it has been foggy weather around the Okanagan Valley here lately and I am sure there are some interesting images to be found.

Waters of Reflection

I found this large puddle of water on the trail to Mt. Manuel Quimper in the Sooke Hills, west of Victoria, B.C. on a recent visit to the area.