Boardwalk

The boardwalk and beach at Fraser River Park on Sunday afternoon weren't very busy - it was too cold. Nothing compared to the weather back east or up north to be sure, but the brilliant sunshine was doing it's best to lull everyone into believing that it was warmer than it really was. There were people around - it is a dog park and it's rarely totally empty during daylight hours - just not when I took this picture. I suppose I could have waited for someone to walk into frame, but like I said - it was too cold!

There was a real surf on the river that day - when I first got there the swells were up to 4 feet - a combination of change of tide direction and the high wind I suppose. It was the roughest I've ever seen it in the 3 or 4 years that I've been going there. It had settled down considerably by the time this shot was taken, though you can still see some of the whitecaps.

I've been more and more intrigued by some of the black and white pictures that other photographers are posting, and still not sure how to get the same result with my shots. This one, although it's not a true black and white (it's a slightly translucent black and white layer on top of the original colour image, allowing just a hint of the original colour to show through), isn't too bad, but there's still some quality that I can't identify that I'm not getting quite right when processing for black and white. But that's the beauty - I can always try again tomorrow...

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