Two Worlds, Apart
Sorry, once again, for the long delay between posts. Last weekend I was busy doing a little shoot for the Friends of the VPL; some of the pictures might end up on their website - if I ever get finished processing them. The woman who runs their store doesn't seem to have discussed the matter with their web master so what I shot doesn't seem to be quite what they both want, though I think I can pull enough together from what I shot. Regular visitors here will recognize that I like big pictures, so one of their late specifications came as a bit of a surprise: none of the images is to be larger than 350 pixels on a side. That's a tiny image, given that my raw images are 4300+ pixels wide!
Anyway, I did get out twice this weekend to shoot something for myself. This shot was taken on Sunday afternoon on the Salish trail in Pacific Spirit Park (UBC Endowment Lands). It's an HDR image, created from a single RAW image - this is possible with RAW files as they store more exposure data than a .jpg though it's not as effective as shooting multiple exposures and combining them.
Technical aspects aside, it struck me as a fitting image to post as we're about to go to the polls in just a few hours. Why? Maybe because of the strong Us/Them symbolism. Personally I'll find it hard to vote tomorrow; once again it will be a matter of selecting the lesser of the evils, the party which I think will do the least harm. A minority government isn't what this country needs right now, but with the current crop of politicians so totally out of touch with reality it's what we're likely to end up with.
Vote well!
3 comments:
Will do my best to vote well...but I may just go with who I want for a change, instead of trying to "strategically" vote...Edna :o)
Yes, very fitting election photography!
Wow, Kendall. Here I am at Gage and Kathy pointed out this very same photo to me on one of our computers' desktops and I told her that fungus grosses me out so she changed it! But I didn't know it was your photo at the time. It is beautiful, despite my opinion on fungus. Re: Friends of the VPL, what were the pictures of that you took? I used to be on their Board of Directors, you know!
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