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We were asked to leave the premises
Hello and welcome to the second day of the Great Co-Posting Experiment. If you were here yesterday, you know that Ehpem and I will be co-posting some of our images from my recent trip to Victoria.
It’s been interesting to compare our shots, many of which were shot when we were almost literally shoulder to shoulder. A lot of the time, Ehpem was using a full frame DSLR and a wider lens than I had, a combination which made a surprising (to me) amount of difference in how much of a scene he could capture. He’s also noticeably taller than I am, which also had a larger-than-anticipated effect on the images.
Anyway. The parking garage. Ehpem has been here before and was happy to return so I could have a look around. We were inside 20 or 30 minutes, and nothing very exciting had happened (other than making dozens of photos, that is). All of a sudden, a hulking monster of a security guard burst through a door and approached me. Much aggression on his part – not to mention how he was practically spitting on me when he talked yelled – as he let us know that we were on private property and we had to leave. It was a little surreal, actually. Ehpem said, “I thought this was city property?” and the man said, “NO. IT’S BEEN PRIVATE PROPERTY SINCE IT WAS BUILT IN 1961.” (Yes, he spoke in all caps.) (Also, he’s apparently the Official Historian.)
So, we left.
Later, we talked about how the parking garage’s security wasn’t all that great: we were there for sort of a while before getting yelled at by the guy.
But enough talk about the rude Canadian. Here are some photos (Ehpem’s first, then mine.)
You can see Ehpem’s post here.
Ehpem:
Me:
Victoria, British Columbia
photographed 4.23.2015
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It’s not just Canadian parking garages who object to being photographed! Look what I just found in my hometown in Texas:
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My excellent host, Ehpem, just happened to plan our adventure in a way that included a stop at an abandoned house (he knows me well) and we spent an enjoyable morning exploring the place. You can see his first image from that stop here.
Are you surprised that this is in color? I am, too, a little bit, but those blues and greens were just too lovely to convert to shades of gray.
Jordan River, British Columbia
photographed 4.22.15
The encroaching forest
As I mentioned the other day, I recently went to British Columbia to meet up with my friend Ehpem. He was an excellent host, showing me non-tourist parts of Victoria, and arranging a trip up the west coast of the island, where’d he planned a stop at this little ocean-front community because he knew I’d like to see (and photograph, endlessly) the remains of the place.
As we were standing there, cameras in hand, he remarked on the difference between what the surroundings looked like compared to what I usually see in West Texas. It was a good point: we have more problems with encroaching dirt than encroaching forests…
Jordan River, British Columbia
photographed 4.22.15
(Here’s a self-portrait that Ehpem made during our Jordan River stop.)
Arches
In addition to a cyclops, the Gas Works Park had a very nice set of concrete arches, which I found to be almost ecclesiastical…
Gas Works Park
Seattle, Washington
photographed 4.18.2015
Cyclops
I was in Seattle last month for the American Planning Association’s national conference, which is pretty much as exciting as it sounds.
On a urban-planning themed city tour, I got to see the Gas Works Park, which is on the location of a former (pay close attention here, because it starts to get complicated) gas works. It’s been a park since the mid-1970s, and is sort of famous for having kept part of the gas works structures in place.
Which I suppose means that the cyclops was somehow part of gas production.
Seattle, Washington
photographed 4.18.2015
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