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Co-posting: an experiment in styles
This is the first in a series of joint posts with Ehpem that are the result of a visit that I made to Victoria in April. The idea is to show things that we both photographed in our own ways, and we will each show the other’s photograph along with our own in our blogs at the same time. We intend to take turns writing the posts; Ehpem took the first turn:
We have become friends through blogging; internet friends are not something I could comprehend until it started happening to me through this blog. Fortunately for me Melinda has, twice now, had work to do in Seattle and made the trip over water to Victoria for a visit. This collaboration arises from a visit she made in April when we spent a few days touring around the south end of Vancouver Island looking for things to photograph, and just looking.
Our first co-post is a garbage can at the Point No Point Resort where we stayed one night. It serves as a warning to, or at least as a convenience for, our co-viewers. Some of you might want to scuttle off-stage right now and stay there for a week or two. The more tolerant might be relieved to know there is a bin handy for those of our posts worthy only of the trash.
It is a lot of fun, and very interesting to take pictures with another photographer – to start to feel how they see. One or the other of us might exclaim about something the other had not yet seen, or sometimes go all quiet with concentration. Either usually drew the other of us to have a look and perhaps take a shot too.
This is not the first time we have done this since Melinda visited last year as well. We did not get a collaboration off the ground last year though we did do one co-post – for all of our collaborations click on this link. The idea is to present each other’s photos of the same place taken together, but with our different ways of seeing, and making the most of camera equipment to hand.
On the equipment front I had the advantage of variety, being at home. I shot mostly digital using the Canon 5Dii and assorted lenses. I shot film on a Canon Elan 7N with the same set of lenses, a Olympus mjuII point and shoot that was always in my pocket, and finished a roll of film in a Mamiya M645 Super medium format camera. Melinda used a Nikon D7000 and a single wide-angle prime lens she was trying out.
(You can see Ehpem’s post here.)
Ehpem’s photo:
My photo:
Point No Point Resort
photographed 4.22.2015
Caught between
When I was in Victoria last month, on a photo-shooting frenzy with my friend Ehpem, we made many stops at the storm drain. It’s one of his favorite subjects, and has become one of mine too, when I’m in town. The constant changes in the water and sky, and the relatively unchanging drain make for some interesting opportunities to make photos.
Like this day, when the cloud and drain seemed to mirror each other, leaving photographers caught between the two.
Victoria, BC
photographed 4.21.2015
Water color
Usually, the Victoria Clipper goes on a relatively straight line from Seattle to Victoria. On the day of my trip, a storm in the Strait of Juan de Fuca would have made for a rough trip*, so we took an alternate – and much longer – route north through the San Juan Islands. It was less open water, and more to look at. Like water on the windows…
on board the Victoria Clipper
San Juan Islands, Washington
photographed 4.21.2015
*Prior to departure an announcement was made regarding the availability of motion-sick medicine onboard. It was, “If you know you are prone to motion sickness, if you think you are prone to motion sickness, or you don’t want to find out if you are prone to motion sickness, you can purchase tablets at the concession stand.” It was the best twenty five cents I’ve ever spent.
The remains of last week’s offering
My friend Ehpem lives only a couple of blocks from the Chinese Cemetery. I’d gone there on my previous visit but was so captivated by the ocean that I forgot to photograph the cemetery, an astounding oversight on my part.
On my recent visit, Ehpem and I were eating dinner when he interrupted his own sentence and said, “Look at the light! We need to get to the cemetery right now!” And off we went.
A bank of clouds meant that the light wasn’t quite what we were expecting, but we did what we could. And finished dinner after the sun was down.
There’s an interesting article on the cemetery here, if you’re interested.
Chinese Cemetery
Victoria, BC
photographed 4.23.2015
As if the rocks were holding them
Rocks. Seaweed. Low sun. Ocean.
I don’t know what else to say.
Point No Point Resort
near Shirley, BC
photographed 4.21.2015
PS. I know: two color photos in two day’s time!
One Day | One Image 