From our most recent dad-and-daughter road trip in late August. Sofia and I love travelling the Crows Nest Highway in the Similkameen River Valley.
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Glimpses of Hedley, BC /
In the years 1900-1955, Nickel Plate Mountain at Hedley (ca. 70 km SW of Penticton, current pop. 300) was a major site of gold mining in the Province of BC and the town was once the most populous in the province east of Hope. I was given an enthusiastic, informative tour of the local museum by a lovely elderly woman and current resident named Ruth. She sold me a book on the history of the region, but could not tempt me into a slice of lemon meringue pie.
Yet another untitled diptych /
Complementary colours in the neighbourhood /
Taken on a recent stroll with my Nikon FE equipped with a 35 mm f/1.4 AI-s lens. I am quite pleased with the way that the new Fujifilm 400 renders these colours. A touch of sharpening and noise reduction in Lightroom are sufficient to bring the quality of the images up to my standards. This isn’t Kodak Portra 400, but it’ll do.
Terry Fox /
Terry Fox is one of several neighbourhood cats who frequent our corner lot, which I suspect serves as a shortcut for animal traffic between houses. He has taken to whiling away the sunny springtime afternoons by slumbering on our deck. And to leaping into the house through my office window whenever it is open—much to the annoyance of our own cats, who, despite their advanced years, always seem ready for a fight. It looks as if he is sleeping in these photographs, but he is in fact wide awake and steadfastly ignoring me, as cats in their regal superciliousness are wont to do.
I made these exposures with my new-to-me Nikon FE mounted with a 180 mm f/2.8 AI-s lens, set to minimum focus distance at f/8. Despite the fact that Terry, who was unequivocally aware of my presence, resolutely refused to look at me, I love the way these photographs turned out. This lens is spectacular. I look forward to using it in portraiture.