BOAT HOUSES, CACHE BAY, ONTARIO

Along the shores of Lake Nipissing we came across a cluster of boat houses. Most of the sheds were not the elaborate boat storage sheds, with a few exceptions, but were put together of a wide variety of  materials. This of course was great for us photographers, who like a great variety of textures and colours. We will certainly return here again at different seasons to make more images of this place.

OLD CURCH, FRONT VIEW

This time I am posting a colour view of the same church. As I mentioned yesterday, I like both black and white and colour. Keeping the colour version more muted I was aiming to create emphasize a view, which reflected a historic perspective of the building.

OLD CHURCH, CACHE BAY, ONTARIO

Yesterday my friend Gerry and I made a return trip to Cache Bay. I had visited Cache Bay a couple of times in the last few weeks on a photo trip. But this time I wanted to make some pictures of this old church which has been abandoned for decades. The weather was just perfect, I like taking photographs on overcast cloudy days and both of us had a great trip , which gaves us some very fine images. My idea was to take black and white pictures however I did like some of my colour images. I did end up using the black and white image of this church, as I had intended to do.

LICHEN

On my daily walk yesterday, I passed this rock covered with lichen.. The light filtering through the foliage created a pattern of light on the top of the rock. The colour was quite green because of the leaf canopy overhead. I took a few close up pictures, but I was not sure if the images would be interesting enough until I downloaded them on the computer. I like the abstract quality of the image, which evokes a sense of mystery.

HEATWAVE

The last few weeks it was very hot and I think everyone was glad when this heatwave finally broke over the weekend, but it still is very dry, even after last night's  thunderstorm, which created a few  forest fires in the area around the city. So when I was looking for an image to post today I thought about this picture of a rusty metal lid on a box just outside the library, which I took last week. It certainly is a good abstract impression of the hot Summer weather.

VERTICAL BLUE AND RED

Concentrating on my subject I look for the abstract in a realistic object or composition. In this particular image I was interested in the red and blue verticals and the strong texture of the wooden background and the more subtle texture of the sandy earth. To give the composition strength I look for the simplest composition,  which  reflects how i perceive the subject.

ABANDONED REVISITED

Last March I posted two pictures from an abandoned sawmill site. Well, yesterday John asked if I would like to go on another visit to the old sawmill. What a difference, the heat wave we have suffered for the last two weeks was still in full force. Wandering around the site was like walking around a large furnace. We still were able to get some very interesting images. My intention was on black and white subjects like this old, I guess furnace, quite an appropriate subject for the  this scorching day. The temperature hovered around 35ºC to 38ºC. Today would have been a better day because the heat wave broke overnight and left us with a far more comfortable temperture.