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September 1997
Ponds and lakes in Garibaldi Provincial Park are variations of blue as glacial till and volcanic lava minerals influence the colouration. In early autumn the low-lying vegetation adds contrast to the palette.
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August 1997
A purse seiner in Johnstone Strait hauls in a bounty of salmon. The salmon are migrating through the narrow passage between Vancouver Island and the BC mainland to rivers and streams where they are genetically programmed to return, spawn, and die.
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July 1996
A kayaker paddles back to camp near the west coast of Nootka Island just ahead of a storm coming her way. Nootka Island is one of many large islands off the west coast of Vancouver Island, this island renowned for its cougar population.
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August 1996
The ghost town of Namu is on the BC mid-coast. The town once thrived with a sawmill and large modern salmon cannery along the boardwalks. A picturesque lake is behind the site. A large seasonal native population once enlivened the town but in 1970 the cannery closed down and left behind a mess of discarded plastic, glass, and metal still littering the site. Almost thirty years ago the only known resident walking the boardwalks was a solitary grizzly bear, the ursus horribilis gracious enough to vanish upon the arrival of four kayakers.
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December 1997
Low cloud at sunset fills valleys between the North Shore mountains across from Vancouver and the greater Coast Range.
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August 1997
The full moon rises above a tranquil estuary in southern Haida Gwaii. The southern part of the archipelago (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) is known as Gwaii Haanas, a pristine protected area prized by expedition kayakers.
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June 1973
A chicken near Kamloops was just minding its own business when suddenly the axe came down.
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Am presently engaged in the onerous task of editing and scanning tens of thousands of old colour slides to digital imagery. These range from the early 1970s up until the year 2006 when the switch was (finally) made to digital photography. The editing and scanning appears to be a lifetime project.
A lot of photos are timeless. Some are historical or might be commercially viable some day. Others are sentimental --- editing images to scan is also to illustrate the zeitgeist and fortunate path through the world of a global flaneur.
It's absorbing to get into a theme for "then&there" --- maybe an expedition, an experience, or something else. But it's also fun to just cherry-pick the images randomly and throw together a potpourri as you've just endured.
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