Up Island

In February I made a trip up island to Duncan and the Lake Cowichan area. This film has waited for a scan since then so it is out of sequence.

Vancouver Island is a big place at 460km long as the raven flies. A real trip up island, to the other end from Victoria where I am, is a solid eight-hour drive, and that is not even the north tip. A trip to Duncan at just over an hour is barely up island, commuting distance for some.

I took along an Olympus XA2 and am glad I did. The light ended up being really interesting. It was pouring at Lake Cowichan and I got soaked in 5 minutes of picture-taking but by the time I got back to Duncan the sun was breaking out, now and then. Great winter light typical of this area – dark skies and bright patches of sun which sometimes you have to chase if you want to take pictures.

On this trip I found in a thrift store a Canon Elan II with camera case, kit lens and a roll of film for $25 – it even had a working battery. You have seen some of the pictures from that find around here in the past week or two – out of sequence but that is what happens sometimes.

There is more of this roll of film, including one shot on my blog publishing at the same time as this titled Tin Shack. More of this roll will show up there, and probably over time you can find them via pingback notifications at the bottom of the post.

 

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Downtown Duncan

Painted passage

Other end painted passage

Stage Door

Trio

Yellow

Renowned for pies

Window shopping

Lake Cowichan in the rain

Lake Cowichan

Douglas fir, moss and rain

Flowing to Lake Cowichan

Moss and lichens

Flowing to the Lake

More Douglas fir, moss and rain

 

Roll 13: Olympus XA2, Ilford XP2 Super, ISO400, shot at 400, commercially developed, scanned at home.