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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2009 8:27:24 GMT -8
Cool Picture in the fog.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2009 8:27:40 GMT -8
I can't remember if I posted this picture
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 13, 2009 20:45:09 GMT -8
A few ferry related photos my dad took yesterday on a trip to Bowen Island. He doesn't understand how to truly take ferry photos and only usually takes one photo while the ferry is still way off, and then doesn't take any more, so we'll have to forgive him that lack of ferry geek comprehension. Anyway: The garden at Horseshoe BayThe Oak Bay Through the cardeck window And, as a bonus, some brief captures of a Minke whale that was performing nearby.
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Post by WettCoast on Sept 13, 2009 21:31:08 GMT -8
Hey, Mill Bay! No doubt your Dad is still thinking in terms of film..., and that is that each picture cost good money to develop & print. Why waste film taking multiple pictures of the same boat.
Things are different now - our digital 'film' is cheap, cheap, cheap! That is why we fill up hard drives with thousands of images...
BTW, taking ship interiors was not something many would do back in the pre-digital age. It was 'a waste of expensive film', and hard to get an acceptable exposure to boot.
PS: Tell your Dad his pictures are good and appreciated here on the WCFF.
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 14, 2009 8:33:58 GMT -8
Hey, Mill Bay! No doubt your Dad is still thinking in terms of film..., and that is that each picture cost good money to develop & print. Why waste film taking multiple pictures of the same boat. Things are different now - our digital 'film' is cheap, cheap, cheap! That is why we fill up hard drives with thousands of images... BTW, taking ship interiors was not something many would do back in the pre-digital age. It was 'a waste of expensive film', and hard to get an acceptable exposure to boot. PS: Tell your Dad his pictures are good and appreciated here on the WCFF. I really wonder about that, actually. He went to all the trouble and expense to get that Canon Rebel, and I know he knows what the possibilities are. I think it's just a functional problem in that he thinks that pressing the shutter button only means one exposure instead of just holding it down and taken twenty or thirty (like Scott ;D) and sorting them through later. He was actually quite prolific in film days, but he still didn't see the object of taking just ferry photos. We can, however, also thank him for the image of three C-Class lined up in Horseshoe Bay, which is an image I've bounced around the forum more than once. How did we ever survive in the age before digital cameras? Now, as you say, we have more pictures than we know what to do with. Who here actually believes they'll ever print, publish or frame every one of their pictures, or ever use every one as a signature. They certainly don't ever even all show up in trip reports, not even Flugel's illustrated novels.
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Post by Mill Bay on Sept 15, 2009 12:11:37 GMT -8
So, just an update on these photos: A friend of my dad sent these photos of the whale performing near Bown Island to the BC Cetacean research grou[, and they were apparently quite excited. These are in fact the first officially confirmed photos of a humpback whale in Howe Sound for nearly a hundred years.
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Post by Kam on Sept 23, 2009 16:42:08 GMT -8
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Post by persephone on Sept 24, 2009 15:39:31 GMT -8
It was a great trip to the main land, and leaving Depature bay we were fortunate enough to see an Orcha wale pod that was swimming across the path of the ferry.
I got a ferry ride and got to see Orcha's in the wild. WOOT
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Post by Low Light Mike on Sept 29, 2009 19:37:18 GMT -8
Quinsam is Inspired Pretty soon it will be the Bowen Queen at this berth, for 6 months...
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Post by Kam on Oct 3, 2009 0:45:13 GMT -8
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Post by pscurr on Oct 18, 2009 10:14:54 GMT -8
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Post by DENelson83 on Oct 18, 2009 19:56:53 GMT -8
It looks like they couldn't afford cable TV for the bridge [Does double-take] Cable TV? On a ship at sea? How is that physically possible? Unless it's a cable ferry...
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Post by Kahloke on Oct 18, 2009 20:09:24 GMT -8
A treat for fans of the Steel Electrics: I’ve uploaded some more pictures of the Klickitat from the spring of 07. (about 2 weeks after the first crack was found..) Excellent photos! Thanks for sharing. The SE's are missed, but it was clearly time for them to go.
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Post by lmtengs on Oct 18, 2009 20:17:25 GMT -8
It looks like they couldn't afford cable TV for the bridge [Does double-take] Cable TV? On a ship at sea? How is that physically possible? Unless it's a cable ferry... It's very possible. BC Ferries would need to buy a VERY large spring-loaded coil of cable that reaches all the way from one terminal to the next. On one end, it would be connected to land, and on the other end to the ferry. They would need little lights every ten feet so that other boats don't crash into the cable; they would have to wait 'till the ferry came back across the passage of water, bringing the cable with it. Sure, it would cost tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars, and sure, there wouldbe tons of opposition, and sure, it's not economic, and sure, there would be vandals, [pauses to take breath] but SURE, it WOULD be possible. Though in the case of a cable ferry, on the other hand, one must just shove a TV cable into the centre of one of the existing cables, and tada! Television
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Post by Neil on Oct 18, 2009 20:58:14 GMT -8
It looks like they couldn't afford cable TV for the bridge [Does double-take] Cable TV? On a ship at sea? How is that physically possible? Unless it's a cable ferry... I think the statute of limitations on snappy comebacks has to be something less than six weeks...
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Post by Scott on Oct 18, 2009 22:55:57 GMT -8
[Does double-take] Cable TV? On a ship at sea? How is that physically possible? Unless it's a cable ferry... I think the statute of limitations on snappy comebacks has to be something less than six weeks... Too bad you missed the Denman Island ferry meeting Neil. You could have asked some probing questions and found out the real reason they want a cable ferry
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Post by Kam on Oct 19, 2009 9:03:37 GMT -8
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Post by Mill Bay on Oct 19, 2009 9:26:27 GMT -8
[Does double-take] Cable TV? On a ship at sea? How is that physically possible? Unless it's a cable ferry... I think the statute of limitations on snappy comebacks has to be something less than six weeks... It takes some people a little longer to snap than others.
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Post by DENelson83 on Oct 19, 2009 21:41:49 GMT -8
[Does double-take] Cable TV? On a ship at sea? How is that physically possible? Unless it's a cable ferry... I think the statute of limitations on snappy comebacks has to be something less than six weeks... It is. It's six weeks less a day.
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 22, 2009 20:51:18 GMT -8
Photos from my colleague Louise, who has a small boat and who knows that I like ferry pictures: C-Cell at S-Wartz Alberni at Duke: Kuper near Horseshoe Bay:
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Post by Political Incorrectness on Oct 23, 2009 19:43:30 GMT -8
Did they change the name of Chemainus? That'll confuse the heck out of people!
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Post by Low Light Mike on Oct 23, 2009 20:08:08 GMT -8
Did they change the name of Chemainus? That'll confuse the heck out of people! I like to confuse. The bay by the mill at Chemainus is called Horseshoe Bay. Luke has disappointed me by not taking the bait.
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Post by WettCoast on Oct 23, 2009 20:43:06 GMT -8
Its okay, the place on the other side is known as Horses Hoe Bay to me. A friend once told me that he had heard it pronounced that way at any rate.
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Post by Northern Exploration on Oct 24, 2009 5:30:48 GMT -8
Did they change the name of Chemainus? That'll confuse the heck out of people! I like to confuse. The bay by the mill at Chemainus is called Horseshoe Bay. Luke has disappointed me by not taking the bait. Dan asked me last night if you had lost it. I said I was suspicious Flug was playing with someone .
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Post by lmtengs on Oct 24, 2009 8:04:43 GMT -8
I like to confuse. The bay by the mill at Chemainus is called Horseshoe Bay. Luke has disappointed me by not taking the bait. Hmm? whaa...? What did I say? I haven't posted on this here thread for a long time, and suddenly my name pops up?? Where do I come in?
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