I’m on the Island for work this week; I’m teaching a weeklong course that I typically run every couple of years. I’ve taught it at UBC for years, and tried it at a new location, still in Vancouver, last year.
Travel approvals have become more and more challenging, and when I ran it in Vancouver last summer I had an unusual number of people too juggle as a few pulls out because their managers couldn’t manage to allocated the funds for their attendance.
So, this year, we decided to take a different approach after purchasing a whack of equipment and supplies, and it is a travelling road show. If it’s difficult to get 16 people to me in Vancouver, then I will take it to the people wanting it, area by area…starting with the Island.
And so here I am….the evening before a week long marathon of a workshop, taking a breather down by the ocean, below Tigh-na-mara where I am staying for the week.
I have stayed here many times, but rarely in the summer. So I’m not used to how many people are at the resort, or the fact that there are people swimming in the ocean….which generally is not a thing at the time of year that I usually find myself here.
I’m not sure why I processed this image this way. It was pretty in colour, the tall grasses already golden and dry, some of the other beach grasses stiff and green. The logs bleached and blending into the colour of the sand. And the ocean, relatively calm and a pretty blue, against a clear blue sky. The focus was intended to be as it is…. on the grasses, with the chairs and the background blurred. But for whatever reason, I desaturated it and started playing….and there was something about the end product that just stuck with me. It felt like a photo taken in another era….and, despite the lack of colour, it still feels like a lazy summer day to me. It was 31C, and most people were either in the shade or in the water. And the chairs just feel like they are waiting for people to come back, and watch the light fade from the sky later in the day.
I was going to come back to this spot later in the evening, during the golden hour. But, in the end, I was just too tired, and I have another four evenings to revisit the beach. So I’m sticking with this photo, because I like it 😌
