Post trip and race lull, last book promo

After big the trip I was working on a lot of photos. There was a day trip to Waterton, with more photos. I did photos for the Wild Rose triathlon, and that was many photos. This last week has been a bit of a lull recovering from all that and polishing the book. 

Although I have carried the big film camera along for two walks, scouting for long exposure photos. A few were almosts, or maybes, depending on what the light is like. This one is an iPhone photo with Delta 100 filters.

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2. Sneak peek. This is the cover of the NL book. I'm on the verge of pushing the publish button. One for me, and one of my readers has purchased a copy. Thank you so much! 62 pages, 88 photos, of which 7 are the full 26 inch width of the lay flat book. Here's a sneak peek of the cover image. What with a current discount, pricing is about $200 plus shipping. If you're interested in buying a copy for yourself, or as a gift for someone, let me know quick. 

3. These images are from around the Cape Spear lighthouse. None of the NL images below are in the book.

4. These people were chair pigs. They were sitting there when we first walked up to the lighthouse. They were still there after walking around a while, scoping out the lighthouse itself, and admiring the view on a beautiful day. Other people gave them the stink eye, wanting to get the classic red chair photo. In the end I settled for this.

5. A display, not the original mounting.

6. Some of the nearby shoreline. It was a good candidate for that bucket list photo, but it was hard to get to a suitable vantage point. When I say hard, what I really mean is life threatening.

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Film Daniel's Harbour shoreline, long exposure.

Linda, pretending to be frightened on a narrow bit of trail. The chain was there for a reason.

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The workhorse camera and lens getting a rest on a piece of driftwood at the Arches Provincial Park, on 35mm film. Obviously not as found.

I'm a sucker for reflections

The push is on. The simmering is over. Time to fish or cut bait. $#@! or get off the pot. The book will be done this week and sent to Blurb. My major learning here is that it's really tough to work on a book, and be blogging using the same set of photos. Won't do that again.

Here's a block of reflection photos from NL. 

1. Just off the 2 mile trail, looking for the waterfalls we could hear, in between the buzz of the bugs.

2. Another view from the Burlington cabin.

3. Twillingate.

4. Sunset from the Raleigh cabin, after a 10 K walk up that peninsula you can see.

5. One of the hikes near Chance Cove.

6. Smith's Harbour, near Burlington.

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10. Part of the view from the Burlington cabin. There are people on that deck enjoying the sunset.

11. Sunset from the Burlington cabin.

12. Another small village not far from Chance Cove.

13. Not far from #12.

14. I saw the yellow cabin and pulled into a fishing hut parking spot to get out the camera. I hadn't even got out of the car before a local slowed down and told me I couldn't park there. Showed him the camera and he just rolled his eyes.

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Film

I'm actually pretty proud of this photo. Taken to finish off a roll spent working on long exposures. Keep in mind this is with a completely manual camera. I had to figure out the exposure settings, and find focus on a boat moving left to right at 35 mph, just as the water skier is carving a corner. Totally the opposite of a long exposure.

Linda

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One of the dams at Bishop's Falls.

The salmonid centre

No, not a spelling mistake. See for yourself, here. Nor is there a fish cop to check fish id to see if they are old enough to breed. I don't know where that name came from. In fact, it's a facility attached to a fish ladder around the Bishop Falls power dam. We regretted that the highly reviewed cafe was closed the day we were there.

1. A salmon working it's way up the ladder.

2. It's a seriously rugged landscape, with huge warning signs about not going beyond the fence. In some warning signs the dangers are not obvious and the sign is needed. In this case, any fool can see that going beyond the fence is risking death by maiming then drowning. And yet, I'd bet money they've had to bring out the rescue equipment for some fool who said, 'hold my beer.' Or maybe they delegate that to the crows and ravens.

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6. Linda is not getting screeched in. This is a salmon, not a cod.

7. Pretty talented artist to make it out of driftwood.

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9. The real thing. Part of the ladder has viewing windows.

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Film (new)

I'm not quite sure why I took this image. I think the light on the texture of the rock was interesting, and wanted to see if it would come across on film.

Linda, posing with the Viking explorers.

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The sunset from our Raleigh cabin, having survived an endless trek across a barren peninsula. We earned our wine o'clock!

Rock related art

One of the rules is; when life hands you lemons, make lemonade. In NL, the next rule seems to be; if you live where there's lots of rocks, use them to make art. 

1. A clothesline painted onto rocks near Smith's Harbour. We found them while looking for Limestone Park. The instructions to drive to the end of the dead end road and you'll see a sign for the park, made the assumption we'd know which dead end road. There were a lot of them for such a small place.

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4. I wonder if a child stacked these up as practice for building bigger ones.

5. Bigger ones like these. This is the beach at Cox's Cove, where someone built these lovely sculptures. Or maybe the day before they had a sculpture making contest.

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9. Or maybe the person just got better and better as they worked along the beach.

10. A garden and stone supplier at Pynn's Brook.

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15. Painted rocks near Port aux Choix. These have something to do with the cover of the book. One of my regular readers knows why this amused me so much, even if the tongue doesn't have a tiny black dot in it.

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17. I think this was on the beach part of the Coastal Trail, near Port Saunders. 

So how's the book simmering going, you ask? Fairly well. I've swapped a few photos, and I'm still musing about adding some photos. Not quite ready to hit the publish button yet.

It's been an interesting experience working on the book at the same time as working on the blog for the same trip. I keep looking at photos and asking myself, I thought I'd blogged this, and then realize I've booked it instead.  I'm not trying to create two lists of photos, one for the blog and one for the book, but it is complicating things. Maybe I should have blogged about the trip till I was tired of that, give it some time, and then work on the book. That's pretty much what happened with the other books.

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Film (new) Pissamere Falls in Terra Nova park.

Linda, a pose near the Citadel.

And me, posed on a nearby rock.

Newfoundland