Daily Photo - Sep. 01-15
For 2020, I am photographing every day, and posting the best of each day in half-month increments.
2020 September 01, Tuesday
The beginning of the month is a good time for people to reflect on their lives. Apparently, it's also a good time for the water to reflect its surroundings.
Olympus E-PL9: f7.1, 1/640 sec, ISO 200
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 02, Wednesday
Paisley has a fascinating history. The shape comes from ancient Persia. The concept of putting many such shapes together comes from India. The name comes from a Scottish town where knockoff shawls were produced. Apparently, American quilters call the pattern "Persian Pickles", though it's hypothesized that the shape actually represents a cypress tree.
Olympus E-PL9: f6.1, 1/150 sec, ISO 6400
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 03, Thursday
This is the Cenotaph in Oromocto, New Brunswick. Recently my parents have been doing a lot of research on veterans. I was keen to visit the Cenotaph and record the names of people it lists for them.
Olympus E-PL9: f5.6, 1/500 sec, ISO 200
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 04, Friday
This time around my work trip to New Brunswick was very quick. I was soon back in Williams Point, photographing the far shore of Antigonish Harbour.
Olympus E-PL9: f6.3, 1/1600 sec, ISO 500
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 05, Saturday
If it survives, this banded woolly bear caterpillar will grow into an Isabella tiger moth. I find it fascinating how these little creatures go through such dramatic changes over the course of their lives.
Olympus E-PL9: f6.3, 1/640 sec, ISO 6400
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 06, Sunday
It seemed only right that since I photographed a caterpillar, I should also photograph a moth. Unfortunately, I'm not entomologically gifted enough to know what species this is. Nice as it would have been from a storyline point of view, I can say that it is almost certainly not an Isabella tiger.
Olympus E-PL9: f6.3, 1/640 sec, ISO 250
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 07, Monday
My Labour Day was fairly quiet. I went to Chisholm Park in Antigonish, and took this picture of the local Cenotaph. It was important to me that I record it - you'll see why at the end of this post!
Olympus E-PL9: f4.5, 1/250 sec, ISO 250
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 08, Tuesday
Every year there's a big deal made over the return of students to school. This year that tendency was thrown into overdrive because of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. This was not the return after a Summer break, but rather a six-month long March Break. I'm told that the level of hand-sanitization is extreme. Combined with limits to students mingling and moving around the schools and with the wearing of masks in common areas, it's hoped this will be the least-infectious year to date.
Olympus E-PL9: f6.3, 1/640 sec, ISO 5000
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 09, Wednesday
I have a predilection to photograph reddish sunsets. This one was a pastel pink and blue. I thought it would be a nice change to capture its subtleties. Unfortunately, I don't think I did a great job of it, so the picture is kinda boring. Given the massive forest fires raging in California, Oregon, Washington and other Western states of the USA, it's likely I'll have some very red sunsets once the ash and particulates get into the jet stream.
Olympus E-PL9: f4.5, 1/30 sec, ISO 6400
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 10, Thursday
My parents' next-door neighbours are having solar panels fitted to their roof. It has an excellent equator-facing orientation. I look forward to seeing what it looks like when it is done. If everyone could take such initiative, our power grid would become much greener and more resilient. I've always maintained that transmission losses over the great distances between centralized production plants and dispersed consumption points is an intolerable inefficiency.
Olympus E-PL9: f6.3, 1/400 sec, ISO 250
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 11, Friday
This would hardly be a Nova Scotian photo journal without some apple pictures, right? These ones are growing on one of the trees on the shore just behind my house. It's been a very dry Summer. I'm not sure what that will mean for apples, but I've heard reports that many other crops are undernourished. On the upside, it is expected to be an excellent vintage for the region's wine producers, since the dry weather has been very good for enhancing grape-flavours.
Olympus E-PL9: f5.8, 1/500 sec, ISO 500
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 12, Saturday
While on a weekend jaunt to Cape Breton my parents wanted to investigate several more cenotaphs. I did get some decent shots of a few, but this duck waddled by and stole the show. It wasn't even at a cenotaph, but rather a monument which we mistook for one. It turned out to be a large memorial to the founder of a socialist political party. We also found a similar construct that memorializes coal miners who died on the job.
Olympus E-PL9: f6.3, 1/500 sec, ISO 1000
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 13, Sunday
For the longest time, my mother's pepper plant had just two peppers on it. She was rightly proud of her gardening. We assumed that two was its limit, but recently there's been an explosion in new growth. Perhaps Priscella'll pick a peck of pickled peppers after all!
Olympus E-PL9: f5, 1/250 sec, ISO 1000
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 14, Monday
This cute critter was sitting right outside my front door. Insects sure do have some fascinating colouration patterns! I wonder if they find humans very bland.
Olympus E-PL9: f5.9, 1/500 sec, ISO 1600
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
2020 September 15, Tuesday
I've been involved (slightly) in a small project that has some big impact: The Antigonish Legion is moving the Cenotaph from Chisholm Park to Columbus Field. The new spot will combine the World War I and World War II memorials and offer more space for Remembrance Day ceremonies. In the pre-pandemic days, Chisholm Park became very crowded each November 11th.
September 15th, 2020 was the day of the big move. The Cenotaph was carefully sliced in two, hoisted by a crane onto a truck, driven down Main Street, and reassembled on the new foundation (for which I provided the drafting). There is still some work to be done on it in its new home. Hopefully I will have a shot of the completed (and enlarged) monument in a future SnapDash post.
The brilliant photo of the Cenotaph passing by the Antigonish Town Hall was taken by my father.
Olympus E-PL9: f5.9, 1/400 sec, ISO 2500
IrfanView: Crop, Colour Balance
