i own a beach

whee first photowalk of the month :D was toooooo, drumroll, iona island. or iona beach, on iona island. somewhere thereabouts. apparently i'd been there with my dad before when i was really young, and i vaguely remember it, but again i went today. it was kind of eerie there in a way, not necessarily because of the place itself but because it was super cloudy out - thick, featureless clouds that was identical in every direction - and cause we were right next to the airport. how's that all creepy? we'd constantly hear and sometimes feel the airplanes taking off and landing, but almost never see a single one - esp cause we were somewhat lower on the ground, surrounded by rolling hills too. so, yeah, interesting mood to start it off.

and, in continuing the spirit of my last post, today i went with the trynamic trio - 15/4, 40/2.8, 100/2.8 - ie, all my modern lenses (excluding the kit lens), and it was pretty amazingly great, actually. the 15 and 40 are so tiny that whenever i had the 100 on the camera, i could have the 15 in one jean pocket and the 40 in the other. gotta love pentax.

anyways, this place was incredibly jizztastic. at first, i thought it was okaylah, and snapped a few shots as i walked around:

some nice pictures i guess, but nothing extremely inspired or unique (speaking of which, i'd been getting worried lately that all my photos were getting sortof cornered into the same genre - that dark, moody atmospheric thing. nice, but repetitive. then i realized what the fuck can i do about it - it's what vancouver weather gives me, so i guess i have to live with it. i'll post sunshine and bunnies when we actually get sunshine and bunnies, kthx.)

anyways, a few minutes after these, we saw something that made me go oh shit...

yes. we saw rusted shit ahead. and i was like ohgodohgodohgod MUSTPHOTOOOOOJIZZZzzzzzxzZXZXXxxzzzzz. if you know much about me, you know that i love that sorta urban-decay stuff - rusting old barns and that type of thing. we also saw some sign regarding something or other, i didn't pay it much attention though. cause, i mean, RUST!

but first, a lolsers photo:

and now that my lolsers quota has been filled: SHITBRIX.

hurhurhur im so punnneeeee.

so the first thing on the photo docket that really got me excited was a boat. a rusted boat. a rusted, barnacled boat. a rusted, barnacled boat with holes. jizztastic. i basically spent the better part of 20 minutes photomolesting its every curve. first half with the 40, second half with the 15.

(i realise these're a bit repetitive. while photomolesting i was a bit overeager so i wanted to make sure i got every angle of every mildly similar composition, so hence 50 near-identical images. or is it every composition of every mildly similar angle? same shits.)

and now with the 15. it's interesting how i took so many more flat-surface shots with an ultrawide than a normal lens. interesting. not really. here be they:

and that concludes today's session of photomolesting a boat. there was some other shit next to it but i didn't feel like photomolesting that too - it's a tiring thing, photomolestation. anyways....ONWARDS, WE FORGED! wow, that was incredibly nerdy.

i quite like these shots. and sin x  = 0, where these pictures are the initial arm, of these, was this old abandoned-ish metal trailer/container/thing. it was pretty awesome, and of course, it was rusted too. more jizzing ensued: 

and also a gas tank thing next to it? idkwhatitisexactlybuttherewasahosecomingoutofit:

and, this next photo might be slightly blasphemous...

yes. i took a picture of rust, and sucked all the orgasmic rust-y colours out of it. i'm a horrible person. i know.

and to punish me for being such a horrible person, the photo gods gave me rather meh photos for the next few minutes: 

and now, lastly, we went to the beachhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhowmanyhscanitypeeeeeeeeeeandnowit'seeeees

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at this point, it's been a good 2-3 hours or so, and we more or less called it quits and started walking back. just before that, i took my last shot of the day:

which is eerily similar to the very first shot of the day, somewhere up there.

annndddd that was my first of the month - and i loved it. i think my very first photowalk of january was awesome too - the ones of the sunset at whytecliff. so i guess it bodes well for february, especially cause i'd been thinking it'd be a meh month for photos - apparently not! 

this photowalk was interesting, apart from the sexy subject matter, in that it was bloody difficult to edit to how i wanted it to look. often times there was so very low contrast in the overall image that basically "fill  light" or "recovery" weren't helpful at all - the entire picture's tonal range was so compressed both options affected the entire image, more or less, making it difficult to get a good contrasty image that i wanted, without having blown-out skies. and the flipside of that was in the beach images (except for the shell in the sand) - i wanted something super low contrast, so that there was a simple, minimalistic transition between the nuances of colour. aka, i had to turn DOWN contrast, instead of turn up. it certainly felt blasphemous, and i think i actually did try to go for a low-contrast image while turning up the contrast, so it only shows in the last shot with the ship. the 2 before it were contrasted cause im too pussy to go lowcontrast.

so, yeah. challenging to PP these shots, quite. but i think it turned out pretty awesome. still, they seem kinda underexposed to me still, among other things (and like i said fill light/recovery was no help for these images) so i think i'll be doing more work on them; i haven't seen the final copy of these just yet. 

overall, on a scale of one to jizz, it was a passmesometissuesplox