What I did on my summer vacation - part the third

So, the carousel blew my (admittedly) wee mind. After I had finished doing my thing with the carousel we wandered out the rear door and discovered...

The Burnaby Village Museum

This site, which we didn’t quite stumble across (but it was close), is advertised as a10-acre open-air museum (circa 1925). Wow, that’s cool too. It turns out that this little ‘town’ has more than 30 shops and homes, including a movie theatre, blacksmithy, bakery, newspaper and an Ice Cream Parlour.

Oops, lets back up. Even before we got to the village proper, for want of a better word, the first building that we encountered was one that housed the 1912 B.C. Electric Railway interurban tram (#1223).

Now I’m a bus driver, and I have been for several years, so I know somewhat about creature comfort and the transit of masses. This electric train (albeit a big one), I really liked. The interior of the car glowed with the warmth of the incandescent lamps and the glory of polished wood. It sure showed an interest in detail that I think you seldom find in transit vehicles these years.

  

So Sid and I wandered these streets, photographing the scenes, and even got the chance to wander behind the scenes. We took the time to watch a blacksmith at work (and yes, took a couple of pictures of her at the anvil). Can you tell that I enjoyed the whole expedition?

And again, in praise of off-season visitation, there were few actual people on the streets or in front of my lens.

Note: I wanted to thank Sid, for a lot of things really, but for making me think about photographs and about photography as a whole in this latest outing. I haven’t been taking many photographs recently, even though I enjoy it and identify myself with it. I needed a refresher course.

What I’m getting at here is that Sid showed me (again) that the principle of hand holding a camera under difficult lighting situations works. Sid taught me for a second time how to play around with the available light and of how to play with the ISO setting of the camera. We took many photographs, even inside the buildings (particularly the cannery which had sections that were quite dark), of pipes and machines and gears and assemblies, all kinds of stuff. Most of the flash photographs that I took have elements that I find are disconcerting, detracting, annoying. Hand holding the camera even captured the best shots of the carousel.

Me, behind the scene

Thanks dude. I owe you.