Pixel Darkroom Photography

For this image I sat the camera on a bucket since I did not have a tripod. The exposure took about 30″. I’m not too excited about the outcome. I’m pushing the camera to certain limits and exploring all kinds of weird ideas. I like how the moving silhouettes turned out. The good part about this was that I caught a fish before I took the shot, so I was set for dinner.

This is one of the days when the government regulations allowed fishing the sockeye salmon in British Columbia. It is the first year in many years when they allowed it, and people got really into it. You can see here how crowded the banks of the Fraser River are, just north of Chilliwack, BC. It was so crowded that I couldn’t believe there are so many fishermen on the planet. Lines got tangled. Many times. But, people caught lots of fish. I caught only a big one, but only because I didn’t have a very long line, don’t get me wrong. Otherwise I would have had more in the bag.
It was actually very fun and the kids loved pulling out the fish. Every once in a while (quite often actually) a fisherman would ask a kid if he caught something; if he didn’t he then would let the kids wrestle with the fish to pull it out. Fun. fun. fun.

The old Portman Bridge, still in use today and shown below, will be taken down after the completion of the New Portman Bridge, still under construction. I cross this bridge over Fraser River at least once a week, when traveling from Coquitlam to Surrey on Trans Canada Highway 1.
I would love to shoot more (mega?) construction photography, and when I got into photography, this was one of my dreams. I’d love to shoot oil rigs, construction of dams, bridges, mines, cranes and other (mighty) machines, you name it.