Another photo from another night out on the cliffs of Torbay. This time I went down towards the water itself. The weather here has taken a turn for the worse since then so it’s given me time to catch up on my photo processing.
Newfoundland
Blog accident
These rocks are a nesting ground for seagulls and sometimes they stay still long enough to appear in long exposure shots, sometimes but not often.
I’ll use this new post as an opportunity to explain a bit of a accident I had with the blog this morning. In a tired haze I decided to tidy up some old wordpress installations without realising that all the posts since August 2010 still pointed to files under those folders. I’ve spent most of the day tidying up the mess and I’ve got most of them reposted now from my Lightroom catalogs. One or two big months to go and all the photos should be back.
Update: All back I think. Might have gotten a few pics wrong but they are 3 years old so I had a hard time remembering exactly which ones they were.
Torbay
Here is a photo from a walk in the neighbourhood last night. We are currently living in Torbay which is just outside St John’s, it’s like a suburb but dont let the locals hear me say that. This view is a 5 minute walk from the house.
Bell Island
I dont often post two days in a row since I dont get enough time to spend at photos and produce some every day but we went for a drive yesterday out to Portugal Cove and the Bell Island ferry port and I brought my camera.
After some fish and chips I had the time to take some long exposure shots. I had been converting these into B&W lately but this one looked much nicer in colour this morning that I decided it’d be better to leave it in colour.
Where I Live Now
The first few photos I’ve posted from Newfoundland have been foggy and misty shots. In reality that was just one weekend and our first month here have been dominated by sunshine and high temperatures. St John’s itself is a beautiful colourful city so I spent a day down town taking photos of the row houses, some of which I’ll post over the next few weeks.
This photo was taking from The Rooms a museum which sits high above the city and while some of my friends hate it’s modern design towering over the city but it does have a viewing platform that gives a great view of the city. In the distance is Signal Hill and The Narrows entrance to the harbour, on the hill is Cabot Tower. If you look at the city itself you’ll see some of the colourful downtown row houses that are a huge tourist attraction.
Burin Dock
Here is another photo from the Burin trip. this one from close to the house in which we were staying. A feature of Newfoundland communities seems to be these old rickety looking docks. They look as if they have been built decades ago for a once off use but somehow they stayed standing so people keep using them. Far braver people than I.