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Photomanipulation based on an infrared photo of Lady Amaranth.

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The Victoria men's club from the Japanese garden at the Empress. This is an infrared photograph with the red and blue channels reversed.

Two more IR red-blue reversals of Christ Church Cathedral (seat of the Anglican diocese of British Columbia) from the adjacent graveyard.

The graveyard is Victoria's original graveyard and was converted to a small park decades ago. All the headstones and markers, excluding the larger monuments such as the one in the top picture, were moved to the back of the park. I used to live a block away from this park in an apartment that overlooked this church and graveyard. The headstones in the back were very interesting. Most of them are gone now, having been snapped off by vandals. It was really disappointing to see how few were left. The stones had stood intact for a century and then in the last twenty years they all disappeared.

From the south-west corner, looking north-east.

From the rose gardens on the south lawn, facing north-north-west.

The Empress Hotel was built in 1908 as part of the Canadian Pacific Railway's chain of luxury hotels. The land it is sitting on is fill. The street in front, Government Street, was a bridge across James Bay when construction started. The city of Victoria originally granted the land that the natural history museum is now on to CP on the condition that they build and operate a hotel in the city for a minimum of fifty years. The architect, Francis Rattenbury (who also designed the provincial legislature buildings in Victoria and the fantastic power plants half way up Indian Arm), decided that filling the bay and parking the hotel centred in Victoria's inner harbour would make for a much more impressive presence. The original hotel (the part in these pictures) and the extension built in 1912 rest on Australian iron-wood pilings that are actually insufficient for the weight of the building - the hotel has settled about half a metre since it was constructed. I pointed out the repairs in the masonry to Elaine while we were there, but didn't think to take a picture. When the conference centre was added behind the hotel in the late 1980's stainless-steel pilings were driven nearly twice as deep as the pilings bearing the hotel and they only carry a fraction of the weight.

Some infra-red photos of Active Pass:

Infra-red only:

( Three more )

Infra-red with the red and blue channels reversed:

( Two more )

Infra-red and visible light:

( Two more )

Noons Creek, Port Moody, B.C.

Trees out back. Infrared. Red and blue channels swapped. Blah, blah, blah. Just another pointless bit of art that will have no life beyond the few dozen people that will scroll over this on their way to latest gossip. I don't have time to finish anything. No shows lined up. No prints for sale. Nothing. A whole fat fuckload of nothing and I am right pissed off about it today.