No. 9492 - 01 Jul 2011 - 13:59:16Here is a photo of Rusty and a glacier, taken at the pass last Sunday.
The prairie is a spirit and
the mountains are an event.
Showing posts with label topography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label topography. Show all posts
08 July 2012
Roger's Pass
No. 9492 - 01 Jul 2011 - 13:59:16Here is a photo of Rusty and a glacier, taken at the pass last Sunday.
The prairie is a spirit and
the mountains are an event.
08 September 2011
06 September 2011
02 September 2011
On Guard
No. 7454 - 21 Aug 2011 - 15:31:53
A summer's day at Cleveland Dam, Grouse Mountain
on the North Shore of Burrard Inlet in Metro Vancouver.
06 August 2011
01 August 2011
25 June 2011
Topography
No. 3868 (detail) - 11 Jun 2011 - 19:10:08The Drive
When I was a little girl, growing up on the edge of Grouse Mountain in the City of North Vancouver, I asked my mother what was on the other side of the mountains and she told me, "more mountains". I found the answer to be insufficient although I understood its veracity. Perhaps I meant to ask "what is on the other side of the obstacles I have yet to negotiate?"
My failure to post lately is due to a depressing cold I caught during my road trip which I still nurse while waiting for a bit of arthroscopic surgery on my right knee. In spite of a recent postponement I look forward to recovering the mobility I lost three years ago when I was last hit by the chronic illness stick and fell in the well.
Fortunately, I was able to chronicle and complete a body of work documenting civic, architectural, biological and social life, situated as I was, at an 8th floor outpost on the corner of Main and Hastings - an address so horrible that I barely mentioned it by name on these pages.
And yet the view was spectacular.
When I first began to capture this southern perspective of Metro Vancouver someone noted that it was a shame I did not also have a view of the North Shore Mountains to which I replied, "I know they are there and that is enough". They have my back even when I cannot see them and now inspire feelings of gravitas and continuity rather than appearing to be obstacles to expansion and self-discovery.
I am at liberty to look forward with a view to the opportunities in my 360 degrees of landscape consciousness at dimeChronicle. On the other side of the mountains are more beautiful mountains.
Regards,
CH
When I was a little girl, growing up on the edge of Grouse Mountain in the City of North Vancouver, I asked my mother what was on the other side of the mountains and she told me, "more mountains". I found the answer to be insufficient although I understood its veracity. Perhaps I meant to ask "what is on the other side of the obstacles I have yet to negotiate?"
My failure to post lately is due to a depressing cold I caught during my road trip which I still nurse while waiting for a bit of arthroscopic surgery on my right knee. In spite of a recent postponement I look forward to recovering the mobility I lost three years ago when I was last hit by the chronic illness stick and fell in the well.
Fortunately, I was able to chronicle and complete a body of work documenting civic, architectural, biological and social life, situated as I was, at an 8th floor outpost on the corner of Main and Hastings - an address so horrible that I barely mentioned it by name on these pages.
And yet the view was spectacular.
When I first began to capture this southern perspective of Metro Vancouver someone noted that it was a shame I did not also have a view of the North Shore Mountains to which I replied, "I know they are there and that is enough". They have my back even when I cannot see them and now inspire feelings of gravitas and continuity rather than appearing to be obstacles to expansion and self-discovery.
I am at liberty to look forward with a view to the opportunities in my 360 degrees of landscape consciousness at dimeChronicle. On the other side of the mountains are more beautiful mountains.
Regards,
CH
06 June 2011
Hope
No. 3518 - 06 June 2011 - 20:48:30A small town at the junction of three highways, overlooked by coastal mountains and indicating a proximity to home.
03 April 2011
Northerly
No. 6832 - 27 Mar 2011 - 18:22:28In the direction towards north
which is the point of the horizon 90˚ clockwise from west.
Where am I?
28 December 2010
27 December 2010
07 December 2010
25 October 2010
20 October 2010
Bejewelled
No. 3561 - 12 Jul 2010 - 22:12:03Here is a thin-slice of landscape from a random perspective: eight storeys over the last hill before sea-level, facing southwest, in the downtown of Metro Vancouver. This image signals the transformation of a three year practice, which is drawing to a close at the end of the year, as the bloG continues from fresh perspectives.
The building in the foreground is 100 years old in 2011. Although it is handsome from afar it is also neglected by the not-for-profiteers of the social housing society; exploited for its unfortunate location at the southeast corner of Gastown.
In the background, City Hall shines bright white on the left side of the skyline, while Library Square emits red beams of light on the right.
Little Sky House sits mid-ground, off the centre line adjacent to Yaletown's towers of lit windows.
The sky is a moving backdrop.
I watch for signs.
11 October 2010
30 August 2010
11 June 2010
Snow Cone
No. 4097 - 04 Feb 2010 - 08:57:20Gastown, Vancouver
The stratocumulus cloud mass overhead and the dark land below attempt to contain the reflection of sunlight on snow. The scene hints at the volcanic energy building within the mountain.
Mount Baker is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano. It is the second-most active (after Mount St. Helens) and the second-most heavily glaciated (after Mount Rainier) of the volcanoes in the Cascade Range of Washington State. It is also one of the snowiest places on earth and set a historical record, for greatest snowfall at a single point, in 2005.
The stratocumulus cloud mass overhead and the dark land below attempt to contain the reflection of sunlight on snow. The scene hints at the volcanic energy building within the mountain.
Mount Baker is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano. It is the second-most active (after Mount St. Helens) and the second-most heavily glaciated (after Mount Rainier) of the volcanoes in the Cascade Range of Washington State. It is also one of the snowiest places on earth and set a historical record, for greatest snowfall at a single point, in 2005.
Known as Koma Kulshan by the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest, it was renamed, by British explorer Captain George Vancouver, after his 3rd Lieutenant who first sighted the peak from the HMS Discovery in 1792 (he who charts, names). Its 3300 metre summit is approximately 100 km southeast from downtown Vancouver and is visible from most of the Lower Mainland and higher elevations of Southwestern British Columbia.
04 June 2010
27 May 2010
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