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"Heavy" traffic on the Eskay Creek Mine road.

Pentax K10D / DA 50-200
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The small community of Bob Quinn is basically just an airstrip along the Cassiar highway, a couple hundred km north of Terrace, and is one of the main staging areas for the mining industry in the Eskay(ish) region...

A Hawkair Dash-8 prepares for takeoff. Pentax K10D / DA 50-200



















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Terrace (pop 12109) marks the last point along my journey into the wilderness of northern BC that could be described as "urban." North of here, towns aren't much more than an old gas station and a few run down buildings. Sorry Kitwanga and Stewart... thats all you are to me.

The CN railyard in Terrace, Pentax K10D / DA 18-55

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Taken on the same day as "HDR Bridge" and "After the Storm," processed in Lightroom from a single .pef RAW file...

Pentax K10D / DA 18-55
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Last weekend, while I was visiting my dad, I had the opportunity to try out one of his old-school Pentax lenses: the Pentax M 135/3.5

The lens was dirty, scratched, host to a very impressive colony of fungus, and older than me but, like my M 50/1.7, it mounted on my K10D as if it was made only yesterday. While the lens isn't particularly fast, it delivered impressive sharpness and smooth bokeh, and I found the focal length to be very useful on the 1.5 crop factor K10D (~200mm equiv. Pentax, are you listening? A DA* 135 2.0 would be perfect...). My only complaint is with regards to chromatic abberation: the lens is rather prone to lateral CA (blue-yellow) at all apertures. Lightroom (and other RAW converting software) deals with this problem very well, so in the end it isn't much of an issue.

There wasn't really anything overly exciting going on during my stay (their local bear cub failed to show himself while I was there), so I had to settle on the driveway and the flower garden as my main subjects...















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The interior got a major dose of coastal rainfall over the past few days, and while soggy weather can be depressing and dull, when the clouds finally break, everything looks a little greener...

Pentax K10D / DA 18-55
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I don't do a lot of High Dynamic Range processing, but I think this one turned out rather nicely. This is the Silver Bridge over the Tulameen River in Princeton, BC.

Pentax K10D / DA 18-55
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Looks like I'm falling behind again on my plan to keep updating this blog regularly... Here's a couple shots from the past few days. All taken with my K10D / DA 50-200














A pair of deer in the early morning:













The K10D weather sealing came in handy here:
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