Eugenia Falls

[vaneramos]

I feel unprepared to begin posting photos from our camping trip, but have to start somewhere; and soon, there is so much to cover.

Over breakfast Tuesday morning, before we left the cottage, Mom reminisced about travels around Georgian Bay when she was a girl. She mentioned Eugenia Falls, which she visited with Dad, two of her sisters and one of their fiancés. This must have been when my parents were 18, the year they were married, 1951.

I had never seen Eugenia Falls and decided to stop there with Marian and Brenna en route to our camping destination. It was pretty, but difficult to photograph. The conservation area has been set up so you can't approach from the gorge below, as my parents must have done half a century ago.

Above the falls we explored the ruin of a mill, which captured our imaginations for a while and afforded photo ops. It's impossible to post these without making reference to photos bitterlawngnome and I have previously taken with Marian in Toronto's graffiti alley, although the art here is less sophisticated.

One of the photos behind the cut is 800 x 600, because it contains so much detail. That's all for tonight.

Comments

[eloquentwthrage.livejournal.com]

Wow, those are fun, thoughtful pics. Well done, you!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I had fun taking them. :-)

[missprune.livejournal.com]

Wow, awesome photos Van! I must say, you are lucky to have such photogenic and apparently cooperative models!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Well, they have had to get used to me stalking around with a camera. ;-)

wow

[ubermunkey.livejournal.com]

I love the two individual shots, however the top one is my favorite. It feels of best frineds and inside stories and love.

Namaste Van
I am really missing you tonight and hope this finds you well and happy. Would love to be in your arms and in your bed.

lovemunkey

Re: wow

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Man, I am so much needing to feel the strength of you arms, the sound of your voice, the smell of your skin.

Love,
Van

[bezigebij.livejournal.com]

They're all striking, but I love the bottom one with Brenna. The light and stillness - just a wonderful composition.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I'm fond of how it captures a moment.

[dakoopst.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just a personal bias toward people pics, or maybe it's because I've met them, but I feel your photography is never more effective than it is when you're capturing Brenna and Marian. The first one is incredibly dynamic.

[clairenolen.livejournal.com]

you shouldn't put the quality of your pictures down, Van. Those are very good! In my opinion they are as " sophisticated" as Bill's.

[bitterlawngnome.livejournal.com]

I think he meant the grafitti in the background :)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Yes, although it's difficult to avoid comparison, Bill is correct that I was referring to the quality of the graffiti. I wish I could turn up the photos I posted of Marian in the same graffiti alley where he photographed her in June, but I don't remember the date so it's going to require a thorough search through my archives.

[dencoartist.livejournal.com]

You have the coolest freakin kids. Wow.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Hehe, thanks!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

All stories, I need to share them!

[token-otter.livejournal.com]

Van, I've been so enjoying all the pictures of the girls on here. It's remarkable how they are growing up and becoming their own people.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm impressed, too. I don't recall being so self-aware or evolved at their age.

[token-otter.livejournal.com]

I believe that's because we had no access to anything regarding our sexuality :) that might have helped :)

[art-thirst.livejournal.com]

Lucky man you are Van. :-)

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Indeed!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Haha, thanks! I have so many favourites of them, it would be hard to choose. :-)

[justapostcard.livejournal.com]

I adore the first picture of the girls!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

It captures some of the hilarity of being around those two!

[bear-left.livejournal.com]

Amazing pictures, once more. I've said before how reading your LJ & looking at the pictures you (& Bill) have taken of Marian & Brenna has made me thinking about parenting quite differently, & I'll say it again. What jumps out of me this time though, above & beyond the joy, their friendship, and the stunning background, is that you've given them quite a gift: pictures of their youth that they'll cherish down the road, rather than recoil from. I suspect very few of us are so blessed.

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Certainly one of the motivations for keeping this journal the way I do is a future record for my children. I hope they will enjoy it, and that there will be nothing (or at least little) to embarrass them.

[halation.livejournal.com]

those are AMAZING photographs!

[vaneramos.livejournal.com]

Thank you!