More rejects

I don't know who wants to look at lousy photos, but here are some more.

A sea lion popped up a couple of yards from the kayak, and almost gave me a few opportunities to get its picture.  This one is the least wretched of the shots that I managed to get.

Good ol' Golden Bear.  The sky and the bridge aren't overexposed (as they so often are), but the ship is bright enough to be seen from space, and the Casio can't handle it.

Not such a lousy photo.  I think I threw this one out because I had a very similar shot that I liked more.

My hand is in focus, and the sky looks good, and everything else sucks.  What was this supposed to be a picture of?

Kayak shots from the recycle bin

Most of the shots I take from the kayak are crappy.  The most usual problem is overexposure, because the exposure compensation on my old compact camera has to be adjusted for almost every shot that has the sky in it.  Problems handling the camera in the waterproof bag cause framing and other problems.  Sometimes the shot would have been junk anyhow, but I'd rather blame the camera than myself.

The waterproof bag's lens cap thing needs to be held open.  The wooden structure is identified as "dike 14" on the NOAA charts.

I guess I need a brighter flash.

Framing and focus problems.

Overexposed.

Water spots on the bag, and an edge of the part of the bag meant for the lens is showing.

A bit overexposed.

Out of focus, overexposed sky.  This was a blind shot, so I guess I'm lucky I got anything at all.

Overexposed.

I can't remember why I put this in the recycle bin.  It seems like a decent image in spite of its problems.

The casio has a special feature called "digital zoom" that it uses to ruin images.  Digital zoom is very easily activated by mistake.  Digital zoom really, really sucks.

This is from the one time that I saw a harbor seal in the strait.  I got a couple of other pictures of it, but they weren't as good as this one.

I don't know why I threw this one out.

Almost every picture I took of the Peace Lucky was overexposed, like this one is.

Overexposed.  It might have been an interesting anyway if I had been able to zoom in more.

Has glare from the camera bag.

Nothing's in focus.  What was the stupid camera looking at?

10 minute loading zone, new camera bag

It seems like the 10-minute loading zone at Eckley pier is popular with people who can't tell time, but maybe they are just so baffled by the twin concepts of "10-minute parking" and "loading zone" that they can't cope - the driver of the car in the picture was so confused that he wasn't able to navigate between the parallel white lines, and apparently wasn't able to find the car again once he had left it.

There's usually a place to park in spite of all that.

 

Parking for the intellectually challenged.

New camera bag.

The (supposedly) waterproof camera bag that I've been using keeps the camera dry in the kayak, but water on the bag over the camera's lens messes up the photos, and there's never anything dry to wipe the water off with. 

The new (actually old, but unused) Aquapak waterproof camera bag has a lens cap thingy, so that the part of the bag that covers the lens isn't constantly wet - if you remember to snap it completely shut after each time you use it, and you don't drop the camera in the water, and the camera doesn't get splashed when you're taking a shot; you also have to remember to hold the cover back against the front of the bag.

The old camera bag.

The best way to shoot from the kayak, it turns out, is to take the camera out of the bag when it's safe to do so, and put it back in when it's not.  This is at least as much a pain in the keister as shooting with the camera in the bag, but the images tend to be better this way.