Flashbacks

A local fb person re-posted a 6-year-old photo of mine. 

Back in 2017, we had local flooding. It didn't much matter in our park, but some homes were affected.

While Sue and I were sitting in the carpark by the boat launch one day, a couple came by and launched their canoe from within the park, right from beside the footpath. It was a unique event, so I took the photo. To give you an idea of how high the water was that year, the normal river is back behind the second row of trees in the above photo, and quite a few feet lower too.

Re-editing it according to a whim, I made the photo b&w but kept the couple and their canoe in colour. Selective colour like this is considered kitschy by most photographers, and for the most part, I agree with them, but every now and then, it suits me to do it.

Two years later, in April 2019, the water was also high, but not like 2017.  It's the same pond but just a little to the left of the first photo. I like my original processing well enough that I haven't felt the need to re-edit this one.

It's not flooded like that this year, not even close. There was hardly more that a puddle last time I checked. If I get around to it, I'll go and grab a current photo and post it at the end of this post.

As I scanned through other April photos, I went all of the way back to April 2015. While I didn't find more pond photos, I did decide to edit this ↓ photo of the Ashton General Store. I can't say re-edit in this case because I never bothered to process the photo in the first place.  Once again, I was moved to convert it to b&w, but I was not moved to use selective colour this time. I could have left the ice cream strawberry and the sign, green, but I do think that would have been quite tacky.

While the building remains, it is no longer a general store, It's too bad really, for it was the store owner's dream, but the landlords decided not to renew their lease. (That's the story as I remember it, which may or may not be correct.)

In searching for more April flooding, after I posted the above photo of the General Store, I found that we returned the next April, in 2016, and I took some interior photos. I liked these well enough and did not need to reprocess them. (I would have posted them identically back then.)

As for a current photo of the park area that was flooded back then. No. Just no. It was cloudy and rainy and just plain miserable out there yesterday.