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Both canoes done for today. They sure look great sat next to each other like this. Can't wait to get some paint on them. I know a lot of people think I'm an idiot for painting over that wood but I do believe that they'll look much nicer with paint. Besides they will last longer.
Aboriginal people removed bark to make canoes, containers and shields and to build temporary shelters.
Spent today shooting for the Canoe Summer Lookbook...here's a little peek.
You can visit their website here. It was so fun!
Canoe offers vintage, American made clothing, great boots, blankets, hand tooled leather goods and woodburned pocket knives.
Can't wait to share more!
Isn't Kaylan such a pretty model?
"Mommy, don't stop me now I'm having such a good time". Canoeing on the Etowah River, January 12, 2013, temperature 76 degrees.
msh0113-15 (Don't Stop Me Now) Queen
Canoer's Memorial honors those that have paddled and those that continue to paddle these flowing waters. Access to Highbanks Trail during summer months is available at this site.
I got an early start on the canoe shoot this morning. So early that it was just a black blob on dark water. I maneuvered around until I got the canoe on a lighter patch of water. Then I had to bump up the ISO because — even though it was calm — the canoe wasn’t perfectly still and it was blurring. And it was still coming out as a black blob so I hit it with the flash. To be honest, I was kind of shocked that it looked this good.
By the way, I can’t help but think about how nearly-impossible this would have been with film. And how expensive to experiment/bracket the exposures it would have been.
I had to retouch this one because the flash reflected off the few bits of shinny metal left on the old canoe.
Nikon D5100 -- Nikon 18-55mm
24mm
F4@1/2
ISO 400
Retouched
(DSC_4008 - 2) L#19
©Don Brown 2014
The Curtiss JN-4 was one of the most popular aircraft in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Designed by Englishman Benjamin Thomas, formerly with the Sopwith Aviation Company, it was manufactured by the Curtiss Aeroplane Co. of Hammondsport, New York. The JN built upon the previous Curtiss Model J and Model N series of trainers that had developed before the First World War. The name “Jenny” came from the JN designation and is associated with the American (Curtiss Aeroplane Co.) variants of this aircraft. It was originally developed as a training aircraft in response to a U.S. Army competition seeking a two-seater biplane (student in front, instructor behind) with dual controls. The JN-4 model first appeared in 1916 and sported a 90 hp Curtiss OX-5 water cooled V8 engine. By 1918 a larger 150 hp Hispano-Suiza engine was installed to provide more power. LINK - albertaaviationmuseum.com/in-formation-curtiss-jn-4-jenni...
The Curtiss Model 41 Lark was a commercial biplane manufactured by Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company that was used by pioneering airmail, airline and bush pilots in the 1920s. Patrica Airways operated a Lark for early bushplane operations. The aircraft flew with floats in warm weather, and skis in the winter. The aircraft was pressed into service as an early hearse once, with the cargo needing to be seated upside down in the open seat and secured with haywire.
(The Gazette newspaper - Montreal, Quebec, Canada •
Friday, March 12, 1926) - AIR SERVICE FOR RED LAKE DISTRICT - Company is Formed and Flying Boat and Cruiser Purchased - Red Lake, which was brought within one and half hours of the outer world on March 3, 1926 when the first airplane flight was made in from Hudson, as compared with from ten to twelve days previously, made with dogs, is to have an even better service with the formation yesterday of the Elliot Fairchild Air Service and the purchase of one aeromarine, seven passenger, all metal flying boat, together with a large deluxe cruiser passenger boat. Jack V. Elliot who inaugurated the original service with two machines, spent yesterday in Montreal making arrangements with the Fairchild Aerial Surveys Company of Canada Limited, with the result that a company has been formed and a charter applied for. To date there has been a daily service into Red Lake from Hudson, three planes being in operation and carrying two passengers and 500 pounds of baggage each. They cover the 140 miles separating Hudson and Red Lake in one hour and a half. Air mail is carried from Hudson, the post office address for Red Lake being via Rolling Portage, Ontario. Stamps for the air-mail service may be purchased from the post offices at Hudson (Hudson being the rail road station and Rolling Portage the post office address). Toronto. Winnipeg, Montreal, Ottawa. North Bay, Sudbury, Cobalt, Haileybury and Timiskaming. When navigation opens about May 1, a boat service is to be provided from Hudson to Pineridge, two-thirds the distance from Hudson to Red Lake, and the large flying boats will take passengers, mail and express freight the balance of the distance into Red Lake. Heavier packages and canoes are to be taken in by Indians, who will be brought back by airplane. The passenger cruiser, which has been purchased for the boat service, will have three staterooms with sleeping accommodation for 16 and day accommodation for 50, the journey by water taking seven or eight hours. It has been planned to erect a broadcasting station at Red Lake, Hudson and on the boat so that communications may be kept up between these three and the outer world at all times. President of the new company is Elwood Wilson, M E.I.C., and Jack V. Elliot is vice-president and general manager. LINK - www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-air-service-for-re...
(The Daily Sun-Times newspaper - Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada • Monday, March 22, 1926) - NEW AIRPLANE FOR HUDSON TO RED LAKE ROUTE IS ON THE WAY "The Lark" Leaving Buffalo for Toronto and There Will Take on Sleeping Bags, Etc. (Canadian Press Despatch) BUFFALO, N. Y., Mar. 22, 1926 -The new airplane, "'The Lark", to be used in the Lake service, by the Patricia Airway and Exploration company, arrived here shortly after noon, yesterday, from New York, with "Casey" Jones, test pilot for the Curtis Airplanes Corporation, in charge, and two passengers. Frederick Griffin, press writer, and Captain W. R. Maxwell, Director of the Ontario Provincial air service. The Lark expected to continue its northward flight, to-day, by way of Toronto, Sault Ste. Marie, Orient Bay, Sioux Lookout and Hudson. Roy Mitchell will replace Mr. Jones in the pilot's seat from this point. At Toronto the ship will take on snowshoes, sleeping bags, and food, preparation for an overland tramp, in the event of ship coming down unscheduled, in northern territory. LINK - www.newspapers.com/article/the-daily-sun-times-new-airpla...
(The Toronto Star newspaper - Toronto, Ontario, Canada •
Tuesday, June 29, 1926) - RED LAKE MAIL SERVICE - F. E. Davidson of the Patricia Air Service into Red Lake, made an announcement this morning that starting today all mail will be carried into Red Lake via Sioux Lookout instead of via Hudson. All letters should bear the mark "Via Sioux Lookout." The Elliot Fairchild service has been carrying mail since March 20th. From now on the Patricia Air Service will be permitted to issue their own postage stamps. The government intends to redeem the old Elliot-Fairchild stamps but in the meantime old stamps are good for carriage over the Patricia Air Service. The new Patricia stamps can now be purchased at post offices for 25 cents apiece. The Patricia Air Service makes the trip from Sioux Lookout to Red Lake in about 60 minutes. It also makes trips to Woman Lake, Pine Ridge and to Bull Dog Lake, Manitoba. The Elliot Fairchild boat service still continues. LINK - www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-red-lake-mail...
(The Toronto Star newspaper - Toronto, Ontario, Canada •
Wednesday, June 30, 1926) - Patricia Airways • Exploration- Above is reproduced a facsimile of one of new postal stickers of the Patricia Air Service, operating airplanes into Red Lake. The postmaster has granted the company permission to issue these stickers in future, and they can be procured at any post office for 25 cents apiece. The old Elliot-Fairchild stamps are being redeemed, but can still be used for letters. In future letters to Red Lake should be marked "Via Sioux Lookout." LINK - www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-patricia-airw...
Sherman Mills Fairchild (April 7, 1896 – March 28, 1971) was an American businessman and investor who founded over 70 companies, including Fairchild Aviation, Fairchild Industries, and Fairchild Camera and Instrument. LINK - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Fairchild
John "Jack" Vernon Elliot (1893 - 1964), was a pilot in the western Ontario area providing passenger service and flights for thrill seekers in the early 1920's. By 1925, he had his own flying school and by purchasing partially completed aircraft, managed to complete his own aircraft. LINK - www.semiofficials.ca/elliot_1.html
This past week was a busy one at WGDC.
Week in review:
Twilight Party - The DEBS & SC
Wednesday, July 15th - Bowling - Middle Camp Boys
Thursday, July 16th - Trick or Treat for Summer Sweets!
Halloween in July!
Twilight Party - Senior Boys
Friday, July 17th - WATER WORLD!!!
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Photos by Lisa Schaffer Photography (www.skylerbug.com)
Now I know what canoe is in German!
I've put this in as a testament to the phenomenal processing power of today's cameras and software. The photo was taken in almost total darkness, with a couple of distant street lights providing some illumination. Yet the free software IrfanView has pulled this much information out of the raw file. I like the bright, over the top colours too.
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Seven piled in drunk into the canoe and I into the kayak. We got to almost half way across the lake; surrendered to the water and turned back. At the shower, the canoe tipped over emptying the contents into water. I took off my clothes as well and jumped in. That's when she kissed me and we parted ways. As Derek and I stumbled in drunk and wet into the cabin, Erik's girlfriend told us to shut up. We couldn't stop laughing even when she threatened castration. Next morning we woke up without phones or rides. We found out from the owner that the lake was the Mississippi.
A boy paddles his canoe in Pengerak village in Sentarum Lake area. Sentarum Lake is the biggest tidal lake in the world. West Kalimantan, Indonesia
Photo by Ramadian Bachtiar/CIFOR
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