Photo of the moment: Focus and blur

The Semoya Dance Group — some local Sto:lo traditional dancers — perform on the red carpet at the gala opening of the new Chilliwack Cultural Centre last Saturday.

I had a moment where I decided there was something about this photo and the circumstances that surrounded its taking that told a story of some type: our white, Western culture all dressed up gazing at the blurred, unclear First Nations culture; or maybe something worse, the traditional, ceremonial dance ignored by some of "us" in the photo and observed by others as a zoo-like spectacle worthy of picture-taking (yours truly included).

But it's really just a picture of native dancers expressing their culture in front of a non-native cultural centre.

Photo of the moment

I'm taking photos nearly every day but this one isn't new.

This will be the photo of the "moment" from now on rather than the "week" since I'll likely post photos more or less frequently than every seven days. (Or should I redefine the week?)



And this is not a recent pic. I took this on March 19 on Granville Street in Vancouver while the Paralympics were on.

Nothing particularly Olympic about this photo but there is something here that tells the story of the Vancouver in my mind: an office building with a snowy mountain in the background, a cyclist in full form, and a busker doing his thing while some watch and others don't.

Photo of the week

Time to revive this blog with a photo or two a week from my walks with Nadège, from random sights and scenes (and signs) around Chilliwack and beyond, and even maybe one or two from work that doesn't make it to print. I feel I often get otherwise interesting but journalistically useless photos sometimes and this seems like a good place to dump 'em.



This is from an abandoned building on the old CFB Chilliwack. The full sign says CME Military Museum, but is long vacant. The new museum is about 100 metres away on the site.

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