Benched again: Adirondack chairs along Okanagan Lake in Kelowna, BC

The opposite shore is West Kelowna, about a ten minute drive from where I shot this image.

Taken the year we moved to the Okanagan, this 2021 image of Okanagan lake from the Kelowna shoreline shows a row of Adirondack chairs sporting a rainbow of colours.  I beefed the saturation up on the chairs a bit and enhanced the sky; other than that the image is as I took it.

We have been here in Kelowna now for four years and a bit.  The lifestyle is very different from that which we left in the Lower Mainland.  But, for every downside that we face there seems to be two upsides, and we have been very happy with how things have turned out.  We are only four hours away from Maple Ridge and twice that from our Grandchildren near Edmonton.  I love the fact that we seem to have a very long summer and growing season.  I can plant in late April and harvest in mid October.

I photographed this using my Nikon Zfc, a cropped-sensor 20 mp camera.  I also used my 24-70 f/4 s Z series zoom lens that I usually keep for my Z7ii.  At 24 mm, the relative focal length was 36 mm and provided lots of depth of field, especially with the f/14 aperture.  As always when shooting landscapes, I rely on hyperfocal focusing.  I pick a focal point somewhere in the distance (about where the children are), lock it in place, and then reframe and fire.  I use matrix metering but trust the live histogram display built into the viewfinder to determine the proper exposure settings.  It rarely lets me down.

I love this shot because it so typifies the views that wait for the vacationer coming here.  Shade, sun, sand, and holiday fun.  What a great place to live.

Thanks for reading.

Eric Svendsen     www.ericspix.com

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