Belloram

Belloram

I last visited Belloram on the south coast in May 2021 and I created a Facebook Albm of the pictures I took. You can view the album here - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1923945031079600&type=3

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Belloram

Belloram

In 2008, I walked through some of the streets in Belloram and photographed many stages and houses.  This time I was on a limited time schedule and only took photos from the wharf area.  If you would like to view the older photos, you can find the album here - https://www.facebook.com/media/set?vanity=KBruceLanePhotography&set=a.1923945031079600

This year's photos can be found here - https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?vanity=KBruceLanePhotography&set=a.1923945031079600

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Belleoram

Belleoram

The weather was still overcast and dull when we arrived in Belleoram, the next community on our tour of the Connaigre Peninsula on the south coast of the island of Newfoundland.


Belleoram seemed to be a bigger community than most of the others I have shared photos of so far in this Virtual Tour from August 2008.

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Clotheslines 10

Clotheslines 10

Today I am sharing the last of this Clotheslines Series.  I could go on for another 10, probably more, days but I will continue sometime in the new year.  Today's photos were all taken on a very dull day in Belloram on the South Coast.

Here are a few more comments I've received throughout the series:

I L-O-V-E THE CLOTHESLINES.

clotheslines are priceless !! :-) 

Bruce, your clotheslines are quite interesting. Newfoundland Women are keeping up the old tradition for sure. Clotheslines were a must when I was growing up, every family had one, and not the fancy ones either. The ones I remember were sagged in the middle so that the women could reach it, and after the clothes were pinned out, there was a clothesline stick with a notch in the top of it so that the line would fit in it and then the line was raised by putting this stick in the middle, and the other end would be in the ground. i remember making them for my mother and it had to be as high as possible to get the clothes in the wind . I smile as i see some of them on your pics. As you say "everything's a picture." 

Hi Bruce...those clotheslines are great. 

thanks again, Bruce for the wonderful photos...enjoyed this series so much... 

I still think that you should publish a "Clothesline" book.

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Belloram

Today's photos were also taken in Belloram, located on the Connaigre Peninsula. I really liked the blue and white house and photographed it from several angles as I walked around the community. Years ago, multi coloured houses were common around the outports of Newfoundland and Labrador, but these days they are not very common at all. I was also surprised to see how close the house was to the water.

The second image shows the same house in the background, but I included part of a boat in the foreground to add another element to the image. I chose to make a vertical composition because there were items on the wharf that would have distracted the viewer. By eliminating the objects, viewers only see what I want them to see.

Dory

As I stated last week, the sky was overcast and lighting dull when I visited the Coast of Bays last week. I have been taking you on a virtual tour of the communities, but this morning I am sharing three versions of the same image.

The first photo shows a dory (A dory is a small, shallow-draft boat, about five to seven metres (15 to 22 feet) long. It is is a lightweight and versatile boat with high sides, a flat bottom and sharp bows.) floating in Belloram Harbour about 20 metres offshore. Because of the lighting and composition, the photo is rather dull and boring.

I converted the image to b & w, increased the brightness and contrast, then cropped out most of the water. I liked the result for two reasons: the position of the boat and lack of dull colours made the image more interesting.

Next, I used a special effect in my photo manipulation program to emphasize the contrast. I also cropped it differently so the boat was positioned in the left third of the image.

In my opinion, both cropped images are more interesting than the original.

Clotheslines

There has been much controversy in cities across North America about clotheslines. Many places have banned them, while others are beginning to promote their use in order to save energy. Here in Newfoundland and Labrador, clotheslines are still a common sight.

Today I chose two photos taken in Belloram during my trip to the Coast of Bays on the Connaigre Peninsula. The first shows a clothesline just beneath the deck of a house that faced the ocean. There were a couple of people there and they were curious about why I would want to photograph a clothesline. When I explained that in some places clotheslines were banned, they laughed and thought I was joking. They explained that drying clothes outside is part of life in rural communities in this part of the province. I photographed quite a few clotheslines there during my trip.

The second photo shows a clothesline with codfish drying instead of clothes. This is a new phenomenon that I have seen in a few communities. Years ago, when there were lots of fish, people dryed them on "flakes" (A fish flake is a platform built on poles and spread with boughs for drying cod-fish on the foreshore of fishing villages and small towns in rural Newfoundland, Canada. Spelling variations for fish flake in Newfoundland include flek, fleyke, fleake, flaik and fleack. Its first recorded use in connection with fishing appeared in Richard Whitbourne's book Newfoundland (1623, p. 57), but these days, there are few fish and fisherpersons have found new ways of drying them.

I have a gallery of clotheslines photos at: http://lanephotography.com/clotheslines/clothes_lines.htm

As well, if you search for clotheslines in my blog, you'll find a few more photos including another with cod drying.