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Once we got back to Vancouver, Grace and I wasted little time in getting caught up in preparations for her grandfather’s 75th birthday celebration, which was scheduled for the coming weekend. Her various family members had been periodically referring to the names of some of the expected guests, and had mentioned more than once that a couple of them were residents of a place called Finn Slough.

Grace’s dad decided to take us driving past the slough one afternoon, and I have to admit it was an…interesting experience. Sobering, I think, would be the best word for it, because the slough is certainly a very stark picture of the reality of poverty, especially when one can drive only a few hundred metres up the road and find decadent rural mansions.

Yes, people do live in there. It’s quite a close-knit community, I’m told; they don’t tend to welcome outsiders, and the “privilege” of living in the slough is only granted to newcomers if one of the current residents moves out or passes away.

Edit-wise, this shot received the Vivid preset that I occasionally (very occasionally) use, which boosted the colours in the shot quite nicely. I needed to do a fair bit of chromatic aberration reduction, and then manually adjusted the master hue setting to diminish the intensity of the greens in the grass. A few shadow adjustments rounded things out, resulting in the image you see here.

~ by Kenneth on May 16, 2008.