Polson Park & Double Exposures
Polson Park is another one of those places in the Vernon area to add to your sightseeing stops. Whether it be for a picnic, a walk around the park, playing at the playground or splash park, or a concert, the park has it all. It also features a giant floral clock, a duck pond, a Japanese Garden, and a Chinese Pagoda. The park has no shortage of weeping willows either, which, in my opinion, are such serene trees and I can’t help but feel a sense of peace when I’m around them.
Something I tried for the first time when we visited Polson Park this past summer was a double exposure with my film camera. The first one was the one with the well framed by willow trees and was actually by mistake because I mean’t to take a different picture as my second photo, but ended up capturing the same photo twice, so it almost looks like I was zooming with my lens while taking it. The second photo was a photo of a willow tree by the water and then the water itself as the second exposure (see below the two images).
A double exposure is a technique used in both film and digital photography that layers two separate exposures on top of each other at a reduced opacity, thus resulting in an almost ghost-like image. In film photography, once you capture the first image, you actually rewind the roll of film and then shoot over the same image, whereas in digital cameras, you simply turn on a setting and capture two photos one right after the other. Click here to learn more about double exposure photography in both film photography and digital, as well as some tips and tricks of the trade.
Check out my previous blog post about visiting the city of Armstrong here.
Soli Deo Gloria
