My cousin, John, a retired newspaper photographer has started a photo blog that he is posting to everyday. The photos are local...Vancouver or Saltspring usually and I've been enjoying them a lot. I can see a painting coming from today's photo which is of Active Pass...it will, of course, be significantly transformed by the time I get finished with it! I was interested to learn that the name "Active Pass" comes from the name of a ship...I thought it was so named because the waters there seem very active in terms of churning tides, etc.
Take a look at John Denniston's Photo Blog