Wooden Fish

My little town likes to call itself "The Salmon Capital of the World" so I knew we had some fish that would work for the Feature-4-Feb Words of the day, Aquarius/Pisces hiding in our streets. The kids and I headed out in search of fish. We had a lot of fun and found quite a few. These were my favourite. Every year we have a chainsaw carving contest and these were created from a giant cedar log. After the contest the sculptures are put up around town. This is on a busy corner, hence the tight crop and blurred background. I love the details and colours of this piece. It stands probably 8 feet tall.

Here's a second fish shot from today: http://365project.org/kwind/extra-shots/2013-02-03

[Paul King]

Amazing capture 3 huge fish the crop works really well and diffused background emphasises colors in fish great capture!

[Chris]

Lovely colors and capture.

[Nada A.]

Beautiful colors.

[Cromwell]

What kind of bait do you use for those suckers?

[klh]

Love it! Congratulations for coming from a place that aspires to be the World Capitol of anything!

[Kerri]

Cool shot

[KWind]

@paul2782 There's actually five fish altogether, I just couldn't get them all in from this angle.

[Katie]

Very cool statue, and I like how the colors pop from the blurred out background!

[eDorre]

Fab and fishy!

[Sarah K. Grant]

Love the colors!

[Denise]

So colorful.

[cheryl]

Great carvings! And I love the colors!

[Vicki Dixon]

really great fish!

[👑 AnaZad]

I love these fish. Great color and textures. You are lucky to live in the salmon capital of the world; it's one of my favorite fish. BTW, last night I made it with a new recipe broiled with a mustard, wine and herbs sauce; it came out really good and everyone loved it.

[Kimberly Balychev]

Lovely shot :) Great colors of the fish :) Cool info as well!

[KWind]

@anazad511 Your dinner sounds delicious!!

[Caroline]

Yum- salmon. Love the bright colours here.

[Aleksandra]

Very cool capture! Love the colours!

[bkb in the city]

What a great work of art. It must be fun to watch those being made

[Shirley]

It's a fabulous piece K - brilliant colours

[Amanda R.]

Such a neat shot! I really love the colors in this.

[Lisa Stein]

Very fun shot. Love the colors and composition. Great background story, too.

[Phil]

Great shot - and what a lovely thing to have on a corner! I have seen salmon leap upstream in Scotland and this captures it (en masse!)

[Sassik]

The colours are great! I can sense upward movement from the sculpture. Makes a great photo!

[Brian Baptie]

Love the bright colours!!

[Monika]

I love salmon, gotta come to where you are ;)
A very interesting capture.

[Karen]

Nicely captured. Great colours.

[Abhijit]

Very cool, nice colours

[Mariya]

lovely colours =))

[Meredith Jones]

What talent. Great shot.

[Pam]

A town to the north of me likes to call themselves "The salmon capitol of the world" too. It is amazing that this was carved with a chain saw. It is a gorgeous sculpture. Love the colors. Cool shot!

[Sue Hawkins]

lovely shot Kwind colour is great

[Humphrey Hippo]

Lovely colourful statue. :)

[KWind]

@pammerritt Thats interesting. I bet there's lots of towns that make the same claim.

[Lisa Pouncy]

What a lovely thing. Great detail and colours xx

[Simply Amanda]

So colorful and fun. Love your focus!

[Juliette Packham]

This is so cool, the competition sounds great, I watched a guy chainsaw sculpting at a fair once, it was awesome! Really like these colours

[Inge]

Nice colours!

[Kristin]

So impressive what artists can do with a chainsaw! I think it's much safer for all if I stick to my camera. Cool capture.

[Ruth Lueth]

They look so alive as if they would really jump. Great piece of art. Love your crop

[Jennifer]

Hehe, love the angle and close up. And the vibrant colours.

[Janiskay]

I was planning a trip there this spring allow that may get put on hold for a while. I am so looking forward to it.

[Lepi]

Fantastic sculpture and really well shot - love the composition and colours.

[Edie]

This is a great capture. Love the colour and compostion.

[Menarose]

Wow, my FAV - Canada eh!