Evans Valley and Blanshard Needle

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Golden Ears Provincial Park is easily accessible, it is on the eastern edge of Vancouver, Canada. It features several campgrounds, a large lake, and many hiking trails. On the way to the lower falls on the Gold Creek trail, there is this view of Evans Valley with Blanshard Needle and Edge Peak behind. On the far left is Evans Peak. The trail to this view is level and just a couple of kilometres from a large but very popular parking lot. On nice summer days, it is common for cars to be parked for several hundred meters along the road.

One of the nice benefits of a modern digital camera is quick turn around, this photograph was posted hours after it was taken. A shutter speed of 1/320s and an aperture of f5.6 was used with an ISO sensitivity of 50. The focal length was 8.3mm, but the CCD is very small. The equivalent 35mm focal length would be about 40mm ­ slightly wide-angle.

The camera recorded the following information with the original image file:

File Name
  101-0141_CRW.CRW
Camera Model Name
  Canon PowerShot G1
Shooting Date/Time
  01/2/11 11:29:04 AM
Shooting Mode
  Aperture-Priority AE
Tv (Shutter Speed)
  1/320
Av (Aperture Value)
  5.6
Metering Mode
  Center-weighted averaging
Exposure Compensation
  -2/3
ISO Speed
  50
Lens
  7.0 - 21.0 mm
Focal Length
  8.3 mm
Digital Zoom
  None
Image Size
  2048x1536
Image Quality
  RAW
Flash
  Off
White Balance
  Auto
AF mode
  Single
Parameters
  Contrast Normal
Sharpness Low
  Color Saturation Low
File Size
  2896KByte
Serial Number
  101-0141
Drive Mode
  Single-frame shooting
Macro
  Off
Owner's Name
  Gerald & Irmgard Carter