This is a kitchen in a piece of forest destined to become a big highway interchange. It is currently under occupation by some activists who have managed to stall development by a month and a half so far. They've been inhabiting the site for a few months now, staying in extremely high (and dangerous looking) tree-houses in the canopy. I guess the idea is that they will be easy to defend once the police come in. I consider their kitchen the weakest link in the affair; if a standoff ensues, it will have to end once they run out of food & water.
One might criticize them for disrupting the forest (which might be hypocritical), but of course they consider it better than the alternative: bulldozers and earth movers.
The disputed area is near "Bear Mountain", a formerly forested mountain turned expensive suburban sprawl (mainly second home vacation properties for wealthy out of province & foreign people). I think the proposed interchange is called the "langford interchange" and is meant to help all the new traffic get out into this suburb. In addition to the forest removal, a bunch of lease-hold home owners in the vicinity have been evicted. These are people who own their (non-mobile) house as a structure but do not hold title to the land. As you can imagine, the whole thing is pretty contentious.
A detailed close-up of the negative can be found here:
http://ashphotography.ca/zenphoto/albums/victoria08/campkitchen-detail.jpg
This is a highly detailed image that I suspect will work much better as a print than as an 800 pixel wide scanned image (don't they all...).
