Spent a couple of hours at Iona Beach Regional Park near YVR today. There were lots of bald eagles, flocks of snow geese, a few hawks, and some herons.
Not sure… rough-legged hawk?
Category Archives: Photography
Busy Day Means Late Ramble
Got off on my near-daily Burnaby south slope ravine walk a bit late today.
Lovely South Burnaby Skies
It’s been a great winter for beautiful skies in south Burnaby, BC, ranging from inspiring to moody. Here’s a shot taken from Taylor Park during a one-hour ramble on south slope trails.
Marauding Merganser
I watched this common merganser swim in the overflow pond and the sediment pond in the Byrne Creek artificial spawning habitat in SE Burnaby, BC. Don’t see these in Byrne that often.
After awhile I guess it had enough of being observed and flushed spectacularly, zooming right over us. I whipped my wee Canon pocket camera up and got this shot full of motion and blur, but I kinda like it!
Too bad I didn’t have a much faster DSLR at hand…
New Westminster BC Quay
Lovely sunny day for a walk along the quay.
Eagle, Wintry Skies, Crescent Beach, BC
A chilly beach walk at Crescent Beach, South Surrey, BC.
Bald Eagle
Frosty Walk along Byrne Creek, Burnaby, BC
Enjoyed a frosty loop of Byrne Creek in SE Burnaby, BC, this afternoon.
Cloud Show in South Burnaby, BC
All shot with my pocket Canon Elph 520HS from the Market Crossing parking lot during a run for groceries.
Rice Lake, North Vancouver, BC
A wee bit of snow was dusting the foliage as we took a loop around Rice Lake this afternoon.
Upgrading Photo Drive
I take lots of photos, so I have a second hard disk in my main computer dedicated to photos and videos. The other day I noticed that the 2 TB drive was down to only 9 GB free! That was a shock, considering that’s well less than one 32 GB card in one of my DSLRs.
Upgrade time. I had to move those 189,330 files in 2,523 folders onto a larger drive.
I have plenty of drives around that I use for backup in a couple of HD “toasters” — USB 3 docks that you can hotswap SATA drives in and out of. So I popped a 3 TB drive into a dock, and copied all those files over to it.
That done, I opened up the tower computer, pulled the old 2 TB D: drive and installed the new 3 TB drive. I used the Disk Management tools to rename the new drive to D:, so that my photo programs find it.
Worked great, and I now have nearly a TB of free space.
I have two NAS (networked attached storage) devices but use them only for backup. I like having my photos on a secondary internal HD for fast access.