I was coming home from the post office, and caught a flash of yellow zooming into the forest next to our garage. I got out, watched and waited. . . and success!
Max 40X optical zoom on my wee Canon SX730HS and tight cropping.
BTW, thanks to my Facebook friends who come to my rescue when I’m not sure what kind of bird I’ve “shot.”
We took a two-night camping trip to Nairn Falls Provincial Park near Pemberton, BC.
One day we drove to Duffey Lake, stopping to check out Cayoosh Creek.
A wee bit chilly : – ).
Mourning Cloak butterfly. It wouldn’t sit still for more than a second or two, so this is the best shot I got.
Nairn Falls near Pemberton, BC.
No post-processing aside from minor cropping and sharpening. All colour/motion changes are simply through varying exposure and combinations of shutter speed/aperture.
A few shots of wildlife encountered on the trail.
I’m told this is a young Ruffed Grouse
Hairy Woodpecker according to app
We saw damselflies courting at Rice Like in North Vancouver today. Boreal Bluets?
I think Cherry-Faced Meadowhawk?
We spotted a few of these today, and when I posted them to Facebook (my favourite animal ID app : – ), was told they are Red-Legged Frogs. They were barely the size of my thumbnail.
There were a lot of people on Burnaby Mountain tonight. Long weekend? Hoping to see the Northern Lights? That didn’t pan out, but it was a lovely sunset.
This is a series of shots taken of downtown Vancouver from the mountain, with deliberate variations in focus. . .
Playground of the Gods at night
Yumi and I spent a few hours at the Nikkei Matsuri summer festival at Nikkei Place, just a few minutes walk up the hill from our place in south Burnaby, BC.
Yumi’s outfit
I don’t often shoot with my cellphone, because I have lots of dedicated photo gear.
But today I went through the photo folder on my Samsung A5, and transferred them all over to my computer. There were more than I expected, around 150.
Lots of shots of our late Choco the Cat in there, and accumulating some of new kitty Sora.
Here are some shots of Sora waking up from her afternoon nap. I kinda like the low-light, grainy, moodiness of the cell cam. . .
Yes, that’s a kitty face wondering if Daddy was awake in the wee hours of the morning.
Kinda happy/sad.
Just sold a pair of made-in-England Wharfedale stereo speakers that had been in the family for about 50 years.
My late Mom scrimped and saved and bought them so her kids had a quality experience listening to symphonies, and operas, and Ukrainian folk and Christmas songs.
They were big and heavy, and didn’t match anything that we have. I hung on, and hung on, but finally let them go.
I got about average of what I’ve seen similar ones going for on Craig’s List, so that’s the happy part.
And I think they went to someone who will appreciate them. We spent nearly an hour unscrewing the recalcitrant back panels so he could check out the tweeters, mid-ranges, and woofers. He knew his stuff, and seemed to like what he saw.
But it’s sad letting go of things sometimes, too. . .
