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August 13, 2017

2017-08-13: Smoky Skies

Wildfires have been raging in British Columbia for the past two months, and while thankfully we have remained removed from the height of the chaos, we are definitely close enough to feel the effects. My city has been one of several hubs for people that have been evacuated from their homes due to the proximity of the fires, and depending on the wind and other atmospheric conditions, we have been on occasion inundated with smoke.

The past week has been smoky on and off and I’ve been photographing the intensely orange sunrises over the past few days; things turned quite eerie though yesterday afternoon, and this morning the smoke is so thick, I’ll be foregoing my normal walk around the neighbourhood. It’s rained on and off through the night, and it smells like a huge, washed out campfire outside at the moment.

Here are few images from the past week.

20170813_Smoke-4 — Sunrise yesterday morning while out walking.

20170813_Smoke-5 — A reflection of trees on my car, which was covered in a layer of fine ash.

20170813_Smoke-7 — Sunset is currently around 8:45pm. This was last night at 7:01pm. The sky began turning a strange yellow/grey/green colour around 2:00pm, and it just got creepier as the day wore on.

20170813_Smoke-8 — Sunrise through a layer of smoke on Wednesday.

20170813_Smoke-9 — This morning outside my home; the smoke hanging thickly amongst the trees. An hour later, it’s grown darker rather than brighter.

20170813_Smoke — Tuesday also provided a rather colourful sunrise through a layer of smoke.

February 12, 2017

2017-02-17: What I’ve seen this week

I had a call Friday around 5:30 from one of my neighbours, inviting me to come up to their house with my camera, as they had a moose in their backyard! I’ve seen moose a few times before but only for quick glances either while driving, or seeing them disappear into the bushes, so I headed up the road as quick as I could.

For a very large animal, moose are amazingly well camouflaged in and amongst the pines and other evergreens. It was growing dark quickly as well and the moon wasn’t up yet, so getting an awesome shot was out of the question. It was just so nice to be able to spend a bit of time watching the moose graze before it headed off towards the ravine.

I did see the moose again on my morning walk yesterday, but only briefly as it slipped deeper into the trees and completely disappeared within moments. Maybe someday I will be lucky and see one in the daytime and have enough time to get some decent photos.

Wishing you all a great day 🙂

This was the best I could capture (and this was the most exposed the moose ever got while I was there). 1/60 sec, f5.6, ISO 6400.

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February 5, 2017

2017-02-05: What I’ve seen this week

The early part of this past week I had a couple of great wildlife sightings in the neighbourhood, but after Tuesday, nothing at all. Fingers crossed for an interesting week ahead.

Enjoy the photos and the rest of your day 🙂

20170205_what-ive-seen-this-week — On my late afternoon walk Monday I spotted this barred owl at the top of my road. I managed a couple quick shots before it flew off. It was snowing and quite gloomy, so not an excellent photo, but an exciting sighting for me.

20170205_what-ive-seen-this-week-5 — Tuesday I spotted this fox in the backyard while working. It hung around for about five minutes before disappearing into the bushes.

20170205_what-ive-seen-this-week-4 — Taking a quick nap in a sunbeam.

20170205_what-ive-seen-this-week-3 — Sniffing for mice or other prey.

20170205_what-ive-seen-this-week-2 — Here the fox is investigating the deer bowl. I’ve not seen the deer now in about 3 weeks, since we had our thaw and refreeze. The squirrels, ravens, grey jays and magpies are enjoying the food source though. Soon enough it will be time to put all that away as spring shows up and the bears start to awaken.

January 15, 2017

2017-01-15: Artistic Impressions

I’ve had another great week of wildlife viewing around home, and I think I have gotten some really nice images, but I’ve been caught up with other projects and haven’t had an opportunity to do any review or editing. So, I’ll have to do a good catch up next Sunday, but for now, I hope you will enjoy a couple of my artistic impressions of the fox that visited last week.

Wishing you a great week ahead 🙂

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January 8, 2017

2017-01-08: What I’ve seen this week

As I said in my Feel Good Friday post, this week has been great one for wildlife viewing around the house. The deer have been visiting in force, the flicker, grey jays, hairy woodpeckers, chickadees and magpies are around most days, and the rabbit has been by on more than one occasion.

The special visitor this week though was a gorgeous red fox, who I spotted two afternoons in a row. On both occasions, (s)he was hunting, the second day more successful than the first.

It’s such a joy to look out my office window while working and see all of this unfold!

Now, on to the photos 🙂

untitled-6 — I was absolutely blessed with such lovely light the first time I saw this fox in my yard. All day one photos 1/400sec, f5.6, ISO 500.

untitled-2 — So alert, stopping to listen every few moments.

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untitled-5 — I have a path cleared to get to the back of the yard from my shed, and that’s the way the fox took to head off on Tuesday.

untitled-10 — And then a couple of well aimed ounces and a bit of digging in the snow…

untitled-9 — Success! Some lunch, which the fox took to go.

January 1, 2017

2017-01-01: What I’ve seen this week

Happy New Year everyone! I have a few photos from the last two weeks to share; I hope you enjoy 🙂

p1020245-edit — An elk grazes in the train tracks in Jasper, Alberta.

p1020258-edit — An elk taking a casual stroll towards the highway. Jasper, Alberta.

20170101-weekly-photos-56-edit — A ruffed grouse tidying up spilled sunflower seeds.

20170101-weekly-photos-30-edit — After a meal, it was time for a quick nap in a sunbeam for this deer.

20170101-weekly-photos-7-edit — He spied me taking his photo through my office window.

p1020263-edit — Today was a gorgeous morning for a walk. A lovely start to a new year.

December 27, 2016

2016 Year in Review #5

I decided to take a look back at my most “popular” posts of 2016 – going only by the number of post views; since many of them are from the earlier part of 2016, I’ll be sharing them again over the next few days, along with a new photo related to the the original post.

I hope you enjoy this trip down memory lane 🙂

Coming in at #5 is the post 2016-02-07: What I’ve seen this week. I was lucky to see a pair of eagles during my daytime walk back in February, under lovely blue skies.

The photo below was one that I originally dismissed, but looking at it again, I really like the triangles of light hitting the eye, beak and back, which tie together with all the triangles created with the mess of tree branches.

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December 19, 2016

2016-12-19: Monochrome Monday

Something a little different for today’s Monochrome Monday. During last week’s full moon, the moonrise happened while I was out on my afternoon walk with Spencer. I hadn’t planned on taking any photos, but it looked so lovely rising above a farm in my neighbourhood, I had to try to capture a few quick shots. It was also -28C and standing still for any length of time was not going to happen (neither was spending much time without my mittens on!)

Handheld with a fairly slow shutter speed, I managed to get a clear shot, but it was so dark and noisy, it wasn’t going to work as a traditional landscape shot. So I played around instead, and came up with this interpretation. It’s very dark and moody, but I liked it and thought I would share.

Have a great week everyone!

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