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January 25, 2016

2016-01-25: Monochrome Monday

January 24, 2016

2016-01-24:What I’ve seen this week

Two weeks in a row now, I haven’t spent much time out with my camera. 🙁 The weather has been a big factor again; the warmer temperatures have continued, cycling just above and below 0C, plus heavy rain one day and snow the day before that and after (the roads around my place are a bit challenging for walks at the moment, navigating sheets of ice and piles of frozen slush). The birds have not been around as much as usual, and I’ve barely seen the deer at all this week (though my neighbour told me yesterday there was a coyote pack hanging around, and that could definitely have something to do with the scarcity of the deer).

Fingers crossed for a more successful week of photos coming up!

20160124_What I've seen this week-3 — I spent some time out yesterday evening with a few members of the photo club; we had hoped mother nature would provide clear skies and the original plan was to go to a local lake for star photography. Alas, mother nature does what she wants, when she wants. With the lake fogged in, we stayed around town and photographed the winery across the river from town.

20160124_What I've seen this week-2 — There were too many trees along the edge of the river to get much in the way of light trails with tail lights, but I thought that this logging truck provided some interesting detail during a long exposure.

20160124_What I've seen this week — It wasn’t all doom and gloom; a beautiful morning while out walking early in the week.

January 22, 2016

2015-01-22: WPC Alphabet

WPC: Alphabet

January 20, 2016

2016-01-20: Wordless Wednesday

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January 18, 2016

2016-01-18: Monochrome Monday

As it turns out, I didn’t end up liking a single photo I took last week, so instead, I edited one from the archives that I was looking at over the weekend.

January 17, 2016

2016-01-18: What I’m sharing this week

I’ve modified the title a bit this week, since I’ll be honest, I’ve really not been out with my camera very much, and the few photos I do have, I think would be better for tomorrow’s Monochrome Monday post.

So instead, I thought I would share a sample of a project I worked on in November and December for a Christmas gift – a custom colouring book. It was a really fun project to do, and was very popular with the recipient as well.

I’ve included a few pages as a PDF available to download, if you are interested in printing them out and having a relaxing time with some coloured pencils. It’s my first attempt at making a PDF available for download, so fingers crossed I’ve done it right (It should be an easy control click or right click and select download linked file).

That’s all for today, I hope you enjoy, and have a lovely evening.

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Jen Sawicky Colouring Book Sample

January 11, 2016

2016-01-11: Monochrome Monday

If the day ends in Y, it’s a day that I will happily edit some elephant photos – so that’s what I’ve done 🙂

I hope you enjoy, and have a wonderful evening.

20160111_Monochrome Monday-2 — Such beautiful texture!

/640sec, f5.6, ISO 640

20160111_Monochrome Monday-3 — I just can’t resist the look on this elephant’s face as he reaches up for the perfect branch to chew on.

1/800sec, f8.0, ISO 6400

20160111_Monochrome Monday — My favourite baby elephant, testing to see if sand is good eating.

1/640sec, f9.0, ISO 2000

January 10, 2016

2016-01-10: What I’ve seen this week

Earlier this week, I was getting concerned that I would end up with another weekly post dedicated to deer and bird, birds and deer; so I headed out in the yard with my macro lens to play around a bit and see if I could come across anything interesting. Also, it was simply a gorgeous, brilliant blue sky day, and I couldn’t think of a better way to spend fifteen minutes while taking a lunch break from my work. I also got out that evening for a few night sky shots.

Don’t worry though, most of the photos are still deer and birds!

I hope you enjoy my selections for the week. Have a great day!

20160110_What I've seen this week-9 — An older male with lots of scars. I wonder what his story is? Clashes with other males perhaps?

20160110_What I've seen this week-7 — This girl has a very unique left ear… and a hearty appetite for birdseed! She makes quite a mess, but the redpolls and grosbeaks seem to enjoy pecking around in the snow for all the seeds she’s dumped out.

20160110_What I've seen this week-8 — A younger male who happened to be heading into the yard while I was outside with my camera (and refilling the bird feeders). He kept to the bushes, luckily in some beautiful light.

20160110_What I've seen this week-5 — Beautiful light on a beautiful bird – a northern flicker.

20160110_What I've seen this week — It was snowing quite heavily at the start of the week, and this young deer was cloaked in snow from tip to tail. I loved this view though, something a little different.

20160110_What I've seen this week-10 — The young male pausing for a portrait.

20160110_What I've seen this week-11 — My little walking buddy, wanting to get in on the photo action when I took my camera out on a morning walk for a pretty sky at sunrise.

20160110_What I've seen this week-2 — For the past few weeks, I’ve had a few common redpolls every day at the feeders. Early this week though, I ended up with an entire flock in my backyard. Here is a smaller part of the group, all trying to get to the suet cake.

20160110_What I've seen this week-3 — Not a great shot, but I included it anyways just to show a part of the redpoll flock. I counted 28 on the ground, and there were loads up on the feeders as well.

20160110_What I've seen this week-4 — Something startled one of them, and they all scattered. That repeated a few times throughout the morning.

20160110_What I've seen this week-6 — An evergreen with a light dusting of snow.

20160110_What I've seen this week-12 — This could have been so much better, if I hadn’t been too lazy to go to the detached garage and turn off the exterior lights. I’m including this as a reminder to self to take the time to do the proper prep work!

January 6, 2016

2016-01-06: Wordless Wednesday

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January 5, 2016

2016-01-05: WPC Circles

As soon as I saw this week’s topic, I knew exactly what I would share – the fairy circles of the Sossusvlei desert in Namibia. I was lucky enough to see them from the air, and also from the top of a small dune while out quadding my first evening in the desert. No one had an explanation of how they were formed; nothing grows in them, the are simply barren sand surrounded by scrubby plants.

There’s a Wiki pages with more info about them, in case you are interested: Fairy Circles – Wikipedia

WPC: Circles