Photography

Photos I’ve taken of scenery, interesting objects and other things.

Snakes and flowers

It’s the new board game sensation!

Not really, I just have pictures of a garter snake (that I saw on the trail post-run yesterday) and some white flowers in a yard on Fader Street.

The snake was completely indifferent to my presence, so I was able to get in close for a good shot (this one is cropped, I didn’t get that close).

The flowers were not going to slither away, so I got even closer to them.

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Yet Another Photo of Brunette River. What can I say? It’s pretty this time of year.

This shot was taken a few hours before sunset yesterday:

And another shot, taken on Saturday, from the bailey bridge on Braid Street:

 

Reifel Bird Sanctuary, June 4, 2022

In which the weather, which called for light showers, turned out to remain dry and the sun even came out for a bit. Nice!

Here are a few pics from the day.

This sandhill crane was maybe getting territorial when some geese got too close, and started freaking out a bit and doing a funky dance.

Baby duck being adorably cute.

A rare turtle sighting. It then had the clever idea to climb over the log and promptly flipped itself upside down. Nic turned it right side up, and it made it safely into the water.

My first shot of an American goldfinch.

My first shot of the elusive marsh wren.

Power flower

All of these close-up shots of flowers I take are probably my way of subconsciously saying I want a macro lens or a smartphone that has macro capabilities. I love seeing this weird, heightened sense of reality that you don’t get by just walking by a flower and thinking, “That’s nice-looking.” I also think it’s funny how some of the shots I take actually look better than reality when viewed through the “viewfinder”, which in this case is the iPhone’s display. The HDR in particular makes everything look more vivid. Maybe too vivid? Maybe. But maybe not, because the colors and lighting are so very pretty.

Local color (mostly green) at the river, May 23, 2022

A few of the random photos I took while out and aboot today.

The Brunette River was unusually low, so I could get in to spots that are normally inaccessible without getting very wet. Here’s one of them:

It was Victoria Day and it seemed like all the birds had the day off. I did spot some wood ducks hanging out in the river, but wasn’t able to get any really good shots of them. Here’s one, anyway!

It’s just your basic dandelion, but I like the composition:

And here’s a shot of the big ol’ tree that fell last November, again from a perspective not normally available. It’s kind of weird how it forms an almost perfect bridge.

Out and aboot, May 15, 2022

Summer arrives in just 37 days. Woo!

It topped out at 13C and rained most of the day. I decided to go out, get some fresh air and also get wet. The get wet part was not planned, strictly speaking, as it wasn’t raining when I headed out, but was very much doing so once I got a good way from home. But it’s just water!

Speaking of water, the Brunette River is on the rise. It shouldn’t spill over its banks, though, unless the weather really goes sideways. I’m assuming for now it won’t.

My feet:

Slippery bridge.

Daisy (2001 joke here)

Also, holy cats, 2001: A Space Odyssey was depicting a future that is already 21 years in the past. Based on current smart home technology, the main reason an AI wouldn’t open the pod bay doors is because of:

  • Communication outage with server
  • Didn’t understand your perfectly spoken English (substitute any other language here as needed)
  • Sudden power outage
  • All of the above, cycling through at random

Anyway, here’s a photo of a daisy I took at Lower Hume Park. I tweaked it a bit in Pixelmator Pro to make it more dramatic and stuff.