Photos I’ve taken of scenery, interesting objects and other things.
Yeah, I still haven’t posted any pics from Saturday yet to the gallery, but to be fair, my PC was off most of the time since then.
As a stopgap, here’s a photo of the extreme low tide at Iona Beach, with bonus smoke haze. The perspective makes it seem as if the sea is drying up, all the way across the Strait of Georgia to Vancouver Island in the distance.
As mentioned in my birding post on Saturday, I found out I had shot about 150 or so photos with my camera in Av (Aperture priority) mode instead of P (program mode), which meant, unbeknownst to me, the camera was handling shutter speed, while allowing me to control the aperture and ISO. I didn’t adjust these because I thought I was using P mode, where I have set up to take the kinds of photos I like. For whatever reason, I thought everything still looked ducky through the EVF, so I kept shooting away until, sometime later, I looked down and saw that the mode dial on my EOS M50 had somehow moved two notches over. Whoops.
This is how it affected action shots. Most of them are blurred messes, but a few have a kind of abstract, oil painting quality to them. This is probably my favorite, a shot tracking a swallow flying low over a pond.
I’ll have the gallery of photos from Saturday–with actual in-focus images!–posted in the next few days.
I took this shot after my run, near the 5K marker. Sometimes I’ll just stand and stare at the water for a while.
As a bonus, here’s the marker:
A shot of False Creek taken from the pier at Science World. It was hot, but being by the water was not that bad.
Here are a handful of shots I took with my iPhone 12 after my run today. Everything is lovely and green and blue, and you don’t have to experience the stupid heat and humidity by looking at the photos!
A shot taken as I was out and aboot on a walk. River in full tranquil mode.
In this case, the teen is a young blackbird at Reifel Bird Sanctuary, and it really wasn’t in a mood to get its own food. Here it is protesting and flapping in a tree after dad took off to a spot nearby. More birding shots from Saturday in a full gallery soon™.
After today’s run, I spotted a clutch of mushrooms, possibly aided by the showers on Monday and Tuesday. I snapped a few quick photos and here they are in a lovingly handcrafted mini-gallery.
(Shot on my iPhone 12)
More coming soon (not just butts, I promise).
Found near Maplewood Flats, during extreme low tide.
Added to my black and white gallery:
It’s been a while and I couldn’t take a photo from my usual spot because it was occupied by others enjoying a pleasant summer evening. Instead, here’s a shot a bit farther up and partly obscured by the vegetation.
As seen earlier this evening:
