Photos I’ve taken of scenery, interesting objects and other things.
A crosswalk across a large parking lot:
And the same photo, after I finished abusing it with the perspective tool:
Construction sign that was:
The original for comparison:
The one in Burnaby, not the one in New York. I didn’t want to walk that far today.
The weather was drizzly and misty, which added a certain mood. And I touched a tree. Again.
I might add a few more photos later, but there’s just enough friction with WordPress’s Gallery block that I’m inclined to stop at three for now.
And it allowed me to get this shot of the Brunette River. It was also drizzly in that “doesn’t seem like you’re getting wet but end up soaked by the time you get home” way. But worth it, because I touched a tree.
This striking split between a clear and cloudy sky in the late afternoon when we were out birding on Friday, shot at Burnaby Lake.
Seen on a trip to rockin’ uptown New Westminster yesterday. I love coming across little neighbourhood bits of art and inspiration like this.
I also like the way the mailbox appears to be quietly observing in the background.
I am mildly fascinated1Can one be mildly fascinated by something? I say yes. by how often when I go out birding or for a walk along a trail, I will find a random piece of clothing–a cap, or a glove (almost always just a single glove), a shoe (yes, usually a single shoe, too), sometimes a jacket and occasionally, a pair of pants, any of these, stuck to a branch, or laying on the ground. And I wonder, how did these things get left behind?
With some clothing, I can imagine various scenarios. For example, you might take off a glove to do something a glove interferes with, like using a smartphone, so you take it off, set it down, then wander off while still using the phone. By the time you remember the glove, you’ve travelled far enough to ask yourself, “Is it worth going back for?” and decide no, it isn’t. And so the glove stays in its new home, until it gets absconded by a crow or returns to the earth (in 500 years or something).
I am less certain about how pants get abandoned.
But here is a photo of a glove left on the railing of the 1001 Steps staircase in south Surrey, taken on February 10th. I converted it to black and white to artsy it up.
Specifically, a juvenile bald eagle, which still looks big enough to grab me and drop me off into a volcano.
The original photo was nearly a silhouette, but thanks to the wonders of shooting in raw, I was able to reveal the eagle hiding in the dark.
This is from my set of bird photos from January 26, 2024. I swear I’ll post the full gallery soon. Soon!
Pretty soon.
Right where you expect to see them, unless they are ingesting or burping out passengers. This one was flying so low overhead that I had to actually pull back with my telephoto lens to get the whole thing in.
This was taken at Sapperton Landing on another unusually balmy midwinter day, as part of an experiment to find out what’s up with my camera.
(I think I found out. More test results soon.)
It was bound to happen eventually.
On Saturday, our birding took us to the northern end of Richmond, which meant we were near the airport, with planes and jets were regularly taking off and landing nearby. This meant I took many photos of planes and jets taking off. Enough to fill an entire gallery. And here it is!
Shot yesterday (Jan. 23) on my iPhone 12, on a gray, wet winter day.
I went to Hume Park yesterday to shoot a few pics and enjoy the refreshing chill of -9C weather.
This is a work in progress, but you can now go to an actual Birding Photo Galleries page and find two–two!–galleries ready for your birb-y pleasure. There is also a very plain link to the galleries in the sidebar over to the right.