Photography

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

They call him Flicker

We’ve had a northern flicker come bug-hunting outside our condo for a little while now, and today it seemed like it would stay long enough for me to grab a few shots, so I did. I had to shoot through a dirty living room window, so I did what I could to clean up the shots (they are grainy if you zoom in, alas). And it was almost too close at times to keep in frame. Shot with my Canon EOS M50.

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Left side:

Minor redemption on lazy updates to photo galleries

I have uploaded the full set of photos I deem acceptable from the August 26th birbing extravaganza. The link to the gallery is below. I’ll work on the other photo-less galleries soon™.

This gallery has a bit of everything: bugs, birds, boats. I also indulged and converted three photos to black and white, but kept the originals, so people can argue over which is better.

An uncropped flower

I shot this post-run yesterday, an uncropped photo of a flower taken with my iPhone 12. I usually crop photos like this, but this one seems right as is. Or maybe I’m lazy. Either way, here it is!

A vast and empty sea

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.

But is it art? Mode dial gone wild edition

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 don’t need AI to produce this stuff, it just comes naturally, thanks to my cursed camera.

I’ll have the gallery of photos from Saturday–with actual in-focus images!–posted in the next few days.