Photos I’ve taken of scenery, interesting objects and other things.
Another weirdly sunny and wind-free mid-November day for us to shoot birds with our cameras. Both places were teeming with songbirds looking for late season berries and seeds. Maplewood also had a lot of waterfowl along the shoreline.
I’ve been culling blurry or otherwise bad photos from my OneDrive folder, so it doesn’t get filled with…blurry and otherwise bad photos. One terabyte of storage is a lot, until it’s not.
As I cull the photos (closing in on 2,000 so far) I’ve rediscovered some that I quite like. I may have posted some of these before, but the heck with it, I am posting them together. These are typically shot in RAW and then adjusted or tweaked in post.
Birds.
At Reifel Bird Sanctuary, November 12, 2022.
As seen from Sapperton Landing. This is where I like to see the snow: way up in the mountains, far away from me.
A female mallard got up on the railing on one of the viewing platforms when we were at Reifel Bird Sanctuary on Saturday, and it was too close to shoot with my telephoto lens. So I took a bunch of photos of it with my iPhone. They turned out pretty good. The duck was very photogenic.
I’ll post more pics from the birding shenanigans soon™.
Outside the Mental Health and Substance Use Wellness Centre next door, a bench that would be a nice place to rest and relax, provided you could clamber up to reach it.
Here they are!
I noticed a blob on my monitor tonight. It was a ladybug! I took pictures, then gently escorted it outside afterwards.
With flash off:
With flash on:
We went birding to Iona Beach, Terra Nova and Garry Point today (all in the Richmond area) and saw snow geese at each spot, approximately 50 million of them, all honking and flapping and flying and pooping.
Here are just a couple of shots. I may pot more later.
A few photos from both locations. Reifel was sunny but in the morning was cool, hinting at the eventual fall weather to come. By midday, it was back to feeling summer-like, though.
I happened to be in downtown Vancouver this morning and grabbed a shot looking out over the port. In the foreground is the SeaBus terminal (you can see one of the SeaBuses putt-putting its way across Burrard Inlet).
Back to Piper Spit, as Nic sought out the elusive white-throated sparrow.
We did not see a white-throated sparrow (though Nic saw it today when he went back on his own).
