Okay, it’s really just a sewer cover near Sapperton Landing. I took a photo of it looking straight down, cropped out my feet, then ran it through Luminar AI to bring out the detail. I like the way it turned out!
Photography
Photos I’ve taken of scenery, interesting objects and other things.
Summer bloom at the Nature House, July 13, 2022
Taken post-run at Burnaby Lake:
Bird shoot ends with cat
After dinner, I went out for a walk to the park with my camera, hoping to catch some birds on digital film. Here is what I got:
- Spooked several Northern flickers because I did not see them as I approached; no shots
- Did not have telephoto lens attached when a spotted towhee sat on a branch in perfect light, singing away surprisingly close to me; by the time I got the lens on, it had flown off
- Did get three shots of a single robin, all of them fuzzy
I thought of shooting a pic of a crow at one point, but even it flew away, too.
So instead I got this shot of a neighborhood cat snoozing on the front steps of its home:
July 4, 2022 random photo/art thing
I’m not sure if I’ll be going out again today, so I wanted to take a photo of something because taking a photo every day is on my to-do list.
What I did was:
- Take a figurine made for drawing and hold it up in front of one of my monitors
- On the monitor: a collection of random objects in Canva, used as an experiment in making a logo
- Shoot the figurine with my iPhone 12
- Tinker with detail, light and color settings in Luminar AI
- Post the results here!
I leave it to you, the reader, to interpret what this means, if anything. I got nothin’!
Three tracks, July 2, 2020
Just outside of Burnaby Lake Regional Park.
Wildflower, Deas Island, July 1, 2022
I’ll have more photos up soon™ (or check my Instagram/Facebook accounts for the full heap of them), but here’s a wildflower I shot on my iPhone to get started.
(And I’ll edit in links to my respective accounts above also soon™)
Brunette-Fraser Regional Greenway, June 30, 2022
It was a perfect summer afternoon (rather than 32C) so I spent an hour or so strolling the path around Sapperton Landing and environs. Here are a few shots.
A frond by the river
After copious amounts of walking and running the past week, I took it a bit easy today and just did a walk down to Hume Park and back.
Here’s a pic of a prickly branch hanging out over the river.
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.
Burnaby Lake, June 13, 2022
A gallery of photos I took at Burnaby Lake on June 13, 2022. Birds, squirrels and a jet!
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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.