Shot along Fader Street as I was coming home from today’s run. Not bad for a phone photo.
Photography
Photos I’ve taken of scenery, interesting objects and other things.
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’ll have the gallery of photos from Saturday–with actual in-focus images!–posted in the next few days.
Burnaby Lake, August 17, 2023
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:
False Creek and downtown Vancouver, August 16, 2023
A shot of False Creek taken from the pier at Science World. It was hot, but being by the water was not that bad.
A small gallery of Burnaby Lake, August 14, 2023
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!
Brunette River at dusk, August 10, 2023
A shot taken as I was out and aboot on a walk. River in full tranquil mode.
Teen begs parents to give him food
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™.
Field fungus
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)