On Watch

Well It has been awhile for the ol' blog, I have been super busy lately and now me and the children are sick as a dog but none the less here is an update for ya. You may recognize the buoy from my selective color shot on it earlier this year. The eagles love to frequent this log and watch for fish and small animals in the long grass to eat. Yet again another shot with the crap tamron......zoom in on the head the chromatic aberrations are stupidly bad, plus I had to shoot with a high iso making the grain really show but oh well its still pretty nice. Cant really go wrong with any picture of these majestic birds.

Carnival

The good ol carnival, one of Port Hardys premier events for kids it is either going to be super fun or super scary for most......we managed to scare George pretty good this year lol. he has never been on this drop ride before so I grabbed the camera for a sure shot, and as suspected he was terrified lol This is one of the best and worst places to photograph children you can get such a broad range of faces and emotions but at the same time everything moves in and out of focus so fast it is hard to capture with the equipment I have but none the less it is awesome and I get a few good ones every year.

Pacific Treefrog

Here is a little pacific tree frog, they are among the most common frog species we get around these parts. I have no idea where I took this shot, hell I cant even remember taking it I just stumbled apon it and said damn I was close in to this guy that day better share it lol. Frogs are awesome for macro shots as they actually will sit still for the most part and let you do it, this guy let me get to minimum focus distance zoomed in at 55mm for a nice macro. His colors are not really that special but they have such contrast they are amazing at blending in almost anywhere. Hope you enjoy it I got lots more frog pictures to come in the future I love these little guys haha.

Winter sunsets

Winter sunsets are a thing of the past for this year already, they can be the best setting to shoot in such a wide range of colors in the cold sky's it is amazing. This is just a simple silhouette of a slash with the sun dropping down behind it. Nothing overly fancy here just mother nature doing her thing. I really enjoy the blend of color in this one from dark oranges to bright yellows and blues to purples it has almost got it all. Well I guess its time to stay up later for the spring and summer sunsets now :(

molting time

This is a neat one behold the molting goose, the picture was shot way to slow and is blurry but you can still see whats going on here. So every year Canadian geese molt, which is the process of loosing torn and damaged wing feathers and growing new ones, geese will group together and find some water to hide in for a month or so while they do this usually around June to July. It is also neat when they swim with their wings in the lakes, they will see a boat or whatever coming and instead of flying away the paddle furiously and man they can move (I have pics of this for a later date). I am sure this is a stressful time for these birds as they cant cover ground to get more food or to safety. Anyways thought it looked neat I am going to try and get better pictures of them molting this year later on.

Easter

Its Easter time again and the bunny dropped lots of eggs this year for the boys, this was little Spencers first year actually picking them up. I had a hell of a time trying  to keep Spencer off the beach and focused on getting eggs lol, I also had a hell of a time capturing a decent picture of the boys in midst of all the chaos down there. I should have opted for a more automatic setting on the old cam like an aperture priority or something, the light went from rain to snow to dark to super sunny in like 5 minutes so the captures I did get were all over the place. No big deal got some memories outta the deal and had a ton of fun, the town puts on a good show every year for the kids its a hoot.