They call this spring?
Goodbye, winter - so glad you are gone!
Remembering winter
Tadoussac, Quebec, Canada
A favourite view, Waterton Lakes National Park
Bow Lake, Alberta
Bow Lake
Friends at Bow Lake
Beautiful Peyto Lake
Disappearing
Reflected peaks
Bow Lake on a cloudy day
Glorious Canola
Impressive creature
Smokey Eagle Lake
Beginning to look like fall
Harvest time
Yesterday's Chinook Arch
On a cold summer day with mist and drizzle
Photo-bombed by Blackbirds
Our majestic mountains
Fall colours near the Highwood River
Heading into the mountains
Early fall, looking (and feeling) like winter
Harvest time
Forgetmenot Pond, Elbow Falls Trail
Tundra Swans in flight
Clouds over Chain Lakes
Two of my favourite things
Clouds over Chain Lakes
Into the sun at Pine Coulee Reservoir
Rural decay down south
On the way to Chain Lakes
A view from Chain Lakes
Beauty of winter (well, late fall)
Day 6, Hotel Tadoussac, Quebec
Day 6, part of Tadoussac, seen from up on the clif…
Disappearing into nothingness
Red barn through the fog
Hoar frost tree and vanishing fields
Old red barn on a foggy day
The beauty of hoar frost
Day 12, SW of Port-au-Persil, Quebec
Peace in the countryside
Kananaskis, through the windshield
Day 8, bird blind, Santa Ana National Wildlife Ref…
The splendour of Kananaskis - Storm Mountain
Gravel and dust - a favourite road
Storm clouds moving in
Storm clouds in the direction of home
Old, red barn
The yellow has bloomed!
Badlands near Drumheller on a hazy day
Still standing, tall and proud
Two old churches in an almost-ghost-town
Hoodoos everywhere
Very old grain elevator in the Badlands valley
Little old Catholic church in the Badlands
The remaining three
Storm over Canola
Light over the Canola fields
Old silo, south of the city
Bar U Ranch
Old barn in spring snow
Standing up well
The challenges of being a birder
Evening mist in the rainforest
A memory of Waterton from before the fire
Ghost Reservoir
When the world turns white
Donkey guardians of the old schoolhouse
New birding blind in a local park
On the way to Canmore - seven Swans a-swimming :)
Winter beauty
Twice the beauty
Prairie life in winter
Caught in a mesocyclone
Rolling hills from the Whaleback
A scene in the Whaleback area
A beautiful day in Weaselhead
With more big storms to come
Coyote crossing the frozen Elbow River
A view from yesterday
Plain, but welcome
Winter's beauty
Old barns in the foothills
Deer on the horizon
A white world
Country scene in winter
Whites and blues of winter
Red barn in winter
The beauty of winter
Rainforest of the Arima Valley, Trinidad
Before winter arrived
White-tailed Deer through the snow
Yesterday's COLD walk
Winter beauty
Yesterday's local walk
Old and the new
Yesterday's walk in Fish Creek Park
The Bow River at Carburn Park
On a Christmas Bird Count, -23C
Trudging through the snow
Glorious scenery for a Christmas Bird Count!
King of silos
Under a Chinook arch
A sunrise sky that lasted till sunset
Fine old house
When the land turns white
Looking across the prairie
Before the next snowfall
One of my favourite barns
The fun times are over
Dazzling sunlight on distant peaks
Part of an abandoned mining camp
Modern barn
A white world
A patch of blue
Behind the tangled branches
Walking in a winter wonderland
Autumn in Alberta
A peaceful winter scene
New "barn", Granary Road
Down on the farm
The beauty of erosion
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A rural "winter" scene
Happy Earth Day 2018, everyone! This wonderful planet needs all the help we can give it.
This photo was taken mainly to test the power of the Nikon B700 and see how 'sharp' the resulting images were when zoomed in even just a small amount (the fully zoomed shots were terrible). This Kestrel in the previous photo was on the far side of a wide road and perched up on a high wire. All my life, I have used cameras with a great lens, that produce sharp photos, so I reasonably happy with this barn photo (which was partially zoomed in). I am still having the problem regarding image shifting. Someone on the excellent dpreview website suggested that it might be a Vibration Reduction/Image Stabilization issue. I already have the camera set to normal VR, but he thought that maybe the camera needs longer to stabilize when the shutter button is pressed half way. Just given that a try, but it makes no difference.
The day before yesterday, 20 April 2018, I had no choice but to go out somewhere to test this Nikon B700. I had returned the original one to the store as soon as I got a chance to use it, as it had such a major problem. When taking maybe half the photos, the camera would give a loud "clunk" that could be heard and felt, and the image totally shifted. Fortunately, I had just come across someone's review online and it mentioned what his camera was doing - when the shutter button was pressed, the image was suddenly shifted upward, downward or to one side. This was exactly what was happening with my camera each time the clunk was heard and felt. As a result I was getting headless birds or birds without the tail or feet (like the Robin in the next photo)! So, I took the camera back to the store and was given a replacement to try out. I am finding the same problem with shifting, but there is no "clunk" to be heard or felt. The extra zoom on this camera, along with it having 60x optical (instead of the 24X optical on my Panasonic FZ200) is what I need.
Anyway, I took my usual short drive SW of the city to find some things that I could photograph. Not a whole lot to be found, but a group of three competing American Robins made my first stop. Later, three distant Mountain Bluebirds were in fighting mode and two of them were down on the ground in quite a vicious attack. Too far away for more than snapshots. I also stopped to watch three distant Hawks that were competing. You know what they say : "Two's company, three's a crowd".
A very cooperative American Kestrel gave me a good chance to try out the camera at different zoom distances. Cars were a different thing - and I was not on the best road for stopping, so I ended up driving the same stretch of road several times. These birds are so beautiful. I knew that this one caught something to eat, but it was timed just when another car came down the road and I needed to move on.
Of course, an old barn is always a bonus. The one I posted today shows how fields are still covered in snow. This should disappear before too long, as we have much warmer temperatures coming up. Unfortunately, after so much snow this winter, there is now flooding in fields and over roads south of us. Before heading out that way, it is a good idea to check which roads are closed.
The sun was shining for most of my drive, with cloud moving in towards the time I wanted to leave. A stop to pick up some delicious chili was the final stop of the afternoon.
This photo was taken mainly to test the power of the Nikon B700 and see how 'sharp' the resulting images were when zoomed in even just a small amount (the fully zoomed shots were terrible). This Kestrel in the previous photo was on the far side of a wide road and perched up on a high wire. All my life, I have used cameras with a great lens, that produce sharp photos, so I reasonably happy with this barn photo (which was partially zoomed in). I am still having the problem regarding image shifting. Someone on the excellent dpreview website suggested that it might be a Vibration Reduction/Image Stabilization issue. I already have the camera set to normal VR, but he thought that maybe the camera needs longer to stabilize when the shutter button is pressed half way. Just given that a try, but it makes no difference.
The day before yesterday, 20 April 2018, I had no choice but to go out somewhere to test this Nikon B700. I had returned the original one to the store as soon as I got a chance to use it, as it had such a major problem. When taking maybe half the photos, the camera would give a loud "clunk" that could be heard and felt, and the image totally shifted. Fortunately, I had just come across someone's review online and it mentioned what his camera was doing - when the shutter button was pressed, the image was suddenly shifted upward, downward or to one side. This was exactly what was happening with my camera each time the clunk was heard and felt. As a result I was getting headless birds or birds without the tail or feet (like the Robin in the next photo)! So, I took the camera back to the store and was given a replacement to try out. I am finding the same problem with shifting, but there is no "clunk" to be heard or felt. The extra zoom on this camera, along with it having 60x optical (instead of the 24X optical on my Panasonic FZ200) is what I need.
Anyway, I took my usual short drive SW of the city to find some things that I could photograph. Not a whole lot to be found, but a group of three competing American Robins made my first stop. Later, three distant Mountain Bluebirds were in fighting mode and two of them were down on the ground in quite a vicious attack. Too far away for more than snapshots. I also stopped to watch three distant Hawks that were competing. You know what they say : "Two's company, three's a crowd".
A very cooperative American Kestrel gave me a good chance to try out the camera at different zoom distances. Cars were a different thing - and I was not on the best road for stopping, so I ended up driving the same stretch of road several times. These birds are so beautiful. I knew that this one caught something to eat, but it was timed just when another car came down the road and I needed to move on.
Of course, an old barn is always a bonus. The one I posted today shows how fields are still covered in snow. This should disappear before too long, as we have much warmer temperatures coming up. Unfortunately, after so much snow this winter, there is now flooding in fields and over roads south of us. Before heading out that way, it is a good idea to check which roads are closed.
The sun was shining for most of my drive, with cloud moving in towards the time I wanted to leave. A stop to pick up some delicious chili was the final stop of the afternoon.
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