A gorgeous four day visit that yielded a few interesting photos. Snakes and mushrooms were the highlight of my afternoon hike in the Laurentians. Whilst in the city, I thoroughly enjoyed the company of very dear friends, cool sights, and delicious food. I took the train from Windsor and had lots of time to and
I love visiting aquariums. I’m not sure why. It doesn’t matter, I love ’em! Taking pictures in aquariums is a different matter. I’m discovering that’s not an easy affair. Glass bends, refracts, distorts light in strange ways. Water does so in even stranger ways it seems. Lighting is often difficult to work with. All this
These fluffy, feathery, fanciful, sometime flightless creatures are a wonder of wonders to this photographer. Such color, such shapes, such strange sounds! I am grateful for zoos, conservatories, and aquariums which have allowed me to glance with my own eyes a little sample of the vast world of ornithology.
Birds are quite challenging to photograph. They are challenging to photograph well. They require a lot of wildlife observation skills in addition to some real technical photographic skill. Since I lack both fairly substantially, you will no doubt look on these with mercy. Rejoice with me at the very good fortune I had on a
This photographer has wandered a bit in his native Alps and has collected a few good sightings of the various species of Ibex. Some of these I got within a few meters. Some (the more distant shots) are of the elusive and furtive “chamois” (rupicapra rupicapra) which I dream some day of seeing up close.
