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A remote part of the Great Bear Rainforest, British Colombia, Canada seen from the shoreline as the tide ebbs.
Not a bear in sight!
May 2016
Snapshot photo taken with Olympus EM5 Mk II and 8 mm f1.8 lens
P5258935
These birds were tough to shoot as they wanted to keep to the deep shadows...very noisy when around.
Summerland, British Colombia, Canada
This wild male Mallard was walking in and out of sunshine and shadows in a park.
Penticton, British Colombia, Canada
Goldstream Provincial Park, Île de Vancouver, Colombie Britannique, Canada
Merci énormément pour vos commentaires, ils sont toujours très appréciés. Merci aussi de votre grande patience. je viens tout juste de retrouver ma connection internet hier au soir. J'utilise mon téléphone cellulaire quand mon internet ne fonctionne pas et c'est impossible d'afficher des photos à partir de ma librairie Lightroom et presque impossible d'apprécier vos merveilleuses photos...
Une paruline que j'ai rencontré une seule fois avant mon voyage à l'île de Vancouver et qui est plutôt rarissime dans l'est mais abondante dans l'ouest. Ici dans un lumière sombre et une légère pluie fine dans un magnifique parc Provincial de Goldstream.
Goldstream provincial park, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Thank you very much for your comments, they are always very much appreciated. Thank you also for your great patience. I just got my internet connection back last night. I use my cell phone when my internet is down and it's impossible to post picture from my Lightroom library and even hard to aprecated your great shot.
A warbler that I only encountered once before my trip to Vancouver Island and which is rather rare in the east but abundant in the west. Here in dark light and light drizzle in a beautiful Goldstream Provincial Park.
An evening sun breaks through the clouds in
the Great Bear Rainforest, British Colombia, Canada
The Great Bear Rainforest is a pristine wilderness that extends along the Pacific coast of Central and Northern British Colombia. It represents the world’s largest remaining temperate rainforest, and is home to the legendary Kermode or Spirit bear (a white variant of the Black bear). The coastal waters are inhabited by diverse wildlife including Orcas (Killer Whales), dolphins, sea lions and sea otters to name a few.
For further information see: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bear_Rainforest
Snap- shot photo taken 28 May 2016.
Olympus EM1 and 12-40mm f2.8 lens
P5280599
Kamloops, Colombie- Britannique.
Lifer
Un gros Merci à tous pour vos magnifiques commentaires, ils sont très appréciés.
Un autre superbe Lifer et canard à la toute fin de cette courte mais merveilleuse soirée extra nuageuse à Kamloops. Il est demeuré loin du rivage et était plutôt farouche, donc pas été en mesure d'effectuer de plein cadre sur ce superbe canard.
Pour info ça pris deux heures pour télécharger cette image ce soir !
Kamloops, British Columbia.
Lifer
A big thank you to all for your wonderful comments, they are very much appreciated.
Another great Lifer and Duck at the very end of this short but wonderful extra cloudy evening in Kamloops. He stayed away from the shore and was rather shy, so he did't give me a opportunity for a full frame.
To my friend Jan, he's going to love that... Took me 2 hours to up load this image tonight...
She was calling to her five young chicks from the top of a woodpile...likely warning them of my presence.
Summerland, British Colombia, Canada
Whiffin Spit, Sooke, Île de Vancouver, Colombie-Britannique, Canada
Gros crop...
De retour à ma toute première journée sur l'Île de Vancouver en Colombie-Britannique. Une première journée sous le signe d'une pluie torrentielle avec quelques accalmies durant la journée. Pas question de rester dans la maison à siroter un café avec mon beau-frère, de toute façon ce dernier devait quand même sortir pour faire marcher son chien une superbe Labrador qui ne crains certainement pas la pluie. Alors premier jour et première fois au Whiffin Spit de Sooke. Dès mon arrivé, j'ai tout de suite réalisé que l'endroit en était un de rêve pour la photographie d'oiseaux de rivage et autre qui s'y arrêtaient lors de leur voyage migratoire. Des petits garrots à profusion, mais qui gardaient une certaine distance du rivage. Ma deuxième rencontre fut cette superbe petite couple d'Arlequin plongeur qui plongeait tout le long du rivage à la recherche de leur pitance. J'ai donc devancé ces derniers et je me suis installé très inconfortablement dans le gros graviers glissant et très humide du rivage en espérant qu'ils passent à proximité de ma position, la pluie tombait comme des clous et rebondissait sur la surface de l'eau. Malgré mes précautions, le petit couple s'est éloigné du rivage après m'avoir repéré... J'ai quand même fait plusieurs photos, car je trouvais que l'ambiance était belle. J'ai eu l'occasion d'effectuer de meilleur photos que celle-ci durant la journée et lors de visite ultérieure cette semaine-là, mais je tenais à présenter cette photo en premier.
Whiffin Spit, Sooke, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
Heavy crop...
Back to my very first day on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. A first day under the sign of torrential rain with some slow down during the day. No question of staying in the house sipping a coffee with my brother-in-law, anyway he had to go out to walk his dog, a superb Labrador who certainly does not fear the rain. So first day and first time at the Whiffin Spit in Sooke. As soon as I arrived, I immediately realized that the place was a dream for photographing shorebirds and others who stopped there during their migratory journey. A profusion of Bufflehead great me, but they kept a certain distance from the shore. My second encounter was this superb little couple of Harlequin Ducks who were diving all along the shore in search of their food. I therefore preceded them and settled myself very uncomfortably in the large, slippery and very wet gravel on the shore, hoping that they would pass close to my position. The rain was falling like nails hitting the water surface. Despite my precautions, the little couple moved away from the shore after spotting me... I still took several pictures, because I thought the mood was very special. I had the opportunity to take better picture of them during the day and on subsequent visits that week in better weather condition, but I wanted to present this photo first.
Horned Grebes are now in their winter plumage. There were at least 30 of them at the south end of Okanagan Lake in Penticton, British Colombia, Canada
Explore 18 Mar 14
One of the public seating bench at the Eagle Viewing Dyke on the Squamish river in Brakendale BC.
Having a salad for breakfast by plucking submerged vegetation in Okanagan Lake, Penticton, British Colombia, Canada
John 14:2 King James Version (KJV)
2 In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
The Glacier Tour bus takes you to Ice Vehicles which drive over the Athabasca Glacier (See left) BC, Canada
A gorgeous Western Tanager from this spring. What a stunner!
My recent newsletter featured a "spring birds gallery" with all of my favourite snaps from the past few months.
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Cheers!
Glenn
This spring I really wanted to try and photograph the Violet Green Swallow in a way that captured both their beauty and their incredible acrobatic flying capabilities.
I had some really nice frames of perched birds in my collection and some very poor flight shots. I decided that I would put in a serious effort to really try to improve the flight images.
Part of my decision to try for these shots was that due to the pandemic lockdown I wasn’t able to travel anywhere. A second reason was that I had my new Canon R5 which has some great new autofocus capabilities and can shoot at 20 frames per second. The third reason was that I think the Violet Green Swallow is one of the most stunning birds we have here on Vancouver Island. They are so beautiful! Much like hummingbirds though, you usually see them just zipping past and can’t really appreciate their colours or their cute little faces.
Swallows are quite difficult to photograph in flight for a few reasons. Obviously, they are very fast and quite erratic. Even more challenging though is the fact that they can be extremely fickle in giving you opportunities. I knew that the key to this challenge would be to find a good spot where they could reliably be found. I searched around my home turf and finally stumbled upon the site I had been looking for.
Finding a good spot was only part of the challenge though. To get the kind of engaging photos I wanted the birds would have to be flying low to the ground and this is unfortunately rarely the case.
After many trips to my site, I began to realize that the key to success was the wind. On windy evenings the birds had a hard time finding food in the upper echelons and focused all of their feeding behaviour low down above a small wetland. If the wind was in a favourable direction, it would also help to slow these speedy guys down a bit and make my life a lot easier.
I spent many evenings trying my best to capture a quality frame of my sought-after Violet-green Swallows. In the end I managed to capture a portfolio that I am quite proud of and got some bonus frames of Barn Swallows and Tree Swallows too.