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A dramatic sky reflected by Skaha Lake in Okanagan Falls. Dramatic Reflection would also make for a good description of what most of us do in the privacy of our thoughts.
Yesterday I was working in the rain and snow up in Whistler until about four in the morning. I couldn't help but look up at the sky a few times and remember how bright and beautiful the stars and milky way looked at Lost Lake earlier last year.
Spent an hour in freezing weather to take some long exposure shots in daylight, only to like this shot I took with my phone on my way back to the car better.
Leaves glowing in the sun in the forest at Lighthouse Park in West Vancouver, BC. ****** #vancouver #westvancouver #yvr #rainforest #forest #green #vivid #photographer #calgaryphotographer #landscape #nature #landscapephotographer #creativecanadian #ExploreBC #TravelBC #HelloBC #fb ****** ©2016, Sean Phillips ocas.nl/1vZEUoV via Instagram ocas.nl/1Mn2kwE
In 1987 I visited the first nations village of Ahousat on Flores Island on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Over the course of two long weekends (while my wife worked to set up the new school library) I was free to wander with my camera, talk to anybody I met, and take pictures of anything. Pentax LX Ektachrome 100
I met this colt today while out hunting for my daily photo. I chose the Bald Eagle that I posted earlier, but this wild horse is too handsome not to share as well.
Deas Island Regional Park Shot just before the rain started. Beautiful park with trails and wildlife galore.
Impromptu little photo of the Philipines, the last country to present its craft at the Celebration of Light in July 2023. Next time, I should bring longer glass tho.
I took a similar photo earlier in the year. But it wasn't a picture of the day for the project and the fogginess gave it a drastically different look.
Upper Pitt named B.C.'s most endangered river
Scott Simpson, Vancouver Sun
Published: Sunday, March 23, 2008
METRO VANCOUVER - A prized Lower Mainland stream that touched off a provincial controversy about small-hydro projects has been named British Columbia's most endangered river for 2008.
Fears that the exceptional fish and wildlife values of the Upper Pitt River system could be devastated by plans for a proposed industrial-scale power project lifted the Upper Pitt to the top of the Outdoor Recreation Council's annual list of B.C.'s most endangered rivers, council spokesman Mark Angelo said in an interview.
"The Upper Pitt is a jewel amongst B.C. rivers," said Angelo, a recipient of the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia, adding that the threats posed by a series of independent power projects on the Pitt "resonated with people across this province."
UPDATE!!!!! March 26/08
On Tuesday, about 1,000 people rallied at a public hearing, saying construction of seven small power plants on the Upper Pitt River would destroy rich salmon stocks, and transmission lines through the park would create an eyesore and harm wildlife.
Penner said the company knew from the beginning that it had a high regulatory burden because power projects are heavily scrutinized before they're approved.
"Every small hydro project in B.C. has to go through about 52 different regulatory approvals," he said.
"This one had an extra one - they wanted to amend a park boundary and so that was an extra regulatory hurdle for this thing to clear and I've decided today it's not clearing that hurdle."
Penner, who has approved two wind-power projects in B.C., said the province imports coal-fired power from Alberta and the United States but wants to generate its own electricity without spewing greenhouse gas emissions.
"We'd like to become self sufficient again but that doesn't mean we will approve every single clean energy project," he said.
The Upper Pitt River topped the 2008 list of British Columbia's most endangered rivers in an annual list by the province's Outdoor Recreation Council.
Joy Foy, spokesman for the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, applauded Penner's move on the project that he called a "disaster."
"This company proposed to take all eight tributaries of the Upper Pitt River and put them in pipes totalling 30 kilometres in length to run them through a series of powerhouses," Foy said.
"A number of those creeks would have landed directly on top of salmon habitat," he said, adding Run of River Power would also have needed to clear-cut several kilometres of forest through grizzly habitat.
"It was a crazy, crazy project," he said.
Foy said that since 2002, when the government stopped B.C. Hydro from developing smaller hydro projects, there's been a "gold rush" by private companies to stake the province's rivers and streams.
"We're the only province in Canada that's undergoing this rapid conversion, this proliferation of private projects in a province where citizens generally believe it's public power out there," Foy said.
A report commissioned last year by B.C. Hydro states that with a little conservation, the province's power needs would not be any higher in 2027, Foy said.
He said any claims by the government or private companies that B.C.'s power needs are increasing are false.
"That is a fallacy that's being foisted on us to make us more wanting to accept this rush to private power."
British Columbia currently has 35 private hydro projects, all of them involving river diversions that could affect wildlife and fish habitat, Foy said.
"Not all of them are in places where a thousand people might come out to a public meeting."
As everybody knows, the supermoon was up in the sky tonight. I took this shot from Jericho Beach. It is not a composite, but a single underxposed frame for which I brought back the shadows in post-processing. The moon looked absolutely sick when it rose over the mountains.
Taken with my Samyang 135mm f/2.
I drove by Mahoney Lake. The water is not purple yet, but the sunset gave it nice pink and orange tones.