Raptor Conservancy

I got the chance to spend an afternoon at the Canadian Raptor Conservancy earlier this month. I set a personal record; 1138 shots in 3 hours.

European Eagle Owl

Red Tailed Hawk

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Snowy Owl

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Bald Eagle

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Bald Eagle

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Barn Owl

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Great Horned Owl

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Great Horned Owl

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Great Horned Owl

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Ferruginous Hawk

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Swainson's Hawk

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Swainson's Hawk

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Vatican Museum

In a rush to catch up with our group I looked down only to realize that this was one shot I had hoped to get on this trip to Rome. I stopped about half way down to capture the motion of the people.

Naples Harbour

Dramatic sky over Naples harbour. Note the fire brigade's boats in the foreground and the cruise ship off to the left. It looks like the mountains in the distance are pushing up the cloud cover.

Black Bears

A cold but very sunny afternoon woke this den of bears from their hibernation. Momma bear went for a walk leaving her two cubs to stay in the den.

Naples, Italy

Watching the world go by

Naples, Italy

Forecast: 50mm rain today

Arctic Fox

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A new day on an old house

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McFarlane Farm

Henry's Exposure Show

Old tobacco greenhouse

 Lakeshore Road near Port Rowan, ON

Grand farmhouse now offers rooms to critters, not people.

Beautiful frame house with the added benefits of floorboards that are as translucent as the windows.

Some Odds & Ends

I found some images that I had shot earlier this year were not yet posted.

A century barn in the Municipality of Bayham.

Street photography in London, ON.

Through the loading dock window at the abandoned McCormicks plant.

I found this beaver on my way home from the cottage.

Aylmer's volunteer fire department's truck.

Outbuildings on the Adamsom farm.

Dew drops

Home County Music & Art Festival

This year the festival brought me three themes to shoot; food vendors, a native pow wow and lots of people moving about at night.

Not many people can work over a vat of hot oil for hours and hours and still have such a big smile.

Getting ready for tomorrow's hungry customers.

Copper top pizza oven baked pizza in less than 2 minutes.

Keeping it hot.

All the vendors were so friendly, happy and accommodating.  They were very patient as I learned how to use some of the features of a new flash.

Saturday brought to Home County its own mini Pow Wow.

I love shooting images at night.  With thousands of people moving about or just sitting (not so still), the possibilities are endless.

Six Mile Lake

 After trying for about 15 years I finally got a "Hummer" shot worth showing.  Next time, I'll increase the shutter speed to above 1/1600th of a second.

 An HDR shot of our little boat taken very early one morning.

Another HDR shot of sunset over West Hungry Bay.

 Another shade of grey; this cottage is probably over 60 years old.  Until the week before this image was taken, it had wonderful peeling paint of various colours, which I loved.  I guess what some see as opportunity, others see as eyesores.

 Three docks; taken before most people were up and about, the reflections were too much to resist.

 I liked the back-lighting of this little guy.  His actual size was about 3-4 mm.

 It's hard to get a sharp shot when floating in a boat in open water. This is a shot of a mother and her two "loonettes".

Completing the family is Papa.  This shot was taken from our dock when Papa came into our bay to do some fishing.  I got to see him surface with a small fish, swim over to one of the kids and feed him.  Papa was fastidious about grooming.  He was constantly plucking feathers and dipping under the surface to reset his coat.