Cluj Napoca, Romania

The tech centre of Romania.

 

Route to Marmures, Romania

From Eger to Baie Marie, we visited the Merry Cemetery of Sapanta , wooden churches and much more.

 

Eger, Hungary

Eger and the Valley of the Beautiful Women are the home to the Bull's Blood family of wine.  The city was full of history and modernity.

Nashville

A very hot week in this great music city gave me a lot of nighttime opportunities.

A Hair Fling Thing

Neon in Detroit

A few bright lights from Detroit

Muskoka Afternoon

Night Sky in Muskoka

A couple more Milky Way shots from August 2019.

Mac Lilley Farm

We had a nice morning at the farm several weeks ago.  Notwithstanding the fact that a couple of our group decided to wade into the boggy area, the horses were quite happy to have their photos taken.  I ventured into the paddocks and found some inquisitive eyes.

NIght sky over Hungry Bay

Taken during the new moon phase at the very beginning of July.  Overlooking our family cottage.  While the Milky Way was muted, it was still a great evening to be out shooting.  The mosquitoes liked my company too.  First image was on July 2nd.  The second image was on July 3rd.

Early July at Six Mile Lake

Paddling around Wild Rice Bay.  Great Blue Heron and Hooded Merganser family feedings.

Chipmunk and Trillium

Ok, I know.  Another trillium?  Yes but at least there is a cute chipmunk first.

Starry Starry Night, Part II

Well I planned to shoot the Milky Way during the night of the new moon.  Thought process was, no moonlight so the Milky Way would be super bright.  Wrong.  While it was visible, it was kind of lack lustre.  I mean if it takes a couple of billion years for the light to get here, don't you think that the intelligent life forms from far away could have foreseen my need for a bright galaxy that night and made appropriate arrangements?  This is four images stitched together.

Starry starry night...

Something a little different.  No star trails.  No Milky Way.  Just an hour of star shots taken every 15 seconds for about an hour squeezed into 15 seconds.  Please view full screen.  There is no sound.

Late Spring

It has become a tradition for us to open the family cottage over the Victoria Day weekend.  We see lots of different weather; sunny, cloudy, rainy, snowy.  This year we had a cool Saturday, cold Sunday morning and hot Sunday afternoon.  There was barely a bud on the trees, let alone any leaves.  On Saturday the air was so cool and the sun so faint that the Trilliums were barely willing to open.  Sunday was a different story.  They were out in their glory and I found a friendly Downy Woodpecker digging a rotted log, looking for grubs. 

Trilliums

A cold harsh wind on a cloud morning left me wondering why I hadn't just slept in.  When you arrive at Peter Corner's Corner in early May, you know your in for a treat.  Bzillions and bzillions of trilliums, not to mention the spring bird migration.  I set about shooting the trilliums and during a brief break, about half a dozen varieties of warblers flew through the bush I was in.  Glad I took my binoculars. 

Woodland Cemetery

This might be the oldest cemetery in London, ON.  During my walk, I viewed stones dating back to the 1850s.  There are some big old monuments and a very nice, neat and tidy veterans' section.  To many Londoners this is the cemetery with the deer.  A couple of weeks ago, I went and saw lots of big lenses.  That usually means a very rare bird sighting.  Well my guess was correct.  It was a pair of Great Horned owlets and one of the parents.  A little later I found a red-bellied wood pecker.  The deer, well they were molting and not very attractive.  Maybe next time.