Alberta Legislative Building grounds (five photos)

Posted by Steve Boer on October 12, 2019
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A series of photos taken at the Alberta Legislative Building grounds in Edmonton. Click on the individual photos to see larger versions and exif details.

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Birds of the wetlands (six photos)

Posted by Steve Boer on July 5, 2019
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This is a collection of bird photos that I captured recently in our local wetlands. I was most excited about the great blue heron. Normally he stays on the opposite side of the river and is tough to get close to, but this time he was near my side and I was able to get a couple good shots of him. The cedar waxwing was another one I was very happy to have gotten close enough to and that he stayed put for long enough to photograph. Also shown are a lesser scaup (the duck), a goldfinch, a red-winged blackbird and a Franklin’s gull that I managed to capture in flight. Click on the individual photos to see larger versions and exif details.

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Black-capped Chickadee

Posted by Steve Boer on May 3, 2019
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Just another Black-capped Chickadee, seen in the ravine trails in Devon, AB.

Black capped chickadee perched on a small branch
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark IV, Exposure Time: 1/1000, Aperture: f/8, ISO: 2000, Focal Length: 400mm

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Kauai Views (three photos)

Posted by Steve Boer on April 23, 2019
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A final few pictures from our Hawaii trip in Jan/Feb. The ‘Respect Kauai’ bench is from up on the Sleeping Giant which was a challenging, if not very long, hike. The sunset picture made it into Explore on Flickr which resulted in it getting almost 60,000 views. That is over 100 times as many as most of my photos get.

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Waimea Canyon (three photos)

Posted by Steve Boer on April 2, 2019
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Here’s a few pictures from the Kukui Trail hike we took down into Waimea Canyon. It’s 2.5 miles from the trail head going down 2000 feet in elevation to the Waimea river at the bottom of the canyon. Let me tell you, we were pretty wiped out after we got back to the top again afterwards! Please click through to the individual photos to view them and see exif info.

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Kauai Chickens (three photos)

Posted by Steve Boer on March 22, 2019
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For the next little while I’ll be posting about our recent trip to Kauai, Hawaii. If you’re familiar with Kauai you will know that there are wild chickens everywhere! Some of them (particularly the roosters) have very nice colouration, such as the two shown here. After getting a few shots of them with my telephoto lens I put the wide angle lens on, mounted the camera on the ground, put some seed around, and used remote shooting on my cell phone to get the closeup shot of the hen. Please click through to the individual photos to view them and see exif info.

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Snowy Owl (five photos)

Posted by Steve Boer on March 4, 2019
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Here are several photos I managed to take of some snowy owls in St. Albert, AB where I live. It was a treat to see them as I hardly ever see owls in the wild. I spent a few hours over a couple of days just watching them, hoping for more photo opportunities than just an owl sitting on a light post. They are content to just sit on light posts for a long time without moving more than their heads. Finally I got a chance to see one fly down into a field, presumably to go after a mouse or something and was able to get these shots. Click on the individual photos to see larger versions and exif details.

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