Category: Nature Photography, Art, Gift Ideas
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Happy Birthday, Canada!
Happy Canada Day, my fellow Canadians! There’s so much to appreciate about our country. I don’t feel the need to wave a flag but every day I feel gratitude for my amazing surroundings here on the west coast of Canada. We are very lucky! SEE MORE HERE
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Hummingbird and Columbine Flowers
I was delighted when I noticed a female Anna’s hummingbird sipping nectar from the columbine flowers that have spread throughout my yard this spring. I raced into the house to grab my camera, thinking there was no way I’d make it back in time to capture her in action. But she stuck around long enough…
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Perched Rufous Hummingbird
I captured this photograph of a male Rufous hummingbird perched on a branch as he was resting after a long migration from Mexico to his spring and summer home on the west coast of Canada. This handsome hummer allowed me to sit quite close to him and photograph him freely. In the background are the…
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Psychedelic Fractal Crow
In this work I combined my photograph of a crow with my colorful fractal and digital art painting in the background to create a bird with a difference. But maybe you prefer your nature pure? If that’s the case, here’s my crow photograph before I started messing around with it… SEE MORE HERE
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Squirrel in a Basket
This is a photograph of a charming little pine squirrel (aka Douglas squirrel) that I named Squiggy, seen here with a big smile on his face and posing in a woven basket on my back deck where I used to live on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. Pine squirrels are native to the…
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Poppies
I used one of my older photographs of California poppies and jazzed it up with a painted background, trying to give it a dreamy look. I can get lost in this technique…I’ll be using it more often for future images. SEE MORE HERE
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Anna’s Hummingbird with Winter Bud
I’m taking a year-long course called Phlorography Online 2022 where many teachers share techniques for expanding the student’s photographic repertoire. For my hummingbird photograph above I practised creating a hand-painted background digitally and finished the image with a slight canvas texture. Anna’s hummingbirds spend the winter on the west coast of British Columbia, Canada, where…
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A Sunflower for Ukraine
Today’s image is a tribute to the people of Ukraine…a bright yellow sunflower against a blue sky. Ukraine’s national flower is the sunflower and their flag’s colors are yellow and blue. May peace reign again very soon. SEE MORE HERE
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A Tired Owl
Or is he maybe saying, “Leave me alone!” to the robin in the background, who had just finished dive bombing him endlessly while he tried to catch a nap? It was a fascinating scene that unfolded on one of my regular hikes through fields and forests on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. In…
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Chickadee in Snow
After a couple of weeks or more of nicer weather, the forecast is for our temperature to dip below freezing again for five days or so. We might even get some snow. No, say it isn’t so! Some flowers have already started to come up so they’re about to get a rude shock. I took…
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