Category: Nature Photography, Art, Gift Ideas
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Butterfly on Sunflower
While going through some of my hard drives I came across this macro photo of a Painted Lady butterfly pollinating a sunflower and decided to process it. The Painted Lady is the most widespread of butterfly species. SEE MORE HERE
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Spotted Towhee
This photograph of a Towhee was taken when we used to live on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. We often had towhees hanging out in the bushes that surrounded our house, or scrabbling around in the earth, doing their peculiar dance of bouncing back and forth to unearth some kind of tasty tidbit.…
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Goose Spit Park, Comox, British Columbia
Goose Spit Park in Comox, British Columbia, Canada, is a magical place during the yearly herring spawn in March. Last year I photographed this flock of seagulls flying along the beach with the snow-capped mountains in the distance and a rainbow in the sky, making the scene pretty spectacular. The coasts of Vancouver Island come…
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Anna’s Hummingbird
For some reason the pair of Anna’s hummingbirds (a male, shown above, and a female) have disappeared from my yard. The pair had taken up residence this winter while we had some unusually harsh conditions…over a foot of snow had fallen and we had below freezing temperatures for a couple of weeks. The male hummer…
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Little Qualicum River Estuary
Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, has some amazing beaches. I like to go there at low tide when you can often see eagles and herons perched in trees or sitting on the beach, waiting to unveil some tasty seafood snacks. On this day a flock of Canada geese floated along the…
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Learning to Share
My parents’ back yard in Ontario, Canada, was always busy with wildlife. They had a regular rabbit visitor for quite awhile and there were always lots of chipmunks scurrying around…not to mention squirrels galore and a never-ending variety of birds visiting the bird bath and feeders. I liked to put a little bird seed on…
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Valentine Squirrel
Tipsy the squirrel loves Valentine’s Day and he also loves take out food, so this heart-covered box filled with peanuts is the perfect gift! Tipsy was a frequent visitor to my back deck when I lived on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia. He was a great model…and he worked for peanuts. SEE MORE HERE
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Lone Tree Sunset
My most recent artwork is based on a photograph I took of a lone tree overlooking a forest, shown here in silhouette against a colorful watercolor sunset. SEE MORE HERE
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Wild American Mink
I often saw wild mink where I used to live on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada. They would run along the boulders searching for food on the shore of the bay in Pender Harbour at low tide. If they heard my camera clicking as I took photographs they would usually stop dead in…