Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Shore walk

A few shots from recent walk on the shore, near Ogden Point.


Thought these two below had some dreamy quality about them:

Monday, July 12, 2010

Whales and other mostly swimming things

Little report from a nice ocean trip over the weekend.

First, some views:


At some point this thing swam by us before taking off and flying away:
Then pod of killer whales came to look if there was anything edible on our boat:
These are resident orcas, mostly eating salmon. Now, when transient orcas are in town, they take these guys right off the rocks:
That would a photo to take! Well, no such luck. Instead we found this grey whale swimming right near the shore. Residents of this house can do whale watching right from their windows:
Thing is a bit lazy, that was all it showed us. As a consolation, bald eagle came closer and let me take a shot:

Monday, July 5, 2010

Flowers with difference

Let's face it - flowers, as pretty as they are, can be quite a boring subject of photography. Everyone photographs them, they are after all pretty much the same... It takes a certain effort to try and make them look different, more striking. Below is my attempt at it - successful or not.