Quatse Lake Sunset

Caught this character sunset last night. So I'll see your half moon picture and up the antie by this sunset...

Shooting the moon

I'll see your full night-time moon and raise you one day-time half moon :~)

Laying at anchor

Fresh picture, just took it in fact. Found this beautiful 130 foot sailboat anchored in Coal Harbour. Couldn't resist taking a few shots what with the moon in the background and all...

Fuzz Heads

I don't have any idea what kind of birds these are. I came across them in the St. Louis zoo and thought they might make a good photo.

Lazy summer afternoon

View of inner Hardy Bay and some of the boats tied at "Fishermans Dock". The warm sunny weather here on the North Tip of Vancouver Island continues much to the delight of everyone from here!

Dive! dive! dive!

It's not a submarine but he does have a hard shell, doesn't that count? I caught this turtle just a couple of feet below the surface so the sun was hitting him as he went under.

Coho

A little hard to see, but these are Coho Salmon milling around Hardy Bay waiting for rain. No rain, no getting up the river. Each of the fish in this picture is around 8 to 10 lbs.

Got to love those skies!

As I was arriving home the other night I pulled into my drive way and this is what I saw. Before heading up the 1/4 mile long drive to the house I stopped and took a few photos. This was the best of the bunch. This looked like it was right over my house (in behind the tree line).

Massive Bronze Propeller

Found this beautiful (straight) propeller in front of the Maratime Museum in Hololulu. Just as I went to walk away my water bottle slipped out of my pack and bent the thin edge of one of the propeller blades... Oops! What is it with me and propellers?

St. Louis Art Museum

I came across this art museum while I was in St. Louis. I don't know which one it was but the shot looked interesting when I took it.

Kaalawai Beach and Black Point

Just thought I would throw in a Hawaii picture to keep you on your toes! To this day I'm reminded just how beautiful the colours of the ocean are everytime I come across a picture like this.

All I want for Christmas................

Well, the lists of what I want and what I need for Christmas are two completely different things. I don't need much but I want a lot! I will say that niether of the lists have a hippo on them! It's that song, I just can't get it out of my head when I see a hippo!

For being as big as they are they sure can swim good! Even though they don't look to threatening they are a little intimidating up close.

Motor Bikes

1911 Indian Motorcycle

Now here is an interesting twist, almost as though the motor bike of the early 1900's is reinvented!

I understand that there are kits from China for sale on e-bay to convert your average bicycle into a road legal motor bicycle.

What you don't find!

The St. Louis Arch, The Gateway to the Midwest

The Saint Louis, MO arch is a pretty impressive piece of architecture, especially if you go up inside the arch. Photographing the arch during the day can be a little challenging to make it look as impressive as it is and to give it the "ambiance" it needs.

Taking photos at night is a completely different story. There is a lot that adds to the arch when you are shooting at night.

St. Louis, Mo, A city in need of help

In my opinion anyway. I occasionally have to travel to St. Louis for work and I absolutely hate it. The traffic is terrible no matter what time of day it is and they are ALWAYS working on the roads. This shot was taken as I was driving into town. I had to get up at 0 dark-thirty and drive the four and a half hours to get there and the sun was just cresting the horizon and trying to burn off the fog when I arrived. I should have known it was going to be a bad day when I hit the fog near the city limits!

St. Louis has let a lot of the old buildings just fall apart and/or fall down. There are blocks and blocks of delapidated buildings and many, many areas of just clear land where they have demolished these buildings and left the land sitting empty. Some of the neighborhoods remind me of a bombed out portion of Beirut.

Here is an old church that has been standing since the very early 1900's that has just gone to waste. It sits empty, and has for years, and the vandals have broken out the windows and a lot of the wood has rotted away.

I just hate to see buildings, especially something like this church that has some nice architecture

to it, go to waste.

OK Then!

Dog the bounty hunter should do an episode or two in New Hampshire!

Our stupid lisense plates only say "Beautiful British Columbia" maybe they should say "B.C. Bud is #1" or how about "British Columbia Got a problem with that?" LOL

I'm leaving, on a jet plane..............

Man, I wish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was at a light near the airport the other day and this American Airlines jet took off while I was sitting there so I grabbed the camera off the seat real quick and snapped a few photos.

My wife and I fly American when we go to Hawaii and that was the first thing I thought of when I saw this jet taking off, sitting in a nice comfortable chair (they have those in first class) and drinking a mimosa while headed for the islands.

Getting a little sun

This isn't a Hawaiian Honu (turtle), just a regular old Kansas turtle. I caught him out getting a little sun one day so I zoomed in and took a few photos. As before, I cropped this photo to bring the turtle even closer in the image.

Swimming with the fishies

If you are from New Jersey you may not want to hear the term "swim with the fish" but if you are in Hawaii, you have to try it at least once. This is a school of goat fish in the waters off Maui.

Hairpin switchback

Found this interesting switchback corner on our way up to Puu O Mahuka Heiau an ancient temple above Waiamea Bay on Oahu's North Shore. Though a head-on collision appears about to happen, everyone made it around the corner just fine...