Remembering of Kauai.

Just a wave

I was looking through some of the GoPro shots I took on my last trip to the ocean. Man, that was a long time ago!

 It is definitely a handy little camera if you don't want to lug around all of the underwater gear I have to have for the DSLR.

The bridge

This bridge crosses Cache Creek In Medicine Park, OK.

The creek was flowing pretty good because of the previous two days of rain. There were several people wondering the banks of the creek taking photos.

Jinxed

I think my new camera is jinxed! I first took it to Colorado a couple of weeks ago and got hit with a blizzard and torrential rains.

I took it to Oklahoma with me this past weekend and was hit with high winds, torrential rains, hail and a frickin' tornado!

The weekend wasn't a complete bust though. The weather did clear up for Saturday night and Q and I were able to have a nice fire and cook a steak dinner. 

The winds were too high for the ospreys to be active, I saw only four ospreys the whole weekend. We managed to get a few photos in a nearby small town so I will have something to post.

I'm headed to Texas next week. We see what the weather does then.

A Seagull dare gone horribly wrong!

Stephanie my wife took this picture of a Seagull with a Starfish a couple of days ago, I just had to share it!

I can think of a dozen funny captions to go with this shot... Love to hear what captions everyone out there in the blogosphere can come up with!

Recent bird pictures

I figured I better post these mediocre bird pictures before Ron gets back with some really spectacular Osprey images!

The first picture is an Eagle nest in downtown Port Hardy, The middle shot is a Turkey Vulture and the last picture is a couple of Seagulls arguing over a Sea Lion...

Just playing around

I'm headed to Oklahoma tomorrow for a few days with the cameras to see if the ospreys have returned. Hopefully the weather will calm down some so I can actually get the camera out of the bag!

Greetings from the Kale patch!

Stephanie waving at me from a patch of feral Kale that just showed up last year in an unused lot. Looks like this bunch will soon be gone to seed.

Yes I know... It's a cell phone picture, I was too lazy to dig out my good camera!

Blossomfall

Blossomfall, warmer than snowfall and dryer than rainfall and nice to look at too!

Busy, Busy, Busy..

I'm still having to dig through the old files to get some photos to post. My wife and I took a trip to Colorado last weekend so I could take some photos and as luck would have it, they had a blizzard!

We went up into the mountains around Evergreen and were there for about an hour before the snow started and then it just never stopped. By the afternoon they had the highways heading into the mountains closed and by the next morning the snow had hit Denver and we decided to run while we could. They were expecting 8-10 inches of snow and I wasn't going to stick around for that.

Getting out of Colorado was one of the longest and slowest drives I have made in a long time. We waited about two hours too long to start heading back. Once we were into Kansas and out of the snow we hit torrential rains for another two hours of stressful driving. Needless to say I didn't get any photos.

You Otter...

...kick back, relax and have yourself a nice nap!

Mirror mirror...

Mirror mirror at my feet, 

who's the prettiest Crow on the street?

Cobwebs and dew

Everyone has heard of "Cobwebs" right?

So my question is just what exactly is a "Cob"

and have you ever seen one making a web?

The Buddha and the Moon

I've been playing with changing some of my photos into black and white just to get a different feel out of them.

Is that weird or artistic?

Just playing around

I haven't had time to take any new photos lately so I thought I would look at some old photos I have and push some buttons in Photoshop that I have never used.

There's lots of buttons I haven't used so hopefully I will find some time to take some new photos or you might be seeing some really weird photos!

Pass the allergy pills please

I couldn't figure out why I was so stuffed up when I got up this morning, then when I headed out I saw this on the windshield of my pickup truck! Man oh man something let go, absolutely everything around here is covered in that greenish yellow pollen dust.

Big Slide

I was digging through the old files today and came across this shot I took with the fisheye lens a few years back.

I seem to be getting stranger in my old age!

Oh oh update...

You might recall my post a couple of days ago titled "Oh oh..." about here comes the April showers. (See upper photo)

Well sure enough the April showers came alright and it hasn't quit raining since, the bottom photo is the same scene today... On the positive side, at least it isn't snow!

Sikorsky MH-60G/HH-60G Pave Hawk

A US combat search and rescue helicopter.

Now here's a machine we don't see very often over on the West Coast of Canada...

The Insurance Spokesman

Better known in the islands as lunch!

Oh oh...

...here comes the April showers part!

The Streak

I would like to tell you this was me running past the camera with a couple of flashlights but since I'm an old fat guy I won't do that.

This was a car driving in front of my camera while I was trying to get a shot of the stars. At first I was cussing the driver because he went right through my shot and then I thought, hmmm, this isn't the worst picture I've ever taken.

Counting Crows

One Crow sorrow, two Crows joy

Three Crows a girl, four Crows a boy

Five Crows silver, six Crows gold

Seven Crows a secret never to be told.

Author unknown

Wild Grey Yonder...

Up and away into the wild grey yonder!

Just a few days into Spring so I guess a some more grey sky is to be expected, can't wait for warmer weather and blue skies!

Spring did come!

Of course right after it arrived the temperatures dropped back into the 20's!

The good thing is I don't live in Colorado. They got buried in snow this week.

Keeping it realistic

Top picture is straight out of the camera

Bottom picture is after post processing. 

Just playing around with some new to me photo editing software and doing my darnedest to keep the end results as realistic as possible.

Full flaps

Just a couple of bird photos from a few weeks ago. 

Good-bye Winter, Hello Spring!

Good-bye Winter,

Hello Spring!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

"It's easy" my Irish friend told me...

- First you go to the end of the rainbow. (like it ever quits moving...)
- Next you look around for a little man dressed in green who will be repairing shoes. 
- Now comes the tricky part, catch the little man! (capturing a leprechaun is almost impossible by the way) 
- If by chance you do manage to capture the little fellow he is obliged to tell you where his pot of gold is. (assuming he actually has a pot of gold...)

After thinking about the logistics involved with mounting an expedition to chase rainbows and capture leprechauns I came to the conclusion that we should all just go and buy ourselves a lottery ticket instead!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

May the luck O'the Irish be with you!

Port Hardy waterfront panoramas

This is one thing my DSLR camera just won't do as well or as easily as my cell phone... Panorama shots like these!

Just a little too close

Maybe it's just me but I think if I was going whale watching a paddle board might not be my first choice for a mode of transportation.

Just a sunset splash

I was just sitting around at sunset watching the ocean, and having a cocktail.

 It was that time after all.

Early morning wood

Come on now Tex, I know what you're thinking!

I thought I would add to Paul's wood themed post and put up a photo of the rays from a sunrise hitting a dead tree on the beach. It doesn't sound that interesting but I liked the colors it brought out in the wood.

Tree farming.

This is a common sight and not the least bit alarming for those of us living in the Temperate Rainforest on Northern Vancouver Island. 

The felled trees and the standing trees in the background are all about 60 to 70 years old, that is to say that this area has already been harvested at least once and will be harvested again in another 60 or 70 years. 

After these logs are hauled away the tree planters will come through and plant hundreds of new seedlings, Soon after that the roads will be deactivated and within 20 years "you won't be able to see the forest for the trees" as the old saying goes!

Time to get out the paint ol paint brush...

I took this nice picture of the "John P Tully" at anchor in Hardy Bay several days ago. When I got home an had a little closer look at the picture I couldn't help but notice rust streaks and chipped paint. Looks like it's time to get out the ol paint brush and get this fine vessel all shined up again!

Thin Air

I don't know why but I am always drawn to the top of Haleakala, the dormant volcano on Maui. My wife thinks it's cold and desolate, which it is, but the colors are just amazing to me.

And how often do you get to climb around on a volcano!