Golden Beauties Thru the Bars

Normally, I’d prefer not to show photos with cages, but it’s less distracting in the case of these subjects because of my distance from both them and the bars. This gorgeous pair of Golden Eagles is being rehabilitated

A Closeup of Satin Flowers

Satin Flowers really is the alternate name of Pale Yellow-Eyed Grass, and the former label is a lot more charismatic. Photographed at UBC Botanical Gardens on May 24, these flowers grow in a round and blossom in tiers;

Getting Chummy with Chester

Chester is the latest permanent resident at the Vancouver Aquarium. He’s a young False Killer Whale who was spotted alone, motherless, podless, injured, and stranded on North Chesterton Beach, British Columbia, a year 

Don’t Call Me Four Eyes!

My first meeting with a Jumping Spider in the sunroom. After seeing various wildlife documentaries and photos of this eight-eyed arachnid, I was surprised to discover just how small this subject actually was–no bigger than

Profile of a Peregrine Falcon

This beautiful Peregrine Falcon — who was in one of the rehabilitation buildings at Ladner’s Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society over the 2015 Spring Open House weekend — was unintentionally vignetted when I

I Do Give a Fig

Let’s give this the alternate caption “Food Under Flash”, shall we? Our first fig of the season, photographed from a top-down position on a white plate. I added the black background in the post-processing stage. 

Natural on Unnatural

An overcast and lightly rainy morning gradually gave way to sunshine and much warmer conditions, which provided the perfect ambience and lighting conditions for photographing (and juxtaposing) this rain-beaded Mexican

DIY Hummingbird Garden

If, after reading this past week’s posts, you want these flying jewels to come and visit you on a regular basis, you can do everything from hanging out a nectar feeder to building your own hummingbird garden in

One of the Contendas!

This is one of (at least) three Anna’s hummingbirds (one adult male, one almost adult male, and one female) who were in the backyard at the same time this afternoon. This adult male (notice his pink crown) was photographed