First Tomatoes!

Second in my Food Under Flash series is the first crop of tomatoes we harvested this summer. Since August 12, we have picked some 10 lb. of tomatoes, and at least another 15-20 lbs. await ripening and picking (both are

In a Brown Study

This gallery contains 2 photos. Lest I be pigeonholed 🙂 … three days after discovering a white peace (white morph/leucistic) dove at Burnaby Lake/Piper Spit, I found this brown morph rock pigeon

The Great White Wonder

This gallery contains 2 photos. The brown morph rock pigeon (which appears tinted as pink) at Reifel may have eluded me, but this lovely, showstopping leucistic Rock Dove at Burnaby Lake/Piper Spit took my breath away.

Closeups with Killdeer

This gallery contains 3 photos. Killdeer are beautiful, slim shorebirds that I’ve long envied other photographers for being able to get close to. It’s not that I haven’t seen them before. I have seen them engaging in

Postcards from Galiano Island

This gallery contains 4 photos. I saw many things of nature–24 species of birds, white-tailed deer, and awesome confluences of sea and sky–to inspire me over the BC Day Long Weekend, but none so much as this shot of the 

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;

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.