They’re Still Here!

This gallery contains 4 photos. I shouldn’t be surprised, given our dry spring and summer (Metro Vancouver has been into a Stage 3 advisory — no lawn sprinkling, no car washes, etc. — for the past two months), that

A Day With the Raptors

This gallery contains 6 photos. Sunday, August 16 was a good day at the 8th Richmond Raptor Festival, held once again at Terra Nova Rural Park. This educational and entertaining annual event showcased a variety of birds

Creepy to the nth Degree

This gallery contains 5 photos. Nothing evokes creepiness as well as the members of the insect world. Cold, calculating, and chilling are a few more adjectives that have been ascribed to these bug-eyed beasts, who are

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 

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;

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

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