Eyes of Coal
A melanistic garter snake pokes its head up through the leaf litter, its jet-black eye reflecting the photographer and surroundings.
Gimpy Returns 2008
A three-and-a-half legged turtle first photographed in 2006, surfaces again in 2008 in a different body of water, connected briefly during the high-water mark in spring. In 2006 I wasn’t sure how this fellow would do in our environment, happily it seems to be doing just fine. Tagged as a b-roll shot, focus and lighting […]
Gimpy 2006
A three-legged painted turtle basks on a log in 2006 near Hanlan’s Point. What happened to this fellow’s front-right leg is still a mystery, but subsequent sightings in later years confirm that, despite the missing leg, it’s doing just fine.
Waterline
A beaver swims in the reflected colours of June, keeping its nose just above its own bow wake.
Lagoon Snack II
A beaver has a floating snack of a tuber of some sort in the waters off of Doughnut Island
Minimum Focus Distance
A mute swan tests the minimum focus distance of the Canon EF 300mm f/4.0 L IS lens, proving that telephoto lenses can be too long for bird photography.
Watchful Eye
A nesting mute swan keeps absolute focus on the photographer interloper, eyes locked and never straying from the lens.
Blazing Buns
A goose sits on her nest in an unlikely location: right beside the railroad tracks on Centre Island, trainloads of tourists passing within two feet every few minutes.