Wet Sky
Easily mistaken for alien tendrils attacking planet earth, lily pads float on the surface of the trout pond as seen from a remote camera on the bottom of the lagoon.
Peeking Through
A remote camera catches a blackbird chick waiting for feeding, seen through its mother’s legs.
End of the Road
The breakwall that defines the eastern gap continues to crumble into the inner harbour. Here a lonely bollard awaits its fate, many of its siblings already lying submerged beneath the icy waters.
1830 to the City
The Ongiara streaks to the city at 6:30 P.M., punching through the January ice in this two-minute exposure.
Mink Details
The carnivorous details of a perfectly preserved mink skull, found in the Sans Souci region of Georgian Bay.
Waiting for Gala Days
An almost-full moon turns night into day around the snowbound WIA clubhouse, silent for the winter and awaiting future Gala Days.
Remote I Liftoff
While we don’t get too many space shuttles around these parts, it was the Island’s environment that let me build and test the remote camera enclosures that led to this photograph, the launch of space shuttle Atlantis (STS-132), from beside launch pad 39A. While launch is targeted for a specific date, things don’t always go […]
Spotlight
An unlikely mating of a Canon EF-S 60mm f/2.8 macro lens to a full-frame Canon EOS 5DmkII (you’re not supposed to be able to use short-backfocus lenses on full-frame bodies) picks out a Dekay’s Brown snake amongst the dull browns of early spring.
Chew Baby Chew (audio)
[audio:Chew-baby-chew.mp3] If a beaver chews on branches and there’s nobody to hear, does it make a sound? As it turns out, yes it does (265KB MP3). Note: if the audio player doesn’t appear, click the title (Chew Baby Chew) to view the actual post.
Smoke on the Water
A long exposure (somewhere on the order of two minutes) turns the raging whitewater of the outer harbour into mist on a stormy fall night in 2009.
Diving Mallards (video)
Our local mallards have learned a new behaviour: how to dive. Normally a dabbling duck, the extent of their underwater activities usually stops at mooning passersby and picking up what they can reach under the water’s surface. Some local mallards, however, have picked up the ability to completely submerge themselves, just like cormorants. Captured here […]
Leafmaster II
Even in late November, snakes can still be found on the warmer days warming themselves in the low sunlight.
Conversations (audio)
[audio:9870-Conversations.mp3] The lonely call of a Toronto Island coyote on a still November night (919KB MP3). Note: if the audio player doesn’t appear, click the title (Conversations) to view the actual post.
Last Day Lily (timelapse)
One of the last day lilies of 2009 unfolds in this three-hour timelapse (click the play button to view the timelapse).
Egret ABCs
Great egrets do the most fantastic then when they catch and swallow a fish — all of their feathers stand on end. In this progression, an egret catches a fish (left), swallows (centre), and totally punks out (right).
Entrail Spaghetti
A juvenile racoon, in fact this fellow, sucks back a tasty morsel from a long-dead carp near the IYC as if it were designer Italian pasta.
Arrowhead Trails
A four-hour exposure over Arrowhead lake spins the night sky, ushering in the camping season of 2009.
Yellow Blast
One of the earliest flowers to emerge spreads its yellow petals against the still winter-brown groundcover on Third St.
Welcome Back II
A tighter view of this garter snake as it emerges from the leaf litter, one of the first snakes to appear in 2009.
Egret Ruffle
A great egret shows off its ability to stand every feather on end after swallowing a fish near Snake Island. Tagged as a b-roll photograph, this was taken far too late in the evening for any decent sort of light.