Transitions
A mallard duckling starts to look a bit ratty as its baby fur gives way to adult feathers.
Little Silver Buddy
Another portrait of beautiful Columbus, posing for the camera like an ancient Egyptian feline deity.
Weremerant
A cormorant creates a partial eclipse of the sun by Doughnut Island, momentarily turning day into night in the camera.
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.
Phoenix Rising
Bruce Smith’s stunning Phoenix becomes a blazing beacon for the new year at the AIA’s 2009 New Year’s Eve Dance (Thanks Bruce!).
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 […]
Backlight Moon
Reflected light from the rising full moon frames a beaver in silhouette on Ward’s Beach.
Conflagration III
Spring equinox, and the humans come out to perform their annual rituals on Ward’s Beach. Oddly, the trees had a different burning pattern this year: their thermal columns were much shorter. Compare to this tree at last year’s equinox bonfire (thanks Alice!).
Spring Colours
Some of the earliest colours of Spring, a mallard duck swims in the low sunlight of snug harbour.
Mirror Mirror
A beaver swims in an opening in the lagoon ice, still partially frozen in early March.
Moonrise Swans
Illuminated by the light of the rising full moon, mute swans sleep on black ice halfway across the outer harbour to the Leslie St. Spit.
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).
Dynamic Duo
A lovely muskrat couple hoover back zebra mussels as fast as they can, on a “feeding platform” in Snug harbour. In the spring and fall (it’s usually frozen solid in the winter) when the waters clear (in summer the waters warm up and are full of algae and weeds), you can see mounds of zebra […]
Bro Men
Tigger and Marble wile away a long summer afternoon, dealing with their stressors as only felines know how.
Robin Lashes
The delicate details of a robin’s face exemplifies the sharpness of Canon’s EF 300mm f/4 prime telephoto.
Mourning Chilling
A mourning dove relaxes in the half-grass of spring, with a closeup of its wonderful facial feathers and catchlight.
Empty Spaces
Shooting this panorama from my perch on Centre Island, the changing shape of the skyline struck me: I could count 22 construction cranes in the sky, and within a couple of years many of the empty spaces currently visible will be filled in by new development. As recently as 2003, there was almost nothing to […]
Mirror Image
A painted turtle basking on a log reflects perfectly in the calm waters of Snug harbour.
Floral Nova
A water lily flowers in near-perfect symmetry. Tagged as related, this was photographed in the mineral-rich waters off of Franklin Island, Georgian Bay.
Surface Tension
An eastern fox snake reflected perfectly in the calm waters of a high pressure system. Tagged as related, this fellow was photographed just south of Parry Sound. Eastern fox snakes aren’t found this far south, it’s just a shot that’s so cool I had to share.