A small selection of photos from one particular back road on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario. All the photos are from the past couple of months and were taken when returning from the local bay after sunrise.
The rising sun shines through a mix of mist and smoke. The smoke is from wildfires burning in western Canada.
This is my contribution to the Cosmic Photo Challenge: At the end of the day prompt.
I quickly ended up with a shortlist of dozens of photos. So I decided to go with the most recent and a small selection of favourites from previous decades.
Intentional camera movement of trees at the end of the day last Saturday evening.
A giant sun pillar behind Chantry Island on Lake Huron at Southampton, Ontario. At the end of the day in winter.
A winter gull roost on Hurleston Reservoir near Nantwich in southern Cheshire at the end of the day.
Storm clouds and light beams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland at the end of the day.
This is my day 15 contribution to Becky’s April Squares on the theme of Bright.
The band Gillan on stage at the Liverpool Empire, Liverpool, England. Research online suggests it was 7th March 1980. The only time I took a camera to a concert.
This week Tina gives us the prompt Special Moments for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
A female Wilson’s Phalarope. I was on a section of the Middle Quill Lake shoreline looking for summer migrants when half a dozen Wilson’s Phalaropes flew in and started feeding around me. I lay down in the sand (and wildfowl poop) to photograph them at eye level. They completely ignored me, some of the birds came so close I couldn’t focus on them.
Having been experimenting with intentional camera movement recently this photo may be where it started for me. A competitor in the 1982 Le Mans 24 hour motorcycle endurance race enters the start/finish straight shortly before midnight. Far to abstract for the magazine editor but I liked the images and have been experimenting on and off ever since.
An adult Eurasian Blue Tit feeding young in a specially constructed nestbox in a garden in Hatherton near Nantwich, Cheshire. I documented the entire nesting cycle from the beginning of nest building to the empty nestbox after the last youngster had left. Extensively published I spent a week looking at a nestbox photo on the contents page of the Radio Times without recognising it as mine.
Storm clouds and light beams over Loch Arkaig, Scotland. I was in Scotland one autumn with the plan of doing lots of landscape photography. With almost constant rain I wasn’t getting a lot of photos until the end of day three when the rain stopped towards sunset. One of the photos from this evening was published worldwide by Olympus Japan and won a national photo contest on the theme of ‘The Beauty of Light.’
This week Amy has given us the prompt Natural Light for the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge.
Golden light on the mist on Colpoy’s Bay at sunrise. Storm clouds and light beams, Loch Arkaig, Scotland. American Red Squirrel in dappled sunlight. Backlit Sandhill Cranes at sunrise.
