This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Joy prompt.
I was photographing ripples on Colpoy’s Bay at sunrise when this Common Loon swam into the section with the most interesting ripples. I wasn’t overjoyed until the bird surfaced and did a nice wing stretch after a dive.
I don’t know if the stretch was to help the bird swallow a fish it had caught while underwater or if it’s simply straightening ruffled feathers but it certainly looks joyful.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Nostalgic prompt.
It took me a while to come up with a theme for the challenge. Then I thought about my ‘getting back to basics’ project and I had my theme.
A few years ago I put together a kit of manual focus prime lenses to shoot digital the same way I used to shoot film in the 1970s and early 80s. It was a way of getting back to the basics of photography.
Then an accident last year left me with restricted movement in the right shoulder and a weaker right arm and I slimmed the kit down further to three small, manual focus primes and a small mirrorless camera.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Attitude prompt.
I thought of one particular photo of an American Red Squirrel. I have a few photos of them with an attitude but this one came to mind straight away. Maybe because of the way the squirrel is holding its front paws.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Tower prompt.
I had several ideas for a post with three or four different towers in mind. Each had some interesting detail and history but I couldn’t find a way of tying any of them together.
So I decided to pick just one. One that is no longer a tower although you can tell it used to be one.
This is the Church of St Editha in Church Eaton, Staffordshire, England. The church is largely 12th century. Originally built with a tower, the tower was later modified to add a spire.
This is a contribution to the Photo a Week Challenge: Rainbow.
I have a few photos of rainbows but one photo came to mind immediately on reading the challenge.
A rainbow over a barn on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario in the autumn.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Insects.
A small selection of photos of insects making more insects.
Common Red Soldier Beetles mating on top of Ragwort flowers.
Silver-studded Blue Butterflies mating on a grass seed head.
Pond Skaters mating on the surface of a garden pond.
This is my contribution to the A Photo a Week Challenge: Threes and Threes challenge.
Three photos of threes.
Three American White Pelicans on a section of Last Mountain Lake National Wildlife Area in Saskatchewan, Canada.
Storm clouds and light beams at Loch Arkaig, Scotland. Something of a rarity for me, a scenic photo sort of following the rule of thirds.
Three birds silhouetted against the rising sun on Colpoy’s Bay, Ontario, Canada at sunrise.
