photos from the past 40 years
This is my day 16 contribution to Becky’s January Squares: Light photo challenge and day four of my five day sequence of Flight squares.
These are lines of Snow Geese flying to roost at sunset in the autumn. Taken a Little Quill Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada, a staging area for the species on their way south for the winter.
Thinking about Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Winter Scenes it occurred to me that it’s now 20 years since I moved to Ontario. So I decided to limit myself to photos of winter in Ontario.
2004. Chantry Island and its lighthouse at sunset with frazil ice on Lake Huron in the foreground.
2008. Chantry Island at sunset with a frozen and partially snow covered Lake Huron in the foreground. I’m not sure if I was standing on the shoreline or the frozen lake when I took the photo.
2012. Snow on a Pine tree branch.
2018. A frozen and partially snow covered Colpoy’s Bay at sunrise with the Niagara Escarpment on the horizon.
This is my contribution to the Lens-Artists Photo Challenge: Special Spot Shots.
I ran through a list of locations in my head and one location quickly made it to the top of the list. Last Mountain Lake, also known as Long Lake is a prairie lake in south central Saskatchewan, Canada. The northern end of the lake is a National Wildlife Area which includes the Last Mountain Lake Bird Sanctuary.
I thought I would put a post together covering a 12 month period.
A section of the National Wildlife Area at sunset in the winter.
A recently arrived male Yellow-headed Blackbird displays to attract a female in the spring.
An American White Pelican in the summer. The keel on the bill means it’s a breeding adult.
A section of the National Wildlife Area at sunset in the autumn.
A flock of Snow Geese taking flight in the autumn. The lake is a stopover location for the species on their way south for the winter.
A section of the National Wildlife Area at sunset in the winter.
This is my contribution for day six of Becky’s January Squares: Light photo challenge.
First I must admit that I cheated a little with the title of this post. The official name for the lighthouse is the Chantry Island Lightstation Tower. Although it is more commonly known as the Chantry Island lighthouse locally.
It is an Imperial Tower, one of six built around the Bruce Peninsula on Lake Huron and Georgian Bay in the 1850s. No one seems to know where the Imperial Tower name came from.
This is my contribution to Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Opposing Colours.
The first photo came to mind immediately, the second took me a while to come up with.
Ice on Lake Huron at sunset. Taken in the spring when the ice was breaking up. It’s the only time I have seen ice formations like these.
A false colour photo of a model of the Influenza virus. Produced for the cover of a book on Influenza research I deliberately used opposing colours for some versions.
This is my contribution to the Tuesday Photo Challenge – Holidays.
Having written a few posts about Christmas recently I decided to go with a different approach to the challenge. Here’s a selection of photos taken during various public holidays.
Easter egg laying. A female Eurasian Blue Tit egg laying over the Easter holiday.
Canada Day fireworks on the South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario, Canada.
Boxing Day 2007. The sun sets behind Chantry Island while the lighthouse flashes. Lake Huron, Saugeen Shores, Ontario, Canada.
Wiarton Village Fair fireworks on the August long weekend, most commonly know as the Civic Holiday long weekend.
Throwback Thursday travels back 12 years to a section of the Lake Huron shoreline in Saugeen Shores at sunset.
Taken when I was still living in Southampton, Ontario, it shows Chantry Island and its lighthouse just off the Lake Huron shoreline.
