My Camera – Mastering the soul stealing device

Calliope Hummingbird, sitting on a branch, green white and pink in colour,

Bee Hummingbird, blue, black, white, tiny bird,

Loon, Black and White spotted water bird

Northern Flicker, red, black, brown spotted bird, like a woodpecker

Female Bee Hummingbird, smallest bird in the world

Cuban Trogon, black white red spotted bird

Hooded merganser black white brown bird water bird

I can't think of a joke for the white breasted nuthatch. baba booey, baba booey,

With the shooting of six Muslim men in Quebec hundreds of Calgarians rallied

The American embassy in Calgary in reflection of calgary city hall with protesters in reflection

Eagle having babies -- we're not sure who the father is regardless i want to see their birth certificates

Let the Eagle Soar like it's never soared before. Picture of a bald eagle

Grey, White and Black Chickadee landing on my friend Kay's hand. There were hopes for food only to be dashed.

The eternal question is this, is the picture above of a stork or Heron.

The Sydney Opera House -- I call it the flash effect the lines of light created by using the bulb function.

Canada Geese, if they could take tests, would score high on the sociopathy test. They're assholes.

Young sandpiper taking it's first steps in the water.

Another dangerous carnivore -- though not one I've killed. The pitcher plant

Wilson's Phalarope -- why can't it be Alex's Phalarope? or Tutti's phalarope?

I was hoping this was a warbler, I had a glee joke. It is a yellow headed black bird, male.

Swindon's hawk, I think, screeching into the wind.

Bald Eagle who is going through puberty.

Blue Dragon Fly caught in a spider's web

Humpback whale falling backwards in the Pacific Ocean

Bee gather nectar on a flower; coloured red and yellow

Cedar Waxwing -- brown, black coloured bird with yellow tipped tail feathers.

Eaten King bird posing with wings and tail articulated

Mountain at sunrise the clouds and light make the mountain look like a volcano

Mount Royal University Road Race at the end the participants threw blue chalk at each other

Osprey, a predator sitting on a clear blue sky

Dock in a mountain lake outside Banff, Alberta

Stilt Sandpipe a small brown and white bird

Female Mallard, a brown speckled bird, swimming through water

Common grackle in the reeds, which is a black bird.

Flower in the breeze, it is pink and the wind creates a surreal effect.

A baby wood duck, cute as can be swimming across a pond because I scared it.

An orange and yellow moth on a purple flower

Daddy Long Legs is an insect that looks like a spider. It is walking on the surface of a flower.

Northern flicker in flight. Spotted Bird with red wing.

I think this is a semi-palmated sandpiper it's hard to tell the distinctions are subtle.

Swans are white birds. The image is five of them flying together in a tight formation.

Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwing at the Weaselhead in Calgary

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Calliope Hummingbird

Calliope Hummingbird shot at the Weaselhead

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Wood Duck

Wood Duck at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Bee Hummingbird

I was in rural Cuba and I was at a hummingbird sanctuary in a man’s backyard. I was privileged to be there.

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Great Blue Heron

Great Blue Heron in Carburn Park

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Shore Birds

Photo I took at Frank Lake.

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Great Horned Owl

Found in Carburn Park.

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Loon

Lucky to catch this loon at the Inglewood bird sanctuary. She’s gorgeous.

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Northern Flicker

I love this photo of the Northern Flicker, the way it’s puffed out its feather. It was taken at the Inglewood bird sanctuary.

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Bee Hummingbird female

Another great photo from my vacation in Cuba

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Bald Eagle

Bald Eagle at Carburn park

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Swallows

Swallows in the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Bee hummingbird

Found at a hummingbird sanctuary in rural Cuba.

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Cuban Trogon

Found at a National Park in Cuba

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Hooded Merganser

Photographed at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

American Pelican

Photographed at Carburn Park.

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Cuban Emerald Hummingbird

Taken in Cuba

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Canon 70-200mm

Eagle Hunting

At Carburn park found the eagle hunting

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Merlin in Inglewood

Found in the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Bee Hummingbird

Found at a hummingbird sanctuary in rural Cuba.

Camera: Canon 80D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Face, face, face

Super model of the world

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

can you believe she’s single

The other type of Heron

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Is he wearing Nylons?

Legs, Legs, Legs

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

It is neither rabbit season nor duck season it was pheasant season

Pheasants – I’m sure they’re delicious

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

First Beaver of the Season

Caught the first beaver of the season

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Northern Flicker

Stretching before Flight

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

White breasted Nuthatch

I can’t think of a joke for the white breasted nuthatch, baba booey, baba booey.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Lighting the Darkness

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Canon 70-200mm

American Embassy in Protest

There were protests about the Trump inauguration in Calgary these were some of my pictures.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Canon 70-200mm lens

Eagle and Child

Bald Eagle and child

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

American refugees in Canada

I don’t know if he’s overstaying his tourist Visa but this bald eagle has been in Canada for a long time. Were it not for Trump I would call immigration.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Violation of the Oral Contract

There were implicit promises of food made! He landed on my good friend Kay’s hand with the hope for food, only to be dashed. Lawyer up little Chickadee, lawyer up!

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Stork or Heron?

I’m not sure if this is a picture is of a stork or heron. I’m guessing stork.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

The Flash at the Sydney Opera House

I love the effect that the bulb function creates. I call it the flash effect.

Camera: Canon Rebel T3i

Lens: 55-200mm

Sidewalk Reflections

Happenstance in Sydney, I was wandering around the city in winter (being from Canada it was a cold summer’s day), saw the building in the puddle.

Camera: Canon Rebel T3i

Lens: 55-200mm

Sociopathy in profile

Canada geese are a@#holes. They would pass the sociopathy if they could write. Anthropomorphizing animals is stupid.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Sydney in Reflection

Photo tour, Photo tour, photo tour, it is the best way to expand your skills as a photographer when you’re starting out. You’re supporting a local photographer and seeing a city in a way you wouldn’t normally.

Camera: Canon rebel T3i

Lens: Canon 75-300mm

Baby Sandpiper

From afar, I saw this young sandpiper strutting along the banks of Frank Lake. I can’t tell if he’s a shark or a jet.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Pitcher plant or hidden threat?

At the Royal Botanic Gardens lurks a predator; it is subtle and it can kill. The Pitcher plant, fools the Australians they have created a habitat for it. The cold keeps Canada safe, but with global warming for how long?

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Canon 70-200 mm

Wilson’s Phalarope

He’s faking being injured to try to draw me away from the nest. Why can’t it be Tutti’s Phalarope? or Natalie’s? Or Edna’s Phalarope?

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Yellow headed black bird — sadly not a warbler

I was hoping it was a warbler, I would ask for an introduction to Darren Criss or Grant Gustin.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: 150-600mm

Swainson’s hawk chastising me

Driving home from Lethbridge I spotted this young lady on a power line. I stopped and was fortunate to shoot her a few times. She screeched into the wind, no doubt berating me, and flew off.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Bald Eagle’s Awkward Teen Years

Young bald eagle’s don’t look like adults until about they are about three year’s old.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

It’s a trap

In North Glenmore park I walked around a lake just off the path. I saw a dragonfly caught in a spider’s web. Spoiler: He escaped the spider’s web.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Mama Wood duck

Angered a Wood Duck mother, if looks could kill well …

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600 mm

Lady Bug

The lady bug was hunting aphids when I took it’s photo. Sorry girl for interrupting.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Clumsy Humpback

Took a whale watching in Sydney in 2015. It was along the Humpback migration route and after a few hours of watching the pod this beauty fell. Clumsy, clumsy whale.

Camera: Canon Rebel T3i

Lens: Canon 75-300mm

Bee Missing Bird

Wandering around Glenmore Park and in the fields near the reservoir.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Canon 100mm macro

Cedar Waxwing

Ran into this Cedar Waxwing while wandering around the Glenmore Reservoir.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Posing King

A warm summer day at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. The Eastern Kingbird was hunting and posing in the grasslands.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: 150-600mm

Peak Sunrise

At my mountain photography course the instructor took us out at 5AM (not a typo) to watch the sunrise. Despite the grogginess the thing speaks for itself.

Camera: Canon Rebel T3i

Lens: Canon 55-200mm

Clouds of Chalk

My first photography course at Mount Royal University we were able to photograph a road race the university was hosting.

Camera: Canon Rebel T3i

Lens: 55-200mm

Osprey Enthroned

This was lucky shot at Carburn park, he just landed, if I believed in luck it produced that day.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Mountain Docks

I was taking a Mountain Photography course through Mount Royal University. This landscape is of a dock just outside of Banff.

Camera: Canon Rebel T3i

Lens: Canon 55-200mm

Beauty among the Shoals

In the Summer of 2016 I spent an inordinate amount of time wandering around Frank Lake. I ran into some sandpipers.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Water off a Duck’s Back

It was -30ºC when I took this photo. It was a small pond at the Inglewood Bird sanctuary and the ducks would frolic in the small section that hadn’t frozen over.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Grackle in the Reeds

Another lucky shot, there is a wetland outside High River and I wandered among the reeds and I caught a common grackle singing. The wind create the vibrant colours.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Flower in the breeze

One of my favourite photos from my vacation in London. I went to the Royal Botanic gardens and spent some time taking some macro photos. The colour and the surreal effect are resplendent.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Canon 100mm macro

Wood Duckling in Flight

The wood duckling is my favourite. Ducklings can’t fly but they can swim very quickly. I startled this youngling and it took off across the pond. The detail is gorgeous and it is one of my favourite photos.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Moth in Macro

This is a macro shot of a moth gathering nectar.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Canon 100mm macro lens

Stalking in Beauty

Macro is my favourite type of photography. It invites us into a world we wouldn’t see. The daddy long legs is not a predator but it looks like one. It is a contrast with the vibrant colours of the flower.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Canon 100mm macro

Great Blue Heron Posing — like a boss

The Great Blue Heron was my a white whale for awhile. I wanted to get a good photo of one for awhile. I knew there was one in the Inglewood bird sanctuary and after many visits I caught him.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Northern Flicker taking flight

This is one of my favourite images. It’s a Northern Flicker in flight but the wings are flapping so quickly it created a surreal effect.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

March of the Sandpiper

At the Ducks Unlimited Canada Wetlands outside of High River. There is a small population of Sandpipers. They are adorable, I think this is a semi-palmated sandpiper.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Swan Formation

This photo was taken in a Ducks unlimited Canada wetland outside of High River.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm

Predator in Profile

I apologize I couldn’t keep you alive. This is a form of mortality beyond your own life. RIP Venus.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Canon 100mm lens

Flowers of London

There was a slight breeze and it created a beautiful effect.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Canon 100mm

London Bees

Taken at the Botanical Gardens in London. I enjoyed using my macro lens to take a beautiful picture of the bee.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: 100mm Macro Lens

Home Building without a Licence

This Northern Flicker was pictured in the Spring of 2016 at the Inglewood bird sanctuary. I was trying to imitate a 1991 picture named Woodpecker Action by Benjamin Pöntinen.

Camera: Canon 70D

Lens: Sigma 150-600mm