Shelagh's Lens

Category: Nature


Walking on Water

Skimboarding is popular in Vancouver, where you’ll find people ranging from little kids to boomers enjoying the sun and water.

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Taking Flight

Today, I’m bringing you another couple of looks at a very fine, feathered friend.

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Spanish Banks Stroll

It won’t come as a surprise to regulars that I enjoy much about local beaches, including the herons and eagles. In the past, heron have carried on fishing with me as close as 12 feet/just shy of five meters but…

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Fire Sky

Those who have lived in an area in which wild fires have consumed trees and buildings may look at this and recall the thickness of the air, or again taste smoke in their throat. We lived in Kelowna during the…

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Forest Lounge

No, not that kind of lounge. We’re back in the woods again, with ferns circling an old trunk that’s hosting new life. This image is from West Vancouver’s Lighthouse Park, which is home to old growth trees, fresh, clean air…

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Gentle Skies

At day’s end in Sechelt, on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast, I took this image with admiration for the incredible colours of these soothing, shifting skies.

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Sun Kissed

At least a hundred feet below these dancing leaves, I stood on the shaded trail breathing in and admiring the old growth forest, and how the sun found a way to stroke these leaves which, reaching for Sol, appeared to…

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Truly Grand

… is this canyon, even if you arrive – as did we – barely moments before a serious downpour of rain. The stark tree, which appears petrified but was simply bare at this point in the season, adds an ominous…

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Closing Time

… at Kits Pool, once all the swimmers have shaken the water from their respective ears, towelled off and headed home for the evening. The pool will close for the season this weekend, sending the regulars back to the Aquatic…

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Hope

Hope is a small town through which many British Columbians have driven, travelling to or from what we call the Lower Mainland to other parts of the province. Minivans, SUVs and carloads of families count on Hope as a pit…

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