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It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like …
… winter! Hi, everyone. While I’ve been active on my other website, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest (to say nothing of work and life), I’ve been chafing at the thought of all the images I’ve captured but not yet published to Shelagh’s Lens. So,…
Read MoreChristmas is a’Comin …
… and the geese are getting fat. Not that we plan on catching or feasting on any of these creatures, though. While there was a great deal of grooming, flapping and fluffing of duck feathers, along with the occasional water bombing of…
Read MoreAutumn in Vancouver
The leaves have turned and are dropping in ever increasing numbers. Enroute to the beach earlier today, I had to stop and nab some shots of the beautiful canopies sheltering a nearby street. These shots give some sense of the maturity of…
Read MoreWho?
When you live in a city as naturally beautiful as Vancouver, it’s easy to lose sight of some its gems. In childhood, we made untold visits to Queen Elizabeth Park, a 130-acre property known for its spectacularly landscaped garden in…
Read MoreSummer’s Kiss Farewell
Summer has now officially ended on Canada’s west coast, and what a summer we’ve had. Here are a couple of September shots from one of my favourite spots, Spanish Banks. I love the combination of silhouettes against sand stirred up by…
Read MoreThe Night Shift
Yesterday, I published the lower image below, of a lifeguard on duty during the early evening hours at Vancouver’s Spanish Banks. This new image will give you a glimpse of one of the lifeguard’s colleagues later the same evening….
Read MoreA Job With A View
How are these for working conditions? Perched above the sands, the life guards at Vancouver’s beaches keep a watchful eye over people splashing and swimming in our waters. Here, in an image captured following our Friday night barbeque at Spanish…
Read MoreDragon
… Dragonflies, that is. Down at one of my favourite spots yesterday, they were flitting across the waters, where the ducks formed their own mini flotilla – except for the one, below, who made a splash landing. Bees were busy gathering…
Read MoreWildfire Skies Redux
You may have noticed that I snapped more than a few images of Vancouver’s Spanish Banks and the unusual lighting Thursday evening. Here’s a gallery of some more shots from that night.
Read MoreDown by the Water
Down by the water Thursday evening, these boaters and the birds in their wake enjoyed relative solitude in an environment both muted and magnificent.
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