The Beauty Around Us

One of the things I love about living in Vancouver is the abundance of wildlife and the emphasis on outdoor pursuits. We have tons of local parks and conservation areas with a really good (if completely underfunded) conservation team making sure all the local birds and birdwatchers have plenty of places to hang out and…

The Recovery Series – An Update

In the toughest times of change and strife the sights I see through my lens calm me, reset my focus, and allow me to work through my turmoil in the peace and quiet of a shutter press. In that moment it doesn’t matter what the doctor said yesterday, or that I fell that morning. The only thing that matters is the image, the moment, the capture of perfection.

The Recovery Series – Spreading My Wings (Pt1)

Almost immediately things started jumping out at me, including this lovely branch. I was so happy to be outside, to be taking my walk, to not be a burden on someone else that I just had to capture it.

The Recovery Series – Caution! Artists At Play (Pt2)

Today we’re back with local photographer and author Mikah Sharkey taking a walk around Vancouver’s Queen Elizabeth Park!

Life’s Little Mysteries

Extinction. Evolution. The meaning of life. Whys is the fruit mix always on the bottom of the yogurt container?! These things are just some of life’s little mysteries and, while confounding as all get out, pale in comparison to the ultimate mystery that is sure to crop up in the life of any birder.

WTF kind of bird is that?!

The Recovery Series – Caution! Artists At Play (Pt1)

This time Mikah and I headed out to Queen Elizabeth Park in beautiful Vancouver British Columbia to catch some ducks and see what other fun we could drum up. Almost immediately I caught sight of this fascinating fellow and unearthed a mystery I need your help to solve!

The Recovery Series – A World Of My Own (Pt1)

One day as I watched the crows at their morning antics it struck me. Those were birds! They had feathers, and flew through the air, and squawked! That was what a bird did! Quickly I ran inside and grabbed my trusty camera.

The Recovery Series – Undiscovered Country

However there is a distinct lack of birds during the dark hours of the day so my camera and I have been foiled again!

Or have we?…..

The Recovery Series – A Lesson Learned (Pt3)

the last phases of our walk through a local park with Vancouver-based artist, camerawoman extraordinaire and author of Sights from the Suburbs, Mikah Sharkey.

The Recovery Series – A Lesson Learned (Pt 2)

Mikah became fascinated with the stones that made up a nearby overpass. The above capture is I think, quite signature of her style and a truly amazing interplay between many elements all balanced perfectly for one moment

The Recovery Series -A Lesson Learned (Pt 1)

…the condition that had taken my hearing was far more advanced than we had thought. Me being me I continued along alright and immediately wanted to de-stress by doing what?

You guessed it. Birdwatching!

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Ok! So we’re back from our long weekend and it’s time once again to dive back into the celebration photo files. Now every nature photographer reading this knows the pain of that moment when you do everything right, click the shutter and…. I mean really….you’ve been sitting there for a minute and a half without blinking,…