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More bees and flowers

I was going to test focus-bracketing, but then I remembered that there was a lot of extra pot-processing. So instead I just made the fstop number bigger (aperture smaller). Tomorrow I will probably add my flash for a flash for a full fledged macro-setup and turn the fstop to 11 …

Macro and testing 5:4

I have started thinking that square is getting old, only because its hard to print them, so I'm thinking about giving 5:4 a try. 8x10 is a nice size for printing photos, although I have a 4x6 printer, and that is the default ratio of the camera.

I don't …

Its now full Autumn in NS

Its full on Autumn here in Halifax. You could start to feel the change in the air early last week, but yesterday it was like the change was complete.

In a few weeks the leaves will start to change colour, and hopefully we get a lot of evening rain so …

Walk Flowers

There are a few flower beds around the Halifax Commons that have flower beds, not many, but the ones that are there are pretty.

Flowers and Butterflies

I stayed very close to home, in fact was mostly sitting bound, all weekend. But luckily we have a lot of pretty flowers, and a couple butter fly visitors to the yard.

There are some of the photos that I took, and there may be more soon.

Monarchs are here

This is the first time that I grabbed a photo of a monarch that I liked.

I need to do more wandering

This weekend I went out on the water with a friend searching for puffins, seals and other interesting things. It was the longest that I have been on a boat for over a decade or more. The roundtrip time was expected to be about 4h, but with all the stops …

Wasps are the worst

When I saw this, I knew that I had to re-fresh the wasp trap with some fresh mix.

This site needs a change

I think its time to make a change to this site. I'm not nearly as much of a fan of the big front page, with all the pictures, as I was when I built it. So I think I will be making some changes to it to make it "better …

Free, Free, over the lea



A Swing Song

Swing, swing,
Sing, sing,
Here! my throne and I am a king!
Swing, sing,
Swing, sing,
Farewell, earth, for I'm on the wing!


Low, high,
Here I fly,
Like a bird through sunny sky;
Free, free,
Over the lea,
Over the mountain, over the …