Once again it pays to keep that camera handy. I was planning to shoot some flowers but something more interesting turned up. I took these photos here in the city, today. Above: mom feeding the babies Come

We're in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave here with the temperature reaching 41 C or 106 F today! That's way too hot for my part of the world. I really wish I was somewhere cool like a nice monochrome

Even on a short walk, I carry my camera. You never know what you might see... This morning I walked to the market with my wife and on the way home we came face to face with a female deer... These are not

Two days ago I went to see the birds down at Beacon Hill Park. Here are some of my better shots from that trip. There was a lot of activity at tree-top level near the eagle's nest. Both of the bald eagle

Welcome to another small collection of photos from the monochrome streets of Victoria, BC. It has taken me a long time to work up the nerve to take street photos where you can see the subjects face. Most

Today I would like to present some photos taken on beaches on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Many of our beaches are rocky and difficult to walk on... which is why I was impressed by this runner at

The other day I saw a heron fly across the pond and by the time I got the camera up to my eye and focused it had almost reached the opposite shore... Above: The surprising thing to me was how blue the

This is a small collection of monochrome photos I've taken which feature boats. Above: Vivid lighting in Sooke Harbour. There was a storm brewing behind me on the western horizon. Now and then the sun

This week the SEAPHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST by @marc-allaria has the theme "Sea and Sunsets" (Olympus E-M1.2, 12mm, f/2.8, 1/250, ISO 200) One evening I was at Saxe Point in Victoria, BC shooting photos

This week the Show Me A Photo Contest is all about bird silhouettes. Many thanks to @nelinoeva and the Feather Friends team for running this awesome contest! We all remember the old photography adage about

I've been posting so much black and white photography lately I feel it's time to let some vivid colours show... This is a small collection of street photos I've taken recently, mostly with my Fuji X-T4,

You may have figured it out by now... this is basically all I do. I walk around with my camera, usually lost in a black & white world. Sometimes I ride my bike... I stop for coffee. LOTS of coffee!

Lake Louise in Banff National Park, Alberta is one of my favourite places. In this post, I took some photos that I made in 2014 and converted them to monochrome. Next time I'm there I plan to shoot in

I've been taking photos of flowers almost every day for a while now. I figure it's time to, you know... prove it. I might even take a half-hearted stab at naming some of these. I guarantee the names I

Roaming around downtown this weekend it seemed the streets were busy and full of people... some of them rather odd-looking. Here's a sampling. I'm not really sure what was going on. Something about hats...

I love to take photos by the sea. This is a small collection of black and white photos I've taken in various places on the west coast of North America... the Pacific Ocean is the connecting thread running

Sometimes I worry about having a theme for my Monomad posts... but then I thought what doesn't look good in black and white? Classic cars look great in monochrome! But hey... don't even think about stealing

This week the Show Me A Photo Contest is all about birds and food. Many thanks to @nelinoeva and the Feathered Friends team for running this awesome contest! What do hummingbirds eat? (Fujifilm X-T4, 200mm,

Who could have imagined this would be one of the last times we saw this ship? It was a regular feature of life here... the twice a day sailing of the Coho between Port Angeles, Washington and Victoria,

I head down to the waterfront for a long walk almost every day and of course, I'm always trying to make some good monochrome photos. Here are a few shots I hope you'll like. The lighthouse in Active Pass