! “BURROWING OWLS” was featured in the group “ONLY OWLS” on December 29, 2008, ...won the challenge in the My Favorite Owl Shot challenge in the “Only Owls” group on 29 January 2009. .....Also featured in the group “We are Passionate about Birds of Prey” on January 3, 2009 ....And in the group “Animal Kingdom” on January 20 2009. ....And in the group “Canon Vs Nikon” on 7 March 2009 True to its name, the Burrowing Owl nests in a hole in the ground. Although it is quite willing to dig its own burrow, it often uses one already provided by prairie dogs, skunks, armadillos, or tortoises. A small Owl with a round head and no ear tufts. They have white eyebrows, yellow eyes, and long legs. The Owl is sandy coloured on the head, back, and upperparts of the wings and white-to-cream with barring on the breast and belly and a prominent white chin stripe. Location: Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi F stop: F/4.0 Exposure: 1/6 sec. Focal length: 85.0 mm Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16)
a nice sunset …in the summer…taken august long weekend at grand beach provincial park..one of my very favorite sunset images…
! “Plains Cree Tipi” was featured in the group “ImageWriting” on 17 Jan 2009, .......in the Group Rural Canada Coast to Coast-pre 1960’s,on 23 Jan. 2009 .......in the Group The Fabalous Prairies on January 23, 2009 .......It also was a CHALLENGE winner on January 23, 2009 ...... in the group Spirit of the Native American on January 29, 2009 .......in the group Weekly Theme Challenges 16 March 2009 .......in the group ! # 1 ARTISTS OF REDBUBBLE ! on the 19 March 2009 This is a typical shelter that the Plains Cree used on the prairies years ago. They were able to assemble it in a day, as they used to follow the bison herds on the prairies. Much of their food, shelter, clothing and tools all came from the Bison. So when the herd moved, so did they. Many of their daily rituals revolved around nature. For example; The Tipi was made using 13 poles. The 13 poles in the tipi represents the 13 full moons we have in a given year….When you enter a tipi you go to the left and circle around in a clockwise direction. This represents the way of the sun…The door of the tipi always faces East, to meet the rising sun. The Plains Cree relied on the land to survive. It was sacred and they recognized that every living thing was of importance. Plus they only used what they needed. Things never went to waste. A good lesson we SHOULD all be following today. I serve as an interpreter at the Center, and this is part of the written teachings, as we take the children through their many nature programs. Location: FortWhyteAlive our Nature Center on the southwest edge of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi F stop: F/11.0 Exposure: 1/320 sec. Focal length: 18.0 mm Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16) Dimensions: 2400×1600 Shutter speed (Tv): 8.3
” Excuse Me” was featured in the group AMERICAS ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free – Expressions of Artists on January 19 2009. .......And Featured in the group “Anything and Everything FUN” on January 29 2009. ! ! I WENT BIRDWATCHING WITH MY GOOD FRIEND RYAN, AND THIS LITTLE CHICKADEE LANDED ON HIS GLOVE WHILE HE WAS SHOOTING OTHERS NEAR BY…I COULD NOT RESIST THIS PHOTO OPPORTUNITY LOCATION: BIRD’S HILL PARK, JUST NORTH OF WINNIPEG,MANITOBA* Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi F stop: F/6.3 Exposure: 1/250 sec. Focal length: 187.0 mm Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16) Dimensions: 2400×1691 Shutter speed (Tv): 8
Featured on December 8, 2008 in “The Fabulous Prairies” group. ......... was also featured in the group Canon DSLR (One Image per Day) on 3 March 2009. ........ was featured in group Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! …on 18 April 2009 ! “If you’re not from the prairie…You don’t know the sky… You can’t know the sky…The bold prairie sky is clear, bright and blue…Though sometimes cloud messages give us a clue…Monstrous grey mushrooms can hint of a storm…Or painted pink feathers, say goodbye to the warm…If you are not from the prairies…You don’t know the sky”...DAVID BOUCHARD Location..Northeast of Winnipeg, Canada near Rosser Manitoba. Camera info: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi F stop: F/4.5 Exposure: 53687092/1073741824 sec. Focal length: 79.0 mm Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode
Featured in Digital Abstracts and Patterns in 2008
Taken with a Nikon D70s This is a photo I took on a friends farm on a recent road trip back to the prairies in Manitoba this past summer. I was lucky to capture this as the sun was setting and it cast the most beautiful hues of gold, red, and orange on the wheat field.
! ! ! “And The Fog Rolls In” was featured in the group Natural Color and Light 26 February 2009, ...... And on Rural Around The Globe on 28 February 2009 ...... Aand it was featured in Lakes and Inland Waterways..2 a-day on 6 April 2009… “Living without faith, is like driving in a fog”...Proverb quote.
My image “Snowy Owl” was featured in I Love Birds group on 14 May 2009. ....It was also featured in Eye Contact group on 29 June 2009. ! ! Description – This large, white owl has a rounded head and yellow eyes. Both sexes of the Snowy Owl have dark bars and spots although they are heavier on the larger female; Old males may be pure white. This usually silent bird will sometimes utter a shrill whistle and hoarse croak on breeding grounds. It nests north of the tree line, in the High Arctic from Alaska to Labrador. Its winter range extends roughly across the middle of North America, from its breeding range to northern United States. The Snowy Owl is the provincial bird of Quebec. Snowy Owls are nocturnal, but they hunt during the day. Their life cycle is intimately dependent on the abundance of lemmings, which form an important part of their food supply. In years when food is plentiful, These cycles generally occur every four or five years. Snowy Owls range in size from 52 to 70 cm (20 to 28 in.), and their wingspan ranges from 125 to 145 cm (49 to 57 in.). * Distribution – The snowy owl breeds in northern Alaska and in northernmost Canada; Winters are spent throughout Canada and in northern United States. Snowy Owls prefer open country such as tundra, dunes, marshes, fields, plains and airports in the winter.* Location: At the owl enclosure in Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba Camera: Canon X TI, shutter speed 1/30, Aperture Value 5.0, ISO 200, Focal length 146 mm
My image “REFLECTED” was featured in Weekly Theme Challenges on 30 June 2009 ...It was also featured in the Color and Light group on 18 May 2009. ....And also in the Rural Around The Globe group on 18 May 2009. ! ! ! ! These canoes are for rent, so folks can enjoy the beauty, the activity on the marsh and the solitude and serenity of this wonderful area. Location: Taken early in the morning, just after sunrise at Oak Hammock Marsh, north of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi / F stop: F/5.0 / Exposure: 1/400 sec. / Focal length: 75.0 mm / Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16) / Shutter speed (Tv): 8.6
Semi-Proffesional skateboarder Seth Green ” catching some air ” at the forks skate park in Winnipeg, Manitoba , Canada
! .....“Riding into the Sunset” won the Horse and Rider Challenge on 17 May 2009 ......“Riding into the Sunset…” was featured in Everything Draft Horse on 13 May 2009 ....“Riding into the Sunset…” was featured in Horse and Rider on 10 May 2009. ...... was featured in the group Rural Canada Coast to Coast Pre 1960’s on 7 March 2009. .......It was a winner in the Western Themed Silhouettes Challenge in the Silhouettes Group on 7 March 2009 .......It was also a winner in the Scavenger Hunt Challenge on 22 March 2009 “He knows when you’re happy / He knows when you’re comfortable / He knows when you’re confident / And he always knows when you have carrots.” / ~Author Unknown Location: West of Winnipeg, Canada near Headingly. Climb aboard we are heading west.
The morning sun shining thru the tree in Churchill Drive Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in late October MY BUBBLESITE
Featured in Neighborhoods – May 31st, 2009 / Featured in Style! Class! Elegance! Excellence! – March 21st, 2009 Taken in Harbour View Park in Winnipeg, Canada on a very calm evening. It’s a very beautiful place in a city and I often go there to shoot sunsets or just walk around the lakes and nature paths.
Featured in Alphabet Soup – June 21st, 2009 / Featured in Cottage Style – May 8th, 2009 / Featured in AMERICAS ~ Rural, Urban, Wild, Free – April 29th, 2009 / Featured in JPG Cast-Offs – April 27th, 2009 This is a pretty, little cottage in English Garden, Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba. I thought it looked really good last summer surrounded by red poppies.
! ! “Snowflakes are one of Mother Natures most fragile things, but look what they can do when they stick together.”.....Unknown Location..Duck Pond in Assiniboine Park, Winnipeg, Manitoba Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi F stop: F/7.1 Exposure: 1/100 sec. Focal length: 28.0 mm Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16) Shutter speed (Tv): 6.6
! .....This image won the Barns Challenge in the You’re Accepted Group on 25 March 2009 .....This image finished second in the Lets find some Barns! challenge in the The Scevenger Hunt Group on 17 March 2009 This Old Red Barn was clearly reflected in the still waters of this dugout…Taken just south of Brunkild, Manitoba on PTH 322. Make: Panasonic Model: DMC-TZ2 F stop: F/4.4 Exposure: 1/400 sec. Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16) Shutter speed (Tv): 8.6
! ! Their range is in the arctic, alpine tundra and ice-covered seas of North America and Eruasia. Its diet is lemmings, mice, ground squirrels, birds and eggs, fish, insects, and carrion. The Arctic foxes status is secure, many thousands are trapped annually for their fur. This is a small fox, averaging no more than a house cat, approx. 3.5 kgs. The short brown summer coat molts into a luxurious white coat in the autumn, which keeps the animal warm down to -50C. High activity and great endurance are vital for the fox to find food in an impoverished landscape and on sea ice. The species makes the longest journeys of any land mammal, with records up to 2000 kms. When lemmings are scarce, large numbers of these foxes migrate into the boreal forest in search of food. Location: Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg Manitoba Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi F stop: F/7.1 Exposure: 1/500 sec. Focal length: 205.0 mm Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16) Shutter speed (Tv): 9
! The Meerkat….Suricata suricata Family – Mongooses (Viverridae) Range – Dry grassland (often hard or stony ground) in southern Africa. Diet – Insects, spiders and other small animals, eggs and bulbs. / Status – Secure. Notes – The meerkat is a favorite display animal because it demonstrates a high level of social and other interesting behaviors. Members of a group take turns standing guard in a characteristic standing pose on high ground, such as a termite nest or rock. Active during the day, the animal enjoys stretching out and basking in the sun near its burrow, / ever ready to dash below ground on the discovery of a predator approaching on the ground or in the air. A colony averages 15 individuals, which represents several families, and larger females dominate the males. / Offspring number 2 to 5 and are born in December after a 77-day gestation. / Members communicate with over a dozen kinds of calls, and with scent from anal glands. Meerkats so closely resemble ancestral carnivores that their teeth and bones are scarcely distinguishable from fossils 50 million / years old. The family is placed between the cats and weasels. Location: At the zoo in the Kinsman Center in Winnipeg, Manitoba Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi F stop: F/2.8 Exposure: 1/30 sec. Focal length: 150.0 mm Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16) Shutter speed (Tv): 4.9
! Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops under the rocks are the words and some of the words are theirs. - From A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi F stop: F/4.0 Exposure: 1/50 sec. Focal length: 55.0 mm Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16) Shutter speed (Tv): 5.6 Location: Sturgeon Creek, north Of Winnipeg, Manitoba
Taken on Caddy Lake, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Manitoba, Canada. I think I found it, my ultimate Loon shot for this summer. I’ve been trying and trying all summer long getting a favorite Loon shot from the boat, and here it is! Taken with Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi; Canon 300mm zoom lens / / Laminated Print
a sunset over a marsh in grand beach manitoba
“Bald Eagle Talking…” was featured in the group ImageWriting (2/24) on 13 February 2009. and in the group Extreme Close-Ups on 17 February 2009 ! ! The Bald Eagle is mainly solitary outside of his breeding season, which lasts from November to April depending on the location. There is one brood per year and the female lays 2 eggs which range in color from white to blue. The incubation period is 35 days and the chicks are fully fledged after 10-11 weeks. Sadly usually only one chick normally survives. The Bald eagle reaches maturity in 5 years, and can live up to 40 years. The Bald Eagle was once a common sight throughout the USA and most of Canada, but now it is in grave danger. Pollutants and insecticides ingested by its prey have worked their way up the food chain and is threatening its survival. Its diet is mainly fish, also small mammals and carrion. Location: Assiniboine Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Make: Canon Model: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi F stop: F/8.0 Exposure: 1/400 sec. Focal length: 125.0 mm Flash: flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode (16) Dimensions: 2400×1600 Shutter speed (Tv): 8.6
Sunrise over the Red River on a calm cool October morn. Taken from Calrossie Toilers Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. MY BUBBLESITE
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