Many years ago, a client who then owned a small second hand store here in Chilliwack gave me a used Powershot (Canon) camera for some work I’d done she was thankful for beyond what I charged. The camera served me well for many years but finally broke down a couple of months ago. I sadly had it recycled and decided it was time to upgrade to a new Powershot. A model SX 720 HS – a pretty impressive little camera for the non-professional. Now I get to take pretty decent pictures of wildlife and macro shots of plants, flowers and insects.
The following pictures are some results of my efforts in learning how to manipulate this little computer. It’s got a 40X optical zoom lens, plus very good digitally enhanced zoom up to 160X. Enjoy. (PS: if any of these pictures interest you and you want to use them for whatever purpose, please feel free to do so – all permission granted… 🙂 )
Blue Heron on the Hope River
Daytime moon
Blue Heron on an arm of the Fraser River about 100X zoom shot
Water plaintain(?) – Hope River
Female Mallard enjoying the sun
Fraser River back waters starting their summer drop
Pearly everlastings – Fraser river banks
Thistles – Fraser River
Some colourful Fraser river gravel bar rocks and a piece of driftwood
Yeah! The gulls are returning again. Flight of California gulls returning to their winter feeding grounds on the River
The Fraser river in full regalia and summer glory!
Two smiling young mallards swimming along but ever watchful
Blue damselfly on a blade of grass – Hope river shallows
Skittish solitary or spotted sandpiper on the Hope river
Immature rufous hummingbird on a honeysuckle branch
Red dragonfly – I wanted to emphasize the beauty of her wings
A spider web in an Alberta spruce: this spider’s on crack!
A Western crow on a distant snag giving me the eye
The red barn – on the little Hope river
~Burning Woman~ 
Glorious balance of Earth, Water, Air and Fire. Lovely photos!
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I hadn’t thought of it that way, but I see that now. Thank you for bringing it to my attention; it gives the process a much broader outlook.
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Absolutely beautiful and artistic. I’m hard put to say which one I like the most. It’s impossible. I thought the heron, then the white gulls against the blue sky, then no the mallards, then no the hummingbird, and then the picture of the red barn…OMG! Very very good. Thank you. And keep taking pictures!
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Thank you for the appreciation. And your winter cardinal is beautiful, an evocative image. I may have more to comment on your colour post. Some interesting thoughts there, and the last question, a good challenge…
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Great photos, Sha’Tara.
A camera (lens) can sure make a difference.
Thank you for sharing.
From: ~Burning Woman~ Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2016 11:54 PM To: rauffray@shaw.ca Subject: [New post] Some New Pictures from the Hope and Fraser Rivers – July 24th and 26th
Sha’Tara posted: “Many years ago, a client who then owned a small second hand store here in Chilliwack gave me a used Powershot (Canon) camera for some work I’d done she was thankful for beyond what I charged. The camera served me well for many years but finally broke dow”
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Thanks for the comment, and yes, a lens is the heart of a camera. I think I may have lucked out on that camera. Lots yet to learn about features but as I click through the choices they begin to make more and more sense. The trick is to click away and study the results. The reviewing screen is fabulous.
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Each photo is a gem, Sha’Tara! I paused the longest on the colorful Fraser River gravel, reflecting on the ways we’re ground, rounded, and smoothed on our journey through life.
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Thanks for the “lesson” Rosaliene. It’s true enough, though some get a lot more “grounding” than others, eh?
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Loved them all.
Thanks.
Roger
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Great that you liked them and didn’t waste your time, Roger. When’s my next history lesson?
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Currently in my head, but due to go into print in the next few days….household ‘stuff’ got in the way of late.
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Wonderful photo’s ShaTara …..wouldn’t like to meet the spider on crack tho ….with a web like that I dread to think:D:D:D
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You just never know with spiders. Personally I think he’d been to the Dem. Nat. Convention and all the double talk got his neurons scrambled. I know mine would have been fried… if I did politics and if I were an American. Hey, wait, I am an American: a Canadian American. Maybe I should have been down there to give Sanders a piece of my mind, no, I mean a good booing! But back to that spider, I was going to say… dang blast it, I forgot. How’s the cleanse diet going? 🙂
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Ha ha ShaTara ……yep the socio/political climate we find ourselves in Is indeed akin to a very large tangled web:D:D:D
And yep …have completed my epic ‘cleanse’ …hmmmmm think I’ll evaluate later if I get time.
Can’t say have been miraculously transformed into some kind of serene and radiant beauty or anything:D:D ….we are what we are:D:D
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Lovely pics
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Thank you. It was a pleasure to be able to post decent looking pictures finally! Glad you enjoyed them!
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Totally.. I know tough job
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Hoooo! Beauty makes me weep for joy! Roy and Ceannt also! We’re bawling like babies right now. Sara Jane
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Thank you, Sara Jane. I’ve got a box of Kleenex here if you need some… 🙂
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A beautiful, awesome, and eclectic collection of photos! Love the rocks, especially!
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Thank you, Robert.
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Oh I love the stone picture! Want to visit just for those colorful little old beings. Looks like a special place. Where in the world?
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Thanks for your appreciation. Location is Chilliwack, B.C., Canada, south west corner of the country, on the Fraser river.
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