Chickadee Photo Art

Sunsets & Star trails

// November 8th, 2011 // No Comments » // Nopiming Provincial Park, Scenic

Sunsets are always beautiful to see and depending on the time, sky conditions and cloud cover sunset colours can vary like our weather. Today some of my favourite sunset photos and night skies.

Below: Star trails on a clear summer night in Nopiming. If you have a camera with a bulb setting, a sturdy tripod and can get away from city lights you can try star trail photos on clear nights when the moon is in new stages.

Below:  There was lots of smoke from forest fires in the sky this day and I think this is why the skies were pinker than usual.

Common Tern

// October 30th, 2011 // No Comments » // Birds of Manitoba, Boreal Forest, Canadian Shield, Nopiming Provincial Park

Common Terns are fun to watch flying over the water in search of food.  They can hover in one spot like a helicopter and then turn abruptly diving straight down into the water.  Smaller and more delicate looking than gulls I find them to be very attractive birds. These photos were taken in Nopiming Provincial Park.

Below:  Common Terns preening on a rock island.

Enjoy!

~Sharon

Manitoba Wildflowers

// September 18th, 2011 // No Comments » // Boreal Forest, Canadian Shield, Nopiming Provincial Park, Recent Posts, Whiteshell Provincial Park, Wildflowers

Three of our four seasons bring with them a variety of wildflowers that decorate our roadsides, fields and forests.  Every year I stumble across a few that I have not seen before and it has gotten to the point where I am actively searching for new ones to photograph. If you have not looked yet, check out the Wildflowers Gallery found to the right – there are hundreds of Manitoba Wildflowers catalogued there.

Below – Blue Eyed Grass ( Spring )

Below: Silky Lupine ( summer ) Tall and showy in a variety of colours, whites, pinks, blues and lavenders.

Below: Woodland Horsetail.  These plants have remained unchanged for millions of years except Woodland Horsetails of today are smaller.  Chances are you have seen these plants numerous times but have not paid too much attention to them as I did. They are also known as Horse Pipes, Joint Grass and Mare’s Tail.

Enjoy!

~Sharon