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Marty’s photo of the day #4535: I mentioned before how much fun I had photographing surfers off the western coast of Vancouver Island. It was a challenge to pick a surfer that wouldn’t immediately wipeout and to keep that surfer in frame and in focus as he/she rode the perfect wave. Eventually, however, almost everyone […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4534: This is a long-billed dowitcher, photographed on Vancouver Island. Because the sun was setting, and I only had my little pocket camera with me, I didn’t think this would turn out. But we both stood very still for the precise moment necessary.
Marty’s photo of the day #4533: There seems to be a lot of attitude in this pose. A song sparrow, photographed last month on Vancouver Island.
Marty’s photo of the day #4532: Sailing off the edge of the world—photographed on a foggy morning, near Deb’s and my campsite, on the Johnstone Strait, Vancouver Island.
Marty’s photo of the day #4529: Black Turnstone, photographed earlier this month on Vancouver Island.
Marty’s photo of the day #4519: During each of the three nights we stayed at The Cabins at Terrace Beach (Ucluelet, Vancouver Island) earlier this month, Deb and I would take Nellie for a walk down to the beach to watch the sunset. On our last night there, the actual sunset wasn’t overly special. In […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4518: Deb’s and my two-week-long vacation on Vancouver Island was a fallback vacation that we decided on only two weeks before we departed. It truly was a “winging-it” adventure. Previously, the Covid-19 Pandemic canceled our Bonaire trip (now planned for next year), and then massive forest fires canceled what was […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4517: Ten harbor seals, photographed on a tiny island off the coast of Vancouver Island. Can you find all ten?
Marty’s photo of the day #4516: While on Vancouver Island, I saw quite a few bald eagles. I wanted to get a shot of one in flight, but that was a challenge. Usually I’d see them far away, eating a fish on a spit of land, and start photographing them with my largest lens (I […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4515: Today, I’m featuring an artsy photo: shooting through an opening in a stump, at sunset, at Comox Lake, on Vancouver Island.
Marty’s photo of the day #4514: This tail belongs to a gray whale named Indigo (read on to learn how I know that). While working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, Deb and I experienced multiple close-up humpback whale encounters off the coast of Antarctica. The whales would approach […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4513: This past Saturday was our final day on Vancouver Island, and by the time we got around to scheduling a ferry ride out of Nanaimo, only the last ferry had an availability. We had previously found Nanaimo to be a dirty, pedestrian-looking city, so we hung out in the […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4512: While working on my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents, Deb and I experienced multiple close-up humpback whale encounters off the coast of Antarctica. The whales would approach our Zodiac (a small rubber boat) and—just when it looked like they might capsize us—they’d dive under […]
Marty’s photos of the day #4507-4511: Yesterday I wrote about the “best outhouse ever” at a remote campsite on a river that Deb and I found by accident when we got lost following a maze of dirt roads—unnamed on our map—a few miles from the ocean, on the northeastern side of Vancouver Island. Today, I’m […]
Marty’s photos of the day #4504-4506: Thanks to my dog, Nellie, for filling in for me during the past two weeks. Now that Deb, Nellie, and I are back home, I’m taking over my posts again. (Nellie fans don’t fret: she’ll be back again). I’m still sorting through the 1,500 photos I took during the […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4503: “Woof everyone! Nellie here. Dad is busy packing, so I’m taking over his post today. Mom and Dad were going to take me all the way to the top of Canada, but that trip got canceled because huge forest fires are blocking our way. Apparently these fires are burning […]
Marty’s photo of the day #4500: In 2002, Deb and I and our dogs, Kate and Annie, traveled to the top of Canada in a 5,572 mile-long adventure that became the North American chapter in my first book, Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents. That trip was as much for our dogs as […]
