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Jasper National Park (or more specifically the area surrounding the Athabasca Glacier) is my favourite place in Alberta to practice photography. The abundance of cool rocks makes finding an interesting subject so easy!
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Found this beautiful wood aven (Geum urbanum) growing in the native plants garden on the Provincial Archives grounds in Victoria, British Columbia.
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Battered and beaten, but not forgotten. An abandoned truck at Silver Daisy Mine in British Columbia's E.C. Manning Provincial Park.
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Duck Yoga
A male (drake) mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) stretching its wing at Goodachre Lake in Victoria, British Columbia's Beacon Hill Park.
A male (drake) mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) stretching its wing at Goodachre Lake in Victoria, British Columbia's Beacon Hill Park.
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The appropriately named Rhododendron Flats in E.C. Manning Provincial Park in southern British Columbia is home to the northernmost grove of Californian Rhododendrons (Rhododendron macrophyllum).
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Life Springs Eternal
Sprouting from the trunk of a dead tree, this mushroom helps breakdown the tree's tough woody cellulose, thus returning nutrients to the forest floor. Nutrients that will be utilized in new plant growth.
Sprouting from the trunk of a dead tree, this mushroom helps breakdown the tree's tough woody cellulose, thus returning nutrients to the forest floor. Nutrients that will be utilized in new plant growth.
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Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva)
Bitterroot is a common perennial found growing in dry grasslands and sagebrush slopes of the south Okanagan basin which includes the Similkameen Valley where these flowers were photographed. These flowers, with their tiny reduced leaves borne on a fleshy stem, open only when the sun is out!
Bitterroot is a common perennial found growing in dry grasslands and sagebrush slopes of the south Okanagan basin which includes the Similkameen Valley where these flowers were photographed. These flowers, with their tiny reduced leaves borne on a fleshy stem, open only when the sun is out!
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Basalt Columns
Yellow and red lichens encrust hexagonal columns of basalt at Keremeos Columns Provincial Park in southern British Columbia.
Yellow and red lichens encrust hexagonal columns of basalt at Keremeos Columns Provincial Park in southern British Columbia.
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Textures
Ponderosa Pine bark (Pinus ponderosa) in a snow bank.
Ponderosa Pine bark (Pinus ponderosa) in a snow bank.
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A new photo: the first for 2017.
Extreme closeup of agatized dinosaur bone in cross section.
Shot with a 55mm micro-nikkor lens on a set of Nikon PB-4 bellows for an ultra close view!
Four image, focus stack.
Extreme closeup of agatized dinosaur bone in cross section.
Shot with a 55mm micro-nikkor lens on a set of Nikon PB-4 bellows for an ultra close view!
Four image, focus stack.
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