Sky life

Another brutally cold day. I had visions of this hanging in an Art Gallery as a painting, after some worldly government had spent a few million to commission an artist.

 

Interesting how this planes lights create this sky streaking. I look forward to learning more about this as I play around with my camera.

Woody woodpecker

This area of the woods is an absolute banquet for the woodpeckers. Hopefully I will be able to catch a few snacking this year.

 

 

I was curious upon seeing this single tracks. After researching it, I discovered that the weasel, fox and coyote all walk in a straight line. Strange for a four legged animal. By the size of the paw prints, I would guess that these particular tracks were made by a coyote.

M is for the Magic in My Life

 

 Life is truly based on ones perspective. This W from the word slow appears as an M.

It is all about perspective.

M for Me is for all the Magic life has to offer.

 

 This pine cone is hiding amongst the long needles of the scotch pine.

Holy leaf

Something majestic about this solitary tree.

 

 Curious to what sort of insect dines on this. The holes glimmered like tiny diamonds.

-31 Bitterly cold day! Brrrrrrrrrrrr

Today I didn't get too far from the car as it was brutal outside. Shall we say, my walk was short. The setting sun was shining a spot light on these trees. Quite pretty against the frigidity of the surrounding air.

 

Did a little post editing to see the different effects it would have. Actually, I think I like it better.

 

The colors on the ice and surrounding area provided by the setting sun, I think is rather attractive.

Northern Lights Classic Ballroom & Latin Dance Competition

Today I got to spend the day at the dance competition. This is an annual competition and was held at the Central Seniors Center in Edmonton. The attire was beautiful and the dancing incredible. A very enjoyable day! The lighting was very difficult to work with and I used both of my cameras. This is with my Nikon S6300 point and shoot.

 

The following pictures were taken with my Nikon D3100 - quite a bit of difference in the clarity of the photo.

This is my favorite picture of the day.

One of the youth couples competing in the Latin Dance - so hard to capture on film due to their speed and my inexperience.

Evening snow fall

Trip to Edmonton, Alberta. Thought I would take a pic of the city skyline. It is so pretty at night.

While driving home the snow started falling harder. I love how my new camera catches the falling snow.