January 26 – Pine Grosbeak

January 26 – Pine Grosbeak

The Pine grosbeak is a large (measuring 8-10 inches in length) member of the finch family and is found mostly in coniferous woods across Canada and Russia.. Camera was the Nikon D300 with the 300 2.8 lens on a tripod at 1/80 of a second at F5.6 and ISO 280  ...
January 28 2009 – Birds – Common Red Poll

January 28 2009 – Birds – Common Red Poll

The Common Redpoll travels in flocks and while they breed in the Arctic can be found as far south as the US border in the winter. Although some winters you can find them as far south as the central US.During the winter you may find them tunnelling into the snow to...
January 26 – He Shoots He Scores

January 26 – He Shoots He Scores

Today’s photo are from one of three minor hockey game in Fort St John on January 26, 2008. This game was the Shoppers Drug Mart team from Fort St John, vs. a Grande Prairie Minor Hockey team.   Camera was the Nikon D300 with 80-200 lens ISO 3200 1/400 sec at...
January 21

January 21

Early in the day in 2006 I was driving north of Fort St John on the Rose Prairie Road when I saw this old log building, the light was perfect and I grabbed a single image with my at the time brand new Nikon D70s. The Exif data tells me that I used ISO 200 and a...
January 20

January 20

Hockey, Hockey, Hockey In North Eastern BC there are two things that are a given. That most people work in the patch, and from Aug 1 until May you will find a hockey game going on. Our goal was to have a play-by-play game story in the newspaper about every single team...