Snowy Owl - February 18, 2012

After seeing John E. Marriot's Snowy Owl photos from Vancouver, I had hoped to get some more shots other then my standard sitting on a power pole photo.

Source: Glen Munro (GM_Pentaxfan) Flicker Photostream

Luckily on February 18, I found a Snowy Owl that didn't mind have it's picture taken.

This one was taken on the side of highway south of Wood Mountain, SK Canada.

Source: Glen Munro (GM_Pentaxfan) Flicker Photostream

After pulling over onto a grid road I was able to get some more photos.
Below is a picture of where I shot most of my Snowy Owl photos from... 

Started out from the driver's side door...

Source: Glen Munro (GM_Pentaxfan) Flicker Photostream

 I walked to back of my SUV, opened the back hatch and sat there for a while... 

Source: Glen Munro (GM_Pentaxfan) Flicker Photostream

I decided to cross the highway and got halfway across the road (luckily it's not a busy highway) before it took off...

Source: Glen Munro (GM_Pentaxfan) Flicker Photostream

4 Hawks on a Fence

 

Okay so it really isn't 4 different hawks.  Just the same hawk in different positions.

Here's the original hawk photos from my Flickr Photostream. 

      

 I then masked in the background from a previous trip to Scout Lake community pasture.

Coronach Postcard

A few weeks ago (Okay, it was over a month ago), I was told about a photo contest for promoting a local community (Coronach, Saskatchewan) via Postcards. (Yes, people still send those.) 

I submitted a few photos, hoping that one would get selected...

It turns out they wanted to use 3 of the submitted photos, plus another one from my Flickr stream to create a “Wildlife in Coronach” postcard. (I changed the create commons rights to the Flickr photos.)

Wow, I was really honoured, but could not tell my followers (Posterous / Twitter / Facebook) till now.

A good friend of mine told me at lunch that she had read an article in the Coronach Triangle News about these postcards. I have yet to see the article.

You should send the Triangle News an email... tell them to post the article online so that you can see the other winners.

Here’s the final postcard

 Stay tuned to this site, or Twitter or Facebook... I’ll see if I can get some to give away to a lucky follower or two.

 

 

 

Before and After - Adobe Photoshop Tweaks

Here are some of the photos from My "Before and After" Facebook album.
Inspired by this Glyn Dewis's tutorial and "Controlling Mid-tone contrasts" from Smashing Magazine.

See the full gallery on Posterous

Examples of Post Processing

Original	Post Processing

Connect with Wildlife

Today I found another site on which to share my photos.  One of the people I am following on Twitter started using it for his photos.  Thanks McKenzies’ Trails West.


“WildObs (abbreviated from wildlife observations) is about sharing memorable encounters, and putting them to work. Together we find nature we want (for a photograph or close encounter), we can learn about our neighborhoods. WildObs is Collaborative wildlife enjoyment. We can help connect each other to wildlife.” … source http://wildobs.com/about

It allows me to upload pictures to Flickr, create an “encounter” and then it posts a Twitter message on my twitter account. 

My Profile on WildObs




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