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I have been working with the Pro-Capture feature on my OM-1 camera. These were taken from inside my house at my heated water source for birds. It is in my backyard with my white garage door behind it. The camera holds up to 120 frames a second in a buffer and then when you sense movement (eg...

My friend Dave Dunkley is an accomplished wood turner. He recently finished three lidded boxes and brought them over for some photographs. The darker two are made from Madrone burl with African Blackwood finials and the lighter one is Maple burl with a painted finial.

A friend has recently taken up wood turning and worked really hard to create this piece. It is made from Cherry, Beech, Walnut and a couple of coloured veneers to separate layers. There are 306 pieces all with precision angles cut to create a circle with no gaps. To photgraph it I used one...

Jamie Russell is a local wood worker with an abundance of talent and an matching imagination. He was over today and we took some studio shots of his latest work. It is quite a complex technical challenge to create stable joinery for a piece like these first two. Jamie used curly maple to carve...

I wonder what others do for shots of captive animals. For some reason I feel like I am 'cheating' when I get pictures of animals in captivity. The "Saskatoon Forestry Farm" is a local facility that houses a number of different species. These images are from a recent trip where the birds are in...

A recent drive out in the country on a foggy day made for monochromatic lighting. These White-tailed deer really popped out of the landscape as they glanced up to watch my car stop on the road.

Ok.. So this is new to me. Our local weather people say that over the last few days we have a widespread deposit of 'rime ice'. I have lived in this environment for over 70 years and never heard this term. I have always talked about 'hoar frost'. So Dr. Google tells me this. With rime, the...

Another cold snap, some moisture in the air, very little wind and a beautiful morning left our city bathed in beauty this week. Here are a couple of images. The open water in the river is caused by warm effluent from a power plant upstream. This is a mixed blessing as it provides open water...

This plant (I think a Clematis) is on a trail I often walk by. The recent snow and frost combined to create small bearded gnomes hanging from the tree. For the botanists out there I'm happy to have an ID on the plant.

Someone sprinkled sparkly diamonds all over my neighbourhood last night. To those responsible I want to say 'THANK YOU.' It was well worth the effort.

When it is well below freezing the common advice seems to be to put your camera in a plastic bag prior to bringing it into a warm house. I have been doing this (well..most of the time I remember) for years. Yesterday I purchased something with those moisture absorbent gel crystals. I put them in...

As a newcomer to this site I want to express my thanks to all the folks who work tirelessly to make the magic happen on Focal World. It has been a welcoming and helpful community for discussing and showing our images. Here are some of my images from the last 12 months. Image 1. Bohemian...

We have a large number of White-tailed Jackrabbits living in our city. It is fun to watch them change colour along with the seasons. This one was cruising around in a local park quite happy with people around.

My friend Lynn, is an accomplished fibre artist who recently took a felt sculpture class on making contemporary dancers. She chose to honour a sister that passed away in the last year by making a set of three sisters using the techniques she learned in the class. I became involved when she...

Our turning club asked members to turn some kind of tree for our Christmas meeting. I turned this one out of a piece of Mountain Ash that was in my shop for many years. I used a small LED light from a toy, cut the bulb off and re-soldered the light at the top with wires that run through the...

The river through our city is subject to constantly changing water levels due to a hydro damn upstream. This creates some wonderful ice sculptures when the temperature drops below freezing. Here are a few examples of nature's beauty.

A friend of mine, Michael Hosluk, is a world renowned wood worker. I recently had the joy of spending some time with a couple of his pieces as we prepared some images for an online gallery show. Here are a couple of pieces for your visual pleasure. This is a bowl made from Cherry and is about...

There were such an abundance of insects buzzing around this plant at my daughter's place in Slocan, B.C. back in September. This one sat still long enough to get up close.

It is getting pretty cold at night where I live but not quite freezing so I wanted to see what insects I could still find before they are covered in snow. Here is a Grasshopper and a member of the Shield-backed bugs.

I'm really enjoying all the magnificent colours of the rich hardwood forests and the fog soaked wet forests that others are posting. Here on the prairies the colours are much more in the yellow tones with small splashes of red and orange. I find it much more fun to focus on small branches...