Category: black and white

Trumpeter swans in the Kitimat Rver

Christmas bird count in the Kitimat estuary

A great blue heron sits on some debris in Kitimat harbour, during my annual visit to the estuary for the Christmas bird count, Dec. 14, 2014. (Robin Rowland). There was more late afternoon light than last year .  On the other hand, while my birdwatching colleagues did list lots of species around the area, the […]

Lawrence Crowe memorial

A heroic memorial to a casualty of the First World War

The First World War began one hundred years ago tonight; a war that eventually killed 16 million people, including 10 million serving in various armed forces. This is just one story of a young Canadian flyer in the Royal Navy Air Service who died not in combat, but from an aircraft accident in 1917. H. […]

Old stump in black and white

Old cedar stump in black and white

A little experimentation with black and white here. Three versions of the image blended together, a standard black and white conversion, with two versions from Perfect Effects 8, mostly selenium but also a smidgen of high key.