A baby raccoon, Stanley Park, Vancouver, Canada.
Found this young guy along with its sibling and parents – they were sure fun to watch!
Took the bus to Whistler yesterday, and have a full day in the cool ski resort town today.
Vancouver Sunset
Vancouver skyline at sunset, Canada.
We had a beautiful sunset over Vancouver last night!
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Vancouver Fireworks
Fireworks over Vancouver, Canada.
We were excited to learn we were going to be in Vancouver for one of the nights of Celebration of Light – an international fireworks competition, and something we did not know about when we booked this trip. We were disappointed to learn that more then 300,000 people crowd the waterfront in a mass sea of people, and to gain a decent vantage point, you have to arrive many hours early and stand your ground and wait.
So we decided our time was better served doing other things, so we rented a boat and followed and photographed a couple cruiseships as they left Vancouver. Well as luck would have it, at the end of the night when we were all done, the owner of the boat rental company invited us up to the roof of his high-rise apartment building! This was from the roof top pool area – it was a great show!
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Vancouver Canada
Vancouver from Stanley Park, British Columbia, Canada.
This was last night – our flights went smooth and wow, the weather is beautiful! Back to scouting, more later. See more of our Vancouver photos.
Whale Tails and Travel Plans
Humpback Whale Tail, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.
This was one of two whales who put on an amazing show for us last week. When they weren’t breaching, they were swinging their tails back and forth throwing lots of water around! It was awesome!
We have been watching for an opportunity to head back down to the Vancouver area to add summer coverage to the Vancouver photos we captured last winter. Well the forecast shows most of Alaska receiving rain for the next week, while the Vancouver area looks like a week of sun. We started looking for bargains and thanks to Priceline, buses and frequent flier miles, we were able to put together an inexpensive, very last minute trip. We threw this together on Sunday!
I scheduled this post in advance so that it would be posting while we are on the plane flying south. It is going to be a busy, whirlwind week in which we will spend time in Vancouver, Whistler and Victoria! Probably won’t get much sleep, but hoping for lots of photography! I usually post updates from the road, and will do my best on this trip as well.
Breaching Humpback Whale
Breaching Humpback Whale photo, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.
I know it is late to be posting to the blog tonight, but I just got in from a wonderful overnight trip to Northwestern Fjord in Kenai Fjords National Park, and was excited to share this photo.
What a sight to see! A photo just doesn’t do this experience justice, as it is unable to communicate the powerful sounds and energy created when an animal the size of a school bus, rises out of the ocean and then splashes back down in a huge wave of water. This is really cool to see up close!
This is full frame with my 100-400 at 400. I was shooting with an ISO of 640 because I needed all the shutter speed I could get on this cloudy day. This gave me a shutter speed of 1/2000 at f/5.6. The hard part is locating the whale, framing and focusing while it is still out of the water.
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More Harding Icefield
Janine stopping to admire the scenery at the half-way point of the Harding Icefield Trail, Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska.
Replace the name Janine with hiker, and that is the caption that may accompany this photo one day if it is ever published. A more accurate caption would be; Janine stopping, then moving a bit to the left, then coming a little towards me so that I can see her shoes, then turning slightly towards the mountain…well you get the idea. She is always a great sport when it comes to posing.
Here is a better description of the Harding Icefield Trail
Janine crossing a snow field near the end of the trail. It is hard to see in this photo, but there is actually a big drop off 30 feet past Janine. Notice the dirty snow – that is thanks to this winter’s volcanic activity.
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