Winter wonderland

Here’s a thing to love about Vancouver–yesterday dawned clear and cold and, in my neighborhood, dry as a bone. But a quick bus ride away, to Queen Elizabeth Park, took Barb and I to a snowy photo paradise.

Snowflake closeup:
Snowflake close up

Maples and ice:
Maples and ice

Instagrammatical Foolery

I haven’t been carrying the birdhunter camera everywhere I go lately; the light hasn’t been good all that often, and without it the pack is nearly two pounds lighter. Part of me knows that this means that sooner or later a migrating flamingo is going to get blown off-course, and end up dancing the can-can twenty feet from me, laughing its fluffy pink butt off as I attempt to document it with my damn rinkydink cameraphone.

The other part is just getting its photographic yayas by having fun taking silly snaps with said phone and messing around with them in Instagram.

A selection of the latest shots can be seen on the front of my web page. Or I can be found and followed under my usual social networking handle, AlyxDellamonica. I’m cross-posting to some of the usual places, uploading the shots to Flickr and Facebook and sometimes Tweeting the best of them. There’s a high density of cat shots, which is what always happens when I’m figuring out a new photo toy.

Minnow, looking for love