Day 181 - Underwater Stumps

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I went for a swim today and took some more underwater shots.

Day 180 - Small Flowers

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I don't know what these flowers are called, but I thought it was interesting with some shrivelled up.

Day 179 - Broccoli Seed Husks

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It was just too hot to go outside for a photo today so I needed something inside. I was doing a final rinse on broccoli sprouts and had these seed husks for a macro. For size, the broccoli sprouts are similar in size to alfalfa sprouts.

Day 178 - Underwater

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I took this with an underwater point and shoot while at the river to cool off this evening.

Day 177 - Pasque Flower Seeds

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I went back to the pasque flower today to try some even closer shots.

Day 176 - Old Car Revisited

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Walked by this old abandoned car again this morning and almost missed it with all the ferns growing up. I think the last time I posted a photo of this car there was snow on the ground.

Day 175 - Pasque Flower

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Pasque flower, also known as wind flower or meadow anemone, gone to seed.

Day 174 - Crocosmia Leaf

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Day 173 - Juvenile Red-breasted Sapsucker

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There is a family of sapsuckers in the area and a couple of juvenile sapsuckers flew in to a tree near where I was sitting. By the time I got the camera they were no longer beside each other but I was able to get a few shots of one of them.

Day 172 - Street Light

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Day 171 - Still some snow

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Went for a hike in Strathcona Provincial Park today and found one of the loops we like was passable but there was still some snow go over.

Day 170 - Spillway

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Day 169 - Feather

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I spotted this in our backyard, but don't know what type of bird it is from.

Day 168 - Sap #3

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Day 167 - Small Cedar Shavings

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Day 166 - Sap #2

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Day 165 - Sap

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Day 164 - Still Life #2

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I liked this background from yesterday so used it again today.

Day 163 - Grasses

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I placed these on top of a dumpster which I thought made a nice background.

Day 162 - Abstract

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Day 161 - f8 @ 1/125

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This is an old Ricoh 500 G film camera. The aperture and shutter speed settings are on the lens barrel.

Day 160 - 1/125th

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Dial on an old film camera.

Day 159 - Dewdrops

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I was experimenting some more with the microscope setting on my point and shoot camera. I was trying a range of magnification levels, up to 11x, but didn't write them down so I don't remember for sure what this shot was at, maybe 7x.

Day 158 - Flower

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I'm not sure what type of flower this is.

Day 157 - After a Rain

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Back home now.

Day 156 - Arbutus

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Day 5 on Cortes Island. An arbutus tree on a rocky outcrop on Hague Lake.

Day 155 - Coulter Bay

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Day 4 on Cortes Island. This is looking north from Coulter Bay.

Day 154 - Easter Bluff

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Day 3 on Cortes Island. A couple of short hikes, this being the view from Easter Bluff.

Day 153 - Manson's Landing

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Looking out from the government dock, Manson's Landing Provincial Park, on Cortes Island, Vancouver Island in the background.

Day 152 - Sunset

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I went camping most of last week and this was the sunset the first night. Cortes Island.

This is 7 images stitched into a panorama.