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Welcome to Scenic British Columbia, A Vancouver Island Photography Blog
Please bare with me as this is still a relatively new project, and I have a ton of ideas for this site. As time goes by I will be adding more advanced features. I hope you enjoy the photos of my travels, and day to day life on Vancouver Island. Cheers, Daryl Quenet, Vancouver Island Photographer.
More Flowers of Spring
April 07, 2008 (0 Comments)
With such mild winters here is Victoria BC we tend very few plants in our garden parish over the winter despite being left in the ground (Dahlias being an exception with the amount of rain we get). So every year it is always a delight to see what will come up in our garden, especially having just moved into this house last year at the end of April.
I'm not sure what this flower is, but this photo blew me away with the bright colours combined with all the droplets of water (unfortunately at such a small resolution the water droplets aren't visible). The stark brown garden really makes the pink jump out of the photo.
Finally The Flowers of Spring, Apple Blossoms
April 03, 2008 (1 Comments)
I have never been one of those people that suffers from winter depression, or that feels out of place in the rain. However as a photographer it can sure suck living in Victoria with our constant rain, nearly permanent winter overcast, and ever blowing wind.
So every year when the flowers start to bloom I start taking my camera to work shooting to my hearts content. Mind you if your shooting spring flowers in Victoria make sure you that you have an Image Stabilized lens, or camera with built in image stabilization to compensate for the wind. Back when I started with digital photography and only had the lower end lenses I can't count how many photos that were ruined by the wind got the better of my subjects.
I have always found it interesting with apple trees that the blossom comes first, and then the leaves come second the opposite of the spring plants.
Early Morning Salmon Fishing in March
March 02, 2008 (0 Comments)
No matter what the weather is I'm always up for a fishing adventure. This morning I went out salmon fishing with my father off the Victoria waterfront. As always we launched from the military boat launch at Wark Point then headed up out of the harbor. As we are rarely there after the sunrise there are always photos a plenty to take with coloured light reflecting off of the water.
When fishing off of the Victoria waterfront you can either fish from the harbour entrance all the way down to Trial Island (quite often we will just go back and forth), or as we did today head straight out to Constance Bank (6 mile run). The benefit of fishing Constance Bank is your very likely to pickup a large number of feeder springs this time of year, and your less likely to pickup seals (the seals can be just terrible for stealing Salmon, we had 2 stolen in one day once)
A Lunar Eclipse
February 20, 2008 (0 Comments)
Lunar Eclipses don't come around very often, so I jumped at the experience of trying to photograph one. Unfortunately it was happening right at bedtime for my nearly 2 year old twins and the wife definitely thought that bedtime was more important then the eclipse. I did however manage to shoot several dozen photos leading up to the lunar eclipse.
February ended up being a very boring month and this was the only photo worth of the blog.
Fishing One Day, Snow the Next
January 28, 2008 (0 Comments)
Wow what a change on the way driving home from fishing yesterday it started to snow. The next day here is what Mount Doug looked like...
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More Flowers of Spring
April 07, 2008 (0 Comments)
Finally The Flowers of Spring, Apple Blossoms
April 03, 2008 (1 Comments)
Early Morning Salmon Fishing in March
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A Lunar Eclipse
February 20, 2008 (0 Comments)
Fishing One Day, Snow the Next
January 28, 2008 (0 Comments)
Military Salmon Fishing Derby January 2007 Weekend 2
January 27, 2008 (1 Comments)
Military Salmon Fishing Derby January 2007
January 19, 2008 (0 Comments)
A Walk at Swan Lake Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary
January 12, 2008 (2 Comments)
Gorge Rowing Club Night View
January 01, 2008 (0 Comments)
Home Made Lazyboy Motorbike
December 25, 2007 (1 Comments)