Tag Archives: Photography

Blog, Inspiration

Foggy Sky

It was a very foggy week. Day after day, the ferries were sounding their way across the waters. The bigger cargo ships also signaled their movements with their horns. Fog is quiet, but it is also noisy…

One day, in the late afternoon, I looked out the window and this is what the sky looked like.

January Light, Saturna Island. Photo © Andrée Fredette

I also noticed a lot of activity on the water surface: seals and birds, looking for food, were rippling the water, leaving temporary tracks…

An hour or so later, the sun was still trying to burn through the thick fog blanket. Nearing sunset time, the colour of the sky started to change completely, going from grey to gold… with the golden results that followed…

January Light Beam Later2
And finally, the fog thickened, and blocked the sunset over Pender Island…

January Sky, before sunset. Photo © Andrée Fredette

Around here, it pays to look out the window on a regular basis.

Blog, Photo Wednesday

Winter-flowering Heather – Photo Wednesday

What a cheerful thing it is, to look at winter-flowering heathers!

Winter-flowering Heather in February, coastal BC. Photo © Andrée FredetteThere they are, in the grey landscape, hinting that there is hope, that soon the sun will shine for more hours every day… not to worry.

And of course, there is a great deal of greenery pushing up, under the leaf litter, making its way to the light. The winter has been very mild, so far. I will have to don my gloves and get out there for a bit of garden cleaning.

Blog, Wanderings

Mushroom Circle

On the British-Columbia coast, the fall of 2013 was an exceptional fruiting season for mushrooms, in both variety and quantity. That November, while going from A to B in my neck of the woods, I chose to take a shortcut through the forest instead of following my usual path. That shortcut was tricky to navigate, there were lots of obstacles in my non-existing path and I was paying attention to where I was putting my feet.

At one point, I looked up to figure out where I was headed, and this is what I saw:
Cercle de champignons WL

It was a jaw-dropping sight. These short-stem russulas (Russula brevipes), growing in a circle that had a diameter of at least 35 feet!

Some of these russulas were massive. Here is a close up with someone’s hand, to show the scale. Massive.

Cercle de champignons Dimension
So, if I ever needed an excuse not to follow the usual path, this is the perfect one. Get off the path, and go wander in the woods! (…and into my old photo files, too…)