Egypt - Greece - Mali - Canada
History, Adventure and Life
Not my best work, but some of my favourites.
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Life will pass you by if you don’t take the time to stop and appreciate it. I often wish I had stopped and captured more memories.
beautiful sundog, Whitehorse, Yukon (2022)
Balloons over a canal, Qurna (2023)
Zulu Cycad (Encephalartos ferox) (male) - NEAR THREATENED - species at risk - at the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo (2024).
Richardson’s Ground Squirrel (Urocitellus richardsonii) - Grasslands National Park (2019)
Rice terraces near Doi Inthanon National Park, Thailand (2024)
ice and steam on the Bow River, Calgary, AB (2022)
African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis), Calgary Zoo (2024) This species is currently listed as VULNERABLE on the IUCN Red List.
Rummel Lake, Alberta (2022)
(2023) حبيبي جميل
Arabian horse show - Qurna, Egypt (2018)
Perplexing Bumble Bee (Bombus perplexus) Riley Park, Calgary (2023)
Sunset in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam
Classical image of a Vietnamese woman in traditional Ao Dai during a festival in Hanoi (2024)
Yellow-bellied Marmot (Marmota flaviventris), Vernon, BC (2019)
Bombus centralis, Calgary, Alberta (2023)
The majestic camel, Birqash, Egypt (2015)
derby at Glenhaven Stables, Cochrane, AB (2022)
Mycenaean cemetery at Voudeni, Greece (2014)
Fungi, Irishtown Park, NB (2018)
Mountain Deathcamas (Anticlea elegans), Paddy’s Pond, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory (2021)
Tyndall Fossils - Calgary, AB
Tyndall fossil - A “honeycomb” tabulate coral colony, probably Trabeculites or Saffordophyllum. SAIT, Senator Burns building. (2023)
Nautiloid, SAIT
Identifications taken from the article by:
Koning, Tako (2020) Tyndall Stone: Hunting Ordovician Fossils in Downtown and Inner-City Calgary. Alberta Palaeontological Society Bulletin Volume 35, No. 4, December 2020
detail of Ordovician fossil from left
Receptaculites, SAIT
Rugose corals (“horn corals”) in cross section, SAIT
Car wash in the Niger River, Mali (2011)
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.
~ Heraclitus
Mountain light - Ghost Watershed, AB (2024)
snow laden trees in Bouctouche, New Brunswick (2018)
Honey bee and rose - Kings Landing, NB (2017)
Dogbane Leaf Beetle (Chrysochus auratus) at Wainwright Dunes Ecological Reserve - Alberta (2023)
Western hemlock looper moth (Lambdina fiscellaria lugubrosa) on a cedar tree, British Columbia (2019)
sunlight through a frozen bush, Yukon (2014)
Ancient Forest/Chun T'oh Whudujut Provincial Park, BC (2019)
painterly view of Rummel Lake, AB (2022)
Killdeer nest - Frank Lake, AB - (2023)
amber with stingless bees (2005)
'Sahat' an Azawakh puppy in Mali (2010)
Black-billed magpie (Pica hudsonia) found a garter snake for lunch, near the Bow River (2024)
Sunrise in Hillhurst, Calgary, Alberta (Nov, 2024)
THINGS NAUTICAL
Photo: View from Ithaca
HMCS Miramichi - in the Alaskan glacier fields (1991)
Sparviero class in the Adriatic Sea (1992)
The west coast of British Columbia (1991)
View from the top of the Venetian Fortress in Heraklion, Crete (2008)
Ancient stone anchor - Volos Archaeological Museum (2014)
A felucca on the Nile - passing near Luxor Temple (2023)
Two rowboats on the Nile - with makeshift oars. (2023)
Harbour in Alexandria (2015)
A traditional Vietnamese boat used in the early days to establish the settlement at Bat Trang, Vietnam. Housed in the Bat Trang Pottery Museum (2024)
King of the Mekong - Museum of Old Photos Chiang Khong, Thailand
Mekong River boats (after the massive 2024 flooding)
Fishing boat in Ha Long Bay, Vietnam (2024)