Michael R Freeman

Immature Northern Goshawk perched high in an Eastern White Pine insouthwestern Nova Scotia. At least I think it's a Northern Goshawk.I'm not a birder. It could be a juvenile Redtail, but its call suresounded like a Goshawk to me. If anyone has a positive ID, I wouldwelcome the input. This bird was about 30ft up in the tree and perchedon the same branch for over a hour as I slowly approached, first in acanoe and then on foot, from well over a hundred yards distance. Imanaged to creep right up to the base of the tree in plain sight thewhole time and this guy didn't even flinch as I shot several rolls ofmotor driven film. Scanned from Kodachrome 64.

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My niece (age 7 when this was taken) having a little bit of summer funin Uncle Mike's "stripper" canoe. The paddle is taller than she is!Now that she is a little older she really likes going for paddlesaround the lake with her uncle when she comes to visit. Good memories.:-)

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Nicely composed photo. Framing scenes like this with trees, windows, doors or other openings can often be a bit cliché, but it really works for this photo because of the presence of the hikers at lower left. Perhaps lighten the shadows just a little bit on the right side tree trunk so that it is more in balance with the left side so that the viewer's eye isn't misdirected by the slightly darker right side of the frame. Well done.

Very, very nice photo. Dramatic light and an excellent exposure. Good choice of composition in placing the boat off-center. The only suggestion I would offer is to perhaps crop this a bit from the bottom and left to shift the horizon from nearly dead center, eliminate some of the dead space from the lower part of the frame, and give a bit more emphasis to the dramatic sky. Nicely done.

What a nice photo. What would normally have been "just another landscape" is brought to life with the presence of the turtle in the lower corner. Nicely balanced composition, nice soft lighting, and a good exposure choice. Well done.

A very nice composition, and with the right choice of exposure to capture the scene properly and realistically. Well done.

Nice shot. Like Alf, I can't help but wonder that as nice an image as this is, if it might have been a slightly better composition if the tree had not been cropped, in particular on the left. Nevertheless, nicely done!

Excellent photo. If you had not indicated that this was a three shot pano composition, I would never have guessed. Nicely balanced composition and perfect exposure(s). Well done.

My nephew (6 years old when this was taken) enjoying a frosty treat at

the end of a hot summer day. A little reward for being a good boy

while visiting his grandparents at the family cabin by the lake. :-)

 

Memories like this are special. They grow up so, so fast!

 

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Simple but effective composition, and nice soft lighting. The single ripe berry and the unripened white and pink berries jump out from the green background. Well done.

 

Wild low bush blueberries are big here in Nova Scotia, with over 40 million pounds harvested annually. Our harvest is just a couple of weeks away. Yummy! :-)

This is a beautifully framed composition. I like how the shoreline in the lower left corner leads the viewer along the beach to the rocky outcrop in the middle of the photo. Nice soft morning light, perfect exposure and tones. Very well done!

Wonderful portraits of two magnificent bears. We would like to think we humans are "king", but these animals are the real top of the food chain. Those claws are scary! One swat and you're lunch!

 

I presume these are captive animals? I don't think I would want to be anywhere near as close as this to a grizzly in the wild. :-)

Pierre, Patsy and Ghislain - thank you for your ratings and kind comments. This was not a planned trip into this location, and it had been close to 15 years since I had been here before. I only had a few minutes to shoot this photo along with a few other "quick and dirty" shots, so I am both pleased and pleasantly surprised at the good reception it has received. Cheers!

One of the fleet of 103 Boeing 737's currently operated by WestJet (as

of July 2013), following takeoff from runway 14-32 at YHZ on September

11, 2004. Still in service with the same airline today.

 

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A simple but very pleasing composition. Essentially three subjects (tree, beach, sky/water) presented in three colours (green, yellow, blue). Nicely done.

If you are interested, you can do a Google search for the phrase 'white point lodge fire nov 12 2011' to see a 6 min. YouTube video (not mine) of the devastating fire of November 2011 (tried to include a link above but photo.net filters blocked it).

White Point Beach Resort, week of November 24, 1991. Main lodge ison the right with one of the oceanside cottages to the left. Scan froma 4x6 print. While going through my files recently, having come acrossthis photo I realized that it was taken almost exactly 20 years priorto the devastating fire that completely destroyed the main lodgebuilding on November 12, 2011.

Fortunately for lovers of White Point the lodge has risen from theashes. This is not a technically great photo by any measure. Itcertainly would have been a much better composition if I had notchopped off the right edge of the building. But I guess the moral ofthe story above is to always take pictures of special places, becauseone day they might not be there anymore.

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What a unique and interesting photo. And kudos for having the artistic vision to see the pattern of the blowing grass repeated in the clouds. Well done!

Wayne - Thank you for your comment.

 

Alf - Thank you for your comments and rating. I always like to give a little bit of historical context for photos like these if I can, especially if they have a connection to my family. The vertical "split log siding" that was manufactured in my grandfather's sawmill (gone for nearly 45 years) was very popular for cabin construction in this area at the time. It was used for the construction of the original cottages at White Point Beach Lodge, a well known seaside resort in Nova Scotia. Most of those cabins are still standing and in use today. My Dad (now 82) tells me that it was a real PITA to make the stuff as after sawing in the mill it needed to be milled on three sides with grooves for splines on the edges. If I remember correctly they needed to peel the bark on the exposed natural face by hand. They only manufactured it for a few years.

 

I do have a view of the old place from the lake, but unfortunately it was not a calm water day and hence no pretty reflection: http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=17471010&size=md

 

I suspect that it will not be many more years before the roof begins to cave in on the old place, and once that happens it won't be long before it starts to collapse inward. The property is still in the possession of the heirs of the man who built this (another old sawmiller). He's been gone a long time, and the son he passed it down to is also gone, but two of his sons have slightly more modern but "rustic" cabins close by on the same island.

A very unique and unusual image, quite different from the typical photos that I see posted to the "Flowers" category. It's a bit difficult to be original in this genre, but I think you succeeded. If you haven't done so already, you should submit this photo to the current monthly contest. Nicely done.

A unique, unusual and fun setting for a wedding day photo. Very nicely done.

Beautiful shot! And with the forest at the upper right in full mid-day sunlight and the rest of the scene in shadow, not an easy one to balance the exposures so that it appears realistic. Well done.

Your timing was perfect. I can almost smell the mist. Very pleasing composition and perfectly executed exposure.

This is a nice photo. It's a simple but very well balanced composition and exposure, with the shape of the tree against the sky grabbing your attention and then leading the viewer to explore the idyllic rural landscape in the background. Well done. :)

This old cabin site on Harmony Lake is very slowly beginning toreturn to the forest. Essentially abandoned for nearly 20 years andlocated on an island, it is accessible only by boat or canoe. There isnothing "artistically special" about this photo, but rare visits tothis location always remind me of a summer evening boat ride with myparents to visit the original owners many years ago when I was a smallboy. Built in the early 50's, it is constructed of vertical "logsiding" that was milled in my grandfather's water powered sawmill. Thecabin site was dug out of a rocky hillside by hand with pick andshovel and everything to build and furnish it, including a big oldfashioned wood fired kitchen range, would have been floated up thelake on a raft or boat. Those old buggers were tough and didn't mindhard work. :-)

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