The last three look like my kind of country. I love them all. :)

Oh my word! Those are gorgeous!

I give them five stars.

LOL Yeah, it can get frustrating.

Switching to manual focus is awkward at such times but I may have stumbled upon a solution, back button focusing.
One of the problems I used to have was simply focusing manual didn't solve the problem because auto focus would promptly change focus unless one changed to manual in the settings.

With back button focus that isn't an issue. So long as one doesn't push the back button you are in effect on manual focus already.

Thank you. :)

Thanks.

They do prefer peace and quiet for sure. Yet don't seem especially concerned when they encounter humans.
Very different then most wild animals.

Thank you.

I am glad you found it informative. I do like to fill in what my photos can not tell.

Glad you like them!

Page two of my Lynx memories.

This is only a few of the photos I captured at each encounter. This was meant to be representative of what I have seen, not an in depth study of my Lynx encounters.

Most of you will understand when I say, there were other encounters where I tried to photograph Lynx I saw, but they didn't all work as planned.

One example, I was fishing at the mouth of the Notikewin River, very close to where photo #1 below was taken.
I had my camera just in case but I wasn't really expecting to see anything interesting. I just wanted to catch some fish.
I don't know what caught my attention, I don't recall hearing any sound, but when I looked behind me there stood a Lynx, not ten feet from me.
So I grabbed my camera and started shooting, but it was standing in a dense thicket of Sand bar Willows and the camera wouldn't focus on him.
In the photos I took that day he is simply a patch of tawny color among the willows.

Lynx next to my fishing hole, fall of 2011

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This Lynx seem in a hurry, he never stopped, nor did he run, he just kept on walking and occasionally glanced at me as he walked.

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He seemed to be heading for some trees not far ahead of us.

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This is a neighbors field, about two miles from where I live. The time was the spring of 2013

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I consider myself lucky to live in the heart of the Boreal Forest.
Aside from a narrow band of farmland that runs along the only highway through the area, most of this country is undeveloped and inaccessible to humans.
Making this a heaven for all sorts of wildlife, from Moose to Lynx to Shrews. From Geese to Chickadees, From Frogs to snakes.

Today I want to have a look back at the Lynx I have been able to photograph. Keep in mind this is only a fraction of the number of Lynx I have seen over the years.

This Lynx had claimed road kill next to hwy 35 about six miles from my home.

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Here he is taking a break and watching traffic, which didn't seem to bother him in the least.

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He wasn't even bothered by my presence. In fact he hardly seemed to notice me most of the time, but it was clear he knew I was there.

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The next day on my way to town I found him on the roadkill. Not eating, just enjoying the warm sun.

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He spent over a week eating on that Deer and resting beside it or near by.

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Some times he would sleep right beside the carcass. Other times he'd move away a short way or retreat into the forest, but day after day he would be there.

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I came upon this Lynx one sunny day in mid summer of 2013. He was about to cross the road but stopped when he saw me coming.

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He didn't seem afraid. He simply sat down in the swamp grass and waited for me to leave.

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After several minutes he lost patience and turned to leave. In a few steps he was gone. But not before I had captured dozens of shots of him.

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Thanks. :)

Half a stop less, I'll try that.

The photos I posted have a limited amount of snow showing, what I would like to do is capture the detail of drifted snow. It forms such interesting shapes.

Here are a few examples, as you can see they lack detail. A lot of detail. Ecept for the last one that is close to what I wish to achieve.

Wind had formed myraid shapes in the snow, all over this field.

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This is actually an pronounced overhang formed in drifting snow. I know, that does not come across in the photo.

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Another overhanging drift. In places the snow hung down several inches below the lip of the drift. Again not apparent in this photo.


Last but not least, the best I have, IMO, snow balls formed by the wind. The snow was melting due to a Chinook wind that blew so hard it rolled small bits of snow into snow balls covering whole fields for miles around.

For a guy who lives in a winter wonderland I sure don't have much in the way of winter photos that do no have an animal or bird as the main subject.

In my defence I have yet to fugure out how to photograph snowy scenes without the brightness of the snow washing out all detail. I try, but I"m not good at it.

I won't be needing it until next summer anyway


Old Buildings fascinate me, I can't help but wonder what stories they could tell.


Early in the day on a frosty morning. The world is so quiet on forsty mornings like this. So peaceful!


Another gloomy day. That is just the way it is at this time of year.


Not a mark in the snow for as far as the eye can see. It's like the whole world is hibernating.


One thing I love about winter, nothing can move without leaving a tral showing where it came from and where it went to. And for those who know what they are looking at, it tells one what traveled here and when.

I bought a new to me, Canon 80D in December.

Last known location was, departed LA on the 27th, no word since then.

Expected arrival some time between now and July 30 2023.

If you've ever camped out away from estabolished camp grounds, you've probibly heard them dozens of not hundreds of times. But at night you wouldn't likely know what is making the sound if you didn't already know.

allaboutbirds.org has recordings of the sounds they make.

The recording marked "Song and wing sound" has the sounds I was talking about. They are the most common sounds they make, at night they call every few seconds and dive every few minutes.

I know what you mean. I've spent countless hours watching fly and dive, as they do. I know their nasal call and the sound they make as the come out of a dive, very well.
I have even found them on their nests, such as it is.
It's not what one thinks of when thinking of nests though. It's simply a depression they make in dry sand in which they lay their eggs. And those eggs blend perfectly with the sand.
If you don't see the bird fly, you'll never spot the nest, even when it's only a few feet in front of you.

This was the first opportunity I have had to photograph one.