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Wintery Porcupine

Here’s anoth­er short video clip of this por­cu­pine I came across while out pho­tograph­ing along the North Saskatchewan Riv­er in the Strath­cona Sci­ence Park. He (or she) was pret­ty small, maybe about the size of a beach ball, and was not going anywhere–if I moved too sud­den­ly he’d pause from his eat­ing, but he nev­er left his spot. It’s hard to imag­ine how a por­cu­pine can get enough nutri­tion out of the dried grass and seeds that he’s eat­ing here to be able to sur­vive the kind of cold that we’ve been get­ting late­ly, but I guess they do.

You can push the fullscreen but­ton (four out­ward arrows at the bot­tom-right of the video) to view it larg­er, or fol­low the link to watch a high-def­i­n­i­tion ver­sion at vimeo.com.

& Water">Fog Ice & Water

Here’s anoth­er short video clip that I took dur­ing this recent peri­od of extreme­ly cold weath­er. Walk­ing over the foot­bridge between Strath­cona Sci­ence Park and Run­dle Park, I was mes­mer­ized by the com­bined, over­lap­ping move­ment of the fog ris­ing from the riv­er, the ice flow­ing down­stream, and the rip­ples in the water. The light breeze was mov­ing the mist around and the low sun was glint­ing off the thin ice­bergs, cre­at­ing a beau­ti­ful, swirling, shin­ing scene.

Goldeneye flock flying over river

This past year I upgrad­ed my cam­era to the Canon 5DmkII, it’s a ter­rif­ic cam­era that I’m very hap­py with, and one of the neat tricks it does is shoot high def­i­n­i­tion video. I don’t shoot too much video—I’m a stills pho­tog­ra­ph­er at heart, regard­less of what the cam­era can do—but it is fun to try once in a while.

I took this short video this past week dur­ing the cold snap—it shows a small flock of Com­mon Gold­en­eye (Bucepha­la clan­gu­la) ducks swim­ming in the riv­er then tak­ing off and fly­ing, land­ing again a ways upriv­er. The ducks dive briefly under the water sur­face a cou­ple of times before flying—my best guess is that they’re “de-icing” their wings (it was about -35° C that morn­ing).

You can push the fullscreen but­ton (four out­ward arrows at the bot­tom-right of the video) to view it larg­er, or fol­low the link to watch a high-def­i­n­i­tion ver­sion at vimeo.com.

The King’s guild christmas gift sale

After a pret­ty slow day at the Gold Bar craft sale, I’m hop­ing for the best at this year’s TKUC Guild christ­mas gift sale this com­ing Sat­ur­day, the 28th of Novem­ber. I’ll have a table set up at The King’s Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege (9125 50 street, here’s a map) between 10 AM — 3 PM. There’s a $2 admis­sion (kid’s are free) and over 70 ven­dors. I’ll again have pho­to­graph­ic prints and cards for sale, and this time I’ll print enough of the pop­u­lar ones!

& craft sale">Gold Bar community art & craft sale

Just a quick note to let you know that I’ll be at the Gold Bar com­mu­ni­ty art & craft sale from 10 am to 4 pm on Sat­ur­day, the 21st of Novem­ber (’09) (here’s a map to the hall). I’d love to have you drop by to say hi (six hours can go pret­ty slow with no one to talk to), and I’ll have a selec­tion of prints and cards for sale as well. Hope to see you there!

Welcome

Self-portrait of Jonathan Martin-DeMoor

Hi! Thanks for hav­ing a look at my per­son­al pho­tog­ra­phy jour­nal.

I hope to reg­u­lar­ly post new pho­tographs that I’m excit­ed to share with you before I can incor­po­rate them into my more for­mal gal­leries. These will be pho­tographs that either tak­en recent­ly, or some­times, pho­tographs that I’ve recent­ly processed (or re-processed). I’ll usu­al­ly add a short descrip­tion of where, when, or why I took each pho­to, and some­times ask for feed­back on things I’m try­ing out.

I’ll always wel­come any com­ments or ques­tions you may have about any of the images–you can either leave me a com­ment on one of the entries, or con­tact me direct­ly.

I hope you enjoy these images, and please check back often to see what I’ve been up to.

all the best
Jonathan