Anne Elliott's photos with the keyword: interestingness#185

I happened to come across this old photo from my archives recently, and decided to post it tonight. It was taken on 4 July 2010, when a few of us spent the day botanizing at the Medicine River Wildlife Centre, a long drive N of Calgary. The reason I thought I would post it now is that I was out this evening at a really excellent talk on Owls, given by Dr. Gordon Court, Provincial Wildlife Status Biologist for the Fish and Wildlife Division. He brought along a little injured Barred Owl - a bird Ambassador - for us to see. I think this is the same bird that I saw a few years ago, when I went to a talk at the University of Calgary. The cutest thing, who just sat the whole time, looking adorable. I always think it's such a shame that owls have so little intelligence, disproving the old saying 'wise as an owl", lol. I tried to take two or three photos, but the light in the room was awful and I didn't want to use flash.

One of my archived flower photos from last spring. Not the sharpest, but I like the mixture of colours.

This was the only pink Poppy of its kind in bloom at the Reader Rock Garden two days ago. I loved the colour and the drooping buds : )

This is one of the many Orchids growing in the Conservatory at the Calgary Zoo at the moment. I wasn't sure how my new little Panasonic DMC-FZ18 would handle a white flower, as today was my first time out somewhere to test it. I went to the Calgary Zoo for the afternoon. I wanted to test it out and compare similar photos taken recently with my old, half-working Canon S3 IS and very old Olympus C750 UZ. I found the Panasonic DMC-FZ18 a delightful camera to use!! It is light-weight, comfy and if I can use it, then anyone could. I kept it on Intelligent Auto to test out the camera and it seems to have worked reasonably well in various light conditions. I did use flash for some of my indoor shots.

The Bald Eagle seen on a visit to the Coaldale Birds of Prey Centre, southern Alberta.