Eileen Seto's photos with the keyword: nature

Part of the magic of the fall season is seeing wild mushrooms pop up on the forest floor. These are puffball mushrooms in their prime before their spores mature and their flesh dries up, at which point they become “puffable” ! The macro setting on my camera brought out the dainty studs on their surface for which they are known as the Gem-studded Puffball.

My first trip to Sandcut Beach to see the pretty waterfalls along the sandstone cliffs saw a very low flow of water. This is the main waterfall, with a secondary one just visible to the right in this photo. The water flow is much higher in other seasons.

A highlight of my first trip to Hornby Island was seeing the sandstone formations at Ford's Cove. From a distance they didn't look like much, but up close the intricate patterns were endlessly fascinating, so much so that we almost missed the last ferry off the island – which wouldn't have been all that bad!

Landslide Lake is a pretty destination on the Elk River Trail of Vancouver Island. The lake got its name when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit on June 23, 1946, causing a portion of Mt Colonel Foster to break off and slide down. (The break-off area is visible in this photo on the far right side of the mountain peak, just below the cloud.) The damage is still obvious today, though new growth is starting to heal the slide.

My first backpacking trip in Strathcona Park took me on the Elk River Trail, where we camped along the river.

I went shooting with a local photography club who took me to a wonderful place with many waterfalls. It was a bright day, too bright for shooting really, but this waterfall was in shade. As we were about to move on to the next waterfall site, I saw the sunlight breaking through the canopy of trees and quickly set up this shot. It became my favourite from that field trip.

Pretty in pink! It was a treat to see these pink fawn lilies, as I didn't even know they existed before visiting this ecological reserve.

Chocolate lilies are not very common in my area (fawn lilies reign supreme here in that respect). It's even more elusive to find two blooms on one stem, so I was delighted to see this for the first time on a visit to an ecological reserve.

I was delighted to see this beautiful waterfall on Sombrio Beach. Unlike most of the other waterfalls along the beaches here, this one is totally hidden. You have to follow a brook a short distance through a moss-covered canyon to find it. While I was photographing, a young couple who were hiking the Juan de Fuca trail stopped in to take a shower, hooting and hollering from the shock of cold water!