Eileen Seto's photos with the keyword: Canada

Comets have always sparked the imagination. In the old days, they were seen as omens bringing doom and disaster, messengers of the gods. These days our scientists tell a different story. Comets may bring with them a variety of organic molecules including amino acids, the building blocks of life. So it's possible that these ancient visitors to our solar system may have seeded life on our planet! Omens and science aside, there's no doubt that the appearance of comets will continue to fascinate humankind for as long as we watch the skies, if only for their rare beauty. Taken on July 23, 2020 from Ottawa, Canada.

Peggy's Cove near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

This is my favourite beach along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. It's a short hike in through a beautiful rainforest, and if you want to camp overnight, you can pitch your tent anywhere on the beach. Just be careful not to get flooded at high tide!

A scenic lake near the geographic centre of Vancouver Island, between Campbell River and Gold River.

From my archives, a shot from early last year, before handrails were installed along the breakwater. Today with the handrails, walking the breakwater is a totally different experience. Viewing this photo is a bit of nostalgia for me.

An abstract image taken after sunset on top of a local mountain. The peak offers 360-degree views of the city and surroundings. The dark band at the top below the sunset colours is the Olympic mountain range in the distance, and the lighter band below that is the ocean. The rest of the image is urban.

This is my favourite beach along the west coast of Vancouver Island, Canada. It's a short hike in through a beautiful rainforest, and if you want to camp overnight, you can pitch your tent anywhere on the beach. Just be careful not to get flooded at high tide!

The best viewing for the Perseid meteor shower this year was a couple of weeks earlier than the shower's peak, because of the moon phase. Luckily, this timeframe coincided with the peak of the lesser-known Delta Aquarid meteor shower in late July. I camped out on Mystic Beach along the west coast to get a good view of the show. I saw some quick 'n' bright fireballs, and my camera caught several faint ones. Make a wish! (Or two, if you can find the really faint one!)

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.

A friend gave me his dedicated macro lens to try out for a few days. It's opened up a whole new world to me, just like he said it would!

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.