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Author: ldoctor
PORTFOLIO: Small in numbers, strong at heart
Written for The/La Source, a biweekly newspaper and site focused on diversity and community. Published in print (Oct 16 2016) and online.
BLOG: Finding DataBC + fossils
So I’m seriously watching Friends for the first time (thanks Netflix) and early episodes with Ross working in the museum have some amazing scenes. I just saw Ross show fossils to Phoebe to illustrate the history of evolution and now I find out DataBC has a map of important fossil sites in the province! What a week for preserved matter!
BC’s important fossil areas, from DataBC site
The Lower Mainland itself doesn’t have much importance for fossils but the island is rich with prehistoric history it seems.
Okay so it’s a niche interest but it’s actually kind of neat to see the map. Mostly I just wanna share the DataBC website so people can know it exists and sift through it to sate their own quirky data needs. Happy digging!
PHOTO BLOG: Cut Short
Do you ever wonder what you missed out on? That feeling of being so close to the answer, but not quite? Well, that feeling struck me the other night as I was fiddling around with different lenses than I’m used to.
NEWS BLOG: Keith Bridge, Mountain Highway Updates
It’s happened! The new Keith Bridge’s south lanes are open! All traffic has been diverted to the new section as the old bridge will replaced over the summer.
Four lanes should ease traffic congestion going east-to-west at rush hour, especially since the bridge will link up with Highway 1 around the big Seylynn development.
I like this shot because… well there’s no reason other than it’s cool!
A long exposure of a plane flying overhead looks pretty funky
![[This photo is a couple years old, but still an example of cloud cover] Does anyone know why clouds always show up red in [my] astronomy photos?](https://leydoctor.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/redsky2.jpg?w=329&resize=329%2C218#038;h=218 "Clouds of Red")
[This photo is a couple years old, but still an example of cloud cover] Does anyone know why clouds always show up red in [my] astronomy photos?
PHOTO BLOG: Sky Oddities
Here’s a li’l gallery of some of my spooky sky photos that are still worth posting.
PHOTO BLOG: St Patrick’s Sky!
A gorgeous day gives way to a beautiful clear night where I can see by the light of the moon!
Okay, poetics aside, it’s really nice out. So much so that I went outside and took photos of the stars.
PHOTO BLOG: Throwback Thursday: Ottawa
Remember that time I went to Ottawa and thought I could tour Parliament Hill… well I could’ve but most of it was under wraps, literally.
[To go on the guided tour inside you need to go across the street and get a voucher and from what I understand it’s a first-come-first-serve for the day. I decided to stay outside and get some fresh canal air.]
PHOTO BLOG: Time Trial Tuesday
I gave myself a limit of five minutes per photo to see how much editing I could get done. Any more time than that and I start getting too finicky or else I end up overdoing it.
Check the “natural” edits of lighting and crops that I’ve done on some old shots of Montreal:
On the drive to Lunenburg, NS on a rainy summer day.
Blue Beach, near Hantsport, NS, where fossils and shale are aplenty.
Halls Harbour has some nice views of the horizon, even on a cloudy day.
Looking across the Bay of Fundy from Halls Harbour, NS.
On the bright side, the view from Halls Harbour is great
GALLERY: Recalling SummerÂ
A look at some of the shoreline views I had in Nova Scotia this summer, including looking across the Bay of Fundy at Halls Harbour. Somewhere closer to the southern shore of the province, I took the lone picnic bench shot.
Not sure what sort of somber mood I was in that day but it sure looks gloomy. That reminded me of the impending winter (he said, in balmy Vancouver) and had me thinking back to summer.
Ley Doctor 