14 days on Sable Island: Day 8
Today was our first day catching seals to deploy satellite transmitters and acoustic tags. There was some other work that needed to be done in the morning but in the afternoon we went out on the search for seals. The…
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14 days on Sable Island: Day 7
We are now halfway through our trip. The resupply was completed in the morning and the ship motored its way back to Halifax pulling its load, a 24 hour trip. …
14 days on Sable Island: Day 6!
Another long day on Sable Is. The weather was great, beautiful and sunny for most of the day with a calm sea, but turned a tad cloudy+chilly in the late afternoon. Once…
Where have I been?
So, I have been away from my weekly blogging for some time. My distraction was wine, and a lot of it! Since March 2012 I have been studying to become a sommelier and, after several courses, exams,and many many tastings,…
Photography is an art of observation, Elliott Erwitt
Every second of our day we are seeing things. There is a lot of visual information entering our heads all the time and our minds keep very busy processing that information. Indeed our minds never stop processing; it is active…
Who am I anyway? by Helen Levitt
When you take a photograph, you are expressing yourself, often unknowingly, and it shows in the final image. I am a zoologist and am certain that interest itself in the images I shoot, whether they are of wildlife or of…