Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON
Sometimes, even when you're miles away from home, do you find yourself thinking in "blog mode"? When I have a couple of cameras slung around my neck I'm in photography mode, but I sometimes find myself thinking "Yup, that'd make a great shot for Camera Critters".
So when I arrived in Beaver Creek in the Yukon, I dropped my bags off in my room at the Westmark Hotel and immediately started scouting around. It was late evening and the light was fading, so when I saw this beaver sign I knew I didn't have enough light to make the shot work.
Instead, I was up at the crack of dawn the next morning. There was not much movement and pretty much no sound either, as I began shooting the mountains in the pink light of early morning. I even got a shot of the contrails of a jet, like white gossamer against a clear blue sky - with the jet so high that it was completely soundless.
But before I stopped shooting and headed indoors for breakfast, I had to get this beaver shot. Lucky I remembered - or it would have been a dam shame!
So when I arrived in Beaver Creek in the Yukon, I dropped my bags off in my room at the Westmark Hotel and immediately started scouting around. It was late evening and the light was fading, so when I saw this beaver sign I knew I didn't have enough light to make the shot work.
Instead, I was up at the crack of dawn the next morning. There was not much movement and pretty much no sound either, as I began shooting the mountains in the pink light of early morning. I even got a shot of the contrails of a jet, like white gossamer against a clear blue sky - with the jet so high that it was completely soundless.
But before I stopped shooting and headed indoors for breakfast, I had to get this beaver shot. Lucky I remembered - or it would have been a dam shame!
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Yup, Blog Brain is an inevitable affliction of the serious blogger I'm afraid. It's reached anorak status when you begin to carry a Blog Notebook. Oh dear....
ReplyDeleteDavid: My I must say, that was seriouly funny title to your work. It was top class.
ReplyDeleteThey are such industrious creatures - sometimes damaging, but industrious none-the-less!
ReplyDeleteFunny looking fella ain't he?
ReplyDeleteOnly good spellers will "get" your last line! I get it! lol
ReplyDeleteAll day so far I've been in my village with ideas for my blog. We're celebrating "Rivermania" so keep an eye out for intstallments (or is it instalments?) of all the fun we had today. Soon I'll be back out to the evening market.
Your puns crack me up! And I am so glad I am not the only one who looks at things through blogger eyes now!
ReplyDeleteGreat critter. Dam good.
You're always working, aren't you David? That brain never gets a rest. I imagine you in overdrive much of the time!
ReplyDeleteSandi
hahahah fun read I can just see you with your myriad of cameras..sandy
ReplyDeleteVery cute post for Camera Critters - "it would have been a dam shame" - priceless!
ReplyDeleteI agree, my mind is working differently since blogging. Shots are getting bagged with certain nemes in mind. Ceative image and puntastic of course.
ReplyDeleteCamera Critters just *will* show up when you least expect them -- and you are always ready!
ReplyDeleteNah, you take such great photos to be a Butthead. Wish I could remember their laugh. Love the beaver though.
ReplyDeletehardy har har!!! too many puns for me hehe!!!
ReplyDeleteThat just about sums up my luck with taking photos of creatures! However, a wooden one is better than none!
ReplyDeleteI find myself wonderingif the carving was mad by another beaver... just a thought.
ReplyDeleteFunny you mention thinking of Camera Critters when you are out and about. I find myself doing that these days too.
ReplyDeletedam shame. lol you're puns are so witty!
ReplyDeleteNice beaver shot.
bwahahahahahahaha you absolutely crack me up!
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