Archive for 'Wildlife'
2009 – My photo year in review plus a new contest
Posted on 11. Jan, 2010 by Paul Burwell.
I was sitting back the other day contemplating what a great year 2009 had been. 2010 is going to have to be pretty spectacular to upseat it, but I’m optimistic. My year, like my life, largely revolves around photography and I thought it might be useful to run through the time line and hit on a few of the highlights…
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Acer Aspire – Greatest travel laptop for photographers ever?
Posted on 25. Nov, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
Like most trips to remote destinations, this trip had weight restrictions. And unlike some trips I’ve been on, the folks at one of the airlines, actually enforce the weight requirements. This meant that I needed to carefully plan the gear that I was going to bring with me so that my time was optimized and I wasn’t scrambling at the airline gate trying to make their…
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Canon 5D Mark II Autofocus Sucks? NOT!!!
Posted on 21. Oct, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
I’ve recently had the opportunity to start going through some of my pictures that I made during my recent Spirit Bear Tour. While I normally prefer to photograph with my Canon 1Ds Mark II, I decided to take a chance and exclusively use my new Canon 5D Mark II for the majority of the trip. My original intention in purchasing the camera was the use it primarily for its high-definition video abailities, but I’ve been extremely…
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Legend of the “Spirit Bear”
Posted on 05. Oct, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
For many years, the Spirit Bear was considered a legend of the Gitg’at and Kitasoo Native Peoples. Their legends told of a time when the glaciers finally receded, and it was Raven who made everything green. Raven also decided to make one in ten black bears white, to remind him of the time when the world was white with snow and ice. Raven decided to set aside a special area of the world for these bears – now known as the Great Bear Rainforest. It was a remote paradise where the bears were to live…
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Beware the Headless Hawk Phenomenon!
Posted on 19. Aug, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
…I soon noticed a disturbing trend. Although the birds at first appeared healthy and full of life, I soon started to notice a number of birds that appeared, and there is no easy way of saying this, well, they appeared headless. There I said it. Headless hawks. In Edmonton. Headless Hawks in Edmonton!!!…
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May Update – Summer seems so long ago
Posted on 19. May, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
The winter that would never end; that’s how I’ll remember this spring. While we have occasional days of “normal” temperatures, we have had a very cold spring. For instance, as I write this, the temperature is hovering around freezing and the forecast is calling for up to 5cm (2 inches) of snow by tomorrow. But, I long ago learned that my whining has no influence on the weather and I’m hopeful that the weather for my upcoming…
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Guest blogger on the Telegraph
Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
I’ve been a little under the weather the last while and haven’t been blogging as regular as I should. But, if you get a chance, check out my guest article on Kate Day’s blog on the UK’s Telegraph. I discuss what it takes to get prepared…
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February Update – Foxes, we got foxes!
Posted on 18. Feb, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
My last update featured some foxes I’d managed to find and this update continues that focus with some images from another fox den. The images in today’s update were made alongside a sparsely travelled secondary highway around Mayerthorpe in Alberta. On my first journey to find the fox den, I was treated to a spectacular thunderstorm that literally shook and rattled my vehicle while it…
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Photoshop Tutorial – Creating PhotoStrips
Posted on 11. Feb, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
Photo Strips WildShots Photoshop Tutorial – In today’s Photoshop tutorial, I take a look at Photoshop’s Photomerge capabilities. I show you how to use those capabilities to combine a number of images or consecutive frames into…
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Winter Photography – Video from my winter wildlife workshop
Posted on 27. Jan, 2009 by Paul Burwell.
My Winter Wildlife Photography Workshop had a total of six participants plus myself. It was a really great group of people from a wide range of backgrounds from all over North America. During the workshop the participants photographed a…
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