Doug Koke

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Photographer, Cinematographer, Editor, Comedy Enthusiast, Hopeless Dork. Obsessed with music and movies. Vancouver Island 🇨🇦

Soccer stadium at night, with a large Canadian flag stretched over the pitch, and the words “Go Canada!”
A juvenile bald eagle is pursued by two adult eagles, anxious to see if the younger bird will drop the Pacific herring it's caught.
Split image, with a top panel showing a macro shot of Pacific Herring roe, clinging to some kelp, and a bottom panel taken by drone, showing the cloudy, surreal aqua-marine color of the shallow coastal waters and thousand of gallons of eggs and sperm mix with the ocean.
A triptych showing part of the annual Pacific Herring Spawn on Vancouver Island. This particular spawn was around Nanoose Bay, north of Nanaimo. The top panel shows a wide shot of Wallis Point, with patches of cloudy, aqua-marine, turquoise waters where thousands of herring have expelled massive amounts of ovum and sperm. The second panel is one of many commercial fishing boats that show up at active spawns to harvest Herring. The third panel is a medium shot taken by drone, showing an overhead view of the milt and eggs combining in the sea water to make an oddly beautiful mix of blue, white, and turquoise.
Timelapse of an eerie and beautifully intense sunset above an abandoned farmstead and a rusty sedan on the plains of Haswell, Colorado. The orange skies morph into an intense thunderstorm, with lots of lighting strikes, and finally, a starry sky, with the Milky Way passing above the old sedan, as green airglow dances in the atmosphere.
Plaza near the Hullo / seaplane terminal in Vancouver.
Wandering a bit in the gastown neighborhood of Vancouver.
I apologize, but I don’t know exactly what kind of falcon this is. It’s very small and puffy, and very cute.
An extreme closeup of the face of a Spectacled Owl named Elton. Elton is a female owl from South America and is 20 years old, which is getting up there for an owl, even in captivity,
One of the handlers at The Raptors teaches a small audience about the beautiful bald eagle perched on her arm.
A teeny little American Kestrel whose cuteness is just completely unreasonable. He’s perched on a tree branch, puffing his feathers to stay warm on a sunny, but brisk December morning.
Arktos, an Eastern Great Horned Owl, perches on a tree branch.
Arktos, perched on a tree branch covered in oyster mushrooms, calls to his handler during a flight demonstration. He is an Eastern Great Horned Owl, with very light cream / white feathers, speckled with grey to spots to resemble light tree bark.
A large Bald Eagle takes a perch on a twisted stump and enjoys a piece of meat during a flight demonstration at The Raptors bird centre.
A black vulture, one of the residents of the The Raptors birds-of-prey centre in Duncan, BC.
Elton, an adorable elderly (20 yrs old) spectacled owl rests gently on my mom’s gloved hand. My mom smiles in delight.
Spock, a great horned owl at The Raptors bird sanctuary in Duncan, BC.
Ruprecht. An adorable male ragdoll cat, named after one of Steve Martin’s characters in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. “May I take your trident, sir?”
A chinook salmon jumps into the air, barely clearing the white-water as it crashes down Skutz Falls on the Cowichan River.
Closeup of a leaping Chinook salmon as it attempts to clear the first step of a fish ladder at Skutz Falls in the Cowichan Valley of Vancouver Island.
A Chinook salmon appears to jump at the camera as it struggles to clear the first step of a salmon ladder in Skutz Falls Provincial Park.
A chinook salmon leaping up a fish ladder at Skutz Falls Provincial Park
A photo of the rear LED screen on a camera, showing a picture of a leaping salmon that by some utter miracle is semi-well-composed and mostly on focus.
A mischievous river otter pokes his head out of a freshwater drainpipe to see if the coast is clear.
A pair of bald eagles, perched on an old telephone during golden hour.
A little juvenile seal cruises around the Sidney Pier, near the Fish Market.
A bald eagle roosts on a telephone pole, backlit by the setting sun.
Black bears and coho salmon, during the tail end of the annual coho salmon spawn.
A heron sits in patch of bright green moss on a high bank of the Stamp River.
A little bunny, being rescued by my boss after escaping a Cooper’s Hawk.
Ultra creepy sheep, puppeted by T. Ocellus parasite in Alien: Earth.
The poster for Once, starring Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
An older man with a great face grins mischievously as he leans on the gunnel of his boat in the Salish Sea.
A man and his Irish Setter out on a small dinghy, fishing for salmon on the coast of Vancouver Island.
Harbor Seal pokes his head above the water near the Sidney Pier on Vancouver Island.
My sister is silhouetted in a small cave entrance, hollowed out by a waterfall in Johnston Canyon.
Woman moving along the elevated walkway in Johnston Canyon. She is in a fairly narrow canyon, with a river below her, and many trees lining the canyon’s steep granite walls.
A nearly full moon, as seen in daylight.
Timelapse of stars, clouds and the Milky Way, moving over the summit of Mount Blue Sky in Colorado,
Two cormorants sitting on a weathered wooden pylon at the old Sidney ferry terminal. In this light, you can see the purple and green UV undertones of the feathers, which often appear pure black.
A Belted Kingfisher bird sits on top of a tower of birdhouses at Tod Inlet on Vancouver Island.
Harbor seal, floating near the Sidney Fish Market, hoping to find some scraps for dinner.
My sister’s gigantic St. Bernard / Bernese Mountain Dog happily awaits a treat in front of Lake Minnewanka.
A half Saint Bernard, half Bernese Mountain Dog lays patiently on the boat dock at Lake Louise, in Banff National Park.
A blue Steller’s Jay stands out against the gold fall leaves of an Aspen tree.
My sister and her dog walk along the shore of Bow Lake in Alberta. The water is from the Bow Glacier, and is a gorgeous turquoise.