John Lee 🇨🇦

@watgrad.bsky.social

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Retired, exploring new possibilities like photography, hiking, and birding. Avid volunteer. Ontario, Canada. 🇨🇦 I follow birders and photographers! (All pictures posted are mine, unless otherwise stated.)

Rear screen of my Nikon after I dropped it onto a concrete floor! :(
June bouquets for sale in a roadside stand.
small, soft-blue flowers dappled light and memories - cast into a stream
A red-headed woodpecker is perched on a powerline as it surveys the birdfeeders below.
Parseword results: perfect, no hints, completed in 1 min 1 sec, & secret found!
Water drop crown captured on 130mm with 1/1200 f13 ISO 4000
Strutting their stuff at the horse auction in St. Jacobs.
a young boy and his mother watch the horses and carts circle the track at the auction
Parseword results!
weathered red mailboxes against some green cedars - one got some mail!
layers of dark wavy texured fibers with glowing spaces between.
high key photograph of dragon fruit, cut and ready to serve on a marble plate.
An abstract photo - Intentional Camera Movement blurs a stand of poplar trunks in the spring sun.
a spiral of pointed tips
Steel Wool rapid oxidation when touched with a 9v battery!
Still life of a hoya and cuttings being prepared for propagation in test tubes
a vine tendril encased in ice
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Crossing the bridge to Sheave Mill Tower, Blair Road, Ontario.
A ceramic poppy sits on some green leaves illuminated by sunlight
the burgundy and green back of a croton leaf
The back of a croton leaf shown in detail. Veins show up bright green against the burgundy coloured leaf.
Complimentary Calm? A man wearing a brown shirt reads while seated on a blue couch. (Can the "visual vibration" of pastel complimentary colours be considered calming? I'm not sure.)
Image of a rocking chair with a baby blanked and teddy bear. The shadow cast behind the chair shows a woman holding a baby.
A screen shot of the immutable fedora distro "Aurora."
Husky with blue eyes looking into the camera! :)
Molly pauses from playing in the snow to pose for the camera (a miniature schnauzer mix).
Two windows are shown from an older building, with the wall and trim painted cream//red and white/black respectively.
An older couple braves a snowsquall to walk home.
A snowy owl shelters on the snow covered ground, by a fence post covered with green lichen.
tight crop of a man's silhouette in profile
cover for martha wells murderbot series - neurotically and sarcastically fun!
A Cooper's Hawk finishes its meal of Mourning Dove during an icestorm.
A chickadee looks into the camera, their black and white face filling the frame.
A family of six snowmen (snow people?) stand on a hill, the tallest with outstretched arms, with an early morning sky in the background.
A black and white image of the driving bridle on a horse spotted in Linwood, Ontario
Snow falls as a Mennonite horse and buggy drive downhill along the road toward the camera. A mother and child pull a sled with a baby across the road in the background.
A house sparrow sits in the sunlight perched on a cedar branch
Two Snow Buntings fight over grain gleanings while a third watches from the sidelines.
A Bald Eagle perched high in a tree.
A lone tree, covered in ice, stands in a field of snow. A layer of ice crystals floats above. The forest in the background glitters with ice, under a blue sky.
A red-tailed hawk takes flight from a branch
Winter's chill - a man walks his bicycle on the icy sidewalk in Uptown Waterloo
horned lark - agx in darktable
A long exposure of the atrium between Eng 5 and Eng 7 at UW!
A church that has been converted to a toy store is illuminated with Christmas lights - irony, juxtaposition ... I don't know what the term is for this situation!!
A cyclist speeds down the bike track at Waterloo Park, with the trees and fence blurred behind
a chain of candles glows against a black background, the foremost candle is in focus, while the other candles stretching further away to the right become more and more out of focus
a list of birds seen at the feeder for Nov. 9 (mourning dove, downy woodpecker, crow, house sparrow, blue jay, junco, cardinal, red-bellied woodpecker, chickadee)
Snow covers the red leaves of a burning bush.
a variety of house plants displayed on a shelf
A flat lay photo shows snow boots, pants, coat, hat, and gloves 'outlining' a person using snowshoes and poles to walk across a field of snow.