Iain Leitch Photography

These are the only two good none bird pictures I took of animals on my camping trip the Pinery. The first one is of a frog I took well hiking a trail. The trail had a board walk that bordered the river for a short distance and it was there where I got the picture of the frog. The second picture of the chipmunk I took well on a hike on a different trail and my dog scared the chipmunk and then the chipmunk just sat there for a bit well i took a couple pictures then scurried off in search of food. I took both these photos with my 70-300mm telephoto lens.

At the Pinery there was a far bit of fungus growing on the sides of trees and they were often orange i'm not sure what kind they were but I also noted that there was little to no mushrooms growing on anything I think i saw maybe 3 mushrooms in total which was disappointing for me. But there was also a lot of moss growing on fallen logs and what not so I got a few pictures of that also.

The past five days I was camping at Pinery Provincial Park. I got a whole range of pictures and while I was camping I got a Macro lens for my birthday. I'm hoping to get a lot of cool new pictures of bugs and things like that with the new lens. At the visitor center at Pinery Provincial Park, they had a bunch of bird feeders set up, including a hummingbird one. While the hummingbird feeders were set up too far away from me to get an up-close shot, I noticed a hummingbird was sitting on a branch right beside me. I was able to get close and get these two pictures of the bird before it flew away. 

A couple days ago we went to a march which is about an hour away from where I live it wasn't all that great the trails were all overgrown and i didn't see anything worth well taking pictures of and anything i did was to far away or flew away. This is the only decent picture i took that day. Hope u enjoy it.

Last night was a meteor shower which was able to be seen from all over the world. I thought ill try to make some star tails with meteor in it and I got a few of them in this picture. In the top left there is one then there is a faint one in the bottom right and a few very faint ones in the middle.(you may need to turn up your brightness to see). I used my Canon Rebel T5 on a tripod with a remote shutter to get this picture. I used Shutter 30, F/3.5, ISO 800. I took about 49 shots of the same spot and then combined them all in StarStaX which is the best program for this kind of picture.

A couple days ago we were doing some house cleaning and opened up the back windows. Later on when we were done and were about to shut the windows we found this little green guy doing some sunbathing on the window. I don't know much about what type of grasshopper he is or even if it is a he at all but he made for a good picture.