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Butterflies, bees and a river

This past weekend I was in Stratford to visit my parents. In Stratford, there's a really nice garden called Shakespeare Gardens. It has a lot of bee-friendly flowers down there so I knew it would be a good place to go for some pictures. The first picture is of a bee at a sunflower. The bee is just about to land on the flower. I had seen the bee around the other flowers so I was following him and guessed right as to which flower he would go to next. That resulted in getting this photo. The second picture I took was right outside my house in Stratford. I had just gotten back from the garden when I saw a monarch butterfly outside on the milkweed we have in our front yard. I tracked it with my camera for a while until it got bored of the milkweed and headed for the flowers which is how I got this photo. The last picture in this post is one I took on my phone. I have a Google Pixel so it takes decent photos but this one turned out really well. I was heading to ...

Red Pine Camp

Last week I was on vacation at Red Pine Camp. This is a family camp located on Golden Lake in Ontario. I didn't manage to get as many photos as I would have liked due to the weather and the moon being full which ruled out any star pictures. However, I did manage to get some pictures hence this post. The first two pictures are my favourite ones I took during the week. Near my cabin was a dock that was used to refuel the boat the camp staff uses. I set up my camera on my tripod with my ND filter on and set out to get some still water pictures which I think I succeeded in getting. In the first picture, I had the shutter open for 2.5 seconds while in the second picture the shutter was only open for half a second. That is why the first one is darker and moodier than the second which is brighter and happier. The third picture is of a group of Red Pines looking up at their canopies. The camp itself is named after these trees. The fourth picture in this post is of...