Iain Leitch Photography

This past weekend was the first snow fall of the year it did not last all that long as its all gone by Thursday which is today but well it was here it made for good photos and a pair of wet socks. I went for a walk down to the nearest park and its semi wooded so I took some pictures of the trail heading through the trees covered in snow, then I did a slight bit of editing on Adobe Photoshop Express.

It's that time of the year where the weather gets cold and the birds start to find it harder to find food so that's where people can jump in and help thy can put up bird feeders so the birds don't go hungry this winter and if your lucky you may be able to get some nice pictures like i did just now which some black capped chickadees.

Today I went for a walk in the woods. I went to a bit of woods i've never been in before and there wasn't really any trails but it was okay because it meant you could just wonder. The woods was made out of maple trees and all of the leafs were yellow and looked very nice in the sun light.

This past weekend these irises started to come out and tried to bloom but it was to cold and wet so they just stayed wrapped up and fell on the ground surrounding them. It then rained so the flowers got covered in water drops and really if you don't have a picture of water drops are you really a photographer at all?

Happy Thanksgiving everyone today me and my family went for a walk down by the lake to feed some ducks and that's where I got the idea to take pictures of them flapping there wings because they seem to do it a lot. So later today I went down again with more corn and got a few pictures of them flapping there wings which I think turned out well. I used S/800, F 5.6 and ISO 3200.

In my backyard we have a garden that is full of these flowers i'm not sure what kind of flower it is but I do know that the bees seem to like them a lot. I used my macro lens for this photo and i could of got closer but I really liked this angle for the shot so I left it at that

Its that time of the year again when the Monarchs fly back to Mexico to spend the winter there well the rest of us are stuck in the cold winter. I took this photo when I was out for a walk at a local conservation area. The butterfly was just fluttering around some flowers probably getting some nectar before it joined up with some other butterfly's for the flight south.

Last night I was out driving around with my camera looking for things to take photos of and i was driving down this road just when the sun was setting so i pulled over and got out onto the middle of the road and fixed my settings and go this picture with no tripod. I like the big trees coming over the road and the shadows they produce also.

This past weekend I was up at my family's hunting camp which is oddly named because no one does any hunting up there anyway and really its just a piece of land with a old mouse infested cabin on it surrounded by lakes and crown land. On the way up there we have to go down a forest access road to get to the camp and that is where I got the picture of the moose. We were driving over a beaver damn and my uncle said look a moose so I said stop and got out to take a picture of it. The picture of the mushroom is also on the road but I took that when we were out walking. It looks like the mushroom has a walking stick which i find amusing. The last picture is looking over the main lake with with the dock during the sunset, which happened to be the only time the sun was out for the whole trip.

At the visitor center in the Pinery they had a bunch of bird feeders set up and they attracted a lot of different birds to the feeders one of them is the yellow bird I'm not sure what kind because I think its to big to be a american goldfinch  so I'm not sure what it is but the second bird coming down the tree is a nuthatch looking for food likes bugs and things like that the nuthatch later flew to a feeder and ate from there.