Iain Leitch Photography

Im coming home from school and as I am driving down the road I see my neighbors tree. I see something sitting on the tree. I think my neighbor has put some weird hawk statue up trying to keep the birds out of the tree. I see it is a real hawk. I get my phone out and take some crappy pictures. I open my door slowly and leave it open I slowly walk up to the house and open the door. Once I'm inside i run to my camera get it out of its bag and take off the lens cap. I run towards the door and flip my camrea on. I have the setting at whatever it was last time. I hope it is okay. I have my camera on auto focus but it seems to be taking forever to focus. I finally start snapping away. I want as many pictures as possible. The hawk fly's away. I look at my pictures and see they are amazing. I think it is a Immature Sharp-Shinned Hawk or a Immature Coppers Hawk

I was in need of some photos so i deiced to go out for a walk down by the lake which is all frozen over. I got this photo of the bridge that crosses over a bit of the lake and i got some pictures of ducks as I was walking along the lake on the ice they were swimming in a little open pool and then i started talking photos of them and they just walked right over to me and sat down not a meter away from me. 

I was out for a drive and for the longest time I've wanted a picture of a bird of prey and i finally got one. The bird you see here in an American Kestrel it is smallest bird of prey in Canada. I found this bird sitting on a telephone wire on a side road when i was driving. I saw a small bird and though it was just a pigeon but then as we passed it i saw the distinct color variations on the bird and relished it was some kind of bird of prey. 

When i woke up and looked out my window all i saw was white overnight there had been a lot of frost and everything was covered in it, In the first photo i had to go start to car to defrost the windows and i happened to see that the sun was perfectly in lined with the road so i rushed inside to get my camera and i go this in return. In the next 4 photos at school the teacher keep on bugging us to go outside and take pictures so i finally did and got some pretty nice frost shots. In the third and fourth photos i think i showed the flacks of the frost really nicely 

This is another one of my photos from my recent Grand Rapids trip. In Grand Rapids they have a lot of tall buildings are most of them are made out of glass which makes for pretty good reflections like in this one you can see the outline of the building perfectly with very little warping.