I'm still alive!

Again, no pictures I'm afraid. I really just haven't been doing that much with the camera lately. I apologize. Although in my defence, it has just gotten very very cold. I had forgotten how cold -20 is... and it's supposed to get colder still. My car actually temporarily stopped working this Sunday, quite upsetting, dumb car. Oh well, I still love it (yes, I realize it is an inanimate object).

So, heres whats up in my life. School: Well I'm taking math and english right now. Math is great, especially the algebra based stuff, I love algebra. English on the other hand... words cannot express my hatrid of that class. I liked reading Hamlet, but besides that, it's pretty much an art class dressed up as English. Ick.

Besides english, school hasn't been bad. I'm looking forward to next quarter (Biology and Calculus! YA!). Anyways, enough rambling about me, I'm going to go google some pictures, just to make this post interesting.

This is a nautilus shell. It has some intense meaning in calculus. I'll get it someday. For now though, it looks kinda neat.

I got this from googling physics. It looks like a weird collection of atoms I think.

This is a supernova. It's pretty looking and stuff.

Well, to anyone who read this whole thing, thanks.

God Bless,
Keilan

Sorry everyone!

It's been two months. I know, I'm sorry! I realize nobody still checks this site, but maybe this will be read at some point. Anyways, Grade 12 has been busy and looking for scholarships and university info and all that, I've been busy. I don't even have new pictures for you all, I'm sorry!

I'll give a quick update on my life though. I'm in Chem right now, and boy is that fun. I can't wait until I'm done with it. I have also applied for university. General Science Education with Biology, Physics and Mathematics. It's kind of scary that unless I have some major change in plans I'll be a teacher... how can I become one of THEM? :)

School has been interesting, definately a shock after the summer but I've been there a month and a half, so I'm used to it again. Although like I said, it sure ups the stress meter. Lots of focus on diploma's and our future. I admit, it's hard to not get caught up in all of it. As important as a career is, I've only got 70 more years here or so (if I'm lucky), then I'm off to the next world for a lot longer. Although you know, I'd rather not have a miserable 70 years. :)

I have taken an interest in Virology, it's pretty awesome stuff. I'm reading a book called "The Hot Zone" on ebola right now. It is amazing stuff, although not for the faint of heart, I think I almost passed out reading about the finally stages of the virus. Scary yet fascinating stuff that is.

Anyways, I'm done for now. Maybe I'll take another picture eventually.

P.S. Everybody go and listen to "Everybody Jam" by Scatman John. Oh, and you don't have to steal it, you can listen on youtube too. Just search "Everybody Jam" and you should get it. It's an amazing song.

God Bless,
Keilan

Hey all!

Well, as you all may have noticed, I have not posted in awhile. That is because I'm not taking many pictures right now. I did take a few today just to have something to show. And I didn't post a picture-less update because I haven't been doing anything too exciting! Mostly just working and reading books. Anyways, here are my pictures.

This is the bird-feeding area in my backyard.

This is a little house thing that my dad and brother built. We fill it with bird seed to attract the house sparrows (that is the bird seen in this picture and we rarely get anything else).

The seeds from the feeder fall down and that makes the bottom of the tree a popular eating spot for the birds.

And this is the feeder, which feeds the birds!

That's about it!

God Bless,
Keilan

I need to post more!

Hey everyone!

This time I don't have the excuse of being too busy. I've been fairly busy, but not enough that I don't have a few free hours in a day. Mostly I just haven't been taking pictures. Before I complained about too cold, but after a full month of 30-35 degree weather (85-90 fahrenheit for my american friends) with peaks at 40 degrees (just over 100), I am sick and tired of the heat.

On the bright side, my job is usually outdoors, so I prefer very hot over freezing wind and rain. Anyways, I'm sure you're sick and tired of hearing about me. But I'm not done yet. I also wanted to thank everyone who keeps coming here. Despite not having a post since July 9th, I have still had around 100 views between then and now. Not bad. Thank you everyone! I will reward you with some fairly decent pictures.

My family visited a place nearby where they keep birds and allow the public to view them. Mostly to view them panting (that is something I learnt, birds pant like dogs when they are warm, it's very cool to watch). So anyways, here are some of the pictures!

Here is an owl who happens to be squinting at me. I'm actually amazed at how this picture turned out considering the owl was in a dimly lit shelter hiding from the heat.



This is a golden eagle who was tied down out in the open. He didn't move too much but was VERY big. Probably 3 feet tall.



And finally, this is a bald eagle. This one was enormous and very threatening-looking. Thankfully it was tied down and couldn't take a bite out of me. It was nice to see one up close; the few times I have seen them in the wild they are at quite a distance.



That's it for today.

God Bless,
Keilan

It's me again!

Hey everyone, sorry for the long time between updates. Now I will both post pictures and talk a bit about what I've been up to. I've been working at my new job, which involves helping with programs for kids. It is great fun and it is more like play than work. The perfect kind of job. I have great people to work with and the kids are great as well of course.


I'm also still working one shift a week at the grocery store, which isn't nearly as fun, but well, I wanted to keep that job too for school next year seeing as my new job is summer only. In other news, I've mostly been slacking off: reading, eating ice cream, etc. I just read a book called Fight Club which I just have to mention. It was probably the weirdest thing I've ever read. I wrote a bit more about it here if anyone is interested in a strange, depressing, horrifying book.


Anyways, enough about me. On to the pictures!


This one is long past due. It is a picture of my budgie whom I love very dearly. The picture isn't top quality as I couldn't use my flash (I don't want to blind the poor thing).



Next is a picture of a fire. Not particularly note-worthy I guess, but I love fire pictures. Fire is so pretty. :)



Here is a deer. They seem to get braver in summer and come right up to our fence. Although they still go running off when you get close enough to get a good picture.


And here is a little robin. I very much love birds, so I quite enjoy taking a picture of them. This little fellow was quite brave and hopped right up to me. So I took a picture.

And that is all for today! I hope you enjoyed them.

God Bless,
Keilan

Well, they are not that bad

Hey everyone, as you can tell from my topic title, I don't have anything that amazing for you today. These are just a few shots I got at the lake. I didn't have my zoom extender, which pretty much means my bird pictures are fairly distant. Oh well, I did what I could. Here they are.

Speaking from a photographers perspective, this is a pretty bad picture. It has no subject. It just looks kind of neat, so I figured I'd post it.


This is a bit better. It is quite plainly a bird. A female red-winged black bird I think. I seem to have a lot of these up, they are among the bravest birds at the lake right now. This one isn't a bad pose, unfortunately the one I got of him flapping his wings was too blurry to post.


Anyways, thats it for today. Hopefully I'll have more eventually.

God Bless,
Keilan

A few pictures

Well so much for updating every two days, eh? Haha. I don't even know where the time has went. I've gotten a new summer job and so it's busy preparing for that, along with studying for school, thankfully after my wednesday exam, I'm done for the year! I've also been reading quite a bit. I just got Catcher in the Rye... seems interesting so far, if somewhat odd.

Anyways, onto the pictures.

This is a bird. A female red-winged blackbird if I'm not mistaken.


I'm not sure what all these are, they were quite far away from me. I think I can safely say the top-right is a red-winged blackbird. The top-left probably is too, but I can't be sure. The one on the tree... probably a crow. Anyways, they were fighting and I thought it was cool.


This is a subpar deer picture. The deer are very hard to get a clear shot of. I found this one interesting because of the antler-like growths. I'm looking forward to seeing these guys with full-grown antlers.


Anyways, thats it. God Bless,
Keilan

Some more pictures!

Well I have gotten out and taken a few more. And one of them isn't even a bird this time. Which is surprising, I seem to take a lot of birds. However, I will save that one for last. First up, I will show you a picture of a Canadian Goose. They also live in the USA... go figure. Anyways, they are very shy birds, even with my camera, this shot was as close as I could get. They like to keep a good 10 meters between me and them. They also have the most annoying babies on the planet. At least I think it was a baby, it had similar colouring, and basically flew around me in wide circles screeching loudly.

Here is my less birdish picture. This is a Richardson's Ground Squirrel, commonly known as a gopher. They are widely considered pests because the holes they dig trip up cattle and humans. Apparently hunting them is popular, but I could never do it. And you would never expect the call these little guys make. It's an incredibly high pitched whistling sound, I managed to catch it right while it made the noise, hence the gaping mouth.

Hopefully I will have some more in the next few days, but until then, enjoy. Oh yes, one more thing to mention. LEAVE COMMENTS PEOPLE! I like reading them. :)

God Bless,
Keilan

People still read this?

Well, shockingly enough, my counter is still showing several hits every day. Thank you very much to all my dedicated viewers. All 3 of you. 2 on some days. :) I realize my posts are getting kind of rare, and I apologize profusely for that. Now that it's summer, I plan to post a bit more often. But I am quite busy. I have recently gotten a job at a grocery store and so now I have that on top of schoolwork. Yay!

Anyways, yesterday I managed to take some more pictures, including one of the ever elusive bluebird, which some of you might remember from last year. (Maybe, if any of the people reading this read last year). They are all birds today... because I kind of love birds.

This is the bluebird. Probalby my best shot ever of him. And still not as good as I'd like. Oh well, he is certainly very pretty.

This is one of the blackbirds that is nesting at a lake near my house. They are very pretty, and they have this crazy warbling call that makes me laugh. This one is a Yellow-headed Blackbird, named for the fact that it has a yellow head.


This is another one of the blackbirds. Cleverly named a Red-winged blackbird. Because it has red wings. No, I'm not making these names up, I actually looked up the birds. If you need more proof, it's official name is Agelaius Phoeniceus.

I believe this is the same species as the above blackbird. Yes, I know they look different. But if you look closely at this shot, there is a tinge of red on the top of it's wings. This is the female while the above is the male. Which makes sense, seeing as they were in the same area.

Anyways, that is all for today. Enjoy.

God Bless,
Keilan

Hawks!

Well on monday I found a hawk! It sat in the same place for about 45 minutes. Regrettably it didn't do anything crazy so I could get amazing pictures. Just sat infuriatingly close to the sun so I couldn't get a good shot. But whatever, I got some that don't suck horribly. And on the bright side, doing something crazy might involve swooping at me (It's happened to me before, I dont' recommend it). Anyways, here are the two shots I deemed good.





Anyways, I am off to go try and find it again (ya right, eh. I doubt I'll find it when I"m looking).

God Bless,
Keilan

Birdfeeder!

Hello everyone!

I am in a rather good mood right now! Good music, and looking at birds. I love birds. Anyways, we recently bought a new birdfeeder, and the birds completely ignored it for 3 days, then came in flocks! However, they didn't make it easy to get pictures of them.

Everytime I saw them, I grabbed my camera and went outside. Apparently even from the deck, quite a distance away, it was enough to scare them, so they all flew away. I went back inside, they came back. So I went out again, and they flew away. It was quite a problem. Then I had a stroke of genius. I set up my monstrous tripod on the deck, aimed my camera and told it to take a picture every 10 seconds. It did so, and I went inside. It then proceeded to take 300 pictures, many of them including birds.

I have now sorted through them, and found these 3 that I'd like to show off!

These are two birds sharing food. I found it especially amusing, because in the next shot (which if you remember, is 10 seconds later), those same two birds are puffed up and trying to stare each other down. :)


These were some of the coolest shots I had. Birds in flight. Unfortunately the birds wings move too fast to get a still image but it looks neat none the less.


Sometimes the bird feeder had quite a few birds on it at once (plus a few spectators in the tree). Here is a shot with quite a crowd.


Anyways, thats it for today! More later in the summer of this bird feeder I hope.

God Bless,
Keilan

More Pictures!

Hello everyone, two weeks is long enough, so I have even more pictures, again from the zoo. The weather is warming up though, eventually I'll gather to motivation to go outside. Anyways, first my boring life update. It was really foggy this morning, and I love fog so that was good. I also have a good book and little homework. :) Anyone interested in reading a probably boring book, pick up Genesis in Space and Time by Francis Schaeffer. Or don't, it really doesn't matter. Anyways, here are pictures!

Does this really require a comment? It is an adorable monkey eating a carrot. And this guy didn't make it easy to get a portrait either. It was either hiding in a dark corner or moving too fast to get a shot at.

This is a caribou. The kind you hear about the Inuit hunting, I had never actually seen one until I went to the zoo.

Sorry about the sidewaysness of this picture. It is a male snowy owl and I think it looks absolutely amazing. The lighting isn't lovely either, but I had to work with what I had.

This is a spoonbilled something or other. I really liked it. And it stood on a log about 5 feet away and posed for us for like ten minutes, so I took very many shots of it.

Well, I hope you all liked the pictures,

God Bless,
Keilan

I POST AT LAST!

Hey there everyone! I know, I know it has been more than a month. I'm sorry, but I have a series of pictures for you, the I will post over the next few weeks. (It's still cold, so I have to keep my picture supply lasting a long time).

I went to the Calgary Zoo recently, and took many great pictures, so I will post them. No fewer then 5 will be put online today! So without further ado, enjoy!

This is a golden eagle. I took a picture of it through the bars. It was kind of the consolation prize after the bald eagle evaded any good pictures, but it is beautiful none the less.

This is a gorilla with a scar of some form on it's chest. It took around 6 tries to get a steady shot of this guy.

These two owls were an interesting find. While looking at some curled up furry things, my friend heard chirping, we then looked up to see 4 yellow eyes staring down at us. These were also not seperated from us by any bars, so I decided not to use my flash for fear of scaring them.

This is a lion, but I'm betting you all know that already. I quite liked the looks of it, so I took a picture.


This is an elephant trunk, I couldn't get any good full-elephant shots because the bars were in my way, so I settled on an extreme close up.

There you go, I hope you have enjoyed this post! Just a few interesting notes, during my day at the zoo, I took 377 pictures, and since my photos tell me the exact moment they were taken, I did some math and found out that means I took 1.3 pictures every minute. I also took my 4000th picture while at the zoo.

Have a nice day everyone!

God Bless,
Keilan

Hello Hello Hello

Hey everyone!

I am on a week break from school, it is very nice, haha. In fact, I would be at school right now, but I'm NOT! Ha :)

Anyways, I have two pictures, nothing special, but they are pictures. The weather seems to be warming up a bit, before long the animals should come back and I'll be able to get some half-decent shots!

This is a rock (can you tell that I'm running out of subjects). But there is a catch... you see, this rock is reflected in the ice!!!!! (fancy, I know)













Here is my second equally dreary picture. I personally prefer the grass green and the river running, but you know, who am I to decide these things.














Haha, great pictures I know, maybe something green will surface eventually.
God Bless,
Keilan

No picture.

Hey all!

I'm afraid I once again have no pictures, because it's been cold. Minus 20 in fact (thats something in fahrenheit, but I don't feel like converting it). SO I didn't go outside. I was also sick yesterday, but I have recovered fairly well. yay.

Anyways, I have little to say. I am going to go look up a book by a guy named Josephus, for anyone interested, apparently he's a Jewish Scholar who wrote in 100AD. Thats a long time ago. So I want to read whatever it was he wrote down.

God Bless,
Keilan

Happy New Years!

Hey everybody!

It's been too long since I last posted I think, I'm sorry! I hope everybody has had an excellent Christmas/New Years and all that. I have taken a few pictures, and today I even went out to chase some geese, but they all flew away before I could get any very good shots so I'm afraid there will be no pictures of them. Maybe next time. I've been seeing some more little backyard type birds, so if the weather keeps warming up, maybe I will have some good bird shots soon, YAY!

Anyways, I have been busy in a lazy sort of way. I spent all day at my friends house yesterday doing math. At least thats what I said I was doing, but it's math for bonus marks anyway... so we didn't work very much. Well enough about that, on to the pictures!

This is another picture of the same spot I have summer/winter photos of in my last post. It's just a bit snowier in this one.


This is a picture of the valley with the sun shining down on it. I thought it had a neat effect.


This is a branch at the lake. Anything can look cool if it's close-up enough, hehe.


Well thats it for today, I hope to bring you bird shots in the near future but sadly I have none today.

God Bless,
Keilan