Pictures taken with a NIKON D60 with 18 X 200 lens

(Non of these photographs have been retouched or ‘Photoshopped” in any way, apart from some cropping)

 

 

Spring and Summer 2010

 

Is it plan ‘A’ or plan ‘B’?

 

Tafoni rocks on Kuper Island.

 

Autumn, in British Columbia, 2009

 

Deer form a backdrop[p to deadwood antlers on Prevost

Summer in British Columbia 2009

 

A small beach in the Gulf Islands, BC

 

‘Land Ho, skipper!!”

 

Our own Infinity pool in Glenthorne Passage

 

An incredible sunset in Glenthorne Passage, Prevost Island, BC

 

“Heeland Coos” in Glenthorne Passage

 

Glenthorne Passage, Prevost Island, southern exit – if you are brave!

 

A young bald eagle flies over Tod Inlet

 

Swallow condos off Butchart Gardens, Tod Inlet.

 

A 9” jelly fish in Tod Inlet, BC.

 

Mean looking clouds over Thetis Island

 

A welder under a tug in Chermainus

 

A ‘dolphin’ off Chermainus

 

Great use for old marine toilets in Cowichan Bay

 

The green waters of Genoa Bay

 

An evening stroll on Observatory Point, Plumper Cove Marine Park, BC

 

If enjoying yourself was easy, everybody would be doing it!

Brian Tycho inhales a late evening meal after a long hot day.

 

“Observatory Point” separating Plumper Cove from my spot. Looking at Gibson’s, Sunshine Coast BC.

 

The decommissioned HMCS Annapolis.

Another artificial reef being prepared to be sunk in Port Graves, Gambier Island, BC

 

 

Dubai 2009

 

Sunset over Dubai Marina City

 

And on a different day and different perspective

 

Minarets in Dubai

 

Still under construction, the Burj Dubai (Now renamed the Burj Khalifa)

brings new meaning to the term “Towering above…” at 870 metres

 

Look deeply into my eyes! A wild camel through the windshield of the car (I was too frightened to get out!)

 

Dhows, old and new (published in Time Out – Dubai)

 

The graveyard. Old dhows in Dubai

 

Racing to the finish at the Burj Al Arab

 

Close to the action in a 60’ dhow race

 

Racing sixty foot dhow

 

Spaceships from Mars? No, 60 foot dhows in the richest race in the world! (Published in Boat Journal March 2009)

 

Now that’s what I call a beautiful hull shape!

 

Racing to the finish at the Burj al Arab, Dubai. (Published in the Boat Journal March 2009)

 

60 foot dhows racing off Dubai (Published in the Boat Journal March 2009, and Pacific Yachting April 2009)

 

Racing Dhows off Dubai (Published in April 2009 in “Time Out”, Dubai)

 

Dhows racing off Dubai and the Burj Dubai

 

Icebergs of the Arabian Gulf.

The last remnants of the starting flare drift away as the fleet gets under way.

 

Lovely legs in the Madinat

 

And a dove without a leg

 

Pots in an alley at the Madinat

 

Spring blossoms at the Madinat

 

Wind tower in the Madinat

 

Madinat stairs and pots

 

A window in the Dubai Mall

 

Old and new architecture of the Dubaai Mall (The “Address” in the background)

 

Christmas at the Madinat with the Burj al Arab in background

 

 

 

 

Winter in Vancouver Dec, 2008

 

 Andante Duet locked in the ice. Is this Alaska? No, it’s Vancouver!

 

Converted fishing boat “Godspeed”

 

‘C’ Dock at the VRC

 

Christmas 2008  in Stanley Park

 

Is Marge Simpson under there? A Christmas light in snow

 

A white Christmas

 

Perihelion 22 Dec 2008

 

Silva Bay, before the storm, looking North. December 2008……..

 

……..and after the storm

 

Autumn colours. Vancouver 2008

 

The Lion’s Gate Bridge from Stanley Park

 

The Sea Wall, Stanley Park looking west from the VRC docks

 

The Sea Wall, Stanley Park looking south from the VRC

 

Stanley Park in Autumn

 

Devonian Park in Autumn

 

Robbie Burns overlooks the VRC

 

The following were taken with a PENTAX OPTIO A10

Summer 2008

 

Geraniums on the quarterdeck of the Perihelion at sunset

 

Reflections of the setting sun on the same evening (16^th Aug, 2008)

 

Will bananas really grow on the quarterdeck?

 

Another stunning sunset in Montague Harbour

 

A ‘clump’ of boats (see article on same)

 

The author and Judy on the “Hummingbird bus”

 

Dusk at the Cannery in Burrard Inlet

 

The Burj al Arab in Dubai

 

Real colours in the Pacific on the way to Hawaii aboard Birkana

 

The ‘One & only Mirage’ Hotel in Dubai

 

Again, an interior shot of the One and Only Mirage. How peaceful it is

 

Winter fog over the trees of Stanley Park, British Columbia

 

Gorgeous vintage boat “Sunrise” in Coal Harbour. May 2008

 

Perihelion on the dock at the Cannery and “on fire”

 

‘Chrissy’ guards the wine.

 

Swanisit & Perihelion in Clam Bay

 

Now that’s a deck crane!

 

Fabulous Bedwell Bay up Indian Arm, Vancouver

 

Perfection. Magic at anchor in Montague Harbour

 

Magic again.

 

An unknown visitor to the Montague Harbour Café where a wooden seagull sits on the rail!

 

Sunset from a “Primitive Dwelling” on Gabriola Island

 

Guests Jerry & Jula aboard the Perihelion.

 

An amazing horse of flowers at the horse drawn carriage stop, Stanley park.

 

Birthday boy Don on the quarterdeck. Cheers!

 

One of the very first pictures taken with the Pentax. Jasmina racing in English Bay