Andrew Strain Photography

The Unuk Finger and Mandy Glacier, in northern BC (see flickr for geotag).

K10D / DA 10-17 Fisheye
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The Kicking Horse River and Mt Stephen, Yoho National Park.

Pentax K10D / DA 18-55, PEF converted in Lightroom
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Early morning mist over Emerald lake, with a backlit Mt Burgess in the background.

Pentax K10D / DA 18-55, PEF files processed in Lightroom


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About a month ago, I wrote in one of my posts that I never see any wildlife in the field, and had to settle on shooting spiders instead. Well, today I got lucky and happened upon an elusive mountain goat, but I sure wish I had a longer lens for wildlife shots. The first image is a 3 megapixel crop; the second, 6. Please, Pentax... hurry up with that DA* 300 4.0 (and send one my way...)!

Soon after taking these photos, the goat saw me and vanished over the edge of a cliff. I should've taken a photo of his hoof prints afterwards, trailing off over what seemed to me to be a death drop to the Ted Morris valley below...

Both photos taken with my K10D / DA 50-200, converted from PEF in Lightroom

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I paid in blood to get this photo, and have the mosquito bites to prove it...

Pentax K10D / DA 18-55, converted from PEF in Lightroom
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The Unuk Finger, at over 2300 metres in elevation, is the highest point for miles around. The peak is encircled by glaciers; all but one arrete on its northwest slope is buried in ice. That doesn't stop the intrepid mountain goats, though. A flyby of the peak last week revealed several sets of tracks in the snow, all the way up to the summit.

I've been leaving my DA 10-17 Fisheye in camp the last few days, in favour of my old-school Pentax-M 50mm 1.7. It can be a pain not having the ultrawide angle of the fisheye, but the old 50 is far and away the sharpest lens in my kit, a quality that makes it perfectly suited for when I have black-and-white in mind...

Pentax K10D / M 50 1.7, B&W conversion from PEF in Lightroom
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A black and white treatment from a vantage point similar to the one in the post "Another Day in the Office"

Pentax K10D / DA 10-17 Fisheye
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Pentax K10D / DA 50-200
The same Hawkair Dash-8 from a couple entries down, with a black and white treatment. Full Post and Comments