Sunsets and Wildflowers

So we were gone this past weekend to do our Open Water Certification dives with PADI at a lake in northern Saskatchewan. We had absolutely perfect weather for diving- hot and sunny one day, cool and drizzly the next but amazingly calm for Saskatchewan. I did take a few pictures, but I really didn't have a lot of energy to take very many- diving is exhausting! Plus the bugs were out in full force and I am COVERED in mosquito bites right now! All in all we had fun and we're now certified PADI Scuba divers :)

Queen Anne's Lace

This one reminds me of Christmas!

Goldenrod

Shooting gophers... and other adventures

I decided my mission this weekend would be to get a good gopher picture. Gophers are all over Saskatchewan, and they seem to love living on the U of S campus, so we see a lot of the little guys. They are considered a pest, but I think they're cute! One little guy posed quite nicely for me and I shot a tonne of pictures of him :) After that I wandered around a bit and shot a few more photos of insects and such. It was a beautiful day.




Looking up the pine tree
My favourite shot of the day (I have a thing for mushrooms!)

An almost good shot of a beautiful butterfly

Buskers on Broadway tribute

Street Photography

This week I was able to choose the theme for the photo contest and I decided it would be street photography. I knew my new 70-300mm lens would come in handy for it :) I have to say that I love the pictures I get of people in real situations without all the fake staging. But I felt really awkward taking pictures of people, especially because my camera with the lens at 300mm is just a tad conspicuous. The other problem I had was that I injured my foot while running on Saturday morning and so I had a hard time getting out and actually taking a few pictures, but I did get it done (and hopefully didn't injure my foot any further!). Here are a few of my favourites from the day!

And just a few more sandhill pictures :)

Here are some more pictures that I took at the Great Sandhills in Southwestern Saskatchewan.

The Great Sandhills!

Dustin and I decided to go on a big roadtrip this weekend to visit the Great Sandhills in south western Saskatchewan (about a 3 hours drive from Saskatoon). It's basically a large expanse of untouched prairie covered in sandy hills and dunes. Most of the area is dunes that have vegetation growing on them (so they just look like hills) but every once in a while there is an entirely sand dune. They were beautiful and so much fin to climb on. The sand was so soft but it was so windy! We left with sand in places that definitely shouldn't have sand, LOL! I took a tonne of pictures with my Sigma 17-70 lens and my new polarizer. We even decided to stay for sunset. The pups had a great time and they are super tired today :)