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Victoria Our first photo of this mysterious foreign land... oooh! |
Beth in Canada Can't you tell how excited she is to be in part of the British Empire? |
Native Guides I'm not sure why they dress up like this. |
Native Guides, II Except that it did definitely get me to take a few pictures of 'em. |
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Deluxe Whale Watching Tour Off we go on the bus to the boat! |
Did You Purchase A Ticket(s)? I just liked the grammar. |
Marauder IV This was our whale-watching ship. It wasn't big. |
Victoria Again While on the ship, I figured I could get some photos of the city. |
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Coast Hotels It seemed like a rather plush place, from a distance. |
Random Sailboat Playing with the zoom lens, as usual. |
Keep 5 Yellow Buoys To Port Note: they were not to port. |
Sun Princess A butt shot of our ship. At least it's the whole ship... |
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Welcome to Victoria ...they say, as we sail back out to the ocean. |
Eagle on a Light Have you noticed that I got shots of all of the Eagles? The tour companies practically required it. |
Ocean, Mountains, and Reflection Shiny. Better in person, of course. |
Sea Plane These were the tip-off that we were still fairly near the city. |
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Background Mountain It was a bit hazy that day, but you could still see the background terrain. |
Bear Necessities We found this ship floating without fuel. We played Coast Guard with them a bit, before they convinced us that they were okay. It was... odd. |
Seagull Island Or at least that's what I was calling it. So many seagulls! And one eagle in the upper-left, which I hadn't noticed before. |
Lost Island Or at least it looked like a Robinson Crusoe-type place, even if it was cold. |
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First Whale Watchers We weren't the only ones out looking for whales that day. |
More Whale Watchers I know, I know, "just get to the whales already! |
Jumping Whale Ask, and you shall receive! This is probably the best picture I got. |
Falling Whale And this wasn't bad either. Of course, I had to take a few hundred pictures to get these. |
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Rising Orca These were all Orcas, or killer whales. |
Orca Fins There was a whole pod of these guys, 24 of them in all, if what the tour company told us was true. |
Splashing Whale Tail Getting pictures of them was, of course, tricky. |
Whale Tail The main problems: a) they were only out of the water for a few seconds at a time. |
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More Whale Tail b) They were fairly far away, so it required a pretty good lens to get anything resembling good shots. |
Whale Fin c) Most of the shots I did get were like this, just simple fin shots with, if I was lucky, a little bit of whale back. |
Fin and Tail d) The lens was *heavy*, and I don't yet own a monopod. |
Fin and Back There were also a bunch of kids aboard the ship, as I mentioned earlier. |
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Two Fins and Backs Mostly they were teenage boys, with the fore-mentioned 35mm disposables. |
Fin and Back, II Mostly they were annoying on the trips to and from the pod... |
Big Fin ...but they kept getting in the way trying to get "good shots". |
Two Fins, One Back Luckily, I was able to get a few shots like this one off anyway. |
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Very Close Fin This was about as close as we got to an actual whale, which is to say "not too bad!" |
Whale-Watching House This would certainly be a cool place to hang out in. |
Orca and Cliff This offers some idea of how close we were to land. |
Orca and Cliff, II I guess that being near land was safe? I don't know for sure. |
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Tail and Fin I liked how close the whales were swimming to each other. |
Nice Tail I got better at taking pictures over time, but the opportunities never got as good as when we started. |
Whale and Land There's all sorts of stuff in this shot! |
Six Fins Six of 'em! Whoo! |
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Tail Slap It's like a high-five, I guess. |
Whales and Island Why am I now labelling them with information about the landscape? The whales were the cool part. |
Under the Ship I wish I'd gotten more and better shots of this whale going under the smaller ship. |
Under the Ship, II Man, I was jealous... a smaller boat next time, definitely! |
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Leaving the Ship If only it had come that close to us... I had the right camera to play with! Hmmph. |
Two Tails That's pretty far out that time. |
Lots of Whale Spots And that's where the other ship was hanging out. |
Last Whale Shot Bye, whales! You were sure cool! |
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Beth Heading back to land. |
Tim Did I mention that it was cold out? I hadn't expected to need a jacket, but, well, it was kindof a necessity. |
Rainbow They never photograph that well, but I love that Beth asks me to take the shots anyway. |
Harbour Authority I just wanted some extra-u proof that we were in Canada. This worked. |
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