Here are some of the most popular images from my Facebook Page for the month of December. A few woodland scenes, waves, crows, a squirrel and even a cat are included in this month’s lineup. Enjoy!

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My wife puts food out for a family of crows that come by daily looking for a handout. Two of them kept vigil over a sickly old crow for days before it finally passed away.

500 mm, f/7.1, ISO 3200, 1/250 sec

I love how fog adds depth to a woodland image. I asked people on my Facebook Page to choose which photo they preferred – colour or B&W. Interestingly, the votes were just about even. This image was taken at York Redoubt National Historic Site just outside Halifax.

50 mm, f/11, ISO 100, 1/6 sec

I asked this little Red Squirrel to strike a cute pose and I’d give him a peanut. I’d say he earned it!

105 mm, f/4.5, ISO 2500, 1/2000 sec

My buddy Kevin and I frequently go to Duncan’s Cove at the mouth of Halifax Harbour to shoot waves. It’s especially great when there’s a brisk offshore wind to lift the spray off the tops of the waves. I like how two of them line up with the rock on the shore in this image.

105 mm, f/11, ISO 2500, 1/800 sec

Sambro Island is about 3 km off the coast so you need a very long lens to capture the waves in front of it. I was shooting directly into the sun so the lighthouse is very dark but the backlit wave stands out quite well creating a very dramatic scene. I see a white stallion rising from the deep – what do you see?

700 mm, f/13, ISO 100, 1/1600 sec

The frost on the trees was lit up by the rising sun on this chilly December morning on Frederick Lake.

500 mm, f/8, ISO 100, 1/100 sec

This gnarly old camperdown elm tree in Dartmouth Cemetery makes a great subject. Throw in a bunch of snow and you’ve got a winner! The B&W conversion works well in this case as it adds a dramatic effect to the image.

31 mm, f/8, ISO 125, 1/500 sec

My neighbour has cleared away all the undergrowth in his yard and planted grass. It looks ugly in the summer but a dusting of snow makes for a compelling woodland image. It was tricky trying to find the right place to shoot so that none of the tree trunks overlapped each other.

50 mm, f/11, ISO 400, 1/60 sec

His name is TJ and he’s an instigator. We call him The Shenanigans Kid. He was playing hide and seek with me in the yard when I captured this photo.

200 mm, f/8, ISO 100, 1/800 sec

They say that the best camera is the one you have with you. All I had with me was my iPhone but I couldn’t resist when I saw the rainbow reflected in the lake. I took this at Jerry Lawrence Provincial Park in Upper Tantallon.

5.96 mm, f/1.6, ISO 32, 1/280 sec

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