Stroll in the snow 雪中行

【Photo Inspiration】
《Stroll in the snow》
A parody of the verse《Cup of Lotus Leaf》
- Poem / Photography by Peter Bok

Light snow falling and frost is cold
The girl in red
Strolls alone I behold

Yellow in snow 雪裡黃

【Behind the photo】《Yellow in snow》
Weather is getting warmer and the temperature is 10°C. The snow begins to melt. I walked to the park by the pond for 4 km, appreciating the yellow leaves hanging tenaciously in the bitter snow.

Unbearable Cold in Early Spring 寒風難耐已初春

【Ontario Yours to Discover】 《Unbearable cold in early spring》: Today is sunny with wintry at 6°C but it feels like 0°C. A light snow occurred in the morning. My photo buddy John and I had an afternoon coffee before going for an hour walk at the nearby Toogood Pond in Toronto. This pond is located in the residential area in the community of Unionville.  An artificial pond, wooden bridge, winding trail and various plants have composed beautiful scenery that makes Toogood Pond a popular place for a walk and landscape photography.

Testing Nikon AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED 測試藝康10.5mm f/2.8 魚眼鏡

【Ontario Yours to Discover】
《Testing Nikon AF DX Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED》：Using this fisheye lens for landscape photography at Toogood Pond, Toronto today.

Early Spring 初春

【Ontario Yours to Discover】

《Early Spring》 :
It was sunny at 6°C.
The Photo Buddy Trio:
John, Derek and I
spent an hour at the Toogood Pond in Toronto
for bird and landscape photography.

Frozen Toogood Pond 冰封泰顓池塘

【Ontario Yours to Discover】
《Frozen Toogood Pond》: In a sunny afternoon just after the Lantern Festival, I spent an hour strolling at the Toogood Pond in Toronto. It was -7°C and the pond was still frozen. The tranquil and icy pond adds wonders to my scenic photography.

I ain't lonesome 我不會寂寞

【Ontario Yours to Discover】In April, I went to Toogood Pond in Toronto several time to shoot Canadian geese and made geese the themes of these photo albums and posts. However, it seems that these albums are lacking some images with human touch.

On Goose 説雁

【粵腔戲筆 • Cantonese Rhymed Doggerel】 

《攝雁 • Snapping Goose》
我拍雁 I shoot geese
初拍雁 My first photo geese
多多雁 Many many Torontonian geese
多拍雁 Snap more geese
多雛雁 Many young growing geese
拍多雁 Shooting these Torontonian geese
拍雛雁 Snap the young geese
拍歌雁 the singing gees

We are Canadian Geese 我們是加拿大雁

Tower: "Goose 1, clear to land first."
Goose 1: "Roger"
Tower: "I can't see any landing gear. Is your gear down?"
Goose 1: "Say what, I can't understand you"
Tower: "Are you Thunder Goose 1? Your gear is NOT DOWN"
Goose 2: "We are Canadian Geese"
Tower: "Shit ..."

Canadian Geese at Toogood Pond 㤗瑞池塘觀鵝踪

【Ontario Yours to Discover】
It was overcast and cool on Thursday. Though it was already in early spring, the winter chill was still there. John of our "Photography Trio" texted me and Derek a message suggesting bird photography at the Toogood Pond. Three of us then had chit-chat for a while at a roadside coffee shop before driving to the destination. The pond still has a layer of ice.

Vision from a small world 眼看小小的世界

【Ontario Yours to Discover】
That day, I went to Toogood Pond in Toronto for photography with a friend. This time, I took the Micro-Nikkor 55mm, f/2.8 AIS lens, a manual micro lens bought in the 80s of the era of film camera. Since the inception of the automatic digital camera, most of these full manual lens have been eliminated and put aside. In recent years because of the trendy retro, some photo lovers having used the automatic zoom lens for long time began to use prime lens to pursue higher picture qauality.

Toogood Pond High & Low 泰顓湖上群雁舞

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It is rare that I may take a trip for bird photography. I remembered my first bird photography was done three years ago. At that time, I just bought a Nikon lens AF-S VR Zoom 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6. I drove 2 odd hours to Huntsvill, 230km north of Toronto. It was my first album on bird photography.

An afternoon stroll around a pond 閒遊午後的池塘

After working hard for these few days, I spent this afternoon strolling around the Toogood Pond again and took some photos to relieve my tension and fatigue of the body.

Beauty of the pairs 美麗的配搭

Three pairs of geese swim in the flowing stream,

I am touring the Yalu River in day-dream.

The running waters like silk with splashing waves

The waterfall looks milky as if a gauze is laid

A few days ago, I went to a small pond in Unionville to take photos. The south end of the pond has a long pedestrian bridge. Water from the pond runs beneath the bridge to a small stream. It forms a small waterfall and a group of geese swim nearby. Children play on the grassland and adults sit around to enjoy their leisure.

Toogood Pond in May 五月的池塘

In a sunny afternoon in May, I went to Toogood Pond in Toronto for leisure walk and took scenic photos. I made the first visit to this pond last May for landscape photography. However I prefer autumn in Toronto because most of the leaves have not fallen and they look scattered.

Looking through the dandelion 看透蒲公英

In early spring, the dandelions are beautiful, as if grassland covered with a piece of gauze decorated with many small and yellow flowers. In a sunny afternoon I was strolling and taking photos at the Toogood Pond in Toronto with my Ricoh Digital GR3 compact camera. I found some dandelions along the trail in the bush.