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Tracking Orca Health

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Credit: NOAA Fisheries, Vancouver Aquarium.

Credit: NOAA Fisheries, Vancouver Aquarium.

I’ve never been lucky enough to see an orca in the wild. But I’m still dazzled and thrilled just knowing that such magnificent creatures are out there, swimming freely in our Salish Sea. To me they symbolic of our little part of the world, a feeling enhanced by growing up around the art of the Coastal Salish people, which often incorporates them.

A joint research project between the Vancouver Aquarium and NOAA Fisheries is studying the Northern and Southern Resident Populations to track the health of our orcas, using drones to capture high quality images. Drones can take photos from much closer than helicopters or planes without disturbing the animals.

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Photography Blog Rec

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I started following the pamphotography blog a little while ago and thought I would pass along a recommendation.

The bloggers are Peter and Mary (pam), a husband and wife photography team. I like their blog because they not only display some beautiful photographs, but they also usually add a couple comments about their shoot concerning things like light and composition. It’s a great way to pick up photography tips without investing much time because the posts are quick reads.

Zoom out of your comfort zone

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Note: Post edited 10/2/15. Removed three examples in first photo section to make post less cluttered and added 35 mm focal length equivalents to photo captions.

Cee has started a new weekly challenge on her blog called Compose Yourself, and the subject will be photographic composition. She briefly discussed a few different topics in her first post, but the challenge is to post pictures of your focal length comfort zone, then post pictures of attempts to get out of that zone and discuss it.

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