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Photos from Whitemouth Lake on 2003may12:
Whitemouth Lake: Boarding the boat Whitemouth Lake: boat-trip Whitemouth Lake: landing Dutchmans breeches: pink Dutchmans breeches: pink Dutchmans breeches: flower Dutchmans breeches: pants on the line Dutchmans breeches: Dutchmans breeches: pants on the flagpole Dutchmans breeches: w undeveloped flowers Canada white violet=Viola canadensis: Canada white violet=Viola canadensis: Red-winged blackbird: from moving boat Whitemouth Lake: recently dredged channel Whitemouth Lake: recently dredged channel Whitemouth Lake: recently dredged channel Whitemouth Lake: recently dredged channel Whitemouth Lake: recently dredged channel Whitemouth Lake: recently dredged channel Painted turtle: Painted turtle: Painted turtle: Painted turtle: Painted turtle: Painted turtle: Painted turtle: Painted turtle:

Photos from near Woodridge on 2003may12:
Wild turkey: Wild turkey: Red-mouthed mnium moss: Crocus=Anemone patens: Crocus=Anemone patens: Crocus=Anemone patens: cbc-hunt: Richard+Crocus cbc-hunt: me+Crocus cbc-hunt: Doris+Crocus cbc-hunt: Doris+Crocus Sandhill crane:

Photos from Franco Rd & PTH12 on 2003may12:
Marbled godwit: Marbled godwit: Marbled godwit: overexposed:

Photos from Deerwood Rd on 2003may12:
Saskatoon?: Pincherry: Sandcherry: Killdeer: eggs amongst cow-dung

Note 1.
Either I or my camera or both were having a bad day. One time when I turned on the camera, it insisted on taking Raw-mode photos, another time it was TIFF's, and another time it was set for Shutter-priority at one-half second, leading to a bunch of all-white photos. All this could have been me, since the camera has a bunch of mode-changing buttons just where I like to support it with my left hand. But then the auto-focus, usually fool-proof at least in daylight, was refusing to focus on Dutchman's Breeches. The camera was in macro mode, and the focus-confirmation correctly identified the closest object, and yet the focusing was correct for the far-away background. Switching to a fully-charged battery seemingly solved that problem. Then the Auto-White-Balance seems to have decided that the Godwit, in daylight, was really lit by Mercury-vapour lighting or some such. This could not have been me, since the sequence of button-presses to make such a change is far from simple and involves buttons other than those accident-prone left-hand ones. And besides the camera faithfully records the settings used as part of each picture, and they were my customary ones. The auto-white-balance has been annoying in the past, since it tends to be wrong about indoor lighting, assuming flourescent when really incandescent (e.g. my black cat looking like a redhead). I may need to turn this feature off, telling it to treat all light as sunlight, in order to get predictable behaviour.

Note 2.
Some photos are for a CBC-Radio contest, the Wildflower Scavenger Hunt; see winnipeg.cbc.ca/features/wildflower .