Serthra Informal Photo Blog

Everyday pictures, from cell phone snapshots to more creative efforts :) Also on Instagram Flickr 500px

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Who are You?

A yellow bellied marmot checks out the humans. They are so cute!

iPhone, Delta, BC, April 2026

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Country Roads and Puffy Clouds

It was a very nice sunny day and we were exploring some new areas (new to us at least).

iPhone, Delta, BC, April 2026

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Green!!

Had to google what these are called, it was on the tip of my tongue but just wasn't coming! Acorns. The phone app says acorns from an oak tree. Thank goodness for modern tech :)

I don't quite remember where I took them, some park :)

Canon 5D4, Vancouver, BC, August 2025

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Local Wildlife

Playing around with video again, after years of mucking around with iMovie on the iPad I discovered that the Mac version has maybe a few more features? 😊 I’m slower since I’m unfamiliar with both the program and Mac OS, but I managed.

A short video of wildlife we spotted on our recent walk in Delta. The birds were nice, but the best was the unexpected sighting of the marmots! Up to now we’d only seen them up the mountains. They are adorable!

iPhone, Delta, BC, April 2026

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Clouds!!

I liked the clouds that day. Turned it to black and white to add to the drama :)

iPhone, Vancouver, BC, March 2026

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Classic Reflections and Symmetry

Have to replenish my ready to post photos, but had this classic lake one ready to go for now :)

A pretty autumn day at Burnaby Regional Park with the puffy, white clouds reflected in the lake.

iPhone, Burnaby, BC, October 2025

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Red Circles at Night

Public art always lends itself to some cool photography, this is Spring by Alan Chung Hung, installed in 1981. I took this one on my walk downtown checking out the Christmas lights last December. I think the shadows at night add an interesting element.

iPhone, Vancouver, BC, December 2025

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Pink & Blue

Fluffy pink petals against a blue sky.

Had a few breaks in the rain and managed a few snapshots of the cherry blossoms. For now, just with my phone, will see if I manage to take out the "big" camera for some shots before they finish :)

PS now that I have a side blog I need to pay more attention to where I post! :)

iPhone, Vancouver, BC, March 2026

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Black and White Reflections

I liked the curves of the building and columns as well as the reflections in the windows. Taken at Science World (the big ball).

iPhone, Vancouver, BC, June 2025

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Shadow Play

I just liked the effects of the crisscrossed shadows from the gate at night :)

iPhone, Vancouver, BC, January 2026

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Blue Layers

A quick stop at Porteau Cove on a slightly hazy Autumn afternoon.

iPhone, Porteau Cove, BC, September 2025

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Caribbean Postcard

A bit of a throw back Thursday, haven't done one in a while.

An update on my scanning project, last summer I realized that prints are hard enough (haven't scanned in a while), but I wasn't ever going to get to the slides. Got a note that the guy doing scans at a downtown photography store was retiring so I took that as my inspiration to do something about it. Grabbed as many slides as I could fit in my backpack and dropped them off. Didn't get all of them, but...at least some memories are back :)

This should be January of 2000, we'd gone down to Santo Domingo for New Year's.

I did some light Photoshop on the picture, below is the unedited shot. Maybe it's the scan or my exposure was way off, quite light/overexposed. Also a bit of tilting on that horizon! :) It's probably Fuji or Kodak film.

Canon AE-1, Santo Domingo, January 2000

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Best Cat!

Our neighbour has started asking us to cat sit every so often, I now have a steady source for cat pictures!!! :) Loaner cats are the best cats.

She is such a friendly kitty.

iPhone, Vancouver, BC, January 2025

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Summer Beach Flowers

A quick snapshot of some flowers on the beach.

iPhone, Boundary Bay Regional Park, Delta, BC, July 2025

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And Now for Something Completely Different

Last summer we did something completely different, large format photography!

I discovered that a photo store downtown offered large format photography workshops, so we decided to try it. We each got to shoot two frames, one urban and one portrait. We had to load our film blindly in the special film loading bag (not easy at all!) and try to focus (also not easy, image is upside down).

Really cool experience, it doesn't convince me to go back to film, but I'd never tried the large format cameras before, so happy to get the chance.

Large format camera (don't remember brand), Vancouver, BC, July 2025

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Misty Mountains and the City

A classic view of the North Shore from downtown on a cloudy day.

iPhone, Vancouver, BC, September 2025

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Colour Blocks

They painted the walls at the skytrain station in cool, bright colours. Was rushing to catch the bus, but tried taking a quick shot anyway!

It's still part of the "station", so, even if it isn't a picture of the platform, I'm going to count it towards my unofficial skytrain photo project :) This is Joyce Station.

iPhone, Vancouver, BC, August 2025