Dudley’s Picks – Page 1

A series of photos that probably was used as slide presentations to tourists in the park. Marked by Dudley.

A huddle of starfishA winters morningAlpine larch larix lyalliiAstilbe creekAthabasca glacier by snowmobileAthabasca glacier crevasseBull elk with a harem of cowsCastilleja speciesCathedral MountainChancellor peak and Wapta fallsChrysanthemum lewcantheumCloseup goose barnacles

 

The Athabasca Glacier is one of the six principal ‘toes’ of the Columbia Icefield, located in the Canadian Rockies. The glacier currently recedes at a rate of 2–3 metres per year and has receded more than 1.5 km in the past 125 years and lost over half of its volume. The glacier moves down from the icefield at a rate of several centimetres per day. It is the most visited glacier in North America. The leading edge of the glacier is within easy walking distance; however, travel onto the glacier is not recommended unless properly equipped.

Wapta Falls is a waterfall located in Yoho National Park in British Columbia, Canada. It is the largest waterfall of the Kicking Horse River, at about 30 metres high and 150 metres wide. Its average flow can reach 254 cubic metres per second. The name stems from a Nakoda Indian word meaning “river”.

Cox bayCox point and Cox bayDeerlodge cabinFalls at natural bridgeFalls on the Ottertail riverFleabane and yellow Indian paintbrushFoliage in a rock cleftGoose barnaclesHoary marmotHoary marmot 2HoodoosHoodoos on Hoodoo creek

 

The Otter Tail River is a 192-mile-long river in the west-central portion of the U.S. state of Minnesota. It begins in Clearwater County, 40 miles southwest of Bemidji. It then flows through a number of lakes and cities. At its mouth, it joins with the Bois de Sioux River to form the Red River at Wahpeton, North Dakota. The Red River is the Minnesota- North Dakota boundary from this point onward to the Canadian border. Five dams were built on the Otter Tail River in the Fergus Falls area between 1909 and 1925 by the Otter Tail Power Company.

An otter is any of 13 living species of semiaquatic (or in the case of the sea otter, aquatic) mammals that feed on fish and shellfish, and also other invertebrates, amphibians, birds and small mammals. Otters have long, slim bodies and relatively short limbs, with webbed paws. Most have sharp claws on their feet, and all except the sea otter have long, muscular tails. The 13 species range in adult size from 0.6 to 1.8 metres in length and 1 to 45 kilograms in weight.

Kicking Horse CanyonLimpet barnaclesMartenMcarthur lake and glacier and Mount BiddleMountain beside Amiskew valleyNatural bridgeOtter tracksPenstamen elligtiusPolypodium resperiumPolypodium scouleriPoplar in fallFrank and Lennard islands

 

Goose barnacles, also called stalked barnacles, are filter-feeding crustaceans that live attached to hard surfaces of rocks and flotsam in the ocean intertidal zone. Some species of goose barnacles are pelagic and are most frequently found on tidewrack on oceanic coasts. Unlike most other types of barnacles, intertidal goose barnacles depend on water motion rather than the movement of their cirri for feeding, and are therefore found only on exposed or moderately exposed coasts.

In Portugal and Spain, they are a widely consumed and expensive delicacy known as percebes. Percebes are harvested commercially in the northern coast, mainly in Galicia, and are also imported from overseas, particularly from Morocco and Canada. The indigenous peoples of California eat the stem after cooking it in hot ashes.

 

Coastal Scenes and Fisheries – Page 6

Gallery containing mountains and scenery (public domain) photos from Canada. Many of these photos are made by Dudley Foskett, and include locations such coast and fisheries in northern British Columbia and native villages. The vast majority of mountains in Canada lie in the western provinces of British Columbia and Alberta and the Yukon Territory. Canada … Read more

Tips For Using Your Camera In Cold Weather

Tips for using your camera in cold weather

Shooting outdoors in cold weather can be very tricky for your camera, some functions can be blocked and your batteries may last very short. To prevent damaging your equipment and be able to take the pictures you want in very cold weather, I aligned below the most useful advices that can help you a lot. … Read more

The IBM AS/400 9406 D35 CISC Midrange Computer – Part 1: How I Got One

Hi there vintage computing passionate! This post series is about a unique machine in the history of computers, more precisely an IBM AS/400 midrange computer, first announced in 1988. There will be some way ahead until I turn its power switches on, so bear with me into this journey. Note: I will bother with so … Read more

The Sangamo Sabre III Instrumentation Tape Recorder Reproducer – Part 2: Use cases

This will make for a long post as I keep adding more information in time. That’s because the use cases of an instrumentation recorder/reproducer are quite plenty. Recording and reproducing of signal data is still made today in many fields, but since mid 80’s the digital format (flash memory, SSD drives) begun to replace magnetic … Read more

The Sangamo Sabre III Instrumentation Tape Recorder Reproducer – Part 1: How I Got One

It was a regular Wednesday morning, and a weekly flea market begun to contour in my small town. You can pretty much find a myriad of stuff here, old and new, from workshop tools to electronics, kitchen apparel to musical instruments, handcrafts and so on, everything you can and you can’t imagine. A particular seller … Read more