A new showcase: The streets of Italy – first 15 photos are up – each one from a different Italian City we visited in June and July. More to come when i get the chance.

I hope to add a legend to identify the cities..which include Pompeii – it still qualifies as a city….a truly remarkable city. Today, its inhabitants are the millions of tourists who visit each year.

We’re open for business – officially!

Summer Projects: add collections including one on the streets of Italy (codename Strada Italia) and another featuring a variety of nature photos (wolves, fox, deer, otter, raptors, etc – but no ducks – they’ll stick to the pond).

“Strada” will be portrait orientation, the nature could end up as 2 – one landscape, one portrait. I might host some guest photographers as well (or feature them in the photoblog).

I will also add more photos to the Duck Pond and clean up some of the photos in the Gallery section.

I also need to finish the Italian journals…

And I will continue to get the site going and hopefully get it listed on Google sooner than later.

Planned Summer Excursions: Old Montreal, wildlife park on Ile Bizard, Lachine Canal blue herons.

Fall Projects: Foliage Season! Hopefully an outing to Vermont as well. Eco will be nice as well.

Winter: Wolves at the Eco for sure and hopefully Omega Park. I prefer to shoot wolves in the winter with their beautiful coats.

I just added a few more photos in a new gallery – Ancient Rome – shot in Pompeii and Rome – specifically in the Roman Forum. Both sites are “must see” if you go to Italy.

Speaking of Forums, I’ve also started working the Sleeping Wolves Forum - and it will be very different from most of the nature/wildlife photograhpy forums i’ve seen.

Refreshingly, it will not have 1000 rules telling you that you can’t post this and you can’t do that and all that other BS. Sure it will have size limits for posting photos to avoid crashing browsers, but that’s about it.

Last year two local dogs got in the refuge and killed the female caribou and injured the male. This year, unfortunately the lone coyote died (of natural causes) as did the female arctic fox.

Two new coyotes, a male and a female, were recently added. I got to shoot them for the first time today. I was able to get pretty close to them with the telephoto.

Changes with the raptors: a new bald eagle has been acquired but I wasn’t able to get any photos. The American Eagle and the smaller Great Horned Owl were injured, both were temporarily relocated.

The sleeping wolves were uncooperative today – no photos. They have lost their winter coats as has the arctic fox (I did get to shoot him though).

The Lynx and Bear were active today. The otters were hyperactive, unable to get a good shot!