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By SHIRLEY OLSEN
So you’ve come down with
the winter blahs?

Here’s fast relief. Nine out
of ten amateur
photographers recommend a
camera, and a liberal dose of
the outdoors. -

A sure cure, they say,
because you'll get more than
fresh air and rosy cheeks.
You may get some of your
year’s most unique photos.
You'll definitely get a feel
for B.C.’s off-season beauty.

You won't need a fancy
light meter to savor the crisp
air that gives sparkle to
photos taken now. You don't
need an expensive camera to
capture the drama_ that
storm clouds and winter mist
add to your landscapes.

And the first time you see
a line of snowy rabbit tracks
end in a flurry of hawk
wings, you'll realize that
winter has lots of photo
stories to tell.

Set your shutter for a high
speed and freeze a bald eagle
swooping in, talons spread,
to cop a dead salmon from
any of the province's now
silent spawning streams.
Coyotes, gulls and other
animals will also probably
show up for dinner. Catch
them with a zoom telephoto
lens that lets you focus, then
pull in the action for a fast
shot.

How do you get a moose
to say “cheese”? Especially
when his attention is fixed cn
the willow bark?

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You can try, by driving

16 and through Mount .
Robson Park .to Moose
Lake, where herds are

wintering and feasting on
local willow trees. Again, let
a telephoto fill your frame
with a moose trophy.

For shots guaranteed to
keep your friends awake at
your next slide show — plus
consider a
guided tour designed for the
amateur photographer:

“Most people never even
get the chance to
photograph a black-footed
albatross,” says Teresa
Shepard, co-organizer with
her ornithologist husband of
Swiftsure Tours, specialists
in year-round nature ex-
peditions.

You'll get an albatross,
and some sea lions for your
photo album on February's
“Sea Lion Cruise” to Race
Rocks off Vancouver Island.

On the “Pelagic (Ocean)
Birding Expeditions”,
dozens of photogenic
subjects drift) by your
chartered shrimp trawler:
fishing villages, boatlined

harbors and west coast birds
like petrels, shearwaters and
fulmars.

“Shooting” an albatross
from a heaving deck i a
challenge, says Shepard. If
necessary, a plastic bag over
your camera will protect it
from salt spray, and you can
still manipulate the shutter
release and film advance.

For photographers who
like the challenge of sunlight
on snow and ice, there’s the
Wells Gray Tour, “Helm-

_cken Falls in Winter",
out: Highway 5 to Highway —

January and. February day
trips out of Kamloops.

. Take home (on film, that
is) an 80-metre upside-down
“sugar cone” — the giant ice
block at the base of
Helmcken Falts. Catch, if
you can, the sharp sun-glints

shooting from its blue depths —

and, behind it, white snow
and red canyon walls.

Tricky, but outstanding
photo material, says
photographer-guide Roland
Neave. “Everyone has seen
pictures of the falls in
summer,” he says, “but it’s
completely different in
winter.”

The tour also takes in the
130-metre-wide Dawson
Falls, which freezes into a
“great mass of jumbled ice
over the face of the falls.”
Look sharp and you'll see
water pouring down behind
the ice curtain. Frame the
falls with the surrounding
canyons, Neave suggests,
with a 2s-mm_ wide-angle
Jens

In the Cariboo, Lowry’'s
Lodges at Horsefly conduct
three-day and one-week
winter “Photo Expeditions”
on Quesnel Lake. The 145-
kilometre-long lake is a
winter watering hole for
local game from moose to
squirrel, and ils snowy
backdrops make hunting by
camera easy.

And for photographers
who dive, Vancouver
Citystop offers the “Scuba
Diver's Find”, October to
April packages in Powell
River and Campbell River

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where internationally
famous diving waters, now
free of summer river runoff,
are crystal clear.

‘Equipped with dry suit,
artificial light and a water-
shielded camera, a diver-
photographer can descend
into a blizzard of bright fish
‘and take aim at a colorful
underwater world.

For interesting photo
possibilities in your area,
contact your local Natural

‘History Society. They're

friendly people. and will
probably invite you to tag
along on outings ranging
from “Fungus Forays”
(interesting mushroom still
lifes) to birdwatching. ~

Wherever in B.C. you live,
there are much prettier
places to spend winter than
in the dumps. Let your
camera show them to you.

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