Author: brendajohima
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.We Are All ALL Things. It’s No Surprise.
Yesterday I walked 5K through the lush green shaded forest to the sunny warm rocky shell beach in my neighbourhood on Vancouver Island. Nearly there, I headed down the tiny hill, looking down at the sneakers on my feet and the contrast of shade and shadow with dancing dappled light. This cute little dirt-gravel road…
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CHEK News Featured My Photo of a Black Oystercatcher
I received an email from Tess van Straaten of our local Vancouver Island based CHEK News. She was contacting me to let me know they would be featuring my photo of a black oystercatcher on the 5PM News for their weather photo. It’s always nice to find out ahead of time, to help spread the…
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CBC Vancouver Features My Black Oystercatcher Photo on Instagram
I am currently living on Vancouver Island and if you know the Island well, you know that in winter you need to learn to get used to the color gray––as in gray skies and gray seas––and…rain rain rain or, be miserable. It is all too easy to complain about our Island rain and oftentimes “horrid”…
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2020—Write It Anyway
Did you make any New Years resolutions? I haven’t, in many years. However, I do love to start my New Years Day off in nature if at all possible. So this January 1st 2020 I went to enjoy one of my favourite nature trail walks at Rathtrevor Provincial Park, in Parksville on Vancouver Island. It…
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The Brenda Johima Show (Podcast)
Long time no post. Well at least I waited for something super important to share. I finally am getting my new podcast online … after weeks and months or more of delays. For now, it is called “The Brenda Johima Show” because after all the other gazillion podcast titles I came up with, I realized…
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Creating PhotoArt
“I blur the lines between photography and art until they become one … because they are one.” /brenda
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TRY Anything and Everything
I think that with what was a trend towards trying to have the perfectly curated Instagram account …I am glad that I am older and wiser to know better. Or shall I say, I choose my inherent creativity over curation. The internet is a playground for me, a place for me to experiment and to…
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The Beautiful Turkey Vulture is Crucial to our Ecosystem
Yeah, that’s right, I said beautiful. I was one too, who used to think that the turkey vulture was ugly. Well that was until I started to go to bird and wildlife rescue, recovery and rehabilitation centres more regularly, which began a couple years ago. There are a few on Vancouver Island and I love…
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Be Grateful for the Moment You Are In Because Moments Never Happen Again
Oooops. I missed a couple days already, of my “blog every day” commitment to myself. I applaud those bloggers and vloggers out there who have been writing and posting daily for years on end, as it isn’t easy for me to remember to do it every single day … yet. Every day I would think…
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The Great Blue Heron on Vancouver Island
I never intended to become a birder, it just kind of happened, and now I cannot get enough of it. I still would not call myself a birder; just one photographer who loves to be in the presence of birds as often as possible. I have been learning a ton and having so much fun.…