Day 318: Tranquility base

A mid-afternoon walk along Locarno Beach on a fine working-from-home Friday. We noticed some metalwork sculpture set up on a log and walked over to investigate. There, we met and chatted to the artist, Don Francis, about the three pieces he had out. The most striking was one of an eagle clutching a salmon in one of its talons. I couldn't resist trying a shot with the rising moon between the eagle's raised wings with the Vancouver skyline, Eagle Ridge and the bright white peaks of Golden Ears in the distance. (Though unintended, Golden Ears continues the eagle theme, as they were originally named the "golden eyries".) What I didn't notice at the time was the bright orange jacket of another photographer at the shoreline... D'oh!

Eagle sculpture