October’s full moon is known as the Harvest Moon. With Kitimat finally experiencing clear skies, it was my opporunity to shoot, mainly with my new Sony 400-800 lens.
I captured the full Harvest Moon rising on the evening of October 7. This is a colour image. October 8 was cloudy with sunny breaks and overcast at night. The morning of October 9 dawned clear.
The wider shots were taken with my Sony RX10III bridge camera.
In one month the United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Fifty years ago, Canada gave a birthday gift to the United States, a glossy coffee table book of high quality photographs that was at the time the “longest undefended border” in the world. It was called Between Friends/Entre Amis. […]
If you look west over Kitimat’s mountains, with the skies clear about an hour after the summery sunset, you will see the planets Venus and Jupiter in the sky. Venus is closer and brighter and seen to the right, lower on the horizon. Jupiter, farther away of course, and not as bright, can be seen […]
For the past year people in Kitimat have called the LNG Canada flare “the eye of Sauron” after how it was depicted in Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movie The Two Towers On May 31, 2026, I woke up at 3:34 am in time to catch the May blue “micro” full moon right over […]
